The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-11 00:00:00

(From the Pilot of August 7.)
Well, you scheming, crimping, bribing, perjured rajabonds.
you are thrashed—soundly thrashed, alter all your iniQuitana
practices. Your fell hate for a man—that hate which re-
sembles a rabid disease, defacing morality and reason ,its
ended in making the object of the fiendish passion lucre
high, more powerful than ever. Ycs ; O'Connell hasoh-
tained, by the ferocity of spirit with which the contesol-as
been conducted against him, new and
,greener laurels--a
more extended armoury of weapons to conquer have been
supplied to him, and a wider sphere of command is now
his own. Never was such a contest within the inerno.-i of
any man, and the very desperation of the battle renders :he
consequences of triumph more important.
See what lie had to contend against, and over what he
has triumphed.
He and Hutton had to encounter, first, the whole con-
e( ntrated force of the rotten corporation standing on its
last plank of plunder, and desperately employing what it
yet possessed, in the handling of the public spoil, to pro-
long its power of extortion and rapine. They had to en-
counter the menials of every public office, running rabid
about town, wearing out their shoes, and clubbing the price
0. their midnight toddy. Ball's bank vomited its filth —the
Bank of Ireland spewed out its venom—the Provincial
Bank let loose all its canting hypocrites to aid the perjuriaa•
candidates—the fellows that 101 l in the King's Bench and
Exchequer offices—in fact, all the old nominees of Toryism,
and many of the new, appointed by Government, in t:ie
pub'ic offices—worked for the corrupt Hanoverians. Many
men of business who live by the people, let their stores and
warehouses lie idle for want of bands the whole week—and
to their shame, and now their abject humiliation, sent out
their young men, as they call them, to canvass, to vote,
and, where they could, to bribe, and to be subornaes of
perjury, in order to defeat the candidates who would pro-
tect the people from the notorious and admitted plundering
of the Corporation, under which they themselves suffer.
There was not a kiting swindler, who wanted to have a. bill
done at the banks, be he Catholic or Protestant, who. did
not work as for life or death. Money was subscribed
every where. In Armagh a collection of six hundred pounds
was lavished here in seducing voters to perjury. Some
thousands came from the Carlton Club for the same pions
purpose. When the money was run out at two o'clock on
Friday, Billy Long, the coachmaker, of Mary-street, raised
with difficulty, and badly he could afford it, five hundred
pounds for the Protestant bribery candidates. West gave
the last shilling he could command. Men got from three
pounds to twenty. Fifteen pounds were offered one man
for a whip to purchase his vote. Every rebellion ruffian,
from the big wig down to the desperadoes of the pistol
were drawn from country quarters. The bigotry of some,
the fears of others—hate, attachment—dealing promises
and threats—hopes and fears—all, all, were enlisted in be-
half of Hanoverian corruption, and all failed, signally failed.
The people, with few advantages but what they owed to
themselves, their courage, incorruptibility, and public spirit
—with government only protective not active ; the people
themselves were the agents and the police. Every man
worked unpurchased—worked with his heart in his busi-
ness ; and with the noble spirit inspired by the love of
liberty, the people encountered and conquered an array of
power, a machinery of falsehood, and of intriguing, and
bribery unparalleled in election contests. They brought
their own candidates through every difficulty, placed them
at the head of the poll, and caused them to be declared
duly elected amidst the animating cry of Victoria, O'Con-
nell, and freedom. We pity those who, blinded by passion
and by party, are not capable of estimating the exertions and
disinterested sacrifices of the Liberals at the late election.
There were to be seen numbers of men in humble rank of
life, and struggling for subsistence, yet working without fee
or reward, as if existence depended on that election. There
were men to whom the price of their dinner would have
been an object—who knew and believed that from 51. to
10!., and at times 20/., was given at the Tory side—yet.
who spurned the temptation, and voted for what they con-
scientiously believed to be the cause of their country. Nay,
there were men to our own personal knowledge—carmen,
for instance, and others, who were offered to be ,paid, legi-
timately, for work and labour for the Tories, yet who re-
fused to serve for fair remuneration those whose principles
they did not believe were for the public good. We pity
those who may call this very silly of the poor men, and are
incapable of estimating—even if the poor fellows were mis-
taken—the magnanimity which makes necessity or want
sacrifice to principle. But there was none of this at the
Tory side—all was there pelt, pelf. This was the Protest-
antism of the lads—What do you give ?—How many dots ?
Yet it was to these that religious men—among a crowd of
hypocrites—werd deceived to giving their totes—+.v mingle
their voices with tile pc,r)...r. and the eehorner of perjury,
and who may have minds so constructed as to see es,
in the sacrifices of poor men to principle, even though the
nhiert of it were erroneous. But the Church, the Mammon,
the harlot ennnPetinn hottropn Chilreh an't Stetc—the anti-
Christ foretold in Scriptures, which should taint the spiri-
tuality of the Christian faith, and make men hug the pelf
of this world in the name of the concerns of the next ; Ah
this Church was the eorrupt fountain of all this iniquity.
Wherever it is established—wherever it is rich—there is
anti-Christ. He works here in the name of Protestantism ;
but whatever name the monster bears, lie is the same in
spirit, and when a high priest or elder of the unrighteons-
ness once gets possession of even a good man's car, he sur-
rounds events with a mist of the prejudices and passions of
this world, which he makes appear a halo of the world to
come. Pelf, then, is mistaken for piety, and revenue is
hallowed with the santification of religion.

Yesterday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, a
man of genteel appearance went into the shop of Mr. Ste-
phen Ashton, hair-dresser, in Charlton street, Islington, and
requested him to lend him a razor for a few moments to.
shave off, as he said, some superfluous hairs that were grow-
ing on his upper lip. Mr. Ashton hawing frequently seen
the man in his shop before had no hesitation in lending him
the instrument, but at the same time offered the stranger
his own services gratuitously to effect the object, which the
other positively declined, observing that it was a trifle which
he could do himself in a minute. He then took the razor
in his hand. and approached the looking•glass ; but, instead
of shaving, he pulled eff a silk handkerchief from his neck,
and inflicted there a most desperate wound. Mr. Ashton
was very much terrified to find the unfortunate man stand-
ing against the wall bleeding profusely, and the razor in his
hand covered with blood. He immediately attempted to
stop the blood with a napkin, upon which the wounded man,
aware of his intention, with a sudden effort, was again about
to apply the razor to his throat, when Mr. Ashton secured
his arm, and, for the moment prevented him. A desperate
struggle ensued, in the course of which he made several
attempts to cut Mr. Ashton with the weapon, who, at length
overcome, was obliged to save himself by running into the
'rick room and locking the door, disabled from renewing
Cie attempt by several severe wounds in the hands. The
stranger then drew the razor several times across his throat,
and at one of them the effusion of blood was so great as to
apparently suffocate him, and he dropped down inanimate.
surgeon having been summoned, he pronounced the
wounds to be of a very dangerous nature. The name of

the infatuated man has been ascertained to be Saunders ;
he is a master carpenter of some property, but, through a
variety of adventitious circumstances, he is now on the
brink of insolvency. Some disagreement with his creditors
i supposed to have incited him to the suicidal attempt.
W itA RTON COPPER MINE.-Considerable quan-
tities of the most valuable copper oro continues to be oh-
taiaed at this mine, which is situated on the N. NV. side of
Wharton Cragg, about nine miles from Lancaster. The
operations are carried on both by night and day. Se-
veral cottages are in the course of erection near the
works, for the use of the men employed, a circumstance
to convice the most incredulous, that greet hopes are en-
tertained that the mine will bring in a considerable revenue
to the proprietors. An excellent red paint is also obtained
in amazingly large quantities, which our correspondent was
this week informed, met with a ready sale in Liverpool, at
3JI. per ton. Some Cornish and Welsh miners are at pre-
sent busilv engaged ; and the proprietors'are so sanguine of
success, that thry except, ere long, to employ the greater
portion of the labourers, as well as other miners from a dis-
tance. Toe paint is of a very fine texture, and when gene-
rally made known, it is expected the price will increase in a
considerable degree.

The drivers and cads of the omnibuses have a
di.dect peculiar to themselves. One of their most usual
modes of speech is to designate their passengers by the
name.of the public-house near which they have been taken
up or arc to be set down. Thus, in the New-road, it is no
uncommon thing to hear the ead complaining to his brother-
functionary that " an angel" has been trying to bilk the fare,
or foist on him a suspicious-looking sixpence. So also with
the vehicles at Charing-cross, that take the Bricklayers'
Arms and the Elephant and Castle in their route. The
Jehu of one omnibus will call to a brother-whip to inquire
whether he has his full complement of passengers, and the
reply not unfrequently is, that he only carries " two ele-
phants and a bricklayer."
On Sunday evening, as one of the Rochdale daily
eoiche:;, named the Deface, was returning from Manches-
ter, the axle-tree broke at Harpurhey, by which the coach
was overturned. Otte gentleman, from Rochdale, had his
leg brok n ; and several others were slightly injured.
The herring fishery promises to be most abundant.
The nweber of boats at Aberdeen is forty-six. Last week;
they brought ashore 620 crans, and this week, 926. Th 2
quali'y is excellent. At the other statioes on the east coast •
the fishing is much about an average of what it has been for
the last two years at this time—rather if any thing defi-
dent, perhaps. The prices in the Continental markets are
not so high as they were expected to be, but the returns
will pay.