The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-14 00:00:00

IRISH ELECTIONS.

( From the Dublin Morning Register.)
THE ELECTIONS—TRIUPMH OF REFORM.
The English elections already decided are confined to bo-
roughs—many of them Tory nomination boroughs--E.nd two or
three of the large manufacturing towns. Nevertheless, in de-
spite of the open and unlimited bribery and reckless intimida-
tion, the majority of pledged Reformers is very nearly fifty.
No less than seven Members of the Orange and Tory Govern-
ment are already reckoned among the lists of beaten candidates.
These are Sir C. Rowley and Sir G. Cockburn, two of the
Lords of the Admiralty ; Mr. George R. Dawson, Secretary to
the Admiralty, and brother-in-law of the Premier ; Sir E.
Owen, clerk of the Ordnance.; Mr. Planta, one of the Com-
missioners for India, and the " most particular" friend of the
Duke of Wellington : Lord Eliot, Under Secretary of the
Home Department ; and Lord Tullamore, an Irish absentee,
who has got a sinecure as a Lord:of the Bedchamber. Mr.
Rolfe, the late Solicitor- General, gave this Anglo-Irish courtier
a right good beating at Penryn.
But the Court itself has been signally defeated at the very
threshhold:of the Palace. Notwithstanding all that has been
said of cajolery, promises of patronage, and intimidation, by
individuals belonging to the Household, the two Reform can-
didates have been returned for the Royal Borough of Wind-
sor ! l ! Sir John Elley, an intimate friend of the Duke of
Welllbgton, has been rejected. Here is an answer to the King's
appeal to the people, promptly given by the body of electors
nearest to the Palace, and whose support of any Ministry
chosen by the King could not, according to the ordinary esti-
mate of human nature, be a matter of surprise or disappoint-
ment. But even at the gates of the Palace, the Orange and
Tory Administration has been defeated.
Ireland and Scotland have yet to make their returns.
RESIGNATION OF LORD OXMANTOWN.—The King's County
has the distinguished honour of striking the first blow against
Toryism in Ireland, by turning out a supporter of the Orange
and Tory Administration. Lord Oxmantown has resigned.
The two Reformers will be returned without opposition. The
Noble Lord was generally considered to have a much better
chance than three-fourths of the Tory candidates in counties ;
but tho tithe slaughter at Rathcormac has sealed the doom of
the faction to which he belongs. His Lordship, we find by
his address, reprobates the ten-pound franchise. It is mani-
fest that the present Administration, if suffered to remain in
power, will soon remove this inconvenience. Lord Oxman-
town was one of the suggesters of the Coercion Bill. He is
now calling for the curtailment of the franchise.
DUNDALK.—Mr. Hollowhead Goodricke has sounded a re-
treat from Dundalk. That excellent Irishman, Sharman
Crawford, will be returned without opposition.
TRIUMPH OF REFORM IN GALWAY.—WO can announce, on
authority, that the late members for the town of Galway will
be re-elected without opposition—the Tory candidate having
withdrawn. In the county of Galway there are now three
candidates on the Reform interest, against Daly, the Tory.
The Tuam club, and a great portion of the Liberals, have
formed a coalition between Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Martin,
late member, who now declares himself a decided anti-Tory,
Sir John Burke retiring, and agreeing to support both gen-
tlemen. Mr. D'Arcy, however, still persists, and has pub-
lished a very satisfactory address.
LIMERICK CITY.--The election commenced and termina-
ted on Thursday in the return of two anti-Tories, Mr.
William and Mr. David Roche.
YOUGHALL ELECTION.—SeveraI efforts have been made
in this place to mar the return of Mr. John O'Connell.
The agent of the Duke of Devonshire, acting upon the le-
ter, and not the spirit of his instructions, has declined tak-
ing such a part as would prevent a contest ; but, if tho

The cry is still " they corne"—tiu! Reformers sticcegofall
—the Tories beaten. The county eleetiong, upon which'
the latter depended so much, have not, as yet, whatever
may be their result, turned out in favour of the Tories.
The balance is decidedly in favour of the Reformers ; anti
although there is no ground to expect that this will ,'ti).
nue to be the case, yet we see quite as little ground ttes
expect that this will continue to be the case, yet we sees
quite as little ground for imagining that the Reform causes
will suffer to any serious extent. Of thirty-three county
Members already elected, nineteen are Reformers ; and by,
a comparison of the lists which are this day published iii
our paper, we find that, while the whole of the Tories
already returned amount to only 129, the Reformers come
up to 238 With such facts before us—with the cer-
tainty of the great balance in our faicur on the Irish, elec..
tions—and with the certainty also that Scotland will comes
but little, or any thing, short of its previous doings—w
look forward with sanguine hopes, not only to the approach-
ing meeting of Parliament, but to its results in favour of
the people. If our anticipation be disappointed--and w©
write in the spirit of the purest constitutional Conservatism
—woe be to those who may be the cause •f their frustrte.
tion ! The black cloud of revolution, which is now only
as a speck in the sky, will encircle us as with a veil—there
will be but two parties in the country—and between these
it will be " war to the knife." Let the enemies of the
people look well to it—for to them the crisis is full of
danger.—Morning Advertiser.
We wish always to treat with due respect our evening
contemporary, the Standard, and therefore it is with pain
we notice an article in that journal copied from the Dublin,
Warder, in which an invitation to assassinate Mr. O'Connell
cannot be mistaken. The writer, indeed, after invoking
the death of O'Connell, avails himself of the usual screen—
that the Irish Protestants are so imbued with the Gospel,
that though the assassination of Mr. O'Connell would have
been the height of patriotism in ancient Rome, and the
theme of all praise in philosophic France—they dare
not yield to the desire of vengeance. The following
extracts from this precious production speak volumes
" 0 Loan Gon, to whom vengeance belongeth : thou Goys to
whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself."—Psalm xciv.
" Well may the Protestants of Ireland,—indeed, well may the
loyal and peaceable of all creeds, call upon the Almighty to show
himself, and stay the course of those of whom the l'salmist, in an-
other place says, Who imagine mischief in their !warts, and stir
up strife all the day long.' It would seem as if Dav;4 were pro-
phetic of the pre-eminently wicked and blood-stained disturber of
our day, O'Connell, and his vile adherents. How long, merciful
God! are we to endure this man ?—And, if thy thunders sleep, is
there no other agency of thy justice? Is the blood which he daily
and hourly causes to be shed, to cry in vain to Heaven? His demon
excitements are spreading death to the innocent in every direr ion ;
yet he, the guiltiest miscreant in a country which he has steeper: in
red-blood guilt—he lives, protected by the laws which he is conti-
nually bringing into contempt ; protected by the Christian feelings)
at which he laughs, and the Gospel restraints of those natural pas-
sions which his crimes are daily provoking to retaliation." . . . .
Again—
" The monster—the Polyphtemus of Popish agitation, walks in
the security with which a Christian morality invests him ! How
long is this to be endured? How long is our wretched country to
groan beneath his factious and murderous inflictions ? When Brat-
tus's dagger pierced Cnsar in the Senate, Brutus became the go&
of Rome, for Rome had not the Gospel. When Charlotte Corday
struck down the monster Marat, she became the victim of the power
which fell not with him—all France admired her heroism, and dei-
fied her name, because France was unchristian, and acknowledge('
the polytheism of the passions •
Yet O'Connell, who has demoralised all of his countrymen that
have yielded to his influence—this Irish Marat is shielded by tim
Gospel Christianity of the Protestants, whose blood he is at second-
hand and evasively shedding
Merciful heavens ! how long is this to be endured ? 0 Lord God,
to whom vengeance belongeth ; thou God to whom vengeaws
belongeth, show thyself !"
The disguise is sufficiently thin here. The Gospel prohibits
duelling as well as assassination ; yet if in Protestant Ire-
land a gentleman were to be told that another called him a
liar, he would seek his blood. To show the Irish Protes-
tants that the assassination of Mr. O'Connell would, under
any other dispensation than the Gospel, be accounted a
most meritorious act, is a very likely way to lead Irish
Protestants to forget for a time the restraint imposed by
religion. We fear the writer in the Dublin Warder has
studied the character of Antony, in Julius Cersar, much
more attentively than the character of our Saviour in his
Gospels. It is an old trick to inflame men to madness, and
then to throw in pretended dissuasion when it must be in-
operative. No ; let the Irish Orangemen yield to the vile
!suggestion of ridding themselves of O'Connell by assassina-
tion. We know they hate him—we know they are now
stung to madness by seeing that he-wields the democracy
of Ireland without let or hindrance. But let them repel
the horrid suggestion. The assassination of O'Connell
would load them with the abhorrence of all mankind. The
precedent would be dreadful. How could our contempo-
rary copy such a horrid article, without holding up the in-
vitation to the strongest reprobation ?-11fornitig Chronicle.