The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-13 00:00:00

Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

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Representation of S IA KS PERE' 4 BI T • -PLACE.
The Harmonic R ck Band every Evening.
On MONDAY, August 9, and
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
The celebrated Ba•td of the Establishment, seleeted from the
Queen's Private Band, the Coldstreams, and the elite of M. Jullien's
Band, will perform a Grand Selection of Ancient and Modern Music,
Daylight View of. Gibraltar. Splendid Menagerie. Shak•pere's
Birth Place, Pram Drawings by Alfred Crowquill. ihe Celebrated
Ilarmonicon Band will also perform at intervals, concluding with the
Siege of Gibraltar.
Feeding the Animals at Five; Jiillien's Concert, Quarter-put Six ;
Fireworks, Quarter-past Nine. —No extra charge.
Ati,nisidon to the whole. One Shilling.

; LIL WEATLIER.—SuN OFFICE, Ana. 13.
TaznmomETEn, Lowest, 62; Highest. 79; Noon, 72
BAROMETER, 30.29.—W1ND N.; fine.

HMI WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGF. THIS DAY.
Morning.. 17 minutes after 3. 1 Evening .. 33 minute s atter 3

of experience and the convictions of the age, as the
principles of restricted commerce, implies a certain
ditiiciency of discernment, and a mind actually
obsolete in its character. Ability there unquestionably
is among the enem'es to free trade, but it is confined
to a very few individuals, and even then employed
through a medium so deplorably vile, tiaat its come •
liness is distorted, and its vigour cramped. In the
instance of Lord STANLEY, for example, it is like a
giant entering the arena buckled in a . straight
waistcoat, and in the instance of Mr. DISRAELI it is
as though a true knight-errant armed himself with a
porringer and a spit. Therefore it is that so few
terrors are presented to the Government by the Pro-
tectionist Opposition, in regard either to number or
intelligence.
Beyond this, the present Cabinet is sustained by
the good opinion of the people. The strength of her
MAJESTY'S advisers is rather in the Forum than in the
Senate-house ; it is rather on the Champ de Mars than
in the Legislative Chambers. _ _

There is, consequently, no cause for trepidation,
either on account of the numerical influence, or the
excellent reputation, or the intrinsic ability of the
Protectionists. Excepting among a few stolid consti-
tuencies, we are confident that the agricultural mono-
polists are in miserable odour, and that, like the King in
Hamlet, their offence "is rank and smells to heaven!"
Were the Ballot in operation we know that the
" column" of the Protectionists would be remark-
able—we mean no pun—for a yet greater number of
cyphers. Intimidation could no longer assist in
smuggling obnoxious Members into St. Stephen's,
and the landed aristocracy could no longer aid by
their unconstitutional interference, in cramming the
most abhorred principles down the throats of the
helpless electors. A better opportunity never pre-
sented itself for the agitation of the ques-
tion of the Ballot than now that the ad-
vocates of that system are mustering as it
were In the very lolkiei Of the House of Commons,
Parliamentary Reform has been obtained, Catholic
Em.incipation has been obtained, Free Trade has
been obtained—why not the Ballot ? The arguments
in favour of unrestricted commerce are not more un •
answerable than those in favour of the Ballot; be-
sides which, the opponents of the Ballot—the denizens
of May-fair and St. James's—cannot, with any grace
or reason, protest against its adoption as a most un-
English practice, while it remains the system Of election
or expulsion in all their courtly and Tashi.inable
clubs. What is not considered un-English in
the palaces of Pall-mall and Waterloo-place, cannot
surely be un-English in the metropolitan or provin-
cial polling-booths. It must be remembered, how-
ever, that the opponents of the Ballot dread lest their
nominees should be black-balled. Well then, in their
teeth we will struggle for the Ballot, and in their teeth
we will gain it, as we have already gained Free Trade.
and Parliamentary Reform.

Notwithstanding the formal withdrawal of Mr.
SMITH O'BRIEN from the representation of .the
county of Limerick, and the subsequent selection of
a second Repeal candidate, in the person of Mr.
GEORGE JOHN O'CoNNELL, a wealthy inhabitant of
the city of Limerick,, the friends of the ex-martyr
of the cellar appear resolved to bring him forward,
and apparently to return him again to Parliament.
Meanwhile, the. Old Ireland candidates are equally
determined to pi to the poll, and to afford every
elector an opportunity of registering his vote. They
argue that the resignation of the Young Irelander
" is no mistake--can be no mistake," and add, " that
it shall be no mistake." Whether that gentleman is
himself a consenting party to the proceedings it
is at present impossible to say. It is, how-
ever probable, that if selected, he will
own the soft impeachment, and yield to the press-
ing solicitations of his admirers. Indeed, the
terms in which he announced his intended retirement
appeared by no means decisive. He was not desirous
of retaining a seat in the Legislature, but if the
electors were determined to have him he would sub-
mit to their wishes. To his great surprise, the re-
sponse to this transparent coquetry was of a very dif-
ferent character from that which he anticipated. The
club, which had generally selected the future Mem-
ben before the appeal to the country at large, were
' quite prepared to submit to the sacrifuso, tuna to per-
mit the Honourable Gentleman to enjoy his
coveted repose in the blissful shades of Cahir-
moyle, freed from the cares and labours incidental
to the position of a legislator, and they ac-
cordingly proceeded to find a fit and proper
person to send to St. Stephen's as his substitute.
This was a rather unfortunate decision, for the result
will most probably be that a Conservative will slip in,
in consequence of the schism and dissensions thus
occasioned in the Repeal camp.

Irish elections have long attained an unhappy
celebrity for the scenes of turbulence and outrage
that take place. Irish mobs, at all times easily ex-
cited, appear on such occasions to become absolutely
C.antic, and to plunge into the most lawless excesses
on behalf of th.,•ir favourite candidates. But it would be
impossible to find, even in the annals of past elee.
tions, more disgraceful scenes than those which have
already characterised the present contest. The
moment the doors of the Court-house were opened,
a dense mob, armed with thick, short sticks, and
other formidable weapons, rushed in, and having
overcome every obstacle, filled the galleries and every
portion of the building. Many persons were over-
thrown, hats knocked about and trampled on, and
every person suspected of being in the opposite in-
terest was at once laid hands on and removed out of
the way amid indescribable din and clamour, by those
consistent opponents of physical force doctrines. The
shouting, cheering, groaning, yelling, whistling,
cockcrowing., crashing of glass windows, and other
elegant amusements of the gentlemen who filled the
places which should have been preserved for the elec-
tors, surpassed description. They were equally cla-
morous in opposition to the Conservative and the
Young Irelander. We shall, however, furnish an
illustration of the general conduct, by the manner in
which Mr. MoNSELL, one of the candidates, was
received :

" Mr. Monsell then made his appearance. He was at
once assailed by a hurricane of groans, yells, hisses,
cockcrowing, beating of sticks, &c. Several of the
crowd proceeded to cut the ropes of the window pullies,
and to tasten them to sticks and old caps and handker-
chiefs, as it to represent hanging effigies, whilst others
were engaged in crying out, Begone hangman,' See
the devil,' and other similar demonstrations. It is per-
fectly impossible to convey au accurate notion of the
scene that was kept up without intermission for an hour
and twenty minutes, during which time Mr. Monsell
sioud beside the High Sheriff, and made several ineffec-
►ual attempts.to utter a single sentence.
"Mr. G. J. U'CONNELL anti the Emu SIIERIFF rip-
pealed to the crowd, and asked them, in the spirit
Fair play, would they not listen to what Mr. Monsell had
to say ?

" geveral huge men hung out of the galleries with one
panels ot
hand, and with the other continued bea
the galleries with clubs, whilst others werebtt'"
jikitiii& ropes, and calling out
. 44.2 hangman,'
and `6We won't hear him,' ecc.
" The 'hut SHERIFF sat down on the bench, and
' I.lan,n-.? hangman,'
and sot
he would remain there for a lime, as he
couldstand
lio longer.
" 3.1 r. MONSELL (raising his voice to the highest
pitch)—Drew' s ( r cultic uproar)—what are you
afraid iii ?—(More uproar.) Are you afraid of being
convinced ? (Confusion, and a cry of ' Boys, look at
the ugly grin lie has') I don't want you to send me to
Parliament, but listen to me.—(' Nu, no,' and terrific
co; fusion.)
"HIGH SHERIFF—I shall be obliged to arjourn this
court unless you hear Mr. Nlonsell. (' Nu, no,' uproar,
and cutdusion.) I must take care that every qualified
per sou shall get a hearing—that is my duty.—(Uproar.)
Mr. MoNsELL—Let me say a few wot ds.—( Uproar )
'use. endeavoured to do
of ',ticks continuing. so, but not one sy liable
uNol,tt.;eltri3‘.en.id: could'te be-i caught. The uproar and confusion and
earie4seaveserterVE
ler‘ielis
iIIGII SHERIFF —l'll s•' down
on the hustings, imE "te‘a.re:firu'el ctllorotf'u%again.
a—las (ikridec'pamtligutihp'te,eargm.)-(Laughter.)
a torrent of Spitting,.which almost covered every tine
" Fully half an hourume
the extreme. which was filthy and disgusting in
core was occupied in this man-
ner,oPtohweresi,l'ent lera.vourinngnienil, Mr. Devitt, Dr. Cos-
tel
l 0 ,Aal
or
d.
vam to procure silence."
And this is freedom of election in the sister king-
dom, mobs on
in the middle of the 19th century. The
the outside of the Court-house proved worthy of those
who had obtained admission, and the city ha s b
one scene of riot and disturbance, the immenseen
body of military who were stationed in a great many
different parts of the town being only able to pre-
serve tranquillity in their immediate vicinities.
The defeat of the Old Ireland candidates is now
almost a matter of certainty. An extraordinary coali-
tion.appears to have taken place between the Conser-
vatives and Young Irelanders, which has had the
effect of placing their respective favourites in a con- 1

siderable majority,—the numbers, up to half-past
two o'clock on Wednesday, being

AIoNSELL
SmITH O'BRIEN .. 356

l'ow ELL

O'CONNELL
And this majority is said to be hourly increasing,
so that the return of the two former
may now be looked upon as certain. This extraor-
dinary result—it being the first time for many years
that a Tory has been victorious in the county of
Limerick—may be ascribed partly to the split among
the Repealers, and partly to the feeling that Mr.
MONSELL is himself more than half a Repealer, and
that the high Tories generally will shortly join in the
cry for a separation between the countries, and also
to the fact that the ultra-Tories and Young Irelanders
exchanged their second votes, the former probably
feeling that they could not do greater damage to the
Repeal cause and to the Liberal cause generally than
by again returning SMITH O'BRIEN to the Imperial
Parliament.

A letter from Bologna, of the 3d, states that the
regulations for the National Guard had arrived from
Rome, as had also the ordonnance nominating the
deputies for the provinces; and also an ordonnance
reducing the duty on salt by a mezzo-baiocca (one
sou) in the pound. These measures have satisfied all
classes, both in the towns and country.
,The Calabrian bands have increased (says a letter
from Naples) to an alarming extent, and the Govern-
ment bas marched 8,000 men to the. Abruzzis to act
against them.

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