The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-09 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

lIACKNEY.—WhiIe the struggle has barely com-
menced in other places, in this newly-created
borough it has been raging in earnest. The fact of
the Conservatives having already started Colonel
Thompson, coupled with the rumour that they in-
tend in a few days to bring forward Mr. Tyssen
Amhurst, has given a fresh impetus to the contest,
and the Liberal candidates and their friends are
working hard to secure the return of two gentle-
men pledged to support Mr. Gladstone.
_ _

BARNSTAPLE.—Mr. W. Herbert Evans has de-
clared it to be his intention to go to the poll, believ-
ing, from the enthusiastic reception accorded to him,
that his candidature is generally acceptable to the
Liberal party in the borough. In the course of his
published address, after declaring himself " a stanch
supporter of Mr. Gladstone and his policy," Mr.
Evans says :—" Aa attached member of the Church
of England, I shou'd strenuously oppose avy mea-
sures the tendency of which woull be to sap her
foundations, or detract from her high position and
hallowed associations ; but I feel it to be perfectly
in accordance with the strong feelings of reverence
an 3 affection that I entertain for the English EstaL-
lisliment to support any proposition that may ema-
nate from the leaders of the Liberal party, with the
view of abolishing that glaring injustice to Ireland,
an Alien Church'—thc symbol of conquest."
CIIELTENIIAM.--The Constitutional party held a
large meeting at the Town Hall in support of Mr.
Agg Gardner, the Conservative candidate, on Mon-
day night. Sir Michael Hicks-lkach, the newly-
appointed Under-Secretary of State, preside], and
the platform was supported by the leading sup-
porters of Mr. Gardner. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach,
in introducing the candidate, asked what the Libe-
rals had really done for the country during the last
thirty years, who had been the real Reformers, who
had passed the Reform Bill, and who had stopped
the way. He also appealed to the audience. whether
the affairs of the country had not been better ad-
ministered, both at home and abroad, by the Con-
servatives than by the Liberals. Mr. Gardner then
gave a long explanation of his political opinions
which was loudly cheered, and at its close General
M'Causeland moved, and Mr. C. Bernard seconded,
a resolution in his favour, which was carried by
acclamation. There was great uproar during part
of the proceedings, and several of the interrupters
were violently hustled from the room, notwith-
standing the appeals of the speakers that they
should be left unmolested. Sir Edmund Lech-
mere, the member for Tewkesbury, addressed the
meeting. Mr. Stroud imputed to Mr. Gladstone
sordid and unworthy motives in his public conduct ;
but Sir Michael Hicks-Beach emphatically dissented
from this view, expressing his belief that whatever
Gladstone did, and however wrong it was, it was
done conscientiously ; that Mr. Gladstone was easily
convinced and easily persuaded, but that he was an
honourable man, and one with whose political acts
sordid motives had nothing whatever to do.
COCKERMOUTIL —The Hon. Henry L. Bourke,
brother of Lord Mayo, addressed the Conservative
electors of Cockermouth in the Royal Assembly
Rooms on Monday night, Mr. Joshua Jenkinson,
presiding. Mr. Bourke claimed credit to the party
to which he belongs for the satisfactory settlement
of the Reform question ; and as to the question of
the day, said his opinion was that the disestablish-
ment of the Irish Church would be the first step
towards uprooting those great and noble principles
upon which the British Constitution was founded.
On the motion of Lieut.-Col. G. Thompson, M.P.,
a resolution was adopted pledging the meeting to
support Mr. Bourke. _ _

DEVONPORT. —Major W. Palliser, formerly of the
18th Hussars (the inventor of the chilled shot) has
become a candidate in the Conservative interest, in
conjunction with Mr. Ferrand.
EAST RETFORD.—Lord Galway, the Conservative
member for East Retford and the Hundred of
Bassetlaw, has issued his address to his constituents.
He says :--" With regard to the question of the
Irish Protestant Church, I consider the conduct of
the leader of the Opposition in the House of Com-
mons to be utterly indefensible. If anomalies and
abuses exist in that branch of the United Church
of England and Ireland, the question is one which
ought to have been discussed with great calmness
and moderation ; whereas Mr. Gladstone, for the
sake of uniting his discontented followers to assist
him in his endeavours to turn out the Govern-
ment, has not scrupled to make it a cry of party
warfare. The real question now at issue is whether
you will support the Protestant religion in Ire-
land, or whether you prefer Papal supremacy in that
country. If the Irish Protestant Church ceases to
exist as an Establishment' (these were the words
of Mr. Gladstone's resolution), Papal supremacy
must, sooner or later, be the inevitable result ; and
I entreat, not only members of the Church of Eng-
land, but also those who conscientiously differ from
some of its tenets, to take this into their most
serious consideration, as it is a question on which
the future of England as well as of Ireland may de-
pend. It is not the intention of the Government
to endow a Roman Catholic University (as is so
industriously circulated by their opponents) ; and I
shall give them my earnest support, as I think they
have already shown themselves the best administra-
tive Government that lam been in poifer for wing

years ; and had they not met with factious opposi-
tion they would have carried measures of the greatest
importance t) the country." Lieut.-Colonel Eyre,
who was brought forward in the Conservative inte-
rest to contest the borough against Mr. Foljambe,
M.P., has retired. There is uow, therefore, little
likelihood of any opposition.

ESSEX (EAST).—On Monday the Liberal candi-
dates—Sir Thomas B. Western and Sir T. N.
Abdy—addressed a full meeting of electors at
Thorpe, the most Conservative district in the divi-
sion. The chair was taken by Mr. J. Y. Watson.
The meeting, which was most enthusiastic, adopted
resolutions pledging its support to the Liberal can-
didates.

LEICESTERSHIRE (SOCTII).--The electioneering
campaign in this division was commenced on Mon-
day by Mr. T. T. Paget, M.P., the sitting Liberal
member, who canvassed Markfield and afterwards
addressed a numerous meeting on the village green,
Mr. James Ellis in the chair. Mr. Paget expressed
his entire concurrence in the measlres proposed by
Mr. Gladstone relative to the Irish Church, which
would remove the greatest blot in the English escut-
cheon. That Church had, he said, eminently failed
as a missionary Church, aril he denied Lord
John Manners's assertion that it had administered
the consolations of religion to the poor and needy.
He did not believe that in the disestablishment of
the Irish Church there was any danger to the Eng-
lish Church. If that institution fell it would be is
consequence of its own divisions and the folly of its
own friends. Mr. Paget condemned the extrava-
gant expenditure of the present .Government, and
said it would be for the people to determine whether
that extravagance should continue in the new Par-
liament. Referring to some local circumstances, he
thought the example set by. Earl Russell was one
which the landlords in that division would do well
to follow. At the conclusion of the hon. gentle-
man's speech a resolution in his favour was carried
unanimously.

MAIDSTONE.—The Conservative party in this
borough intend bringing forward Mr. W. Foster
White, treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
and Mr. George Parbury, an East India merchant,
in opposition to the present members, Messrs. W.
Lee and J. IVhatman, who intend io seek re-elec-
tion. The addresses of the Conservative candidates
were issued yesterday, both aspirants avowing
themselves determinedly opposed to the disestab-
lishment of the Irish Church. The number of
voters is about doubled, a very large majority of
whom were claimed by the Liberals.
MID-SURREY.— Mr. Marsh Nelson, of Mortlake,
has issued an address in the Reform interest. He
states that he comes forward in compliance with re-
peated invitations from electors and non-electors.
He is for disendowing and disestablishing the Irish
Church, for improving the Reform Bill of last ses-
sion by omitting the ratepaying clauses ; he is
also in favour of a more equitable distribution
of seats, household suffrage in the counties, and the
ballot.

llocilEsTEß.—The two Conservative candidates
for this city, Mr. Smee, F.R.S., and Mr. Adolphus
Henniker, barrister, who are in the field against
Mr. P. W. Martin and Mr. Sergeant Kinglake, the
present Liberal members, do not, it would appear,
receive the united support of the entire party, as
during the last few days it has been announced
that a third Conservative will be brought forward,
though his name has not yet been stated.
So UTHAMPTON. —A fourth candidate has ap-
peared upon the scene in the person of Mr. Frede-
rick Perkins, an alderman and a magistrate for the
borough, who has issued an address in which he
avows himself a Liberal in general politics, but
opposed to the disestablishment of the Irish
Church. He declares himself an admirer of Mr.
Gladstone as a financier, and of Lord Stanley's
foreign policy. The Conservatives have not yet
put forward a second candidate to run with Mr.
Russell- Gurney.

THE DUBLIN CORPORATION AND THE
BUSH LW URCH ESTABLISHMENI.

The Dublin Corporation spent several hours on
Monday discussing the Irish Church question.
The Conservative members of the Council, who
are in a minority, have ent:red a repeated protest
against these discussions, but without effect. They
have on several occaions absented themselves
from the meeting:: calle 1 for sach purposes, bat
ye derday they attended, not., however, for the
prpose of dis_nssing the principal question, but
-o enter a renewed protest against the introduction
of such ciutroversis to the council chamber. The
discussion was opened by Sir John Gray, who, in
a long speech, contended that the Council had a
perfect right to pronounce an opinion on the ques-
tion. Her Majesty had appealed to the whole
country to pronounce upon it. The Council felt
that by the vote given in July on the mayoralty
question their opinions had been subjected to a
false interpretation, and accordingly they had re-
scinded that vote. They had now assembled
to give expression to their opinions on a matter
which had been submitted for the opinion of the
whole country. He contended that the Episcopal
Church in Ireland had been a complete failure
after a trial of 300 years, and that it was the ions
et origo malorunz in Ireland. He concluded by
moving that the house resolve itself into a com-
mittee to prepare an address to her Majesty pray-
ing for the disestablishment and disendowment of
the Established Church iu Ireland. The motion
having been seconded, Mr. Norwood moved an
amendment deprecating the introduction of such
topics, on the ground that it tended to arouse
and perpetuate discord and party feeling, and to
prevent the harmonious action of the Council
in the transaction of the public business of the
city. This was objected to as not being an
amendment on the original resolution, but this
point of order was eventually waived, and after
,:onsiderable discussion the amendment was
put to the meeting and rejected by 32 t) 16.
The noise and confusion in the gallery was so great
that the Lord Mayor had threatened to clear it.
The principal resolution having been adopted, Sir
John Gray moved a resolution declaring that no
member should be elected to any office of power or
honour until he should have signed it. This, of
course, was intended as a fresh declaration of the
Liberal majority in the house that they would not
consent to the election of Mr. James Yokes
Mackey as Lord Mayor for 1869, and was resisted
by the minority as being illegal in its terms, and
illegal because it was not included in the notice
convening the meeting. The objection, however,
was overruled, and the resolution was adopted by
29 to 20. In the course of the discussion on this
resolution, Mr. A. M. Sullivan said that the real
point was raised by it, and that in comparison with
it all the other resolutions were sound and fury,
signifying nothing.

Our countrymen in Carpentaria appear to have
no great difficulty in exterminating the natives
without our. assistance. According to the state-
ment of a colonial paper a party of aborigines
speared and " cut steaks " from several horses.
Upon this the native police went forth under a
European officer and " succeeded in shooting up-
wards of thirty blacks." While the battue was
going on news arrived that a Mr. Cannon had been
murdered. The same body of policemen started
off afresh, and very soon " rounded up," as the re-
porter describes it, " one mob of fourteen, another
mob of nine, and a last mob of eight." In the
" latter lot there was one black who would not die
after receiving eighteen or twenty bullets "—as-
suredly a very ill-regulated black—" but a trooper
speedily put an end to his existence by smashing
his skull." The account concludes thus :
" Everybody in the district is delighted with
the wholesale slaughter dealt out by the native
police." It is well that some one is satisfied with
an exploit which looks very like an indiscriminate
and inhuman massacre.

The Abbe Listz is at Grottamare, on the shores
of the Adriatic, where he is completing some musi-
cal compositions for a German editor. His
villeggiatura is shared by the Abbe Solfanelli, with
whom he discourses on the severer topics of
Christian music.

The Oxford Music-hall has been sold by private
treaty ; the name of_the purchaser has not yet J;iseh made

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

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