The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-26 00:00:00

DAIL Y WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The station
ari, arranged in order of latitude.
l'urzourn—Wind E., calm—rain. . _

HAsmos—Wind gentle breeze—elondless.
8013THAnrrox-Wind S., strong breeze—overcast.

.
FonmEsroNß—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
TuriraudDGE—Wind E., strong breeze—cloudless.
GiCEENWICH—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
swraDo,_wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
ConemEsnat—Wind S. E., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
CA3IT.m.EDG4s—Wind N.E , strong breeze—partially cloudy.
Y Ammount—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
The retrains from the tollowing places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine
o'clock :
P.x)r.r —Wind S.E., gentle breeze--cloudless.
GREENWICH—Wind N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

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LONDON; MONDAY, JULY 26, 1832.

Within two or three days the electioneering ex-
citement will in a great measure have terminated.
England and Wales have already filled up the cata-
logue of their representatives. Scotland and Ireland
have alone a few INl2mbcra still to return to the new
Parliament. The hiatus thus left may be, however,
very readily indicated, fcr it comprises merely two
constituencies, namely those of Orkney and Wick in
the " land o' cakes," and two in the sister island,
namely those of Donegal and Tyrone. Before Wed-
nesday, therefore, we may calcullte upon having re-
ceived the last feagment of intelligence from those lecali-
t.B
giving the final record of the struggle between
the
candidates of the Government and the candidates
of the Opposition. Upon that struggle so much is
now felt tube dependent, that we doubt not but both
skies are slid they that regretful
respec-
tivety nAk3
more
not each
active preparations. Several gal-
lant cctteats have
no doubt illustrated the prowess of
the Liberals in -
ti( n and of the Tories in
another, but therke-havdet,ec' unhappily for the former,
proved to- be merely the exceptions. Elsewhere
the energies
ofb:toll parties have been
away
too frequently fritter
in the
lity of a culpable frivo-
over-coufidence. Were it
o
likely that the House f Commons could be sub-
jected very speedily once more to the doom of dis-
solution we cannot entertainfor a single in-
Sala t that the general election would
-
a doubtproduce very diffe-
rent results from those recently rendered apparent—
securing a more reliable and steadily compacted body
of Refuratei3 to consdtute the central
mass of the
where throughout the constituen-
cies of the United Kingdom we have recognised evi-
deuces of the lack of unanimity of interests among
those wirese sympathies are eminently congenial.
In
this manner, through the 'somewhat incomprehensible
J
ealousies G 't. the electers, Derbyites of the ultra-Tory
school have been enabled occasionally to slip in
between the divisions provoked among the supporters
of the Liberal canclidaLaa The Whigs have found
reason in this way to lament; the disappearance from
among their ranks of an adminie:rator no less im-
portant than Sir GEOEGE GiLEY, one of the
best cf the Rejsata.t Cebineta
*the as the Secretary
of State for
Home a pertinent. The
Peelitee have, in like manner, found cause to regret
the loss of a debater as remarkable as the Right lion.
EDWARD CARDWELL. Then, again. the Radicals
have witnessed the rejection of '
Colonel TROMPSON by
the very constimency we bas
regarded as bound to
him by the ties of gratitude. Another body of,

electors has, in an equally ungracious manner, ousted
Mr. BERNAL, the Liberal Chairman of the House of
Commons. Another has betrayed the same indiffe-
rence to the merits of Mr. GREENE, the occupant of
the same post in the Legislature during
the existence of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government.
Perhaps, indeed, the most remarkable circumstance
noticeable in the catalogue of newly-elected represen-
tatives is the peculiarity of so many able men being
discarded and of so many men of doubtful capacity
and dubious antecedents being selected instead. This
circumstance could not but be matter for serious
regret even during an ordinary situation of affairs,
but at the present juncture, when the ability of the
new Members must be universally recognised to ba
of the utmost importance, it must be regarded as a
calamity that the men of experience have been
thrown aside through a shameless preference for men
of no experience whatsoever. Fresh blood is, of
course, always desirable in the House of Commons as
elsewhere, but still more desirable is the avoidance
by the constituencies of any wholesale experiments
in the way of legislation by means of send-
ing " raw recruits" to the senatorial phalanx
at Westminster. To discard a tried and
valuable representative simply because of an
idle anxiety to have some change in the representa-
tion, is, perhaps, of all acts on the part of the electors
the most perilous, as it is of all certainly the least
capable of extenuation. Yet never was a Parlia-
ment named by the country more strikingly dis-
tinguished by this characteristic of fickleness among
the constituencies. The Cabinet has thereby been
deprived in several instances of men whose abilities
would have rendered them extraordinary acquisi-
tions to the group of Members supporting
the DERBY Administration. The Derbyites have in
this manner been debarred from the advantage of
securing to themselves the ready eloquence of Mr.
Eams, formerly Member for Newry, the powerful
influence of Mr. MILES, the ex-Member for Bristol,
as well as the ingenious and daring calculations of
Mr. YOUNG, hitherto the representative of Scar-
borough. While such have been some among the
individual losses of the Ministry, the losers have been
personally, more than numerically, greater to the Op-
position. That must be admitted. It is a fact that
altogether defies contradiction ; and one, moreover,
that we regard with only the more intense chagrin,
because we attribute it less to the energy of the
Ministerialiste than to the shameful and
shameless neglect of the Energy lying
dormant on the side of the Opposition. For any
practical purpose, it is idle, however, to utter those ex-
pressions of lamentation. As the record of misfor-
tune they are essential, nevertheless, at the present
moment, when the general election is on
the very eve of its termination—and not
only as the record of misfortune, but also, and
in a very peculiar manner, as a warning against
its recurrence. Before the excitement of the
recent contests had anywhere commenced, be-
fore even the period of the dissolution had
actually arrived,, we took every occasion
to remind the Liberal constituencies in the United
Kingdom of the danger, of trusting too implicitly
to their known superiority over their antago-
nists. More particularly, it was our desire to
bid several of the most remarkable of those
constituencies beware of the insidious appearance
of a DERBY candidate at the moment when the anti
Ministerial , forces were divided into two or three

sometimes even into so many as five or six—different
sections, by the simultaneous appearance of
so many Liberals, anxious to be selected
by the liberal possessors of the franchise as their re-
presentatives. In several instances we have re-
joiced to observe that the designs of the enemy
have been worsted. But in others, unfortu-
nately, the device has been found to suc-
ceed to very admiration—insomuch that men
known to be the popular favourites have been here and
there placed at the very bottom of the poll, to the
amazement of their own over-confident, and, there-
fore, culpably-negligent supporters. From these
considerations it is that we rest assured the result
would be found to be marvellously different in the
event of another dissolution speedily taking place, in
which case the least energetic would be roused
from their recent lethargy, and a marvellous accession
of numbers would be speedily perceptible on the side
of the Opposition.

We can make every allowance for the excitement
occasioned by a general election. Men's blood can-
not run very sluggishly or coldly when there is so
much at stake, and when every means are adopted to
inflame it to fever heat. But there are limits which
cannot be exceeded with impunity, which no degree
of excitement can justify or extenuate. Physical
force cannot be tolerated in any shape or form. It is

absurd to speak of "freedom of election," when such
gentle modes of persuasion as can be found in bind-
gems or brickbats are resorted to on the most trivial
occasion. Bullets and cold steel are even more
objectionable than paving-stones or shillelahs. Mob
licentiousness is bad enough, in all conscience, but
military license is still worse; and no occurrence
in which the blood of her MAJESTY'S subjects is spilt
can be passed over sub silentio, or withcut the most
stringent and searching investigation.
We have had to narrate many disgraceful riots,
in connexion with Irish elections, in which the offen:
ders have disregarded all sense of decency, giving
fall scope to their evil passions. But the last de-
plorable and fatal transactions in the County of
Clare, if the accounts that have been transmitted in
reference thereto can at all be depended on, far
exceed in atrocity anything that has hitherto taken
place. Several lives have been lost, and those chiefly,
of innocent parties, who had not been in any de-
gree concerned in the unfortunate affair. Making
every allowance fur the exaggerations and mis-
statements usual on such occasions—and the
notorious frequency thereof induces us to refrain
from expressing a decided opinion until the
receipt of more authentic intelligence—
it is, at least, certain that five persons are dead, and
several others seriously wounded; and that these in-
jsnerie.s were inflicted by persons in her MAJESTY'S
commission of, and in the presence of a gentleman in the
Lively3f.iigr bat
and
demandimpartial inquiry,
spt.
the peace, and of two cffl-ers of the
31st
Regiment. These nquestionable facts' impera •
appearance
Amnuystth
Lieg conductedhav
io inth
the
would inflame the of ►hias or prejudice
Popular mind to the ut-
most extent, and
IfPhaps lead to very la-
mentable results. the
they cannot obtain justice from
er
people believe that
th
aYtriv againe to
behold bands
con constituted autho-
oelk
tlriatnieass,, theneyd
wmeamy
it into their own
assassins patrolling the country andof organizedanda,
striking terror
into the inhabitants.
In the inquiry that must be instituted it will h
desirable to ascertain clearly and truequivocall e
asia Under what circumstances the several voters
were confined in the Temperance Hall, at Theraond.
gate, more especially whether there was any forcible
abduction or illegal detention .
2 liy. How far Mr. DELMEGE was warranted in
his interference?--2 question that must.in some degree
depend on the answer that may be returned to the
former interrogatory.
idly. How or in what manner, and on what
representation, the assistance of the military was
obtained.

4thly. Whether the electors taken from the
Temperance Hall were desirous of availing themselves
of the military escort, or whether
asserted, carried dr they were, as
--- as prisoners to the polling
booths ?

5 ally. What was the nature of the violence wed
towards the soldiers, whether it was of such a
character as to induce a well-founded apprehension
that their own lives or limbs might be endangered if
permitted the assaults to be continued without
whether,
adopting measures for their own protection ? And
6tbly. Whether they could not have
repelled
their assailants without using firearms and ,
even if they were justified in adopting some stem
those resorted to were not excessive, and far beyond
o
the exigency of the case?
Oa the answers that may be returned to these in-
terrogatories will depend the further measures that
may be required, and, as we hat e already stated, it
is essential that there should be no ambiguity on any
of these points, but that the real facts should be
clearly
and explicitly set forth. The honour of the

Government, and what is even more important, the
peace and tranquillity of the country is at stake, and
such matters are too important to be slighted or dis-
regarded.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Pays has the following on the reception which
the PRINCE PRESIDENT received in Paris on his re-
turn from Strasburg

se ea
There are people so blinded by
eparty
or
spirit that
they cannot see what every one else
3tooou,
sO ObOy citizenstb e strange ha v e
accountlle a r d . Thisgv e
given
t flb e c t
thei so
n j ais ho
ueu
ragnr g ewl s ht
de: dst
Debate of the reception given to Prinyce Louis Napoleon
satisfaction,
la Republique,'
passing along the Boulevards. That journal,
thatptuh balti cl
cure;
we,certainly should not suspect of any love for the cry
of
pretends,was
raised woint h
several
points
during the passage of the cortege of the Prince. We
will not dispute the version of the Debats—we shall
merely express our astonishment that, it it heard the
single voice which cried Vire la Republique,' as a
ridiculous and powerless protestation, it would not hear
the thousands of voices which stifled it with the shout of
' Viva Napoleon!' "
The same journal says that the gendarmerie
shouted unanimously " Viva l'Empereur."
The clergy of the Madeleine stood in full canoni-
cals, and bearing a cross, in front of the church as
the Prince passed. Three batteries of cannon were
drawn up on the Place de la Concorde, and mixed up
with artillery and clergy. The Pays saw an English
officer in costume.
The colours intended for the National Guards, to
be distributed on the 16th of August., are being ac-
tively prepared. Those for the battalions of the de-
partment of the Seine are already completed. On one
side of the colours will be inscribed in letters of gold
"LOUIS NAPOLEON, au—bat. du —(name of the de-
partment)," and on the other, the letters "R• F."
(Republique Franclaise), with the name of the de-
partment beneath. The only difference between the
colours of the army and those of the National Guard,
is that the fringe of the latter is in silver instead of
gold.
The gold crown and globe, which were on the
summit of the Pantheon during the Restoration, are
about to be replaced.
Lieutenant-General DE HIRSFELD, commandant in
cilia of the Rhenish prcvinoQw, who was sent as
Envoy from the King of PRUSSIA, was introduced to.
the PRINCE-PRESIDENT at Nancy by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs. LOUIS NAPOLEON replied in Ger-
man to the compliments addressed to him bythe
General in that language in the name of hi
s Sove-
reign.
The munificent council of Bordeaux has just voted
50,000 f. for the expenses attendant on the receptions
of the PRINCE-PRESIDENT in September next.. _
Another body of emigrants, sent out to California
with the proceeds of the lottery of the Ingots d'Or,
have just left Paris for Havre. They are to embark
without delay on board the Magellan.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Tuts 24.
Grand Junction of France, 45/s —Great Western of
Canada BonY's (Ist issue), 106—Luxembourg, 6 Di Ditto
/a—
Railway, 4,—Paris and Lyons, 1734 • and Rouen,
Paris
37 yi,—Paris and Strasbourg, 243/8—Rouen and Havre, 14—
Tonrs and Nantes, 131/2—Western of Franca, 10.

SPAIN.
We have received dispatchea from Madrid, dated
the 20th
hicsß,t.
otußtstE thich,eyLeyntu2ion.....nthirnege per CentE.,of interest.
MADRID
45,-1 ; Exchange on London, 50 30.

GERMAN Y•
The Emperor of AUSTRIA entered Transylvania on
the 20th, and was enthusiastically cheered by the
people.i
ba3 promised to revisit Hungary in Sep-
tember, for the purpose of reviewing the cavalry
camp which is to be formed between the 28th of
August and the 10th of September.
The following anecdote is related of the EMPEROR
during his stay at Cornorn :—" The Burgomaster
spoke, in his address, of national security, upon which
the EMPEROR clapped his hand violently upon the
hilt of his sword, and, pointing to the officers, sur-
rounding him, exclaimed, 6 Here we have the only
and the surest security."
It is reported that the Hanoverian Ministry has
resigned, and that a Cabinet will succeed of a com-
pletely equestrian caste, which, on the commercial
and customs question, will adhere to the liberal com-
mercial views of the Prussian equestrian order.
At Cassel a communication was made on the 20th
to the Second Chamber of the financial situation of
the country. The Finance Minister stated that there
was a deficit of from three to four million of tbalers.
The Ministers requested the assent 'of the states to
the provisional laws. There had yet been no meet-
ing of the First Chamber.