The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Tin?, COUNTY LIMERICK ELECTION.
DUBLIN, THURSDAY. The polling commenced
Y""daY Morning, in the midst of heavy rain. The
attendance
heir pri - was slack 7
usualin sueh::astsY. and violent, as
of, voters while that of the mob
leaders was large
At half-past five o'clock the polling for the day
closed, at which hour the
high sheriff
result to be—
Goold
...... 66
- declared the
.............
Dickson ........... 65
Ryan ...........
58
of The number already polled, out of a constituency
1,0(:), amounts to 189, somewhat less than half.
_ general impression is that Mr. Ryan, the
4_ °lllinee of the Tenant League, will be beaten ; but
11,.;) ion can be formed as to whether Mr. Goold or
k'aPtaill Dickson will be elected.
AN I

eio -ELICIT DISTILLERY.—One of the most exten-
w:cseizures that has been made for some years was on
aernesday effected by Messrs. Benjamin J. Elmy and Fre-
., partnc Pargeter, detective officers of the Inland Revenue Do-
,llev:l,,el2t• From information received, the officers having
of kifit-1- 41. y received the assistance of a body of the K division
tithebite, Proceeded to a large building, until within a short
Vetith73ed as a sugar bakehouse and refinery, but more re-
sti it for carrying on the business of a molasse,s-maker, or,
Itreelt3 technically called, that of a " scum-boiler, 'in reorge-
i;; llospital-lield Bethnal-green. Having got into the
1451" t story, they found the process of molasses-making
'ekeitgi", and also in the floor above.. They made a minute
Iletta illation of this part of the building, but discovered
traeg that could lead them to believe that any contraband
wall e was • within. They then returned, and
3, going on
an, descended to the cellar, a place without wlndoiws,,
fount( opening for light whatever, and in this, t
,sapro a large square brick building, which cfasteneu.
otnd
'this Sehedf only by a strong iron door, securely
_Mier °rrnet•l a serious obstacle to their further progress, but,
TaiesC°ll.!iderable labour, it was eventually forced, and Tt-
Icarian gained. The officers soon ascertained that their m-
iler ,7,1°11 was well founded, for they discovered a large cop-
expensively fitted up, and at full work, with a
• Ihg ,`I,4Y ef spirits and molasses fermented wash for continu-
lhe operation. A communication for the discharge of
torrith-Iste wash was made by means of lead piping with the
pre -0n sewer, so that no odour should arise from it in the
Stab—es. The whole concern was on a most extensive
the and some idea may been formed of the magnitude of
11:eizitilings when it is stated that one iron pan, of several tons
't4 f,`;, employed 12 men for several hours to remove it from
ton3l:"Pgs• The officers thereupon seized the whole plant,
Cpl, ng of an immense number of tubs and utensils, and
~14 13 Yea several waggonloads to the Excise warehouses,
road-street in the course of the day. Two Germans,
,Were tisiind on the premises, and gave the names of
€.l?'4 and Ton Spia! kt, were riven Into custody.
it ni,IJLTANEOUS DISCOVERIES.--4, it never rains, but
• viers," is an old saying, which seems to have a pretty
the application, and nowhere is it more apparent than in
.1a1)0,!glon of discoveries. It is very seldom that one man is
,iu
en'rlog along an untried path of thought, unless another,
tllnfle distant locality, is all unconsciously to both, strug-
ten ' by his side, or treading close upon his heels; and it
'l)4 „,m,aPPens that when a wonder is announced in one place,
4 ilt,,"'Lei wonder turns up at about the same time in another.
and 's though laws and facts had been working in nature,
roar,,ezlaibit ng themselves for centuries, wooing the eye of
thou' and silently asking to be recognised, till, suddenly, as
o,,ivah by some elevation of the general mind, not one man
tini/2 but several men, become aware of them at the same
114,,;; and so for the first perception of a new principle we
;each se
oth veral claimants, who have never communicated with
44 er, and the same phenomena are simultaneously ob.
to 7'4, in several places. A few instances of this will serve
la b4l)lain our meaning. At the same time that Leverrier,
zatilaris, was calculating the elements of a new planet, or
existence
a very old planet, as old an any of the others, but the
tience of which for ages had been unsuspected, Adams, at
lieZlriage, was engaged in the same task; and indepen-
atvY of each other, they came to the same conclusion so
oi,"Y at the same time, that they may be regarded as co-
eo7,l°,verers, and no sooner were their laborious investigations
8l tided than a German astronomer sweeping the sky with
),rdelescope saw on an oft-examined spot, for the first time
Itlj:4 the material eye, the member of the starry family,
otl4ch had already been announced to the mental vision of
peirr• While Daguerre was involved in the labour of com-
a'', p fi the sun to become man's portrait painter, Talbot was
" Ilknown to him, pursuing the same line of investigation,
lak:.% arriving at the same goal from another direction ; and
aard~no sooner are the discoveries of vast mountains of
atad rivers so rich in the yellow metal that Midas might
dlPped in them, announced from Califcrnia, than we
ar the voice of the fear west echoed from the farthest south,
,
thei_gre told of Australian bushmen, who find the waters of
an
r streams rich in the same commodity ; and the Standard
ti_ l i_ounces that it has been favoured with a sight of auriferous
'"I3 from the neighbourhood of Arnatto Bay,Jamaica, which
ail2Pears almost one compact mass of gold and silver,' con-
-1,1,7b1y richer than any Californian specimen. These things
th"s).it tempt one to believe that riches are as contagious us
by _Plague, and that eten ascend the mountain of knowledge
of
apparent
ot the genera iiiter:;pe,sed by long intervals
repose.—Eliza Cinch's Journal.
thet6l,o'ESS'il THEATRE.--The First Part of Henry
pitrlarth will, we understand, be produced at this then tre on
y evening, with the same cast, one or two very trifling
,7 excepted. as before her Majesty, at Windsor Castle,
'QT.
QT. Brtin ' VV.
engwing. ALBRoori-.—Thissir
of magnificentciristophe
ALIT„O,I, it; a ,f6y .ZsofbefilrQe:gopetnmesd for public worship,
Vitt iipprove'ments and .alterations,
fait, view resthre'the Church to that state in which the
_Lit9ct 91-14inally left it ' •

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

Express, 6, Falmouth, packet brig, was paid off r.t
Derouport yesterday morning.
Harlequin, 12, Commander Wilmot, was paid ad-
vance on 'Cuesday, by Mr. Henderson, and sailed on
Wednesday morning with the African mails.
Penguin, 6. was commissioned at Dcvonport, on
Monday, by Mr. Edwards, acting-master fur Com-
mander Etheridge.
Sprightly, steam-tender, Master Commander
Allen, arrived at Devonport on -Wednesday afternoon
with supernumeraries from Portsmouth for the Al-
bion, 90.
PORTSMOUTIT, THUIZSDAY.—The Waterwitch, 8,
Commander Quin, sailed this morning from Spithead
for Chatham, to he paid off.
Fantome, 12, has been put in comtnission this day
at this port, by Commander G. Gennys (1844).
Phaeton, 50, Captain Elliot-, was towed out to Spit-
head this morning:by the Thsilisk .steam•frigate, after
her refit.
Hogue, GO, Captain Macdougall, after refit,
steamcd out to Spithead this afternoon.
Electra and Ripid brigs are to be re-coppered and
painted, and will bo taken out of dock on Saturday

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