The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-16 00:00:00

CORNWALL, Mai 14.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
is now about four o'clock, and there are seven
booths out of the nine with not a freeholder waiting to
vote. In ssme of them nothing has been done fur hours.
At the booth for Penrith there are acres still pressing for-
ward, and in our other hundred about ten or twelve. Mr.
Pendarves proposed o❑ Thursday and last evening to take
some parishes from the most populous hundreds, that they
might be polled in those where there was no freeholder
left; hut this reasonab'e request not acceded to. The ma-
jority for Pendarves and Lemon has b.-en hourly increasing.
It is supposed that Sir Richard holds out on a point of
honour, not being willing to give in till a majority of the
freeholders of the county has been polled for his opponents.
That will certainty be done either this evening or Monday.
Large numbers are ready to come from the western parts
of the county for the Reform candidates. Lord Valletort
and Sir R. R. Vyvyan must have been very much deceived,
otherwise they would not have put themselves atid the
county to so much expense and trouble. The cause of
Reform has gained most decidedly by the triumph now
about to he consummated.
VICTORY!
HALE-PAST SEVEN, P. M.
. _ _

Sir R. R. Vyvyan and Lord Valletort retired about half-
past five o'clock. The Members, Mr. Pendarvea and Sir
Charles Lemon, are now being chaired.—Victory !

CLOSE OF THE POLL-
To-day. Total.
277 1,S19!!
1,804!!
107 01
97 SI 1
AMICUS.

Pendarves - - -
Lemon . .
Vyvyan - -
Vaßetort
Yours, in haste,

DOWNPATRICK, MAY H.

(FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.)
In my letter of yesterday I gave a brief account *of the
opening of the election for the county of Down. Aware
of the interest which the people take in the contest, 1
cannot doubt but the statement' which 1 am now enabled
to give of the auspicious commencement of the struggle,
will be hailed by them with delight. The following is the
state of the poll yesterday evening :
Lord Arthur Hill . 470
William Sharman Crawford - . . .`2,;0
Lord Castlereagh - - • - 245
After this announcement a most interesting, though
rather extraordinary, scene took place. The Sheriff. I
may here mention, is a man (to judge from the figure
which he cuts) who is blessed with a most comfortable
dullness of intellect. He has, however, a plentiful stock of
Tory prejudices ; and, ' in this respect, is quite after the
heart of his Lordship of Castlereagh. On a late occasion
he was stupid enough to attempt to controul the men of
this county, by refusing to call a meeting of the freeholders
to petition fur Reform. The indignant manner is which
that attempt was spurned has not taught him wisdom,
(which, it is fair to admit, seems one of the impossibi-
lities); and, whilst it is not for me to charge bins with
partiality, I am justified in saying that more un-
disguised indications of party feeling I never saw
manifested by any public officer. It is usual at the
close of each day that the candidates should address
the electors. Yesterday evening, as soon as the Assessor
had announced the state of the poll, the Sheriff mutter( d
that the Court was dissolved, and immediately retired. -
Mr. Crawford was the only candidate present. Lord
Castlereagh did not seem ambitious of the honour of ap-
pearing before the freeholders lowest on the poll, as, at his
former elections, Le had been carved in almost without a
rival ; and the conduct of the Sheriff, whether so in-
tended or not, was well fitted to cover his Lordship's
fallen condition. Mr. Crawford, however, who, I believe,
was not aware that the man of the white rod who had

stood behind him had retired, proceeded in a manly and
honest speech to address the freeholders. He exposed the
contemptible and dishonest attempts that had horn made
to enlist religious prejudices in the cower. He also re-
peated a proposition which he bad made the preceding
day, but to which Lord Castlereagh did not think it pru-
dent to make any reply, 'volley, that each of the candi-
dives and their friends should sign a declaration, leaving
their tenants free to vote as they mi2ht think proper. Mr.
Crawford said, if this were done and he were defeated, he
would admit that the voice of the county was a2ainst
; but if not he would consider, let the result be what
it might, that the kelings of the freeholders could not be
conceived to be opposed to independent principles.

. .
At the conclu,ion of this speech there was a loud and
general call for Mr. Cross, the Brlfast gentleman, who, as
I .dated in my former letter, hall been prevented from ad-
dre.sing the freeholders at the opening of the election.
Mr. Cross came forward, but scarcely had he uttered a
word when in rushed the Sheriff, with his Assessor and
the Sub-Sheriff. The hail of the Court-house was filled

at the same time by a large body of police constables. It
would appear that the Sheriff, who had so unceremoniously
adjourned the Court, but who could not presume to pre-
vent the independent candidate from speaking, was deter-
mined that Mr. Cross should not have the liberty of calling
upon his brother freehold. rs to continue their noble ex, r-

Lions. In this attempt be was zealously assisted by the
Assessor, whom I do not charge wiih having acted un-
justly, but who, beyond :ill question, quilmled and glossed
up arguments, with all his mother-tongued ingenuity, for
the purpose of having the meeting dissolved. He was met,
however, in a style he little expected ; his attempts ro
affright the freeholders by speaking of the imprudence of
exciting the passions of the multitude, were rejected with
firmness, but with a good humour, which proved how
ill-founded were his remarks, and how hopeless his laudable
efforts. Edward Rutliven, Esq. the newly-elected Member
for Downpatrick, reprobated with honest warmth the idea
that an assembly of the ft eebolders of Down could not ex-
press their sentiments respecting Reform, without being
guilty of a breach of the peace. He sad, as a Magistrate
of the county, he would be the first to interpose for the
preservation of the peace, if it were likely to be violated ;
but he never would permit any roan, under guise of offi-
cial authority, to trample upon the rights of the peopte.
He denied that the Sheriff appeared there as returning
officer, or that the Assessor had any claims except on the
courtesy of the meeting, to be heard. The Court had
been adjourned with a precipitancy which, to say the least,
was most extraordinary ; arid the Sheriff had no farther
right to interpose unless he could show grounds for appre-
hending a riot. As to the Assessor, be stood there di-
vested of his official character, and must not presume to
dictate to the freeholders. These sentiments were received
with immense cheering. Edward Wolstenholme, Esq.,
also rejected in strong terms the efforts making to sup-
press the expression of opinion. He was ready, as a
Magistrate, to act if necessary; but he defied the Sheriff,
constitutionally assembled as they were, to venture to di--
perse them. The Court-house, he admitted, belonged to
the Sheriff, and he !night disperse them ; but he must do
so at the point of the bayonet, and at his peril. Other
freeholders expressed similar sentiments. During the
storm of discussion the woe-begone and terror-stricken
Sheriff was unable to utter a word, and had to depend on
the chicanery of his Assessor. The latter gentleman,
finding that his official character would not carry him
exactly so far as he had expected, and that his authority
was not recognized, at length retired with the Sheriff, ad-
mitting that the meeting was perfectly legal, and that he
would desire the Sheriff to trust to the discretion of the
Magistrates present for preserving the peace. The free-
, holders saluted the retiring and crest-fallen official gentle-
' men with peals of laughter. Mr. Cross then addressed
the freeholders in a most eloquent speech ; he tore asunder
the hollow sophistry and disingenuous statements of Lord
Castlereagh's speech the preceding day, and encouraged the
freeholders to exert themselves in the glorious cause of
their country. His address was received with the most
enthusiastic shouts of applause; and at the termination of
the proceedings he was followed to his lodgings by an im-
mense multitude, who cheered him in the liveliest manner.
There was not throughout the slightest appearance of
rioting ; the pacific dispositions of the people being
equalled only by the calm determination not to submit to
he put down, either by the stupid prejudices of a Tory
civil functionary, or the cool presumption of his subtile
legal adviser.
Two o'c LOCK. —The majority continues to increase.
The state of the poll has just been ascertained, and the
majority tOr Mr. Crawford over Lord Castlereagh on the i
gross poll, is now 94.

ELECTION OF SCOTCH PEERS..--We have
authority to state, that it is the avowed intention of his
MAJESTY'S present advisers not to send down, as hereto-
fore, a signed list of Representative Peers, in that manner
dictating to the ancient and independent Nubility of this
country what individuals are to be the object of their
choice. Such forbearance is the natural consequence of
their political principles, and proves the respect which
they feel for the Scotch Peerage, and they believe and
trust that so flattering a deference to their independence
will pro vacs, init i
thsetesu creditablelt of %hoe
teini:uGm election,ent; a
fors it advan-
tageous
si no
gv
er
impossible that the Scotch Peers should not feel the deli-
cacy of such conduct, nor is it likely that they should over-
look the just provision in the Reform Bill, which removes
from their eldest sons the disqualification from sitting for
their native boroughs and counties.—Edinburgh Ecene. •
ns,
Courant.
t.

LIMERICK, MAY 12.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

Words cannot convey the excitement prevailing in this
city, in consequence of the disturbed state of the adjoin-
ing county of Clare. The " Terry Alts" have this morn-
ing made an incursion to within two miles of this city,
and to the number of 2,000 surrounded the house of a
gentleman of the name of Gloster, who, with his wife,
they dragged out of bed, and placing them on their knees,
swore them to leave their residence before six o'clock this
evening. Mr. Gloster and his lady immediately set out to
seek an asylum here, and accounts have followed them
that the insurgents were hu•ily occupied in deMolishing
the house and premises. The military have just left town
to endeavour to'disperse the miscreants.
The election for the county of 'Clare commences to-
morrow, and the divided interests in favour of the dif-
ferent candidates tends not a little to increase the agitation
which prevails. It was rumoured yesterday evening that
Major INPNamara had withdrawn from the contest, and
that William Smith O'Brien, Esq., late M.P. for the bo-
rough of Ennis, and son of Sir Edward O'Brien, tv'ao
oppmerl Mr. Maurice O'Connell at the last election, was
canvassing in his stead. This, however, is contradicted
this mornims, and Major M'Namara, Mr. Maurice O'Coa-
nell, and Mr. O'Gorman Mahon, will positively appear
before the electors as candidates on the hustings to-mor-
row. A great anxiety for some days has prevailed amongst
the respective friends of the two last named gentlemen to
prevent a collision, and Mr. M. O'Connell consented to
leave his preiensions to the opinion of six gentlemen, in-
differently chosen. The meeting took place in this city
yesterday, and after a deliberation of upwards of four
hours, the referees decided that both gentlemen should re •
main in the field. Mr. Maurice O'Connell was here to
meet his father yesterday, who passed through to Kerry,
where his election is beyond all doubt.
The election of a Member for the borough of Ennis took
pl me yesterday, when the Right Hon. Vesey Fitzgerald,
tile joint patron of the borough, was returned. It was
confidently asserted that the Right Hon. Gentleman bad
returned himself at the express instance of the Duke of
Northumberland, to oppose the Ministerial measure of
Reform, and the people of Ennis and its neighbourhood
nuked their disgust of the buroughmongering system by
a mock funeral procession of about 6,000 persons, with
a coffin containing, as they said, the remains of the dead
and - corporation and rotten borough of Ennis. The
procession proceeded to the residence of Mr. O'Donnell, the
Town Clerk, where, on being reuse I admittance, they
threw the coffin over the wall, and quietly dispersed.
It now becomes my painful duty to record another of
those cold-blooded murders which have been but too fre-
quent in this unhappy land. A poor countryman of the
name of Rice had become obnoxious to the peasantry, in
consequence of some expressions he had used deprecating
their illegal and nefarious pursuits, and had been necessi-
tated to come for safety to the town of Ennis. Last night
an immense party of the " Terry Alts" entered the town,
and proceeded to Rice's lodgings, which are within a pis-
tol•shot of the barracks, and dragging him out of bed into
the west, there cruelly murdered him with their spades,
and then withdrew from the town. An active pursuit
was commenced, and the country was scoured, but up to
the moment I write without meccas.

Such is the state of the county, which to-morrow is
called to exercise its high prerogative ot electing represen.
tatives. and the deadly hostility existing between the re.
spective friends of Mr. O'Gorman Mahon and Mr. Mau-
rice O'Connell, have excited in the minds of all the higher
clas,e, of the residents in Ennis the greatest anxiety, net
to siy fears, as to the proceedings of to-morrow. I leave,
for Ennis this afternoon, from which I will write you.
Since writing the above, intelligence hiss reached tows
of a most distressing accident which occurred last night to
Robert O'Brien, Esii,," third son of Sir Robert O'Brien,
Bart. This young gentleman was heading a party of mi.
litany and police during the night in pursuit of the
" Terry Alts," when, in leaping a hedge, the musket with
which he was armed, came in contact with some bushes
and went off. The ball entered the fleshy part of the left
arm, the bone of which was fractured to such a degree 0
to retailer amputati in immediately necessary. Medical aid
was procured with all possible despatch, and the opera-
tion performed. The unfortunate sufferer is pronounced
out of danger.