Oxford.
_Irish Legislation._--I have met with the following statement: is it to be
received as true? In May, 1784, a bill, intended to limit the privilege of
franking, was sent from Ireland for the royal sanction; and in it was a
clause enacting that any member who, from illness or other cause, should be
unable to write, might authorise some other person to frank for him,
provided that on the back of the letter so franked the member gave at the
same time, under his hand, a full certificate of his inability to write.