... FLAX AND POLITICS. WE copy the following from Saturday's W~hig:- 44EXTENSION OF FLAX CULTU1RL IN THE SOUTH-_ We understand thit William Lane Joynt, Esq., agent of Lord Annally, has been in Belfast for some dsye past, gaining information as to flax cultivation ...

... seductions of the whipper-ini, and re- P nained leader of the N-orthern Circuit, he would pro- bably be alive to-day. The Whigs, however, gave- hima office in return for Ministerial support, And, thb having accepted the Solicitor-Geuera~lsbip, he was ...

... sult being that there were only 979 votors on the re- A gister, of whom 805 were Tories and Orangomon, j. leaving only 114 Whig voters in a locality where B thore should have been 1,600. Your lordabips can now understand why the entire Province of Ulster ...