The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-05 00:00:00

TIPPERARY ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)

The select committee appointed to try the merits
of the petition and the return of the Hon. Captain White
for the county of Tipperary resumed their inquiry this
morning ; Sir Philip Grey de Malpaa Egerton in the drab.
The other members of the court were Mr. Walter Morn.
son, Mr. Arthur Russell, Lieut. Colonel Hogg, and Mr.
G. Moyer.
The counsel for the petitioner were Mr. Ryan, Q.C.,
the Irish bar, the Hon. R. Bourke, Mr. Macnamara, and
Mr. Cunningham ; and for the sitting member Mr. Serjeant
Ballantine, sad Mr. Hackett, of the Irish bar.
Mr. Mennamara resumed his address to the committee
in reply upon the whole cram. He alluded to the decision
this week in the Waterford committee, and contended that
the Waterford case was not at all analogous to the present
one, and ought not to be t-Iken as a preeerlent. In the
Water(ord committee there was no allegation of clerical
influence, and the committee rejected the petition bemuse
there was no evidence implicating the sitting member or
his agents in the improper practices which were alleged to
have taken place. But in the present case general riot and
general intimidation were charged, and to establish those
charges it was necessary to prove agency. The maks in-
fluence exercised in this case was altogether different from
that charged in the Waterford case. It appeared that in
the county of Tipperary there was a very large body of
Roman catholic clergy, who were active and zealous men,
and were superintended by an archbishop, who took a
warm interest in politics. The archbishop had introduced
a rule into his diocese that when the majority of
the clergy approved of any particular candidate
they were to take public action on his behalf,
but the minority, whatever their feelings were,
were to be restrained from taking any public action to give
expression to them. It would be seen at once how vast
and powerful such a combination was, and yet this was
the combination that was brought to bear against Mr.
Waldron. The complete organisation and perfect machi.
net/ which the Roman catholic clergy should bring to
bear upon any subject in which they took an interest were
shown in this case. On the 13th of October the clergy, at
a meeting convened by the archbishop, signed a rem.
lotion pledging themselves to use strenuous exertions
to secure the return of Captain White ; and on the very
next day (Sunday) there were denunciations against Mr.
Waldron from the altar of every chapel in the county. Is
one instance a Roman catholic priest, the Rev. Hugh
Gleeson, declared that every man who voted for Mr. Wal-
dron ought to be ducked in the river ; and in
another, the Rev. Mr. O'Connell from the altar
called upon his congregation to commit perjury
rather than vote for Mr. Waldron, adding that if they
voted for him they would vote against their conscience,
their creed, and their country, and it would be better for
them to vote for a heretic or an infidel. The use of suck
language was ca'culated to,produee but one effect, and
as it had not been contradicted it must be taken to be is.
capable of contradiction. He admitted that a portico of
Archbishop Sealey's address to his congregation breathed
a spirit of peace and order, but he contended
that it plainly pointed out what course was to be taken is
the coming election, and that Captain White was to be re.
garded as the good man for whom the electors were to vote,
while Mr. Waldron was the bad man they were to reject.
There was the fullest evidence as to the events which really
did occur at the election. From an early hour on the
morring of the polling day the voters of Mr. Waldron
were subjected to unheard of obstructions and interference.
Their care were stopped, the traces cut, the horses takes
out, the wheels removed, and the voters dragged from the
sesta ; walls were built to crone the raids ; at the polling
booths the voters were stoned and bludgeoned, and whir
sonic of them were dragged into Captain White's tally room
and detained others were covered with wounds and bruises,
their heads cut and their teeth knocked out, and one
poor fellow in endeavouring to defend his landlord—
Camel Purefoy—from being murdered by the mob
around him received such injuries that he died soon after.
It was necessary to bear in mind that all this was done in
tl'e face of large bodies of the military and police who had
been called in to protect Mr. Waldron's voters and to sup-
press riot and tumult. Nor were these riotous pro-
ceedings confined to one place, but throughout
the day of polling they were going on simultane-
ously in different parts of the county at considerable
distances from each other. Yet not one of Captain
White's voters was obstructed, nor did any one of theta
require an escort of constabulary or military. He asked
the committee if it was probable that such men as Mr.
James Speight, the member for Limerick, Mr. William
Speight, Col. Bagwell Purefoy, and Capt. De Burgh would
have been alarmed at the aspect of affairs without adequate
cause. He denied that landlord influence had anything to
do with the rioting, and also contended that the disturb-
&aces were the result of • systematic and organised attempt
to intimidate Mr. Waldron's supporters. The learned
counsel then at considerable length reviewed the evidence
called on behalf of the sitting member, and urged that it
failed to shake the case of the petitioner.
[Left sitting. j

THE LATE MR. R. CULLING HANBURT, M.P.—
Yesterday morning the mortal remains of the late Mr.
Hanbury, M.P. for the county of Middlesex, were takes
from his family residence in Upper Grosvenor-street, to
The Poles, his father's seat near Ware, in Hertfordshire, for
interment at Thunbridge Church, a chapeiry in the pariah
of Ware, Herta. The charch being • comparatively
short distance from the house, it was a walking funeral;
but there were three mourning coaches for the female
members of the family attending the solemn rites,
The sacred edifice was entirely draped in black. The
service commenced about 3 and was very plainly con-
ducted. The coffin is of solid pannelled English oak, with
• Maltese cross on • brass prtri, and the inscriptions—
" Robert Culling Hanbury, M.P., died 27th March,
1867, aged 44."—" For ever wi the Lord." Mrs. Robert
CPU rg Hanbury (the widow) and the youthful son of the
deceased, by his first wife, were the chief mourners ; then
followed Mr. Robert Hanbury, sen. (father), Messrs. Geo.
and Charles Hay Hanbury (brothers) ; Mr. Abel Smith,
M.P., the Hon. and Rev. Lowther Barrington and Mr. A.
D. Chapman and Mrs. Chapman (brothers-in-law sad
sister) • the Rev. W. H. Fremantle, rector of St. Mary's.
Maiflerone, and Mrs. W. H. Fremantle (sister of Mrs.
R. C. Hanbuty) ; Sir T. F. Buxton, Bart., and Lady Vic-
toria Buxton, Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., Mr. T. F. Buxton, M.P.,
the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., Captain Trotter, the ker.
J. W. Reeve, minister of Portman Chapel, Re.
WAR EXPENDITURE IN EUROPE.—Tho Mug
Public, of Lyons, says :—" The quantity of arms whisk
Europe is at this moment engaged iu transforming or
manufacturing is estimated at 11,000 cannon and 3,2011,1erl
idles. If the former are valued at 2,000 fr. each, thee
gives a sum of 22,000,000 fr., and that is an extremely kw
price. The rides at 40fr. each represent • sum of 11l
and that in most countries is far below the actual
sum, the Chaasepot resting 75fr., and the Swiss Winchester
100 fr. This amount will therefore probably be exceeded,
and as all the accoutrements will also require tnunforna-
tion, this expenditure. which, according to the most mode-
rate calculation, would already be 22 millions for canoes
and Let for r ifies, together 150 millions, will certainly he
doubled. It will rise to triple, or 450 millions, taking WO
accost the munition powder, lead, cartridges, Stc. hat
us say, in round numbers. 500 millions ! bolt a milliard
(20,0C3,0e3/.)! We ask any intelligent cues, is it rot the
most grievous thing possible to see half a milliard thus
spent in instruments of war, when the peoples everywhere
are in want of primary schools, appreutisasge instructive,
and profeasional training ; when there are the mat
urgent applications for the execution of roads,
.bridgay
and the most indispensable means of communication ?'

•
CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN. Mid seeing that
our own political and social system can only be regarded
as a gigantic failure, as compared with the Japanese, if,
in the wads of the American constitution, " the pursait
of happiness" be the test of success, it would be as well
for our national vanity if we estunated our civilianss
at its true value, and admitted that it is ten thoussad
times more powerful for evil than it is for good, and that
perhaps the nim.t fatal defect in it is, that it seeks to
varnish over its inherent rottenness with a religious glow
which it calla Christianity, but which, as practised hl
those who profess it, bears no resemblance to that religion,
so that Japiusese who are instructed for the first time is
the actual moral code laid down by Christ are penetrated
with amazement. " W by," they exclaim, "H is teaching isms-
tuidlysuperior to that of Confucius. We had no conception
Christianity was such a religion as this, hut believed it te
be a superstition only fit for the common people and shor
keepers, like Buddhism. Why do the people who come
here not live like Christians! Is it because they 11,
ignorant merchants who only understaial auperstition!
" No," we are compelled to reply ; " they are all the
same at home." " Then," they say, astonished, " why do
nut your learned men follow purely the teaching of ChM*
as our learned men follow purely the teaching of Con.
fucius!" Such are the questions with which the intelli-
gent Japan e Confucian plea the Western Christian. and
it is long before be is enabled so completely to overcome
the prejudice which the praclice of Christians excites is
his mind, as thoroughly' to realise that it has scarcely Al
relation whatever to the sublime precepts of the Diva.)
Founder of the religion he professes. For the Japanese
as we have already said, is a man who due,. not know what
compromise means, and it is to him astonishing that •
man should say he believes one thing, and practise in his
daily life another. In a word. he is capable 0f
sublime appreciation of Christianity, if it were
not for an inveterate horror which he entertain'
of contact with the Christian. It is' doubtlea,
owing to the purely ethical character of his own re'
ligion that the educated Julianne bas no religion!'
bigotry as applied to dogma. He hates bad practice, lint
he listens with respect and toleration to any new theelo:
gical opinions, and imbibes with delight the ekvsted
principles of pure Christianity. All good Japanese are In
the constant habit of prayer, and only the lower chi
practise ceremonial. Hen are great there according
to
their lives, not their intellect. Thom the most enacts.
scholar is discredited because he gave one doubtful Ono!
the redact i,
to nh liar who
tlsare°lofmrrise Itty.
tians onm :las; missionaridsnehaly
es
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render it m'
possible for a people who only judge of a religious 5!,!..
tern by its results, to accept Christianity.— Blacke,."
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