The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-31 00:00:00

'THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY

trouble, 3 esterdny,
thereonduct of the Romibh priests. Never before did they
so generally plunge into these contests. We took the
having some Irish newspapers in our
hands, to note down the names of the Ro.aish priests
Who took pert Ia the nomination of candidates, or made
speeches from the hustings, at the late elections. Our
list, mde in a few minutes, is of coarse imperfect—but
it may give some idea of the extensive nature of the c,e-
rical movement.
In the borough of Carlow, the Rev. Dr. Walsh, of
Collage, nominated Mr. Sadleir.
iu the borough a Galway, the Rev P. Daley, P.P.,
nominated Mr.! O'Flaberty.
In the borough of Clonmel, the Very Rev. Dr. Burke,
P.P., nominated Mr. Lawless, and the Ven. Archdeacon
Laff,n spoke iu his favour.
In the county of Cork, Mr. Scully was seconded by
the Rev. Mr. Corkran, P.P.
In Kink's County, Mr. Bland was seconded by, the
Rev. Dr. O'Rafferty, P.P., and Mr. O'Brien, by the Rev.
W. O'Malley, P.P.
In Tipperary, the Very Rev. Dr. Burke, P.P., and the
Rev. J. Morris, P.P., proposed Mr. Scully; anti the
Rev. Mr. Lair.tn, P.P., sf,conded Mr. Sadleir.
In Waterford, the R3v. Mr. Flynn, P. 1?., seconded
Mr. Power.

Is Leitrim, the Vety Rev. Dean Dawson, P.P., pro-
posed Dr. Brady; win the Ri.x. P. Curran, P.P., •pro-
poted Mr. M•i\iaeon.
In Carlow County, the Rev. Mr, Lawler, P.P., pro-
pored Mr. Keogh.
In Mewl), four nri".sts, the Rev. Mr. Kelly, P.P., the
Rev. Mr. Power, P.P., the Rev. R. Ennis, P.l'., and the
Thetas Langan, united in recommending, Mt sirs.
Corhally and Luce.
In Qurcn's County, the Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick, P.P.,
proposed Mr. Dunne. _ _ _

In Mayo, De. Al'Hule himself proposel Mr. Moore,
and the Very Rev. Dean Burke and the Rev. Mr. 'larch-
man recommended Mr. Higgins.
In Limerick, the Rev. Mr. Rickey, P.P., proposed Mr
Monseil, and Archdeacon Fitzgerald, P.P., spite in hie*
favour.

In Westmeath, the Rev. Mr. Cogblen, P.P., proposed
Mr. Urquhart, and the Rev. Mr. Dowling, P.P., spoke.
In Wexford, tho Rev. J. Redmond, P.P., proposed
Mr. Morgan, and the Rev. P. Devereux Mr. Bi'Mahon.
In Galway, we find Dr. M'Hnle again, proposing Mr.
Bellew, and the Rev. J. Macklin, P.P, recommending
Sir Thomas Burke.

In Clare, we find the Rev. Mr. Lynch, P.P., the Rev.
Mr. Quaid, P.P., the Rev. J. M' ahoy, P.P., and the
Rev. Mr. Bourke, uniting in the recommendation of Mr.
O'Brien and Mr. Fitzgerald.
In Monaghan, we have the Rev. P. Brennan, P.P.,
propfising Dr. Gray.
In Kilkenny, we find the Rev. Mr. Ayward, P.P., re-
commending Sergeant Slice.
And in Limerick City, the Rev. J. Brahan, P.P., pro-
posing Mr. O'Brien.

Now these names, "we observe again, are merely those
whichro ba a
fell
equalr o unronmobt notice
have
e nt two
escaped o
or threeourvieview.
newspapers.et
Probably
it be remembered, • to o, that in all the civilized and
Christianised parts of Ireland the same feelings prevail
which ere universal in England and Scotland. In Dub-
lin and Bellest the priests know that their forwardness
in these contests would disgust so many, that policy
makes them refrain. But making these allowances,
what a picture does the rest of Ireland present. The
priests have thrown themselves into the front of the
battle. They declare that politicalpower shall be theirs.
And the
People. unable to perceive th© mischief of such
a system, blindly follow them. One result of this may
teal to good. No power but that cf the Conservative
party has been able to withstand them. The Whigs,
wno fifteen years ago, reckoned fifty or sixty partisans
in Ireland, are extinguished as a party. Tee Times
itself was obliged to confess, the other day, that all Ire-
land has returned but two Whigs and these two have
both promised to support Lord Derby. The priests, then,
have not laboured in vain. They boast of an Irish bri-
gade of sixty Members. It probably numbers more
than fifty. But, troublesome as the body may be, one
result will probably follow which the priests hardly de-
sired; namely, a more Protestant tone than,heretofore in
the great'n]ass of the House of Commons.
DAILY NEWS.—With the exception of Orkney the
returns of ell the Scotch elections have been received.
Scotch con-
Scotland "stands where it did." Tho most desperate
efforts of the Derbyites have tailedttolwrest one seat from
the Liberals. As before, only one district of boroughs
sends a Tory to Parliament; the counties are divided
between the Liberals end the Tories in the same propor-
tionstu
ns
ofioorsmacr• re fir lyo Ai o large
ther
efmajority i t of .
f the.r
m
of the Scotch representation is a phenomenon not peen.
liar to the present election. There has been little mate-
rialm o
01 changeber s
B racein the
the
first
elecetfion under the Reform Bill. parties among the Scotch
This curious tact we are disposed to attribute to the
circumstance that the electoral body is in a manner en-
tirely new; that it was first created by the Act of 1832.
Under the old electoral system in Scotland the only voters
were some 2;500 in the counties, moat of them with fictitious
qualifications, the cadets, dependents, or menials of the
great families, and some 2;500 members of self-elected town
councils. These worthies returned the Scotch 45—that
phalanx so notorious fer its servility. Their number
was too small to diffuse political corruption extensively
through society; their electioneering machinery was
quire inapplicable to the constituencies created by the
Reform Act. Hence there is, even in the present time,
scarcely any corruption among the Scotch constituencies.
The boroughs are remarkably pure, and iu the counties
it is not so much bribery as the Sir Pertinax Macsyco-
phent disposition to " boo" to great men—a weakness
surviving in rural districts from feudal times that enables
the squireareby to carry the day. This state of affairs
will probably keep the balance of parties in the Scotch
representation nearly what it is until some change is
made in the franchise or the distribution of the elec-
toral districts. A few constituencies which have
veered between the Liberal and the Tory ascendancy
might indeed be reclaimed to the Liberal cause.
Mr. Anderson QC., had nearly carried the Airdrie
burghs, notwithstanding the enormous patrimonial in-
terest the Bird family possessed there; and Mr.
Card NO, brought forward at the eleventh hour, gave
Sir D. H. Blair a.close rue. Now the Liberal electors
in the Airdrie district are still labouring under the
paralysis of their energies superinduced by the divisions
between the Hamilton interest and the independent
electors attached to the late Mr. Wilson, of Dundyvan;
were they firmly re-united the district which was at one
time represented by Lord Lincoln, and at another by
that
Gillon, of Wallhouse, might easily be regained for the
reform cause. Again, the all but successful effort in
behalf ot Mr. Cardwell in Ayrshire, was made on bathe
idea
standing a scandalous neglect of the registration by the
Liberals, persevered in ever since 1839, to such an ex-
tent, that when Lord James Stuart was asked some
months ago to allow his son to stand for the county, and
twhoeureldwhaasveiodiyonperoitspcoooutldof be have bneoetn
one
eown
of the
tcouldo od . give
A
et the
• • all that is required to enable the registration is
Re-
formers to redeem the county of Richard
vbiirorotuhse
Oswald
iheoawdingtbe Lr'.ebgeirsetelsr s
from the Tories at next election. So, too, with regard
to Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and Dumbartonshire.
Every outs of these counties has at one time been repre-
sented by Liberal Members, and might be again.
It is
true that Mr. Smol!ett (Dumbartonshire) is as accom-
plished and Liberal minded a Conservative as can be
imagined; and his attention to local business, his affa-
bility, a spice of the humour of the old novelist of his
family, have endeared him to his constituenta. It would
not be easy to unseat him; but the attempt to regain the
county would net be hopeless wore any other candidate
on his side to succeed him. Again, Colonel Mure (Hen-
frewshire), as an accomplished scholar and man
of liberal sentiments, is a general favourite;—his
seat, howeter, is by no means so assured as Mr.
Smollett's, and an eligible Liberal candidate might
wrest it from him. Lastly, Mr. Lockhart's sole
hold upon Lanarkshire is his exemplary attention to
local business; no such prestige attaches to him as to
the other two we have named. Lanarkshire might
easily be gain©d by a resolute effort. We feel con_
vinced of .his by the results of an inquiry instituted by
the late Mr. Colin Dunlop a short tame before he was
invited to stand for Glasgow. There are five constitu-
encies which might and ought to be gained by the Li-
berals in Scotland. The whole of the boroughs would
then have Liberal representatives. In all the counties
we have named (and perhaps in Kirkcudbright), there
is an independent electorate, that might be kept de-
'
cidedly Liberal; in the rest of the Scotch counties, the
landlord interest will prevail as long as the present frau.
chide and the present distribution of electoral dis-
tricts continue, and as long as there is open Voting
Where the great families are Whigs, there will be
Whig Member returned ; where Tories, a Tory ; "-
a-
this not so much from corruption or intimidation, as
from a lingering of the clannish and vassal spirit awe
the farmers—a romantic sentiment, which experience
and enlightenment will cure. The comparative absenc-0
of a venal, or mean, mercenary spirit among the Sente-h
electors is a fact that has a moral of its own. It is °wimp
to the circumstance of the infinitesimally small PrePor'.
tion in which an old corrupt electoral element
mingled with the new one called into existence by twh:
Reform Act. When the history of elections in Edin-
burgh and Glasgow is contrasted with their history in
Liverpool, it will be obvious how important it is to keep
constituencies pure. Where any considerable amount of
corruption has developed itself, it is scarcely possible to
expel or neutralise it even by a large infusion of new
blood. The bad old taints the good new.

yesterday afternoon, and visited
COURT CIRC U L AR.
OSBORNE, FR/DAir.
Royal
ge
e thess
PrincessPr inc
accHoemrpManaijeedstbyyahn:lr hissoyßsol Albert,
drove over to Shanklin RoYal,
the Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh,
The Royal party remained some time at Shanklin,
and returned to Osborne through Saudown at a little
before eight o'cicck.
The Countess of Gain:borough was in attendance on
her Majesty,
and Vie Hon. Colonel Grey and Lieute-
nant-Colonel F. H. Seymour, Equerries in Waiting,

The Earl and Counte.s of Derby arrived in town last
night fro Got Awood.
Sir Walter Riddell had an interview with Mr. Secre-
tary Walpole yesterday at the Liorne•office. Mr. Ed-
Ynd Wo4house had also an interview with the Right
)n. Secretary.

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