The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-06 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The Irish constituent body is distinguished more than that
of the sister country by a sort of flying artillery, who are put
in the most active requisition on the occasion of a general
election. These are the electoral pluralists, who enjoy the
franchise in several different places, and who may be seen
posting from one polling place to another in breathless baste,
to take a part in every contest. The members of the aristo-
cracy in general gather their incomes from scattered particles
of property here and there ; and there are few persons in Ire-
land possessed of any considerable interest in land, whose
stake in the country is not made up of numerous twigs after
this fashion. The number of such voters is increased by the
favoured sons of the church, who having deaneries, rec-
tories, vicarages, prebends, and perpetual cures in various
localities, hold it a sacred duty to cry aloud and spare not at
every hustings and polling-booth within the circle of their in-
fluence. This flying party is very strong, and has often the
effect of turning the scale against the resident electors. They
are for the most part Tories, and their " mouvement " is
favourable to anything but liberty. The labour of a general
election is no joke to them. Nothing but the " amor patrim"
could sustain it. At the last great battle, I saw a fat and
pursy prebendary at Kilmainham bustling tbrough the re-
pealers to record his ineffectual vote for Mr. Hamilton. He
had just arrived from making a similar demonstration for Mr.
Vereker, in Limerick, where he has a stall ; and was very
urgent to get polled without delay, so as to have time to eat
his dinner before the starting of the Belfast mail coach, that
he might give his orthodox support to that spoiled pet of the
mother church, Lord Castlereagh. I ventured to ask if ho
meant to preach at his church near Downpatrick on the fol-
lowing Sunday. It was a rare opportunity of renewing his
ancient acquaintance with his parishioners ; but alas! the
stern call of duty obliged him to forego so providential an ad-
vantage, for be must haste back to the college to vote for
Lefray and Shaw. There good folk suffer amazingly for
their com:try, and look forward with unaffected dismay to the
days of trie.lnial parliaments.
Whatever hopes, and they are at best but slender, the
Tories cherish .of succeeding against any of the southern con-
stituencies, are in a great measure dependent on their 46 vol-
tiLreurs ; " and sciordingly no small skill and manceuvering
arc requisite to time the various elections, so as to secure the
übiquity of such valuni..le and untiring supporters. Much loss
would be sustained, if the elections were to occur simul-
taneously : but there
is little danger of that, as the
sheriffs, selected by our .excellent judges, are in general
most ;anxious to take suggestions from the proper quarter,
and to assist the policy of the ascendant faction. That
policy is obvious. The lirle.-ty of the subject is to
be dispatched after the manner of street-firing, so that the
same persons may have leisure to fire, fall back and re-load,
fire again, retire and come forward as often as time and their
physical powers shall enable them. -
Another object to be achieved by taking the elections in
succession is not quite so consitutional, hut it is not a bit the
less influential on that account. The convenience of loco-
motive electors is the first thing to be attended to, and the
transmission of troops the next best thing to that. There is
only a matter of 25,000 soldiers in Ireland, and what are they
if scattered over thirty-two counties ? Our governors are
too good tacticians to suffer the chief arm of their power to
be weakened and spread abroad in detachments when so much
substantial work is to be done. They will act in masses, and
overrun the hostile counties in succession. For example : it
is arranged that the Carlow election shall have precedence of
the election in the neighbouring Queen's County. A hard
struggle against the people is threatened in each of those
counties ; and a full complement of troops must be quartered
in the towns and villages during each contest. But by the
arrangements which has been made, the same force can he
brought to bear on both ; whereas if the elections were simul-
taneous, it would be necessary in consequence of thus extend-
ing the scene of action, to weaken some other point by de-
taching an additional regiment of foot and some field pieces
to strengthen this central division. We have not beard that
any detachments will be wanted among the villages of Kil-
kenny or Kildare ; because the contest in those counties,
though likely to be a most wicked one, is among competiors
who are all equally pledged against the Tories ; so that the
issue is of no public importance ; and as to broken heads, let
them go in the general account. There will certainly be less
bloodshed where there are fewer soldiers. The meditated
cantonment of these troops is a gross infringement of the
freedom of election ; but it is a still more unwarrantable in-
vasion of the domestic rights and comforts of the people: for
the soldiers are to be billetted on t'Ae householders, in the
places where it shall be thought proper to quarter them, and
the very persons, whom they arc brought to coerce and in-
timidate, must leave their own beds and give up their firesides
to accommodate the agents of the sword-in-haud administra-
tion. " Quosquo tandem?"

The Courier de r Ain states that there have been
lately shot by the keepers and others in the environs of Bourg,
in that department, three wolves, four wild boars, and 16 foxes.

The workmen commenced on Friday morning mak—
ing: preparations in Guildhall for the approachinn. election.
A double row of desks (one behind the other), the front
r,-,w for the poll clerks, and the other for check clerks, has
bee,:t erected at the end of the ball opposite the hustings,
and .a,inarate desks for 26 clerks. The votes will be taken
aiphabetcally. A letter placed over the seat of each of the
poll clerks will at once direct the voter where he has to go,
and will prev,:mt a great deal of confusion. In the other
part of the hall, near the hustings, very strong.barricrs have
been erected, to p:event any accident from. the.pressure of
the crowd. The arrangements are nearly the same at those
made at the last election. The front of the Gnildbill, as
well as the Law Courts and other' public buildings in the
neighbourhood,
of the differentarenowcomplewtelydiedovateers.ed with the placards
and addresses