IRELAND , . .
The election at Limerick went more decidedly against the Tenant League candidate than even. the firseadverso symptoms 'presaged: In our Postscript last week, we stated that MT. Ryan was some sixty votes be- hind: the foremost candidate then Mr. Dickson : at the dose of the-poll he was more than that number behind the second candidate, and upwards of a hundred votes—a full sixth--of the constituency that polled—behind the winner, who prayed to be Mr. Wyndham Gould. The closing nun- hem's ware—Gould- 239, Dickson 199, R.yan 128. Some great miscalcula- tion of the constituency was inside by the League party: they believed that the ecestitueney was only about 466; but.566 voters polled. Mr. Gerold was the candidate whom the league especially opposed, an the ground of his connexion with the Whigs. Compared with Captain Mason, an onteand-eut Protectionist, Mr. Gould may be called a Whig; but he must be a' very conserving one if it be tree, as the Irish papers state, that he is a member of the Quit= Club. It should not be forgotten, as a. feature of the election, that it was a emtnev constituency which thee polled its full strength in fewer than six hundredevoters.
Viscount Northland has again signified from, his invalid retreat in Madeira., that he must a second time resign the representation of Dun- gannon, to which he was generously reelected when some menthe since he'first resigned on the ground of ill health. Mr. Stuart Knox, his brother, has --come forward as a candidate ; with rather vague professions in favour of readjustment of taxation on a footing more equitable for agriculture' of an improved relation between landlord and tenant, and of Protestant toleration with firm safeguards to the supremacy of the Crown;
In order further to facilitate the despatch of business in the Encum- bered Estates' Court, it bas-been deemed advisable to create al:earth Coin-. nriesioner ; and the appointment has been conferred on Mr. W. Flanagan, the present Sacretaty ; Mr. H. Carey, the Registrar, succeeding to the Secretaryship. It is believed that in future the sales will be -conducted; under the sole guidance of Me. Flanagan, whose experience fully quali- fies him for this onerous duty-; so that the other Commissioners will be enabled to devote the whole of their time to the routine business of the court.—Bublin. Correspondent of the Times, Dee. 14.
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