The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-26 00:00:00

Charges of bribery and intimidation were also urged on the
part of Major Cumming Bruce against Mr. Ellice's voters.
The Sheriff then announced the state of the poll to be as
follows :

Inverness .
Forres ....
Nairn ....

Fortrose

Ellice.
216

Bruce.
215
82
28

The SHERIFF accordingly declared Major Cumming Bruce,
to be returned M. P., for the district, upon wich Mr. Ellice
repeated his protest.
Major CUMMING BRUCE stood forward to address the elec-
tors, but the clamour and disapprobation were so great as to
prevent his being heard. The crowd also threw snow-balls
about in the direction of the hustings, and the Hon. Gentle-
man seeing the people would not listen to him, desisted from
the attempt.
Mr. ELLICE thanked the electors for the support they had
given him, and said he would have gone into some details rela-
tive-to the canvass, but seeing that his Hon. opponent had re-
tired from the hustings, he would be brief in his statements, as
Major Cumming Bruce was not present to answer him. He
congratulated the electors on the progress which liberal opinions
had made in the district. At the first election, after the pass-
ing of the Reform Bill, in 1832, the number of Liberal electors
that polled was 243 ; and in 1833 there was 291 ; and now there
was 340. Mr. Ellice said it would be observed that he had a ma-
jority in each of the burghs, excepting Forres, where a rem-
nant of the old feudal system, under the influence of the
Cumming family, still remained. Yet even in Forres fifty-
seven independent electors had supported the liberal interest.
He assured the electors that he looked upon the present con-
test as a victory ; lie would try the election in a Committee of
the House of Commons, if advised, and he pledged himself to
come forward again, on the first occasion, to contest the ground,
inch by inch, with Major Cumming Bruce, when he confiiiently
expected a large majority. Mr. Ellice concludedjamidst loud
cheering, and was accompanied to the inn by a large concourse
of persons.
No election perhaps was ever more keenly contested,
or excited a stronger local interest. During the two
days of the polling all other business seemed suspended,
and crowds of persons perambulatiad the streets day
and night, looking after voters, and discussing the me-
rits of the candidates. Many pledges of neutrality were
given during the canvass which . were broken at the
poll. Yet the liberal party maintained their ground with
great manliness and spirit, and Mr. Ellice will undoubtedly be
triumphant at the next election. The eagerness with which
even the poorest class of our Highland countrymen now enter
into the discussion of political subjects, is a curious and inte-
resting fact. Twenty or thirty years ago they could barely
understand a few broken words of English, and never thought
of questioning that feudal influence which bound them to the
soil. They are now au fait in all the political topics of the
day ; quick to understand, ready to question, and anxious not
only to judge freely, but to act independently. Some passages
of Mr. Charles Grant's speech on Saturday, containing the
most refined and delicate sarcasm, with ornate imagery and il-
lustration, were listened to with breathless silence by a large
crowd of persons, including numbers of the humbler classes,
who seemed to enter into the spirit of the speaker, and to dis-
criminate his eloquent periods with almost unerring taste and
sagacity.

MEMBERS RETURNED.

SCOTLAND.—COUNTIES.
Fife, Jan. 22.—Captain Wemyss.
Inverness, Jan. 21.—Hon. C. Grant, by a majority of 6.
BOROUGHS.
Ayr, Jan, 23.—Lord James Stuart.

STATE OF THE POLLS.

SCOTLAND.—COUNTIES.
Fife, Jan. 22.
Wemyss.
Kirkcaldy lOl5
First elected.
BOROUGHS.
Ayr, Jan. 23.

159
106
First elected.
IRELAND.—COUNTIES.
Mayo, Jan. 23. Louth, Jan. 23.
P. Bellew
R. M. Bellew
Foster... 266

Lindsay.
bB4

Mtuart ....
Johnstone

Brabazon
J. Browne
D. Browne
Ellard

410
~..
252,

Kerry, Jan. 22.
M. J. O'Connell
F. W. Mullins
The Knight of Kerry
Ponsoaby
Meath, Jan. 23.
The Gross poll against 'Messrs.
Plunkett and Lambert ;stated to
exceed 400. Numbers not declared
when the mail left Trim.

Cork, Jan. 21.
F. O'Connor, Esq 1405
J. S. Barry., EN 1446_,
R. Longfitld, Esq.. . VIA'
Lord Bernard... , ...
.. .
.... b 3
9
Wexford, Jan. 2:!.
_.

Maher

Power

: iii

419
Redmond

DUBLIN.

(FROM OCR CORRESPONDENT.)
You can scarcely conceive the degree of rabid and ferocious
exultation with which the leaders of the Totv faction celebrate
whatever petty triumphs they have achievcdjat the Irish elec'
tions. I passed through Maryborougb during the election for
the Queen's County, and saw a persrea parading the street Wit'
the skirts of his coat tucked ur:., and with a large printed
bill, announcing the state of 'Chu poll, posted upon his seat o
honour ! He was described to me as a Mr. R---, a Dell
Lieutenant of the county, and agent to the estates of 1.40,,
Milton. My informant, a fellow-traveller on the Lier.eric"
coach, told me that ho has often seen the gentleman. snuffing
up the holy water by handfuls at mass, but that hei is now a'
Orangeman, a pensioner on the Civil List, a rieputy Lie°'
tenant, and a gentleman. We are at liberty to believe ao
much of all this as we can.
At the final close of the poll, before the numbers were de"
dared, this same Mr. R-- jumped e:.oout with frantic geg;
tures, exclaiming aloud that the sf.ruggle was over in .whie
gentlemen were opposed by I?lae2eguards, and now the black•
guards might kiss his
f:putcard). This bravado did no:
go down as smoothly ac.. it was expected to do with "
blackguards" alluded. 'co, some of whom were on the point °
sending off an ex2ess for " Ebenezer Jacob ;" but Mr.
saved them thr....c trouble by making a public and abject retract'
tation of nis " blackguard" expressions.
Tte mob of Orangemen who were marshalled in front ?!.
ihe Town Hall incessantly reviled and taunted the Catbolici
voters, exclaiming, " Go home to your potatoes and saXc, a°
leave the roast beef for our Church."
I travelled, a few days before the above mentioned incident!,
in the same coach with a Protestant clergyman of , the coati.
of Cork, an old man of venerable appearance. His exteri.s
°
bespoke him a gentleman and a sage ; but how ill the
qualitite,,
of his mind accorded with that appearance, I leave you I'
judge, from a brief but faithfully literal abstract of his conVO:
sation at breakfast. He was engaged, when I entered the
room, in a hot controversy with an outside passenger, Wjo 115
peared to be a violent repealer; and the subject ei'ey
chosen to discuss was the character of Mr. Fergus C'd'Cona°r'
" Oh," said the preacher of the Gospel, "if we, could bane
caught him in 98, he should have got it."
Repealer.__" Who? Fergus O'Connor *ln 98? He wad
scarcely born then."
Preacher of the Gospel.--" I don't ;neat' him in particular:,
but any rebel. We would have given 'them all the long thong'
Repealer.—" What is that, an' 'please your Reverence ?"
Preacher of the Gospel.--" I remember to have seen Lailp
b _,,"
e
Norbury once, after sentencing a rebel to be hanged ;
turned round to the Fit ntlemen in the Grand Jury Be,x "."?,
said, Didn't I give that fellow the long thong f: ,r yOI
Lord Norbury was a fine constitutional judge, anc7c was °o
afraid to do his duty."
Repealer.--" It is a great loss to your party 'that you bave
not such judges now."
tell Preacher of d
the Gburospel.--" 'We are not 'so badly off, 1 Ca.!
y. Lor Nory's
tutional man, Chief Justie,:, Dohercy,.,
e
Pir..ce is occupied by a very- con°
I was pondering on
against the lucky the libel which had just been uttetl
'entleman who no sits in Toler's al is
when a lady at t.t..e lower end of the table uttered a deep sif,
exclaiman,•.„_,, Is it any wonder that our country should
when these are the sentiments we hear expressv
by gentlemen at a public table." The observation seemed
sting the Man of Peace, for he helped himself to another ‘Ctf,,
and dropped the conversation for a few moments. At Pei:c
stage, this old firebrand called for a pen and ink, that he
leave behind him a true state of the poll for the city of C°...
My neighbour on the tdp of the coach, the repealer, 'Leldlj'y
the gentleman's name, and added that he has three Tirotes'ese
parishioners, sixteen hundred a year in tithes, 'And is a°o
relation of the famous Handcuff Justice. No we;nder thatst
a man should think more of the long thong than the cross- j
Such are the allies of the Peel Government in Ireland; ete
have not exaggerated any of th:: circumstances which I aos
now related to you ; nor is 'it any exaggeration to safe,i n,
equally atrocious are the sentiments and language caf °fie,
tenths of the gentry wigs, call themselves Conservative's at
moment in Ireland. The only thing that can save wooly
scenes of ruin and carnage is that consummation so de,Vedoo
to be wished for—_the downfall of the Tories. Our eie
returns of this ,:cay promise well for that.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS'
goY Tuts Day—Royal College of Physicians, 9, p.m. ; -
Geographical Society, 9 p.m. bid.
TlHASDAY—Zoologica. Society (Scientific B,usiness), to
past 8, p. m. ; Medico- Botanical Society, 8, p. m. ; Institti
of Civil Engineers, 8, p.m.
WEDNESDAY—Society of Arts, half-past 7,, p. m. tOl
THURSDAY—RoyaI Society, half-past 8, /1.. m. ; socie 3'
Antiquaries, 8, p.m.
FRIDAY—RoyaI Institution, half-past 8, p.m.
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FRENCH ORTHOGRAPHY.-
--' li. list of ,---v iog
members elected, given in a Paris P'.arier,
changes : '
County of Beck
Pusc7••••.•. vice Thwekmostere•
East Retford
Leicestershire, South Turtrer .. Ducoson.
Cambridge, county Yor'xe ~ •
, Ner.
notices the 1100
Surey
Berclay... Lecet. 19011
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