The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

LTONDA-ir.—THE ELECTIONS.—Two more
seats (Tyrone awl Donegal) have still to he disposed
anti with them closes the Irish election eerapcwzn of
1852. Yesterday morninq's post brought the finale 6f
no less :han nine contests, acne of them horilly fought,
and others won by large and moat decisive majorities.
Of the latter Kildare is one of the most striking. Sir
A. Kennedy—a Liberal uaon all points save too fre,l-
- question—never had the remotest chance of suc-
cess, end Mil finally left in a minority so vast as to
warn the Pcoteccionists against the folly of making any
future attempt to disturb the county. Captain Bernard's
venture in the King's County, where he is a large
landed proprietor, was equally unsuccessful, and two
ultra-Librals carried off the priz3s in an easy muter.
These two seats may be class. ,(1 as decided Ministerial
losses, as the lato Members—Colonel Westenra and Sir
A. Armstrong—would never, it is believed, have offered
any serious opposition to the Government of Lord
Derby. Llitrira has given one Conservative and one
Tenant Lesguer—the latter an utter stranger. Wale tko
Whig, es in ohros; every instance where one showed
at the Irish hu::,tings, ,iulfered a defeat. Sligo, by the
rejection of Mr. Ormsby Gore in favour of Mr.
Swift, secures ZS vote for the Opposition ; while
Waterford and Wexford, by choosing each a Conserva-
tive, have furnished two votes to the Ministerial con-
tingent. In the latter county the result was wholly un-
expected, es all parties, by common consent, zwarded
the first place to Mr. Grogan Morgan, the ex-Liberal
Protestant representative. The taint of Whiggery,
however, clung to him, and in the end he we= completely
distanced by another unknown, whom it pleased the
Tenant League to import from London, with the amiable
object, apparently, of harassing "both Houses"--3 feat
which was but partially accomplished, Mr. DiliMahon
having for his colleague one of the stanchest Derbyites
that has turned up during the progress of the present
" appeal to the country." For the third time, a correc-
tion has to be made with respect to the Clare election.
It spears, after all, and now most certainly, that Colonel
Vandeleur was at the foot of the poll, and 'that Sir John
Fitzgerald and Mr. Cornelius O'Brien are the sitting
Members. This result is vouched for on local Conserva-
tive and Liberal authority, a journal of each party
giving the final numbers as fellows;._..
Fitzgerald ...
O'Brien
Vandeleur

... 1,152
... 1,141
-. 1,139

Majority for Fitzgerald,,.
Majority for OBrien ...
132
As far as the issues are known, hO•Ministerialists
have won eleven seats—namely, Armagh
the tag
Derbyites have
laid hands on Mr. R h borough,
.Bel-
fast, Dublin city, Limerick city'
(fo
linen). Down
county,
WexfordLrin i
county, Monaghan county, Waterford y
county, Wicklow county, and Youghal borough—in all
eleven; and they have lost in Carlow
_county, Clare
eounty, Cork city, Galway county, Newry borough,-'
Queen's coanty—in all six. Tyrone and Donegal are
still in the balance; but supposing—and the supposition
is improbable—that the Liberals win both at
Government Vf o aid still have a majority of three on thethe
Irish returns. With regard to the prostrate state of
pure Whiggery at this side of the Channel, a glance at
the list of the 103 Members returned will show that of
that once formidable phalanx not the half of half-a-
do!en will occupy seats in the new Parliament. Indeed,
strictly speaking, the number might be limited to two—
namely, the Hon. Colonel Caulfield and Sir Robert
Ferguson. Lord Milton, no doubt, belongs to the class,
but by stating on the hustings at Wicklow that he was
prepared to give a fair trial to the Derby Government,
he has, to all intents, cut the old connexion.

THE LATE CONFLICT IN CLAPS.
In order that full justice may be given to all parties
implicated in the shocking
bridge, occurrences at Sismile-
we subjoin the version of the affair as furnished
by the Limerick Chronicle,t a
journal favourable to the
pretensions of the Conservative candidate for Clare:—
"We feel deeply ' pained in having to record a violent
and fatal conflict which took place at Sismile-bridge (one
cg the polling stations of the County Clare), on Thurs-
In
elita,t!betWee'n the excited peasantry of that district
Eager anti the sit Regiment,
Zu_' 15 aCtaehment of
on
special Lieutenantduty Hutton, from this tinder Capta.in
escorting voters to the garrison, while
that owing to
natal of the the intimidation held outPo.lt appears
r 3id againsti
n g tihne
the te-
neigh euriloodillarquis of Con n ham,
vanof Meelick, and
hee whoseYau,ge
for Colonel
.deleur, it necessary,votes were solicited
protection, to b
into Themond for their
day night, and theybring
g t h e m
tedgings in the
apartments under ,',:ere provided withget on Wednes-
Next day
gixml escort
cars were provided, and
Temperance-rooms.
Mrthe 31st, as ahoy:spa:elf the electors, under
Mr. ; John C. Deka gni L'3-1, left for bridge
the military, who, her "X., having command
load
their
firelneka. re moving off, weremoarndde 4
red
ceeded without further intP9 Cavalcade then -
occasionally pelted with eeo;rret9tion, except bPe'ro.
approaching the village it was eel) on the route. being
;manse mass of country people had seervable that an im-
intercept the progress of the electors and
so as to
upon entering the town, were assailed wittlialehrtary, who,
rudely 263M:tired with atones and other miesii-e-"ult and
did the officers and men rem onstrate with t-h-s, In vain
e infuriated
people to give way and forbear violenr
-es but the more
entreaty wa3 used to di3sua /a them tl'e more
and
;determined di'.3. they fee year to attack the rOecicie"
troops, who wore merely di;a: barging an • - -Icen'd
imperative duty.
'Stones were hurled a; the ,eseert from every direction,
their
e.tepa were k-
rocked off; muskets brckcn, ice
-,,_lpsaelts
stove in,and
injured
'this outrageous attack was no longer endu-
rable.
The ,old' w the ,-and formed
section, r - rers got 01, Cz,is,
'a to men each in front and rear of the ye.
Icicles upon which the ' '''' and who
were equally e ei,,1.0r3 were ousted,
The escort pressed to the vengeaece of the incb.
house, when I,llll'l on in the direefien ( f the Court-
lain Eager received onelaught was cede. Cap-
the side of the head; Corp vielm et blow floe:: a steno on
behind the right ee ;:al 31ars:'411 was struck
tending to the ear,
shouleein.'„.. a deep cut ieflieted, ex-
and while on the gram i':s was also knocked doer,
rioters jumpcd on his bed:, no,_ of the niere desperate
and his claw torn off his b", his firolock was broken,
similarly ill-treated, while thir.cte— S3rge2l2t l'lc 11l was
were cut and bleeding, their uniform men out of the party
spotted with blood. What man and accoutrements
) i
wearing the benourable uniform of I(lfficer, or private,
'5 SOVereigtl, could

remain passives under such unheard-of indignity and
abuse as this, from a disloyal rabble? The natural and
fatal results are now to be recorded. Exasperated by
such vile usage, and their lives in imminent danger, the
soldiers in the advance section, fired upon their assail-
ants, when sad to relate, six men were shot dead, and as
many more badly wounded. Terror and dismay now
seized the rioters, and all who witnessed the spectacle, as
the lifeless corpses fell here and there, the moans of the
wounded, and shrieks of relatives and friends resounding
from the town, and responded to from the fields. Mr.
David J. Wilson, justice of the peace, was so overcome
by his feelings on hearing the shots and beholding the
catastrophe, that he rushed from the Court-house to-
wards the military, and ripping open the front of his
dress, exclaimed to them, with extended hands, to shoot
him if they wanted more victims. Would to God that
Mr. Wilson, a most humane gentleman, end the police
had earlier shown themselves at the scene of danger be-
fore the military were struck down.
‘, Names of killed—James Casey. Thomas Ryan,
Michael Coleman, Michael Connellan, Jeremiah Fraw-
ley, and James Flaherty. Of those wounded, Pcbm,l
Glinn, of Rossmaher, was brought into Barrington 's
Hospital the same evening, with a gunshot wound, the
ball having entered under the thighbone, and
yes•
passed. out
at the other side; ie
John Heffernan was received it
terday, with a wound in the hip, where the Jail is
lodged; John Reily was sent to Ennis Hospital, with
broken arm from a gunshot wound. The Mayor, who
left Limerick to vote, immediately upon the disastrous
occurrence being known, rendered surgical aid to the
wounded. It is said that a ball entered through the
crown of the hat of the Rev. Mr. Cluen, P.P., fortunately
without injuring the rev. gentleman, though it scratched
his ear.
vixedm.deibireludtgee-
" The party of the 31st engaged withTthe riotersf. re-
turned to garrison the same evening.
d !eldpi.eces
re
conflict
t toe r
rSi
of
when theartilleryDistrict Adjutant-General,
nant-Colonel Douglas,
were
intelligencesud suddenly 1 yt h e o
took charge, and accompanied them, with Lieutenant-
Colonel Staunton and 109 men of the 31st ; but they
all returned to this garrison at eight in the evening,
having left all quiet. Corporal Marshall, 31st, one
of the escort, was brought into. barracks dangerously
wounded, and is
now in garrison hospital, suffering
from the injuriesinflicted on his person by the rioters.
i
Mr. Canny, the coroner, mpannelled a jury on the spot,
but it was deemed prudent to edjourn over the polling
days, without hearing evidence until this day. The
bodies of the deceased were removed into the chapel by
their friends. The name of Mr. J. C. Delmege was
spoken of by return cars to Limerick in connexion with
having given the order to fire, but such is not the case;
he neither fired himself, as alleged, nor authorized the
.military to do so—they merely acted, as before stated,
from absolute necessity in self-defence.
" Chronicle-office, one o'clock.
e
Our reporter has just returned from Sixmile-bridge,
with intelligence that the coroner's inquest has been
further adjourned to Tuesday week, when the examina-
tion of witnesses will commence. This very proper
postponement was acheeted to allow angry feehng to sub-
side, and that the miliia:y now in hospital may be avail-
able as witnesses.