The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-31 00:00:00

King's County Election.

Owing to the illness of the high sheriff and to
some delay in the delivery of the poll-books the
court was not opened until 12 o'clock, when Mr.
Longworth, the high sheriff, accompanied by his as-
sessor, Mr. Dames, and the candidates, appeared
upon the bench. Mr. Dames broke the seals of one
of the books, and said that he would perform the
task of totting them, as the high sheriff was too ill
to perform that duty. Mr. Longworth, who ap-
peared extremely indisposed, then left the court and
sat in the judges' retiring-room during the counting
of the votes. The totting was not concluded by
Mr. Dames until half-past two, and then he left the
court for the high sheriff, with whom he returned,
and to whom he handed the result of the totting.
Several objections had been made by Mr. Mitchell,
and Mr. Leech, as well as by Mr. Hennessy, to the
manner in which Mr. Dames had added up the
votes, but Mr. Dames had overruled them. The final
result, according to Mr. Dames's calculations having
been placed in the sheriff's hands.
Mr. Pori: HENNESSY said :--•" I desire, Mr.
High Sheriff, to tender some objections to these
figures, and to this proceeding," and then read a
paper which Mr. Adam Mitchell, his agent, had
drawn up in court. As well as we understood the

paper of objections set forth that the assessor had
not accurately added up the votes ; that the number
of votes should be cast up by the sheriff himself or

by his deputy sheriff duly sworn ; that the assessor

had counted up votes for Sir Patrick O'Brien which
had actually been given, according to the statement
appearing on the face of the sheriff's poll-book, for
for Mr. Hennessy, that the assessor had cast up
votes for Sir Patrick O'Brien which the deputy

sheriff had deliberately obliterated,such votes having
been given before ; and that the assessor had counted
three votes given by one voter, and had made several
other errors tending to reduce Mr. Hennessy's ma-
jority. An objection was also made that, being after
two o'clock, the state of the poll could not then be

declared.
The HIGH SHERIFF read out the state of the poll
as follows :
King ... ... ••• ••• • ... 2192
O'Brien ••• ••• ... ... 1246
Hennessy ... • • ••• ... 1240 .
And then declared Mr. King and Sir P. O'Brien

duly elected.
Mr. KING and Sir P. O'BRIEN returned thanks.
Mr. POPE HENNESSY, who was received with loud
and general cheering, said :—Electors of the King's
County, I can sincerely reciprocate the last remark
of Sir Patrick O'Brien. No political difference has
for the past six years influenced our personal rela-
tions, and I confidently trust no unfriendly spirit
may disturb our social intercourse in the future.
(Hear, hear.) He has said that at the final close of
the poll on Saturday ha addressed the electors as a
defeated candidate. But the unexpected and re-
markable decisions now given by the assessor have
not only affected, but actually reversed my majority,
and lam apparently defeated. I say apparently,
for the decisions against me are of such a nature as
to necessarily involve an inquiry before a parlia-
mentary committee. (Cheers.) To that impartial
tribunal the extraordinary circumstances of this
extraordinary election will be submitted, and I will
with confidence claim that seat which, for a second
time, the majority of the electors have given me.
(Loud cheering.) In the meantime I have to per-
form the pleasing duty of thanking my stanch
friends and. supporters. Though, at this moment,
apparently defeated, I am not, whatever the result,
disgraced—(cheers)—and I will add, with truth,
I tun not in the slightest disheartened. (Cheers.)
Even if the majority now announced against me
were not fictitious, I have no reason to despond. I
have youth, I have an honourable ambition, I have
honest principles. (Cheers.) I have a consistent
policy—(cheers)—l have devoted some time and
some Labour to the service of my country—(loud
cheers)—and I have every reason to know that my
fellow countrymen have formed a most generous
estimate of my little public services, and that they
will not forget them. (Great cheering). But what-
ever I have been able to do in public life, and
whatever public po.ition I have been placed in, it is
to you, the electors of King's County, that:my gra-
titude is due. In 1.831)
I came here unknown, untried, and almost friend-
less ; on the announcement of my political prin-
ciples you adopted me, and sent me to the
House of Commons. I never can be sufficiently
grateful to the King's-County for that act of gener-
ous confidence. It gave me a great opportunity,
all opportunity which I hope I have not lost. (Loud
cheers.) During the six years I have been its Par-
liament I have not been idle. (Cheers.) I may,
perhaps without presumption, venture to say that I
have not been unmindful of the responsibility of the
position you gave me. I have endeavoured to dis-
charge my public duties with some industry and
some zeal—(cheers)—and if I have done so likewise
with some success—(loud cheering)—that success in
public life is due to your confidence, your forbear-
ance, and your support. To the latest hour of my
life I shall remember your early and constant kind-
ness. It is you who have enabled me to plead the
cause of Ireland before the most intelligent and in-
fluential assembly in the world. In that assembly the
interests of Ireland require to be carefully watched,
and he who is entrusted with their guardianship has
no trifling or easy task. This has been especially the
case in the late Parliament, when year after year our
population, our wealth, our general prosperity, and
our national hope have been declining. In facing a
hostile ministry an Irish representative had no sine-
cure duty. The present Government, apparently
mindful only of English interests, neglected Ireland
—(cheers)---much might have been accomplished for
our country by an administration really anxious for
our material welfare. I lost no occasion of pointing
this out. (Loud cheers.) Over and over again I indi-
cated the various measures which the country needed.
Though the influence of the ministry was always
against us, I am bound to say that in the House of
Commons there were, and I have no doubt will con-
tinue to be, many English and Scotch members who
are really anxious for our welfare. (Cheers.) Espe-
cially, I always found amongst the representatives of
the agricultural districts of Great Britainthe greatest
sympathy with the agricultural population of Ire-
land. When during last session and the session
before 1 moved resolutions expressing regret at the
decline of our population, and calling on the Govern-
ment to adopt means for giving employment to the
people, 1 found the county members voting with
112 - The same party that supported the policy of
Lord George Bentinck nearly twenty years ago is
still to be seen in Parliament, and is to this day
animated
and the samevi ththe same just and generous spirit,
sincere desire for the advancement of
Ireland. (Loud cheers.) You have enabled me to
carry some measures which have already proved to
be most beneficial. I may, perhaps, be pardoned
for alluding at such a moment as this to my own
labours—(cheers)—but it is due to you, my friends
and supporters, that I should do so. Five or six
years ago the mortality of the orphans and deserted
children in Irish workhouses was a great scandal
and reproach to the country. When, during my
canvass, I called at one of the workhouses in this
county, the master said, " Formerly 90 per cent. of
these little infants died ; now, since your law has
been brought into operation, they are reared up
as healthy children, well conducted, and morally
trained." The law to which the master referred was
one I proposed, and succeeded in passing, after re-
peated divisions, by which these little children are
now reared out of the contaminating influences of
the workhouse, not only to their own physical and
moral advantage, but also to the benefit of the rate-

payers, for it has been proved that the cost of
bringing up the children outside is actually less than
the cost of rearing them within the walls of the
workhouse. That, I venture to assert, was a useful
measure—(cheers)—and I am not the less proud of
it because it immediately concerns those who most
need protection , the de sti tute and deserted. (Cheers.)
It was my fortune to be able to carry other practical
amendments of the law, with the details of which I
need. not trouble you now ; but I will only repeat
that whatever I have accomplished in that way is
the result in the first instance of your generous con-
fidence in me. In referring to another subject I
do so because it is of some importance to every

yonng man in the King's County, and to my
young countrymen generally. Every year the
ministers gave away thousands of government ap-

pointments. They dispose of them, almost univer-
sally, through the various members of Parliament

who vote for the Government ; and the members of
Parliament dispose of them amongst their own sup-
porters. This system of parliamentary corruption
I have strenuously opposed. (Loud cheers.) I have
opposed it for two reasons—first, because it corrupts
members and electors, and, secondly, because it de-
prives many hardworking young men of those fair
chances of succeeding in life to which all should be
entitled. (Cheers.) No one who has not undergone
the ordeal of an election canvass can fully appreciate

the debasing but, at the same time, most powerful
influence of this corrupt political patronage. No
one who has not watched the division lobbies of the
House of Commons can estimate its equally danger-

ous and disgraceful influence upon the representa-
tive. (Cheers.) Mr. Brand, the Government
whipper-in for divisions, is called the " Patronage
Secretary of the Treasury." The whole system is
unblushingly dismayed. Any one who knows how
the Whigs attempt to govern Irelancl will under-
stand how sore they are upon this question of patro-
nage, and why Lord Palmerston opposed so vigor-
ously my effort to expose and remedy the evil. I
moved for a select committee to inquire into the

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expediency and justice of doing away with this
system, and of throwing open to free public compe-
tition those numerous Government appointments.

Lord Palmerston spoke with great energy against
my motion ; his colleagues supported him, but the
House of Commons supported me, and the Govern-
ment was defeated. In that committee I carried a
resolution affirmingthe principle of open competition
for all. Since then the Government have done their
best to prevent the decision of the committee from
coming into effect, but I have every hope that the
new Parliament will ratify and enforce the resolution
that I carried. When young men who have indus-

try, talent, and ambition—and every young man
ought to have an honourable ambition to advance
himself—(cheers)—l plead guilty to being moved
by that ambitica myself—(cheers)—l say that such
young men, and there are many in Ireland, will then
have a fair chance. They will no longer have to
rely upon the influence of an M.P., or of some man
of rank ; they will no longer have to be going, cap
in hand, soliciting a nomination, to some Govern-

ment supporter, but they will be able to start for
the race themselves, with a fair field and no favour.
(Loud cheers.) I say this question is peculiarly an
Irish one, not only because we have been made the
victims of Whig patronage and corruption, but be-
cause in such of our competitions, as far as they have
gone, Irishmen have been remarkably successful. It
is not for us to be boasting of the talent of Irishmen,

but it is a fact now well established that in the coin

petitions for the medical and civil appointments in
India the Irish candidates generally beat the Scotch
and English candidates. (Cheers.) Before leaving
this subject I may be allowed to remind you that at
the close of the session before last the Government

brought in a bill to abolish this open competition for
medical appointments in India. The Government
wanted to get hold again of the patronage for their
own object, and they did not conceal the fact that a
very inferior set of professional men could be selected.
In the interest of my favourite subject, open com-
petition, and in the interest likewise of the medical
profession, I opposed the bill. At first the Govern-
ment beat me ; but I attacked the bill at every stage,
the majorities of the Government grew smaller and
smaller, and at length, upon the third reading, I
threw out the bill by a majority of two. (Loud
cheers.) In pointing out the neglect of Irish inte-
rests bythe Government I asked for some fair share
of the imperial expenditure in Ireland. This the
Government always refused. Something, however,
is being done in that direction, but we have not to
thank the Government ; and as I was very much
mixed up in the matter to which I allude I may
venture to say a few words upon it now. I refer
to the establishment of a royal dockyard at Cork.
(Loud cheers.) The Corporation of Cork sent me
a resolution of thanks for my efforts in obtaining
the decision in favour of Cork, and I venture, on
behalf of my fellow' citizens, to tender that vote of
thanks now to the King's County, for without your
T _ rt (Lona cheers.)
Some people have whispered that I did this for my
own city, but I am sure the King's County did not
grudge the time I gave to Cork harbour —(cheers)
—for believe me, whatever good it does there, it
will be felt in other parts of Ireland likewise.
(Cheers.) I have had some share in the labours of
those who kept the Canal in the King's County.
(Cheers.) I have done something for those who
are concerned in the Shannon. I have been one of
the members who prepared the Drainage Bill. My
name was on the back of that bill ; I worked on
the committee to which it was submitted ; I had
during its progress through Parliament a constant
correspondence with the leading persons in this
county interested in the subject of drainage, and I
venture to take some credit to myself for what has
been done on that subject ; and, let me add, it is a
subject of vital moment to the King's County.
(Loud cheers.) To turn from such questions to
those of wider range. I have not forgotten that
Irishmen take an interest in foreign affairs, and I
have associated the name of the King's County with
the .vindication of an oppressed and gallant people
—a people whose sufferings touch the hearts of all,
and whose courage and national devotion are the
admiration of mankind. (Loud cheers.) And here
at home I have pursued a policy of which no man
need be ashamed ; I have broken no pledge—
(cheers)—I have offended no class ; I have en-
deavoured to unite and to conciliate. (Cheers.)
He is the friend of Ireland whose policy brings
together the gentry, the clergy, and the people.
My public policy has had that effect--I proclaimed
it in 1859, and from it I have never deviated.
(Cheers.) Even if I were really at the foot of the
poll, and that this declaration to-day by the sheriff
was a valid election (which you are aware I deny) I
could still point to the triumphant majority of Mr.
King as an evidence of the progress of my policy.
(Cheers.) Since the Union no Irish landlord with such
principles as those held by Mr. King has been re-
turned by such a constituency as this. His over-
whelming majority marks an era in Irish elections.
(Cheers.) I congratulate him, and I congratulate
you. I believe he will be a credit to his country,
and in giving him such an united ovation his county
has set an example to Ireland. (Cheers.) One word
more only about myself. I repeat, I never can be
sufficiently grateful to the King's County—l thank
especially the barony of Garrycastle —I thank the
clergy of all denominations, the gentry, and the
noblehearted people of this county. Had Ino other
object in doing so but to maintain my connection
with so many valued friends, I should keep my pro-
mise of proving, as I shall do, that I have had a
majority of votes at this contest.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the high
sheriff, and the proceedings terminated.

EXCESS OF ZEAL.—We take the following from
the Japan herald of the 29th of April:—" An
affair that lately occurred in our usually quiet harbour has
g.enrise
to
a good deal of merriment ashore, in which we
shouldthatmay be
inclined to join were it not for the serious results
be apprehended. :It appears that, on Wednesday
morning, a signal was made from 11.8.M.'s ship Conqueror
that "her boats were
about to attack H 8.31.'s ship Osprey,
and that the latter must defcu:lhcTself.". Accordingly, the
otr '
boats of the Conqueror being' lowered, about 150 men were
ordered into them. On reaching the
Ospreythe command to fire blank cartridge into her, they received
andand
the o
f
attempt
to board. The Osprey literally defended herself
boarding party was opposed so vigorously
that several
them sustained very severe injuries. Rumour, indeed, had
it that ono man had died of his wounds ; but, on inquiry on
board, we find that this is a mistake. An official investi-
gation took place on Thursday, the result of which has
not yet transpired. It is stated that the commander of the
Conqueror exceeded his orders."
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