The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 19.
COUNTY CORK.—The elections are now closed ; for al-
though the state of the poll for the county of Cork had not
been officially announced on Thursday afternoon, Barry and
Roche, the Reformers, were so far a head of the two To-
ries, Longfield and King, as to leave no doubt on our mind
that the two former gentlemen have ere this been declared
by the Sheriffs the sitting Members. At five o'clock on
Thursday, the numbers respectively were—Barry, 1,869 ;
Roche, 1,869 ; Longfield, 1,141 ; King, 1,106.
SLIGO.—Our apprehensions relative to the result of this
election arc confirmed. The numbers stand thus—Cooper,
511 ; Perceval, 443 ; Jones, 368. Of the above 368 about
300 were plumpers ; there remained over, also, from the
last Assizes upwards of 100 appeals, which, had they been
entitled to vote, would hare decided matters the other way.
In any future election, the return of two Reformers ap-
pears certain. The Orangeists have received a shock, which
will for ever disqualify them from taking the field again with
any prospect of success.
LONGFORD.—Here a valuable victory has been achieved,
despite the detention of voters, the kidnapping of several
independent electors, and the practice of all those foul in-
fluences for which Irish as well as English Tories are so
famous, two Reformers are returned. The numbers, at
the final close of the poll on Friday evening, were—L.
White, 671 ; H. White, 667 ; Lefroy, 561 ; Fox, 556.
A correspondent of the Dublin Evening Post writes
thus from Longford :
" HALF-FAST 9 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT.—The election has
just closed, and Messrs. Henry and Luke White are de-
clared the sitting Members. The rejoicing and exultation
of the people are great. The whole town, from one end
to the other, is a blaze of light ; the windows illuminated,
the devices and ensigns are pretty, and in some cases bril-
liant. I cannot stop to describe them fully, but the allusion
to the Wake of Conservatism has been realized, and now,
as I passed, I saw the figures of Lefroy and Fox laid out
on a bier, with lights, pipes, and tobacco in perfect Irish
style."
In the same journal is published the copy of an affidavit
made by Thomas M'Gee, describing his detention at a
public house, by the agents of the Tory candidates, and
the disgraceful means used there to brutalize and debase
him. The following extract from the deposition suffices to
show the sort of respect in which freedom of election is
held by the Hanoverians :
" Deponent saith that at that late hour of the night he
was carried off to said place, a distance of two or three miles,
when he was again plied with spirits, ale and punch. De-
ponent saith that as soon as the effects of this debauch had
evaporated, he next morning—the Sabbath—requested and
beseeched to be allowed to attend Divine Service, which was
refused ; and deponent was there kept locked up as a prisoner
until Thursday. Deponent saith that he felt much remorse
at his absence from Divine Worship, and which he expressed
at the time ; but his keeper paid no attention to his com-
plaints, or sympathised with his feelings. Deponent saith
that upon Thursday following, a holiday, his wife came to
see him, but would not be allowed ; nor would his daughter,
who made a similar application. Deponent saith, the
gates and doors of said Carrickglass were locked up and
guarded night and day like a prison. Deponent saith that
during his confinement at Carrickglass, the scenes of riot,
drinking and dancing could not be exceeded ; a piper and
three flute players were playing through the whole nights
and days."
" Never," says the Freeman, " did the annals of elec-

tionecring present such a foul catalogue of villanies—never,
even in its palmyest days, did the faction so unblush-
ingly set at defiance every law, human and divine. The
illegal detention of voters likely to be influenced by pe-
cuniary or personal considerations—the forcible abduc-
tion of others who wore known to be incorruptible—
may be (in the opinion of those who prate with so much
virtuous indignation about undue influence) perfectly legi-
timate. The ferocious denunciation of those who refused
" to sell themselves to their own damnation" is fitting and
proper when the bribe is indignantly refused, and the
tempter is made to feel that there may be more honour and
modesty—more independence of mind and purity of prin-
ciple under the frieze coat of the peasant than under the
ermined robe of the peer. The gross and scandalous at-
tempt of the Tory landlords to coerce the tenantry—the
open intimidation exercised over the electors, even in the
booths, and in the presence of the sheriff—the threats of
vengeance which followed "the free exercise of the franchise,"
and the certainty of the threateners being as good as their
words—all tend to exhibit the deep veneration in which the
Tories hold the privileges of the people, and the profound
respect they entertain for the boasted freedom of election."
THE MAJORITY.—NO MINISTER HAS LOST HIS SEAT.
This was, heretofore, the great test of popular opinion.
The majority now is much more Ministerial, accurately
speaking, than heretofore. The majority in the last Parlia-
ment was made up of Liberals, of very different views in-
dividually, and, therefore, could be but little relied on by
Government, against whom a considerable portion are
known to have voted on particular questions. The Liberals
now returned are, comparatively, agreed as to great prin-
ciples—in fact, they are Ministerial. On all B. ilish mea-
sures—the Church Rates will, perhaps, form the only ex-
ception,—Ministers will have the support of Sir Robert
Peel and the less factious Tories. They will thus have a
large majority on those questions. On the Church Rate
Bill they will, probably, have a majority at least
equal to that in the last Session, and the same
may be predicated of the Irish questions, Tithes
and Corporations ; but, take it at the worst, that they
should be in a minority of the whole House.on those Irish
questions, they will undoubtedly be supported thereon by,
say five-sevenths, of the Members from Ireland, who re-
present the people immediately interested in the settlement
of these questions, and it would of course be an arrant
absurdity to conceive the Ministers called on to resign under
such circumstances.—Dublin Evening Post.
THE IRISII MAJORITY.—It is now generally admitted
that Ministers will have a majority of Forty in the new
House of Commons ; and it is acknowledged, with grati-
tude by the British Reformers, and with a rancour and rage
which are truly ridiculous, by the British Tories—that the
majority is exclusively Irish. . . . We have
secured for England, as well as for ourselves, the conti-
nuation of the present policy, and the continuance of the
present men in office. But it is said that Ministers can't
go on. They have the Lords still against them. They can-
not legislate. We think their difficulties are over-rated.
But suppose they cannot carry the Church Question—the
Corporations seem to be conceded—what, then ? if the
Church be satisfied with her position, let her enjoy it. But
though Ministers will not be allowed to legislate for Ireland,
they can administer her affairs. Lord M ulgrave has been
for two years in the Government, and although the Lords
laughed at our petitions, yet the concerns of the country
have been going on properously : for the country has an
entire confidence in the integrity of Lord Mulgrave's Admi-
nistration, and, may we add, in the affection which he is
known to feel for the country—an integrity and affection
which have been demonstrated by his public conduct and
by his personal demeanour. We want measures, it is
true—measures which the Orangemen proclaim the Lords
will will not concede. Well, let their Lordships keep them
from us for a season, if they can. But we still have measures
in active operation to which we cling, and which we will not
surrender. The MEASURES we refer to are MEN—the men
who now administer our affairs—the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, Lord Morpeth, Lord Plunket, the Attorney-Ge-
neral, Mr. Drummond. In Ireland these men are mea-
sures : quite as much as Haddington, and Hardinge, and
Jackson, and Shaw would be. These latter measures we
will not have. The thing is impossible, except, indeed, Sir
Robert Peel would repeal the Emancipation Act, and the
Duke of Wellington draw the sword.—lbid.
Oaalloxtsm.—(Abridged from the Waterford Chro-
nicl.)—The greater portion of our readers will startle
when they are informed that not less than two Orange
Lodges are at this moment in active and virulent existence
within this city ! Their numbers are 924 and 960. Pre-
vious to the declaration of Mr. Finn's Committee, there
was a third—more respectable and influential as to the
rank of its members than the others. The first of these
Lodges meets on the first Wednesday of each month—
the second, on the second Wednesday of each month.
They hold their meetings at a house in Bailey's New-
street ; and seldom are those gatherings badly attended.
No. 924 assembled, as usual, on Wednesday se'nnight ;
and the country will be astonished to learn that a reverend
dignitary of the Established Church presided on the occa-
sion, over seventeen members present. Among other mat-
ters which came before his Reverence, was the conduct of
a young man—the young man, by the by, to whom, in our
last, we alluded as having received notice to quit an
employment in which he was engaged before the present
principal became his employer. The great crime—the
atrocious deed of this young man, was his recreancy in
voting at the late election for a supporter of the Queen's
Government ! No other fault was laid to his charge.—
This was " the head and front of his offending." What did
the Orangemen of 192 do ? They voted his immediate
expulsion, with, as we are told, the full approval of his Re-
verence ; and he was accordingly driven from the body as
unworthy of its association—because he exercised his fran-
chise in accordance to the specified will of our benign
Sovereign ! !
Here then is fully proved the positive existence of a dis-
loyal and illegal confederacy. Here are its members, pre-
sided over by one whose religion ought to be that of peace
and good-will, sitting in juSiment on the conduct of one
of the fraternity and pronouncing his doom, for, unfortu-
nately, they had it in their power to do him more detriment
than eject him from the Society, as the result has shown.
They waited, we are assured, on his employer, and threat-
ened him with their severest displeasure, and the withdrawal
of their patronage from him, if he did not, without delay,

dismiss his long-tried and zealous assistant. Let the corn-
plexion and character of Orangeism be gathered from those
simple facts. Let those who say that Orangeism no longer
exists, cease to utter the damning falsehood after a perusal
of these circumstances.

INSTALLATION OF DR. STANLE

BISHOP OF NORWICH.

On Thursday the enthronement of the Bishop of Nor-
wich, a ceremony not remembered in that city by the oldest
inhabitants, took place in the Cathedral, when the Dean
read the congratulatory address of the Chapter. At half-
past one o'clock the Bishop beaded a procession of the ec-
clesiastics of the Cathedral, the Mayor and Corporation of
Norwich, &c., with more than 300 of the parochial clergy
of the diocese. He proceeded to the Throne, before which
he took the oaths of supremacy and allegiance to the
Queen, and of canonical obedience to the Archbishop of
Canterbury. The Dean, holding the mandate of Installa-
tion in his hand, and at the same time conducting his Lord-
ship to the Throne, said, " By virtue of this mandate, I
induct, install, and enthrone you Bishop of Norwich, in the
diocese of Canterbury."
His Lordship then preached a sermon to a crowded con-
gregation, in aid of the funds of the Society for the Promo-
tion of Christian Knowledge, after which a handsome col-
lection was made in aid of the funds of that Society.
THE SERMON.—His Lordship took his text from the
second chapter of St. Paul's Second Epistle to the Co-
rinthians, the 16th verse : " And who is sufficient for these
things ?" After adverting to the ceremony that had just
taken place, and the duties it imposed upon him, his Lord-
ship said that he felt it to be the duty of his office to bring all
men within the fold of the Church by his example, and by
imitating the doctrine and practice of his Saviour, as much
as lay within the abilities of frail man ; to condemn no man's
doctrines, to spurn no man for his belief if it be entertained
with sincerity ; and to feel and preach that all were within
the pale of salvation. however much opposed to his own be-
lief. He then recalled to the minds of his auditors the
toleration of his predecessor on political as well as religious
subjects, saying that he was gathered into the garner of
Heaven full of age and virtues. In his endeavours to live in
charity and love with Churchmen and Dissenters, he would
imitate the late Bishop. He called upon his Rev. Brethren to
bear in mind that they should have but one object, and that
was to extend the religion of the Cross; they must cast the
mantle of charity over those who differed from them and be-
fore they complained of schism, they must first learn what
schism was. Let no man think himself free from schism be-
cause of his outward form ; there might be unity of spirit
without unity of form ; let no man accuse his neighbour of
schism because he was a dissenter from his creed ; he alone
is the schismatic who creates feuds in the Chureh of
Christ. If there be so many shades of opinion on political
subjects, how was it possible that, as regards religion, the
most important of all subjects, there should not be dif-
ferences of belief ; therefore, let the members of the Esta-
blishment exert themselves in making peace, and not in
condemning those who differed from them in their modes of
worship. He who separated from the Church in conse-
quence of conscientious belief was no more guilty of schism
than he who conscientiously remained a member of it. If
there be a heresy let there be no reviling ; but let there be a
neutral ground on which all might meet without the sin of
uncharitableness. In addressing himself to the objects of
the charity, towards which he sought to interest his congre-
gation, he said, " Education is the fulcrum on which the
welfare of mankind mainly depends ; education was not a
simple term, although it bore one interpretation, yet it bore
a twofold meaning ; one part was connected with, and the
other unconnected with, religion. Some persons refused to
sanction education unless connected with religion ; with
these persons he presumed to differ. It was the object of
education in raising people in the moral scale, to place
their minds above the sensualities of this world, and pre-
pare them for the spirit and not alone the forms of religion.
The moral improvement of the people had always a great
share in his endeavours and desires, and it was a subject
that should form part of the duty and objects of every
Christian minister. He said that Societies should not ex-
clusively belong to the Church, and called upon Dissenters
who had withheld their support, on account of such a sup-
position, to cast the thought in future from their minds.
The Church did not mean the ministers of religion alone,
but meant all who believed in salvation through Christ.
The Bishop honoured the dinner in support of the above-
named Society with his presence, on which occasion his
Lordship was doomed to receive a most glaring insult from
a Nobleman, and member of the same sacred calling with
himself.
After the dinner Archdeacon GLOVER rose, and begged
to amend an omission he had understood to be intentional,
and to ask permission of the Bishop to allow his sermon of
that day to be published.
The Rev. Lord BAYNING immediately rose, and said—
Gentlemen, the omission of the request was intentional, and
I avow it—for this reason : because I cannot be supposed
to identify myself with, or to sanction, opinions such as
those contained in the sermon.
This speech was received by the Clergy and Conserva-
tives present with shouts of applause, which evinced neither
a tolerant nor a Christian feeling on their parts ; and by
the Bishop of Norwich with a mild dignity, highly becom-
ing his character as a Christian Prelate.
In consequence of the above scene the Mayor called a
meeting of the Corporation, which met on Friday morning,
and agreed to an address to the Bishop, disavowing any
participation in the conduct of Lord Bayning, and asked
to have his Lordship's sermon printed, that it might dis-
abuse the public mind with respect to his sentiments and
their conformity to religion and morality.
The BisHor replied to the address of the Corporation,
without the smallest reference to the proceedings" of the
day before. In the course of his speech he said, I look
alone under Providence to a good education as the means
of rendering the people of our land worthy of the rights
and privileges awarded to them by our enlightened and Li-
beral Government, which, ever since it has had the power,
has unremittingly attended to the great interests of
the
community, and lost no opportunity not only of renovating
what was in decay, by the removal of those abuses which
had, under the influence of time, gradually sapped the foun-
dations of some of our most valuable institutions, but has
also with a firm band attempted improvements and reforms,
for which I feel confident posterity will do them justice, and
their good works shall meet with a just reward." His Lord-
ship concluded by saying he would at all times support
those political principles he had through life avowed, as he
conceived them to be conducive to the happiness of mankind,
and consequently to the glory of God.—Norwich Mercury.

NAMES OF MEMBERS RETURNED

LONGFORD COUNTY, AUG. 17.
Luke White, Esq. I Henry White, Esq.
SLIGO COUNTY, AUG. 17.
E. Cooper, Esq. I Col. A. Perciyal.
CORK COUNTY, AUG. 17.
S. Barry, Esq. I Roche, Esq.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—With reference to the late accident to the illedway
steamer by fire, it has often been matter of surprise to me
that steam-vessels are not fitted with a force or engine
pump. Such an article would add very little to their cost
of equipment, and, if fixed at the after part of the vessel,
would always be kept in order by being used to swab or
wash the decks, which is now done by clumsy bucketting.
Had there been such an article on board the Medway, the
fire might quickly have been subdued, and even alarm pre-
♦ented. T.

" KINDNESS IN WONIEN."—Awork of fiction,
under this name, is about to be published from the pen of
Mr. Haynes Bayly. The great popularity of this writer
would secure to any of his literary productions a very dis-
tinguished reception. His genius is perfectly original, his
invention is marked by great variety, while in grace and
pathos he has scarcely a rival. He is the very preux che-
valier of authors, and his homage to the sex is worthy of its
object. Chaucer's " Legend of Good Women" made him
the universal favourite of the ladies of his day ; may not a
similar proud idistinction await Mr. Haynes Bayly, in con-
sequence of his present work ?
In announcing some time since the appointment of
Lady Durham as a Lady of the Bedchamber to the
Queen, we intimated that there still remained one vacancy
among the Ladies in Waiting. We were fully aware at
the time that that one vacancy had already been filled up,
but as the lady whom her Majesty had been graciously
pleased to appoint was suffering under a domestic calamity
of the severest kind, and could not for a long period emerge
from the seclusion of grief, we refrained from mixing the
name of a disconsolate widow with courtly appointments.
This mark of her Majesty's favour has now been conferred
on the honoured sister of Earl Spencer.—Observer.
The females in different parts of the borough of
Bradford have got up tea parties to celebrate the triumph-
ant return of E. C. Lister, Esq., and W. Busfield, Esq., as
Members for that borough.
PRESENCE OF MIND.—If you should happen to
meet with an accident at fable, endeavour to preserve your
composure, and do not add to the discomfort you have
created, by making an unnecessary fuss about it. I re-
member hearing it told of a very accomplished gentleman,
that when carving a tough goose, he had the misfortune to
send it entirely out of the dish, and into the lap of a lady
next to him ; on which, he very coolly looked her full in
the face, and said, " Ma'am, I will thank you for that
goose." This manner of bearing such a mortifying accident
gained him more credit than he lost by his awkward carving.
" Patrick, you fool, what makes you stale after that
rabbit, when your gun has no lock on it?" " Hush ! hush !
my darlin, the rabbit don't know that,"