The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 6.
(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
I am this day enabled to confirm the victory in Belfast
which I anticipated yesterday. Mr. Gibson and Lord Bel-
fast have been returned for that city, instead of the Messrs.
Emerson Tennent and Dunbar, the late Members, who
have been defeated by a respectable majority. This makes
a positive gain of seven to the Liberal Representatives of
Ireland ; which, when we consider that nothing like half
the elections are yet begun, is a tolerably fair set off against
the Tory gains in England and Wales. We shall not,
however, be confined to a majority of seven over the num-
ber that represented us in the late Parliament—the proba-
bility is, that our further gains will not be less than double
that number. So that taking both Houses together,
nearly two-thirds of the Members of both branches of the
Legislature representing Ireland in the Imperial Parliament,
will be found in the next Session advocates for a participa-
tion of British laws to this country equally with England.
Whether any Ministry can, or ought, to legislate otherwise
than as required by such a representation, is a proposition
not yet discussed, but which a very little time, perhaps,
shall have fully submitted to the impartial consideration of
public opinion. And if we reflect coolly on the events of
the last three years only, we shall be satisfied that the
affairs of Ireland have exercised paramount influence over
the different Statesmen that have been at the helm of Go-
vernment. The difficulties attending those questions more
immediately affecting the people of this part of the United
Kingdom, have broken up no less than three Cabinets.
The same difficulties, and the same questions, still remain
to be adjusted ; and can it be supposed that they ever will
be satisfactorily arranged on any other terms than such as
must meet the concurrence and approbation of the majority
of those men—Lords and Commoners—to whom have been
confided the Legislative interests of Ireland ? It is an
absurdity to think otherwise. Now Ireland has 137 indi-
viduals, Lords and Commons, guardians of her welfare, in
the Imperial Parliament—the total number for the three
kingdoms being upwards of a thousand. We are certain
of having seventy or eighty Irish Members in the Lower
House advocating a settlement of the tithe question on
Lord Merpeth's principle, and Corporate Reform. This is
a majority of those to whom are constitutionally confided
the legislatorial duties appertaining to eight millions of
people. But we have also many of our own Peers in ad-
dition to that number. Ought not their combined efforts
in favour of measures relating to this country, always ,in-
fluence, if not coerce, both Houses? To deny this, would
he to tell the people of this country their share in legisls-
tion is a nullity—that no matter what the Irish Peers or
Representatives of the people may think, this country must
be governed and legislated for by Englishmen. Such has
been hitherto the policy of England—if it he persevered in,
Irishmen will soon begin to think of something more than
even a Repeal of the Union. These topics it is true, are
not yet part and parcel of public opinion here. I have
heard them discussed however, and wish you would afford
the opponents of our rights an opportunity of reflecting on
them. In the mean time, reverting to the elections, I repeat
my former proposition—more than two-thirds of the repre-
sentatives of the people of this country in the approaching
Session of Parliament will be supporters of the policy of
Earl Mulgrave's Government. The victory achieved here
is almost complete ; and it is rendered the more so by the
efforts of our opponents who, notwithstanding all their
monies and well-concerted combinations, will elsewhere ex-
perience the same result as that with which the Dublin
election termination. Mr. Mauls will be returned for
Carlow. In Waterford, the Beresfoid bribery and influ-
ence have produced a severe contest ; 3ou may rest assured
nevertheless, that the faction will be there discomfitted also.
Messrs. Wyse and Barron will have a majority—l make
this statement on unquestionable authority—of nearly two
hundred to-morrow evening at the close of the poll. There
arc several amusing stories afloat respecting the use and
abuse of Conservative cash in every part of the country.
It has not been more efficient in attaining the object in
view in Waterford than in Dublin. Messrs. Walker and
Talbot are returned without opposition for Wexford and
New Ross. The election for the county of Wexford will
go off with equal ease and comfort to the late representa-
tives, Maher and Power, notwithstanding Tory threats and
preparations. In the King's county too, the Liberals, Wes-
tenra and Fitzsimon are sure of succeeding, against all the
pecuniary and other resources of their opponents.

The Southern Reporter of Saturday last contains an ac-
count of certain outrageous acts committed by the tumultu-
ous Orangemen on that day. It was then that the great
struggle for the representation of Cork (city) commenced,
" and never," says the Reporter, " within our memory, did
the introductory proceedings of any former contest present
such exciting—indeed appalling—scenes. At eight o'clock
—two hours before the time appointed for entering upon
the nomination—the Court was surrounded by immense
crowds of persons desirous to be present at the proceed-
ings. At nine o'clock between two and three hundred
Bludgeon illen issued from the Conservative Committee-
rooms, and mingled with the populace, when a fearful battle
took place, which lasted about a quarter of an hour, and
which resulted in the complete demolition of the sticks, the
cane-swords, the life-preservers, and, in some instances, the
pistols with which they were armed. The Sheriffs had left ex-
press directions with the Court-keepers not, on pain of instant
dismissal from office, to admit a single person—be he can-
didate, seconder, supporter, or reporter—until ten o'clock.
At a quarter to ten, however, the populace—the out-
raged populace—commenced an indiscriminate scaling of
the iron, and thickly forked pallisading erected in front of
the building ; they then burst open the principal outside
door, and next flung in the inside doors. On entering the
Court, our Reporters found the assembled thousands en-
gaged in a terrible conflict. Bent-up sword canes and
smashed bludgeons were seen flying about, whilst at least
20 individual rencontres were going on. As soon as the
respective combatants had expended their wrath, the cus-
tomary verbal ebullitions of party strife were indulged in.
At this moment one of the Sheriffs entered the Court at
the Judge's entre, and, looking in at the scene before him,
swore " by God, that HE'D CLEAR THE couaT.”—(Roars
of laughter followed, and he quickly retreated.) The can-
didates and their respective seconders and friends expe-
rienced great difficulty in entering. In some cases they
were lifted over the heads of the mass of the people. Their
reception was enthusiastic by their respective adherents.
That of Messrs. Callaghan and Beamish was unsurpassed
in zeal and in warmth upon any former similar occasion.
'The
polling commences to-morrow (Monday.)

Saturday afternoon, between three and four o'clock,
the guard of the Emerald Birmingham stage-coach arrived,
express at the Golden Cross Inn, Charing-cross, bringing the
melancholy intelligence of the oversetting of the Emerald
Birmingham coach, on its road from Birmingham to London,
onSaturday morning, fronting Plum Park, ten miles on the
other side of Stoney Stratford. It appears that the reins of
the horses broke at the time they were proceeding along the
road at a rapid rate. Finding themselves without control they
gallcpped off furiously a considerable distance. On arriving
at a bank they ran the coach up it, when it overset into a valley
upwards of 20 feet deep. Two gentlemen, outside passengers,
sere dashed to atoms on the spot, al.; coachman's thigh was
fractured, and all the passengers were seriously injured. The
sufferers were conveyed to the nearest house to obtain surgical
assistauce. The coach is broken in pieces.