Correspondence in relation to Writ of Election for County of Leitrim, and Refusal of High Sheriff to execute Writ

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4 CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO This letter appears, however, to have been returned to this office, re-directed from Carrick-on-Shannon to London, where it was sent by night mail at 1.20 
p.m., 
25th instant, the date on which it was received. 

(signed) W. 
C. 
T. 

Mr. 
Ormsby Gore to Under Secretary Sir, Dublin, 27 March 1857. 
I hereby inform you that, inasmuch as you have declined to release me from the office of Sheriff of the county of Leitrim, although you are aware my object in tendering my resignation was to respond to the call of the electors of that county as a candidate for their representation in Parliament, and although the law officers of the Crown have distinctly stated there is no legal obstacle to my being relieved of the shrievalty, and also considering that I have been several days in Ireland without the writ for holding the election having been received by, or tendered to me, or having been sent to my proper address, I purpose returning to England immediately, and I have to request you will make such arrangements for the election of the county as his Excellency may con¬ sider expedient. 

I have. 
&c. 
To the Under Secretary, (signed) W. 
R. 
Ormsby Gore. 

&c, &c, The Castle, Dublin. 

The Under Secretary to W. 
Ormsby 67ore, Esq. 
Sir, Dublin Castle, 27 March 1857-In reply to your letter of this date, I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to inform you, that whatever bearing the circumstances therein stated may have, as excusing your absence from your bailiwick at the period referred to, they do not, in his Excellency's opinion, affect the question of the expediency of dis¬ charging you at the present time from the duties of your shrievalty; the more especially as your presence in Dublin, as well as your wish to become a candi¬ date for the county, show that the cause assigned for your absence at those periods is happily no longer in operation, his Excellency sees no reason for departing from the decision already made. 
I have further to inform you that the writ has been returned from London, and will be transmitted by post this evening to your office in Carrick-on-Shannon ; and I am directed once more to impress upon you the necessity for your at once proceeding to your bailiwick, and taking the proper measures for holding the election. 

I have, &c. 
W. 
R. 
Ormsby Gore, Esq., 
(signed) Thos. 
A. 
Larcom. 

Gresham's Hotel. 

Mr. 
Ormsby Gore to the Under Secretary. 

. 
Sir, Gresham's Hotel, Dublin, March 27, 1857-1 I beg to inform you that I have just received a letter from my father, Mr. 
Ormsby Gore, from London, stating that he had seen Lord Bessborough on the subject of my release from the office of Sheriff of the county of Leitrim, and after a conference with Lords Bessborough and Panmure, they recommended strongly that I should again see Lord Carlisle for my release ; and in adopting their advice, I wish to explain that the cause of my absence in London was the serious illness of my wife, and I was therefore unaware, until I first tendered my resignation, that there could be any objection; had I known there was a prescribed time within which to resign, and that a written resignation could be received, I should of course have sent you one from London, but could not 

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