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every inch of ground with the freeholders, who would approach'
the hustings it they could, to poll fur Mr. Hamilton ; and he who
is not the slave of priests an I demagogues. and who will not bow
down before the Idol of liberality, and lend himself to the Crusade,
goes to vote as he would go to battle-11c must fight his way to and
from the hustings at the hazard of his personal destruction. Fraud
and violence sit I falsehood beset him at every turn ; he is a sort of
I
, public pri.oner, even when safest ; and if he presume to act with
the spirit t,f n freeman, he is in peril of being involved in some
personal thraldom, or perhaps knocked upon the head outright.
i Still the honest and loyal freeholders. and the true friends to the
honour of the county of Dublin, contend like men of principle and
courage &galore this enormity. It was a shocking scandnl to see yes.
terday. preceding some cart-loads of drunken and turbulent liberal:
going to poll for the Popish Candidates, a large wooden cross, deco-
rated with green ribands ! The most impressive symbol of Chris.
Sanity, so foully prostituted, is a burning shame to a party which
dares' to cant and pliber about religion, and to affect a very special
reverence for its principles. The intoxicated fanatics wholollowed in
this reprobate procession, exhibited the wild and furious aspects of
demons rather than men, of ttreatures cofleeted for the express de-
sign of being the agents of any outrage which they may be ex-
cited to perpetrate, and who panted for the mandate of havock.
Another exhibition of the like sort ofFerded religion and loyalty
with equal scandal. A squad of liberal ragamuffins proceeded
through the streets, carrying a large green flag, with a white cross
in the caner. It is quite unnecessary to descsqt upon this double
symbol—of the remintseenes of 1798. and the holy liberality which
is working out new convulsions and disasters—a day so disgraced
with such sights as these ended in violence and outrage. There
were, until a late hour of the night, liberal mobs in various parts of
the city. In College-^reen Mr. Hamilton's Committee-norm was
attacked, and the windows shattered. We have not yet heard of
any murders. In spite of all this nefarious chicanery, .Mr. Hamil-
tonstands his ground manfully, and every hour draws towards hint
the wishis and seal of the respectable portion of society, super.
added to leis own powerful friends—Deb/4 Corn-spirant!.
l From the Freeman's Johrlial of Vetlnesday.
IlysTrwcs MONDAY, Fouit o' 'Loco.
_. ...

:he polling at the fellowing Ours sood thus :
One &Clock, Al'hite, Mg Talbot, 1.13 Hamilton, fIG
Two n•('lock . 216 - 283 121
Three o'( lock, - 297 2-23 148
Ira. Talbot. Mts. Meilitont, Lady Morgan, and several other
Ladies of rank are on the ground. As we were leaving it, a car-
riage arrived with a handsome white Hag, bordered with blue, and
nn which was written " Iliehdown Independence." It heade,l a
long train of cars which drew up opposite Colonel White's tally-
moms. Mr. Luke Plunkett had been on his legs for nearly four
hours when we came away.

A strong party of horse and foot police are on the ground, and
a detachment of the constabulary. nineteen in number, arrived
there from hucan at two o'clock. There was no disposition to riot.
As far as the mate of the gross poll on the two IWCI,IOIIA days could
be ascertained, it gives a majority of 114 to Colonel White, and of
112 to Colonel Talbot over 111 r. Hamilton.

IWhi.e
Talbot

FOVUTII DAY—TUESTAY.
- 216.1 I Hamilton - 290
200 . . .

It is pleasurable to state. that never. perhaps, was a contested
elation carried on with more good feeling and propriety than the
present.
. . . .

At the close of the poll Colonel WrITTE tame forward to address
the elector'', briefly congratulating them on the success of the day,
and the triumph of liberality over bigotry and bludgeons.
Mr. Lawl.v.ss next appeared, and made a few judicious obser-
vations on the nature of the present contest.
The Court-house doors were then closed. Ay eight o'clock the
police were entirely removed from the ground, and every thing re-
mai nedypiet.
An officer's guard has been stationed at Kilmbinham since the
election commenced ; heretofore a serjeant's guard performed
this duty.