The 1Vestm .ath El .ct'on Commission is to meet at
Mullingar on the 27th. The Commissioners are Counsellors John O'Dwyer, Richard Jebb, mid James Plunkett.
Mr. Knox, son of Lo rd Northland, was elected for Dungannon, the old borough of the Knox family, on Saturday.
A new commission of the peace for Ireland has been issued. Ge- werally speaking, the clergy are removed from the bench. We learn from the Dublin Pilot, however, that the Liberals are by no means satisfied with Lord Mulgrave's revision of the Magistracy. Many good men, it is said, have been removed, as well as Tories. Among the discarded, is the noted Mr. Ryder, of Ratheormack. Altogether, about two hundred old Magistrates have been struck off the lists. Ili a circular addressed by Mr. Drummond to the Lords-Lieutenant of counties, it is said- " His Excellency is therefore of opinion, that clergymen, not in the situation of independent landed proprietors, should not be continued in the commission merely on account of their being ministers in the church ; and that this rule should not be departed from unless in Cases of absolute necessity, where, from local circumstances, the attendance of a sufficient number of Magistrasee cannot be otherwise obtained."
As a general rule, Lord Mulgrave objects to confer the commission of the peaceon more than one of the same family residing in the same district, and on the agents of landed proprietors. He thinks also that the same person ought not to be a Magistrate in more than one county. A rumour is prevalent, we know not upon what grounds resting, that Lord Mulgrave does not return to this country. It is added, that his Lordship's destination is Sr. Petersburg; and the Marquis of Conyngleim is named as his successor in the Viceroyalty of Ireland. Setting politics aside, (and nothing could be worse than Lord Mul. grave's—excepting, indeed, those of his military civil secretary, Cap. tain Detimmond,) his removal from hence would be a great blessing; for he has inflicted a blow upon society in Dublin from which it will not readily recover, and he has absolutely brought ruin upon the shop- keepers and tradesmen.—Dublin Ereninil Mail.
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