The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-15 00:00:00

DUBLIN CITY ELECTION.

Abridged from the Dublin Evening Packet of Tuesday.)
Yesterday, at a few minutes before ten o'clock, the High
S aeriffs, with their Assessor, Henry West, Esq., took their
seat upon the bench at the Sessions House, Green- street, and
having given directions for the doors to be thrown open, a tre-
mendous rush was made, and in a few minutes every portion
of space hi tharnot very spacious building become occupied.
Mr. O'Connell, upon entering, was loudly cheered, as were
likewise the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. Mr. Saurin, the
Rev. Mr. Boyton, Mr. Hamilton, the candidate, Sir R. Shaw,
and George Moore, Esq., ci-devantrepresentative for the city,
and several others. At a few minutes after ten Mr. Sheriff
Hyndman arrived, and was received with loud cheers.
JOHN POWER, Esq., then proposed Daniel O'Connell, Esq.,
of Merrion-square, as a fit and proper person to represent the
city of Dublin in Parliament.—( Loud cheering from Mr.
O'Connell's friends. )
Mr. MARTIN, a member of the Trades' Political Union, a
carpenter, seconded the nomination.
CHRISTOPHER FITZSIMON, Essq._, proposed Mr. Ruthven.
Mr. SLEVIN (of the Trades' Union) seconded the nomina-

tion.
The LORD MAYOR then rose auddst deafening plaudits, and
said—Mr. Sheriff, as Chief Magistrate pf this city I feel
proud in presenting myself to your notice day,et as it
affords me an opportunity of proposing Mr. West at a and
proper person to represent you in Parliament.—( Cheers.)
Sir ROBERT SIIAW seconded the nomination.
Mr. SAURIN then rose and proposed Mr. George Alexander
Hamilton.--( Loud cheering.)
GEORGE MOORE, Esq. seconded the nomination.—[Mr.
Moore was here interrupted by a person in the front of the
gallery.)
Mr. O'CONNELL—(directing his voice towards the place
from whence the interruption proceeded. )—Silence, you calf.
(Laughter. )
Mr. O'CONNELL presented himself amid loud cheers, min-
gled with hisses ; the applause and disapprobation continued
for several minutes ; as soon as it had subsided he said—l
now desire you to recollect what my conduct has been in Par-
liament ; and I ask you now if there is any Conservative who
has a fault to find with any vote of mine, recollecting what my
principles are, whether I have been guilty of any fault to-
wards them—recollecting what my principles are since I went
into Parliament.—l put it to you.
Mr. J. J. BUTLER—Since you put it to us thus—l say, yes
—you have opposed the Church.—( Hear and cheers. )
Mr. O'CONNELL—I am much obliged to Mr. Butler, but if
he had heard the manner in which I put the question, he would
have found his objection unfounded. My principles were
avowed then as well as now. Whether, I ask, consistently
with my principles—remember I speak of my principles—l
have acted ungenerously towards any of you ?
The Rev J. B. M'CREA—You have, to the Church.—
( Hear, cheers, and laughter. )
Mr. O'CONNELL—I am told that the objection against me is
my conduct against the Church ; and who is it puts that ob-
jection ? A worthy gentleman who does not belong to that
church at all, no more than I do, and who has, what he cer-
tainly is quite entitled to, a little church of his own—( Hear,
and laughter.) I have said before, that I have met this ob-
jection, which only came from a gentleman not belonging to
his church ; and now so far from voting against what that
worthy gentleman should call his church, for he is a Protestant
Dissenter, that I voted for the Protestant Dissenters upon
every occasion. I will say more, too, in his presence. This
is the hand which drew up the petition, which was the imme-
diate precursor of the emancipation of the Protestant Dissen-
ters of England. I think that the Protestant Church, as far
as relates to spirituals, ought to be as extensive as the Pro-
testants in Ireland choose. There has been nothing disrespect-
ful in myeppinions of the Protestant church. I sincerely and
candidly respect the opinions of others, as in the purity and in-
tegrity of my own religious opinions I am fixed and determined.
—( Hear.) Now that I have got over the Church, is there, I
ask, any other complaint to be made against me ?—( Cheers. )
I say to you, Orangemen, that there is no man amongst you
who has done so much good to an Orangeman as I did. I found
the Deputy Grand Master of the Orangemen—and he was one
I had not much reason to admire, for ho could throw off and
put on his surtout as well as some others who shall be name-
less.—(pointing to Alderman Smith, amid loud laughter.) He
could put it on and take it off when he pleased.—(Laughter )
Remember that, in my scat in the House of Commons, I d f-
fered fairly from the principles of Orangemen—( Hear)—and
I bless God for this—that here am I, a decided Roman Catholic
—and finding that the Whigs would have done him an in-
justice, as they did to so many more—( Hear, hear)—finding
that they were about to turn off an old public servant, and, with
his large family, to starve—he came to me, and asked me whe-
ther I would oppose him ? I said to him—send me your pa-
pers, and I will then tell you whether I will oppose you
or not. He sent me the papers ; and I assure you the tears
came into my eyes when I took him by the hand, and told him
that not only would I not oppose him, but that I considered
he had a just, an honest, and a conscientious claim ; and that
any support which I could give I would be proud to afford
him ; and, gentlemen, I tell you this, that but for my aid lie
would not have got one farthing. I appeal for the truth of
this to Mr. Lefroy, who was my colleague in that affair, and
who assisted me powerfully by his talents. To my Hon.
Friend I appeal as to this fuct, for with him I succeeded
with the Adminstration ' • and Alderman King has 2,5001. at
the present moment.—( Hear, hear.) Ido not canvass your
votes ; but I canvass your good humour.—( Cheers.) And I
beg of you, and ask of you as men, and as Irishmen—for we
are all Irishmen—there is no man amongst you who does not
claim to be an Irishman, who is not proud of being an Irish-
man—and after all, does not the name of Irishman throb as
warmly in your breasts as in mine, and would you not wish to
see Ireland _

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" Great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea."
—(Cheers and laughter.) All we differ about is as to the
manner, but the object is the same that we have both in view.
I have been received with much good humour by everybody
but the Lord Mayor.—( Hear.) Now, I heartily forgive him.
He suggested in rather gross terms, and rather familiarly
described, what an obligation is annually conferred upon me
by the Irish people.—( Hear.) It has been said that patriots
have found the popular feeling to fall away, and at the
end of their career to declare that patriotism was but
a name.—( Hear) I am a splendidid example—not my-
self, but my country—of the fidelity with which it is attached
to me. I never yet read of a patriot whom the people threw
off, that the cause could not be traced to some desertion of
that principle on which he originally stood forward.
The present Monarch I conceive to be surrounded by bad
councillors. The dissolution of Parliament and change of his
servants was nothing but the exercise of constitutional princi-
ples and of the Royal prerogative—but the Ministers are
nevertheless responsible. I require no man's vote but of the
man who stands with me and the party of the movement. I
do not truckle about civil and religious liberty, and I do say,
that I belong to the movement party. What name will the
other party take? Let it be Conservative.—(Cheers.) That
will not offend ears polite, but I deny its application to be just.
I myself am the real Conservative, because I preserve every
thing valuable to the attainment of civil and religious liberty.
I admit I am a Destructive, because I would destroy every
abuse, however minute, until I purged the social system, firmly
and determinedly, of every thing that obscures its light, until
it would become as bright as the sun on a summer's day at
noon, without a speck to prevent its warming and vivifying the

nation.—( Cheers.) Electors of the city of Dublin, I stand
betOrt;
.you as the advocate of complete and total freedom of
conscience. I would not have any man compelled to pay the
clergy of another religion, because I think that as long as that
system continues, there cannot be freedom of conscience. I
am a lawyer, in the habit of weighing reason and argument,
and my conviction is, that reason and argument are both in
favour of the religion I profess. I would not profess it, if I
did not believe it. Many years ago, it would have been at-
tended with no small advantage tome, could I but persuade my-
self that the faith I profess was not the true faith ; and now that
the grave is near me, I shall not trifle with the awful truths of my
religion. In the sincerity of that conviction, I believe that my
religion wants not the help of muskets, bayonets, or tithe-proc-
tors. Return me to Parliament, and pronounce in favour of
your own nationality. If I succeed to the utmost of my
wishes, as I hope I shall, it would be in the conserving of the
present institutions of Ireland. lam for the Repeal—sink or
swim, live or die, I am for the Repeal.—( Loud cheering-.)
I have abused many men in my life, heartily and well, and,,
Heaven knows ! many have abused me.—( Laughter.) I ap-
peal to you, Sir, whether you ever knew a fellow who has been
more abused, and yet here I am, as fat, as merry, and as well as
ever, devoted to old Ireland—my first and sole objact her li-
berty and prosperity.—( Cheers.) Yes, lam a kind of tem-
poral idolater—my mind swells, and my bosom rises--humble
and insignificant as I am—when I am struggling, as I have
been hitherto, for the restoration of the independence of Ire-
land.—( Cheers.) In that struggle I will succeed.—(Mr.
O'Connell sat down amid enthusiastic cheers.)
Mr. RUTHVEN—Mr. Sheriffs and Gentlemen, be assured
there is no man less disposed to interrupt your friends than l-
am ; but I only ask from you a continuance of that course hi-
therto pursued. Mr. Ruthven then proceeded to characterise
the words of a placard which had been posted through the
town, and stated that what was contained in it was a lie.—
( Uproar.) He knew not who Arthur Perrin was, but hoped
he was not the Lord Mayor. The placard stated that Mr. S.
Ruthven did not possess a legal qualification. This was a
falsehood. The law required a certain qualification. A person
had signed his name to a document, stating that he (Mr. R. )
did not possess one, and he (Mr. Ruthven) was ready to swear
that what was set forth in the placard was a lie—( Cheers and
uproar)—and therefore that Arthur Perrin had put his name
to a falsehood.—( Cheers. ) When he (Mr. Ruthven) had
been returned at the last election, though comparatively a
stranger, yet he was no stranger in Ireland.—(Cheers.) He
had been in three Parliaments, and his conduct showed that
he was always in favour of the best interests of Ireland—
( Cheers)—and if sent there again he would act as he had hi-
therto done, representing the feelings and sentiments of those
who returned him. He sought to leave behind him a cha-
racter in Dublin which would not bring disgrace on himself
or his family.—( Hear, and cheers.) He was above prostitu-
ting the office of Magistrate, for the purpose of indulging in
gross malignity.—( Cheers.) If he had done so, he would
not screen himself under the protection which office afforded.
—( Cheers.)
Sheriff HYNDMAN stepped forward and said—Gentlemen,
Mr. West is the candidate in rotation. He, I am sorry to
say, is prevented by indisposition from attending.
FREDERICK SHAW, Esq., M. P., then presented himself.
Every person in the Court-House had heard the unjust—the
unjustifiable observations made upon the worthy and esteemed
Lord Mayor.—( Hear, tear.) He (Mr. Shaw) held in his
I-and a printed notice, preps: ed and approved of by Counsel,
taking proper legal objections to a candidate who may not
possess a proper qualification ; and this notice, a mere mat-
ter of legal form, was made the pretence of making such an
attack as all present had heard upon the respected Chief Ma-
gistrate of this city.—( Cheers and uproar.) He appeared
there as a representative of his respected friend, Mr. West—
( Hisir, hear)—and he was sure that whatever the political
opinions may be of those who heard him, all would deplore
the cause of Mr. West's absence, which had confined him for
the last three weeks to bed—a serious accident--( Hear,)—
but the electors of Dublin had Mr. West's address before them,
and he was sure that all would allow that address was not
more remarkable for the excellence of style, than for the tem-
perate, firm, and manly assertion of the writer's pelitical prin-
ciples.—( Loud cheers.) In his (Mr. Shaw's) opinion, a re-
peal of the Union would amount to a dismemberment of the
empire.—(Cheers and uproar.) He wished that the gentry
of the country were permitted to join in ameliorating the con-
dition of the country, and that the people were not taught to
hope for accomplishing that which was impossible.—( Hear.)
Mr. O'Connell had that day defined liberty, and he said it
consisted of perfect justice, and entire security of every man
in property and in life. Would to God we had such liberty
in Ireland !—( Cheers.) I would ask you, solemnly, is that
liberty enjoyed by those who do not follow Mr. O'Connell's
advice ?—( Cheers.) Is that the liberty those who are go-
verned by his advice allow those who differ from them ?
( Cheers.) We heard Mr. O'Connell to-day raise a fervent
prayer to heaven in favour of the dead. Did he say one word
in favour of, or is it his habit, to protect the living ?—( Loud
cheers.) We heard much of the blood-stained impost of
titntz. and much was said of the widow and the orphan. He
(Alt. Shaw;
deplored as much as any body the sacrifice of hu-
man life that had occurred ; but it ought to be re-
membered that those who
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resisting the law.—( Hear, heals.) But Mr. O'Connell did
not say one word respecting the murdfn- of an infirm old man
(Mr. Foote) who was eighty years of age. He would implore
every moderate man at the present crisis to layaaside non-
essentials and combine in the cause of property ant, Good go-
vernment against anarchy. He himself was ready at this ttlec-
tion to support any man of high character and moderate politics'.
Mr. HAMILTON said—Gentlemen, I come forward on this oc-
casion, because I feel that the present is the crisis of the fate of the
British empire—because I foci that the question involved in the
issue of these elections is not one merely between Whig and
Tory, not whether one class of individuals or another is to have
the reins of Government—but that it really is a question be-
tween the Monarchy and the democracy —whether the mo-
narchical form of government is to be retained,or a democrati-
cal form of,GoYernment established—( Uproar. ), It is far from
my intention to impute to Mr. O'Connell and the movement
party any fixed design of subverting the Monarchy, for that
would be treason on their part, but I do say that the public
conduct they pursue is necessarily calculated, whether they
mean it or not, to overthrow the Monarchy, and to establish
a republic on its ruing. With regard to the question of tithes,
I can only say that I shall be Ilappy to see such an arrangement
made as may be founded upon good policy and justice, pre-
serving, however, inviolate the integrity of the property of the
Church.
The Sheriff then put the question, and t.;21 a show of hands,
the High Sheriff declared that it was in tayour of Messrs.
O'Connell and Ruthven. A poll was demanded on behalf of
the other candidates, and the Court adjourned at hah:-past four
o'clock until next morning.
STATE OF THE POLL THIS DAY.
Quarter to Four o'clock.
Majority for the Conservatives, 85.