REPRESENTATION OF CANTERBURY.—The freeholders met at Can. terbury on Tuesday,
and resolved to petition Parliament, praying to be heard by counsel against Mr. Lushington's continuance as their represen- tative. REPRESENTATION OF DUBLIN.—The corporation, it is said, intend to start Sir Charles Wetherell at next election.
Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald has been re-elected for Kerry. CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS.—Mr. Tierney, the Crown Solicitor of Ireland, addressed, on the 3rd March, a letter to the High Sheriff of Fermanagh,' requesting, in the name of the Attorney-General, that he would summon jurors indiscriminately from the Catholic and Protestant freeholders Of the county. In reply the Sheriff says he has already selected fit persons; and if Government are not satisfied with his conduct, they may appoint another in his place. THE HOME-MADE SPIRITS DUTY.•-•A county meeting was held in Dublin on Friday last week, when a series of resolutions were voted unani- mously in condemnation of the attempt to impose an additional duty on whisky without any equivalent duty on rum. The meeting were of opinion, that the new duties would be extremely injurious not only to the distiller, but to the landed interest generally ; and that they were not called for by the state of the West India market, inasmuch as last year an increase had taken place in the quantity of rum imported, of no less than 237,827 gallons, while in whisky the increase was only 58,932 gallons. DUELLING.—A highly respectable meeting has been held at Morrison's great room, Dublin, to take into consideration the best means of preventing the breach of courtesy and waste of life in society. On the motion of Sir John Milley Doyle, K.C.B., Mr. Bennett took the chair, and read the requi- sition which assembled the meeting. Several speeches were made, but no definitive plan adopted.
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