The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-19 00:00:00

TOUGH AL,

F. J. Howard, Esq. I

THE ELECTIONS.
ANTI-MONOPOLISTS. MONOPOLISTS.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN COUNTY.

Lord Brabazon and Mr. Evans have resigned, consequently
the two Tories are returned.
CORK COUNTY.
sraTs OF Tux POLL.

D. O'Connell, Esq.... 1,276 Leader, Esq ...... 406
Roche, Esq 1,276 Longfield, Esq. ... 357
LONGFORD COUNTY.
L. White, Esq 621 Lefroy, Esq. 482
H. White, Esq 621
WICKLOW COUNTY.
J. Grattan, Et.q.

Acton, Esc 660
Howard, Esq 599
KERRY COUNTY.
M. O'Connell, Esq... 302 Blennershasset 248
Brown, Esq

CARLOW (COUNTY)—FOURTH DAY'S Pow sc.
FRIDAY NIGHT, JULY 16.—Neven has there been exhi-
bited in this century and this country so extracrtlinary a dis-
play of arbitrary power as that which the High Sheriff chose
to present to the public. For no cause he appears to have
had all the election business stopped—all the approaches to the
Court-house rendered impassable—all access blocked up by
cavalry, infantry, and artillery, and this, too, was done in the
face of the most perfect tranquillity—nay, in despite of the
most solemn stillness on the part of the populace. There
were neither upon their part numbers nor noise to afford the
shadow of a pretext for an apprehended riot; but then
this milidary cordon which invested the Court-house, under
the orders of the High Sheriff, produced one good effect for his
party—it closed the booth at Rahvilly, in which the Liberal
strength lay, and it has won the election for Col. Bruen. It
kept out voters who were going up for Mr. O'Connell. This
can lie proved on oath, and as a sufficient number were by
this military stratagem, under the superintendence of tho
High Sheriff, prevented from being polled at the one booth, it
has, as far as this election is concerned, disfranchised them.
It will scarcely be believed, that aperson holding a situation,
like that of high sheriff, should have ordered them to be de-
prived of their rights, and, by a mere act of undisguised despo-
tism, the Court-house, where the law sanctioned the registering
of their votes, should be surrounded with an armed force, and
the electors told, that if they even attempted to go to the poll,
they must be sabred or bayoneted for the attempt. It was
about five o'clock, just an hour before the poll closed, that this
was done on Friday. Every one was excluded by the orders of
the High Sheriff—not merely those connected with the press—
not merely ;freeholders—but the conducting agent of Mr.
O'Connell 1 This gentleman, Mr. Arthur French, happening
to leave the Court-house for an instant on business of the elec-
tion, and and returning in a few minutes afterwards, was told
be could not be admitted, for "the High Sheriff had ordered
no one to be permitted to pass." Anything so monstrous as
this, never occurred at an election—but it helped to close
the booth from which danger to Colonel Bruen was appre-
hended.

The High Sheriff is notoriously a partisan of Colonel Bruen ;
for that he is not to be blamed, if his party feelings did not in-
duce him to step beyond the line of his duty, and to assume to
himself powers, which, if fairly exercised, must still, on account
of his politics, be tinged with the semblance of partiality. He
took upon himself the entire management of the civil and mili-
tary power; and this he did although there were by his side
two Stipendiary Magistrates, Mr. Greene and Mr. Tuckey.
On a former day upon some of the tenantry of Col. Bruen
going up to the booths upon Mr. O'Connell's tallies, an at-
tempt was made to seize them by the Orangemen, and this at-
tempt was successfully resisted. Thirteen of these men, who
were the most staunch in their resistance to the Colonel, were
reserved for the last day's polling, when it was hoped they would
aid in turning the majority in favour of the Liberal candidates.
The Orangemen were aware of this, and had therefore resolved
to get hold of them, and carry them out of the county. Mr,.
French knew this to be the determination, and therefore de-
sired to have the aid of a few soldiers to protect them from
the lintel in which they were stopping to the Court-house. lie
appplied on the subject to the assessor, and the assessor desired
him to speak to the sub-sheriff. He saw the High Sheriff
with some difficulty, and by him he was directed to go to the
sub-sheriff, who again sent him to the assessor; but when he
went to look for the assessor, he was not to be found for some
considerable time. At length the assessor sent him to the
High Sheriff again, but when he was searched for, he was also
missing ! Thus Mr. French was kept running about for
nearly three hours, before he could even approach the object
he had desired; and even then he was told he should make an
affidavit, before he could have what he required. He imme-
diately prepared an affidavit, declaring that he was obstructed
on the 13th July instant, in bringing up to poll the freeholders
in the interest of deponent's clients, and attempts were made
to take them from deponent's agents ; and, therefore, depo-
nent, on the part of his clients, and for the preservation of the
peace, requires a sufficient force for their protection, from
Ilenton's Hotel to the hustings, otherwise the poll may be
closed, by which deponent's clients may be prevented from
polling the freeholders.
But then, having made this affidavit, he was told that it
was alleged the freeholders were in custody, and not willing
to vote for O'Connell and Yates, and, therefore, an affidavit
would be required for them. This difficulty was also overcome
by the following :
." County of Carlow, to wit.—We, the undersigned free-
holders of the county of Carlow, do solemnly declare that it is
our intention to vote for Messrs. O'Connell and Yates at the
present election, and require protection to bring us to the hus-
tings for that purpose.
" Taken and declared before us this 16th day of July, 1841.
4, WALTER BLACKNEY,

" JOHN NOLAN, J.P."
(Thirteen signatures.)
It was not until after hours of delay, and these embarrass-
ments had been removed, that Mr. French could get a few
soldiers, to prevent an occurrence which must have led to a
breach of the peace. The attempt to seize these freeholders,
and to carry them off, must have produced a conflict in which
hfe might have been lost. To prevent a certain riot, affidavit
upon affidavit was required, which, at a later hour in the
day, to close up the booths there was not even a
,ingle shout in the streets to justify the closing of the booths,
by all the array of Carlow. The people here are too
astute not to have seen, in an instant, what was aimed at by
this manceuvre, they looked on patiently while this solemn
farce was enacting. There was written on every countenance
the demonstration of that feeling which the long rule of Tory-
ism has implanted in the breasts of the people of this countr% ;
namely, .‘ that there is neither law nor justice for the poor
Irishman."
There were nine men bringing up to the poll at the moment
that the booths were closed against them. This is a tact stated
on the authority of Mr. French, the agent of Mr. O'Connell.
Had these nine men been polled, Colonel Bruen must have
lost the election. These men being excluded gains him the
county. It is now, and only now, that the intensity of feeling
that pervades the hearts even of the poorest peasant woman that
one sees in the streets, or passes on the road, can be understood.
In all places one, if coming from the Court-house, is stopped
by them, to " know how the election is going on," and when
they have heard that O'Connell was not in a majority, the ob-
servation has been almost invariably the same, "My God,
my
• God ! there will be no standing the county —no
living in it, if the Orangemen gain the election." But
when they have this feeling, and know, which they do well,
that victory has been taken from themselves and
given to their opponents by . means of a paltry
trick, who can be surprised if their indignation burst out into
open acts of of violence, and that they endeavour to anticipate
the vengeance that they apprehend ? Sentiments of the most
deadly hatred mutually animate the Orangemen against the
people and the people against the Orangemen ; and both are
full of courage and ready to encounter each other. At pre-
sent, and with such a commander as Colonel Jackson, the
army is impartial—being prepared so attack those, whatever be
their party, who attempt to break the peace. It was with that
intention he brought out the forces on Monday, and made that
military display, for which there was more necessity than might be
imagined. It seems that the Orangemen had threatened to come
down to Carlow, from all parts of this, the Queen's, King's
county, and Wexford, and as it is notorious that they always
tome armed ; the peasantry here, and in Kilkenny, had armed
themselves with pikes and pike-handles, and would have again
stood in the field against them. It was to prevent this colli-
sion that Colonel Jackson made the demonstration, being quite
determined to cut down the first man who fired a shot, or used
a deadly weapon. His precautions had, however, been ren-
dered unnecessary by the care of Mr. John O'Connell, who,
while travelling from Kilkenny with the voters, became ac-
quainted wiih the fact of the peasantry having pike-handles.
He instantly stopped the procession, and having addressed the
people and entreated of them instantly to cast their weapons
away, they did so, and he has assured me that hundreds were
cast into the fields on both sides of the road. So implicitly
Werehis orders obeyed, that there was not a single man to be
seen armed when Colonel Jackson, at the head of his troops,
met them outside of the town.
It will come with surpri.e upon the English reader to learn,
that one reason why this contest has been lost to the Liberals
—by those who are struggling for a free trade in corn, has
been occasioned by the Carlow tenantry of the Earl Fitz william
voting with the Corn-monopolist, Colonel Bruen, while, at
The last election, they voted against him. The Protestant
tenantry of a Catholic landlord, Mr. Tighe, also voted with
the man who denounces the religion of seven-eighths of his
countrymen "as an idolatry; " and the defeat too, to be as-
cribed to the absence of several leading Whigs ; for instance,
Mr. Bagot, the High Sheriff of the county Dublin, Mr. Tighe,
Mr. Vigor', a relative of the late Member, and some others.
'
'Had they all acted like Mr. Hatchett, Q.C. who, at great
inconvenience to himself, came down here to vote, the result
otherwise.ntof the past contest (for so I now
must
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known ; but here it has produced a feeling writeh respectGuards,ticis the
army, especially the Carbmeers, that did not exist bfore.

CLOSING OF THE BOOTHS THE ELECTION
TERMINATED—THE
NTORIES RETURNED BY A
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He insisted that the booths ought not to be closed before five
o'clock.rli The assessor said he' should take a note of his objection, but
that he would certainly close the booths at eleven:
Shortly after twelve o'clock the High Sheriff announced that
the numbers polled during the election were as follow :
Mr. Bruen ...................................... 705
illr. Butibury .................................... 704
Mr. Yates ....................................... 697
Mr. O'Connell ................................ 696
He therefore declared Mr. Bruen and Mr. Bunbury duly
elected to represent the county in Parliament.
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Previous to the return being made, a protesgainst the il-
legality of the entire proceedings of the High Sheriff was
handed in by Mr. Smith, as Counsel on behalf of Mr. Yates
and Mr. O'Connell. The grounds of the protest are these
an:—
" On the ground of a refusal and
delay of the Sheriff d
assessor to afford protection with' the military or civil power to
the electors in the interest a the Messrs. O'Connell and Yates,
until so late a period that they were by such delay prevented
from polling.
"On the ground of fraud and deception
all
in pre-
venting such protection insufficient time to allow said voters to
poll.
Oa the ground of the illegal conduct of assessor and of de-
TintY in refusing to acbeit the votes of several electors who
con
were in attendance to vote for O'Connell and Yates in the
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making speeches calculated to intimidate the electors in several
booths, and whereby, in fact, several voters in the interest of
O'Connell and Yates, were' deterred from giving their votes.
" And en the ground of stoppages and interruption of myself
and the other orients of O'Con necessaryate in passing back-
wards and forwabrds in the saidesbusiness of said elec-
tion, at remenable tioaes and in a legal manner in the open.

kIVENING SUN.

streets of the town of Carlow, and in the entrance to and pas-
sag s of the Court in which said election was held.
" The reason alleged for obstructing the poll yesterday,and
stopping all the passages to the Court-house was, that there
was an apprehension entertained by the High Sheriff that an
attack was about to be made upon Carlow, by certain unknown
insurgents from the county Kildare."