The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—The Belfast Mercury, a
thoroughly Liberal journal, in the course of some re-
marks, deprecating the interference of the Roman Ca-
tholic clergy at the late elections, points to ether parties
who were by no means free from blame upon the same
score:--
" If we are called," says the Mercury, " to notice in
terms of condemnation the political interference of the
priests in other parts 9f Ireland, let ns not overlook the
tact that we have had some of our clergymen in the
north enacting no inconsiderable part in the struggle
through which we have passed. Let us not forget, that
we have had appeals, again and again, to Presbyterian
feeling and Presbyterian prejudice; and, if rev. men,
who have been active in the electioneering contest, exer-

cised their spiritual inflneace less than their Roman
Catholic brethren in the south, we will perhaps not err
very much in supposing that this IE a y be safely at-
tributed to the fact, that their powers are more cir-
cumscribed. We have all heard or read of the exhibi-
tion of Dr. Cooke, the paid distributer of the Royal
largess among his brethren, and the endowed lecturer
upon that new science invented for his peculiar
advantage, and called by the name of " Sacred
Rhetoric' that txhibition which the well-pen-
sioned divine made, when he was brought forward, on
the occasion of the late election for Antrim, and when
he perverted the hustings into a sectarian platform, stir-
ring up the paasions of his auditors. If the bolts which
that meek apostle hurls are less dreaded than those of
the thundering Jupiter of Teem, the fault is not his.
If the lightnings of his wrath are less blighting than
those of Dr. M'llale, his weakness, not his will, is the
cause; and if he does not carry his terrors so freely into
the next world, it is not assuredly from any disincline;
tion to play tho spiritual ruler to the uttermost. But,
he does all he can; and even when there was no oppo-
sition, and appeals to sectarian animosity and factious
rancour were quite needless for any purpose in hand, the
political divine did not the less indulge his sectarian and
party feelings. Such performances, no matter on what
side they appear, were better dispensed with; and, it
peeople protest against the dcings of one set of clergy-
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another.careful
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have
ha similard
too
aICiI,a t i n g clergymen in the north, and the sooner they
learn to moderate their ardour' and confine themsel*es
more to their own
*duties, so mach the
better for themsel appropriate h
ves and so much the better for the
country."
Thera are few impartial persons who would venture
to dispute the truth of
the foregoing;a but a much more
organ
regards
h l
coercedl ceg ,r a
remarkable' admission is m blivhaisehealotruoilyanadndelfeavaerr.
voterlessly
os
ft states the
eceads,ev:7
aotreesveearYt.side. hasl as
e position of the poOr
muoh to say to the choice of' a
to the decisions of her Majesty's privy deaeinvedia.s he Lea
the Cork Reporter—
„ The right to vote for a Parliamentary reprOorita•
tive is assuredly neither henenrable nor agreeable; if
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et
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at
the possessor is to be escorted to the polling ple,eaby a
brace of bludgeon-men, in opposite interests, that he
Sullivan is a registered elector of the
ttadse.
itso
p.trlei eoi
but Tim has no more the power of
county of •'i e proper with his vote, unmolested, the,
dhpmmoeiihnsYsagtesnaga!;:aeh-ei edphT. thinks
hsiwr Tim Sullivan
i rto
your church,
saysoaoruyi otaht
0, the l gaYo_u tivo.e for the Hon. Mr. Noodle,
roof over your head on this day
priest, 'lf you sell
month." Tina,' says the _ , _ your
end vote for that- persecu-
tor Noodle, the sworn enemy of God and
landlord,
lhcloa—rvdt: 1,
as an example before the whole con.
I'll hold you UP