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waked up to necessity of giving to the Irish some and token esteem confesce, wonderful fact, when we consider that the election almost month story is that gentleman of the whose and talents have given him much influence with here, recently proposed to the whigs should appoint six to Irishmen the place and policemon, nominate himself on their represe ticket in return for which he would the Irish vote for Mr Winthrop These terms. is further said, were accepted; and already Irish has been raised to official police honors, and the others will no doubt, soon be in the same position. Au a of the made reversa first to was tempt occasion Honor which on his pointment. the Mayor made very handsome and liberal speech, in which he pointed out the absurditie of rufusing to confer office on citizens of foreign birth, and the Aldermen, with one exception, sustained The movement is very clever one. and may give the whigs a lift that they need a little They have sent their shaft right into the white, and remains to be seen whether the other side, like Locksley at Ashby de la Zouche, can notch it or not Young Ireland and Old Ireland have shaken hands in this city, and now Dr Brownson and Mr. McGee, the Proo and the Cell, are very excellent friends Some people infer from this that the Irish are beginning to feel their power, and that they are not likely to be used by the leaders of any party The number of their votes, by the next Presidential election, will be quite sufficient, if con centrated, to carry the State in any direction they please. In connection with what said on the temperance movement, should have mentioned that the whigs of Boston propose placing Deacon Grant on their representative ticket. Mr Grant is our leading moral reformer and man of wealt character and influence He said, in the State Convention. that would be impossible for the Maine law to be en forced in Boston; a declaration that has done him no harm here. My own opinion is that the law, alaw, could be enforced here under an active, ener getic Mayor, assisted by Marshal Tukey; but the trouble would be vast, and the strife horrible One way or another. there must be some millions of capital invested in the liquor trade in Boston with importers, manufacturers, retailers in shops and restaurants and hotels. Then the buildings rented as hotels, and other places, for the sale of liquor, bring enormous rents, all of which would disappear before the Maine law, rigidly enforced like the morning cloud and the early dew You may judge, then, of the vital interest which many of our citizens feel in this matter. and how likely its ap pearance in politics is to make some sport The whigs, however, encourage the movement as much as they dare to, well knowing that while they can use it, neither their party, nor the coalition. would dare to pass law like that of Maine on the eve of Presidential election The monied world has been considerable easier this week than it was last The story that the Grocers' Bank had failed cre little panic on Monday, but it wassoon over. Mr Pingree has caused considerable remark He is the gentleman of whom I wrote you some time when speaking of the lands owned by Massachusetts in Maine With those lands Mr. Pingree has had a good deel to do, but I am not aware that it ever was supposed that he had any connection. even the remotest. with these operations by which the State was cheated right and left. and great private fortunes made at the expense of the public. Mr Pingree's failure is said to have been volun tarily, as he does not wish to pay certain paper that he had endorsed, rather queer motive for pension of payment on the part of a great capital ist, who never can suppose that when he puts his name on the paper of anoth man, that is, the man in Punch lls his friend will be the case with his acceptance of one of the said friend's bills. mere matter of form know that some of our best-informed business men consider this to be mere pretence, and expect that something important will yet come out to explain the bankruptcy of a man whose property the world has been accustomed to rate by millions. If it be true that much of that property is in wild lands in Maine, they will not have far to seek for either the causes or the consequences of the failure at Salem The effect of the panic on politics is supposed be rather adverse to the whigs than otherwise. causes the attention of some of their best men to be diverted to their private business to be mono polized by it The purest politician in the world. who finds himself in danger of private ruin if he do not tend to his own affairs rather than those of his party, will have his zeal wondrously cooled by the reflection was told, the other day, by gentle man whose opportunities for acquiring much information are good, that scarcely one of the old whigs had moved, yet, in the contest but that the young men of the party were, as usual. working with energy But for the exertions of this latter class, it is said that the vote for Mr Winthrop would be even smaller in Boston, than it was 1850 for Governor Briggs: but this am inclined to place among the political exaggerations of the day I should not be surprised to see Mr Win throp receive 9,000 votes here, while Governor Brigge had but 6,500 The Webster movement has assumed new into rest. and we are to have convention at an earl day, of the great man' supporters, in Old Faneui when and where he will be formally nominated for the Presidency The Advertiser, the organ of the slow and steady men of the whig party, came with a leader, yesterday morning in favor of Mr Webster's nomination; and the Courier. whish more particularly the organ of the Webster party did the same; and both papers republished an ticle in favor of Mr Webster' nomination, from the Courier and Enquirer, of your city have doubt that the Faneuil Hall Convention will be great affair; but think Mr. Webster' friends are deceived, or deceive themselves when they seek to convey the impression that there are many Web to who are democrats join ready ster party speak particularly of this part of the country and their opinion may be sound, as applied to some other questions the Union is expected by the whigs that Virginia will go for them. which would for the benefit of Mr Webster: but it is altogethe probable that such an event no small number our whigs would imitate the example of Horaa this of whigs Mann, and abandon their party The State are far from being unanimous in their on the compromise question, some of them speaking with as much bitterness of if such it can be called as do the most ardent free seilers Indeed. you must have inferred much from the course o the Whig State Conven tion in not nominating Mr. Webster for the Presi dency The very fact that convention to called in Boston, months after that of Spring field, is evidence that the latter failed to was from it by an influential portion of the whigs. The Advertiser takes the ground that Fillmore in favor of Mr. Webster's nomina tion: and this would be found sufficient disgust not few of our whigs, who. by no admire the gentleman whose name stands affixed Law are last Slave the the They people Fugitive likely to violate the law. but they never him who bore 80 prominent part in placing them position where they are compelled to choose be tween their long settled convictions and their conservative regard for law The Norfolk whigs, at their county convention for the nomination of Senatoria candidates, nomi act rated Mr Webster for the Presidency This regarded by some of the more moderate Webster unnecessary defiance to Mr Mann, large part whese district is in Norfolk county probability is that the Norfolk whigs only be ahead the nature an in Mr conclusion foregone Walley whom the for the gube material lives nominati Winthrop against Norfolk. and the most influential whig in no county and its vicinity, now that Mr Mann of the whig determination