The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-26 00:00:00

THE ELECTION RIOTS.

The elections have not passed off without serious dis-
turbances. The one which has created most alarm took
place in Monmouthshire, concerning which details are now
to hand. The contest was between Messrs. Morgan
and Somerset (Conservatives) and Colonel Clifford
(Liberal). The result of the polling was—Morgan, 3,748;
Somerset, 3,495 ; Clifford, 2,336. No sooner was the
failure of Clifford made known in the "hill" dis-
tricts, where he was the popular candidate, than the
indignation of the mob was vented in the most reckless
destruction of property. To be a " bbie " was sufficient
provocation for the general attack. In Pontypool the
work of destruction commenced at the house of Mr. Green-
way, a solicitor, who formerly held Liberal opinions, but
has during the last contest been engaged as one of the
agents for the Conservatives. His windows were soon
smashed, and it was feared that the house would be
gutted. The few police available, therefore, kept guard,
and the mob pursued their course without interruption.
The Town Hall, thanks to the thickness of the plate-
glass, withstood the showers of missiles hurled against it
without injury. Not so the Crown Hotel. There every
window and the large and handsome mirrors and other
furniture inside were smashed to atoms. The Royal
Hotel followed, then the White Hart Inn, and a number
of private houses belonging to the Conservatives were also
attacked with the greatest fury. Members of the
Liberal committee appealed to the good sense of
the people, but many refused to listen to reason.
A Dissenting Minister, named Forth, was rewarded for
his good endeavours by a general rush to throw him into
the river, and he had to fly for his life, pursued by
hundreds. Order was restored about eleven p.m. At
Abersyschan matters were still worse. There houses
were completely gutted, the furniture thrown into the
streets, and the casks of beer and spirits rolled out. The
mob set fire to the White Hart Hotel, and the fire-engine
had to be fetched from Abersyschan. At Blaenavon
there were similar outrages, but on a more extensive
scale. Pianos and furniture of all kinds, groceries, beer,
spirits, and other trade goods were thrown out, and the
mob behaved like fiends. The military were sent for from
Newport, and arrived as soon as possible. They restored
order, and captured 39 prisoners. The police captured
five more at Aberyschan. These were marched into
Pontypool, and arraigned before the Rev. J. C. Llewellin.
No live were fortunately lost, rumours to the contrary
notwithstanding.

At Whittlesea, in Cambridgeshire, towards the close or
the poll an organised body of navigators and labourers
proceeded through the town with bludgeons and draining
instruments, and demolished everything they could lay
their hands on. The vicarage-house of St. Andrew's, the
residence of Dr. Burgess, had all the windows and window-
frames broken, and much other damage was done near it.
The rioters did not even spare the church windows. All
this occurred although 250 necial constables were ready
for work the town.

LAW AND POLICE.

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THE NOTTING-HILL OUTRAGE.-At the Central Criminal
Court the man Seiler, who in September last broke into
the house of a lady at Notting-hill, and nearly murdered
her, has been placed upon his trial, found guilty, and
sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude.
BRIBERY.—A man has been charged at Brecon with
bribery and committed for trial, bail to the amount of
£6OO being Required.

Sir John Ramsden, M.P. for the Monmouth
boroughs, has sent a cheque for £5O to Mr. Grant, whose
wife was killed by an unlucky bayonet thrust when the
military were called to clear the streets at Newport during
the election.

THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN KING.—An inquest
into the death of Captain King, who was murdered
during an election riot at Sligo, has been opened. The
evidence, so far given, shews that the deceased was being
attacked by a crowd armed with bludgeons. While he
was defending himself a flah was seen, the report of fire-
arms heard, and the captain observed to stagger and fall.
It is not yet known who fired the shot.

The folloNNing advertisement appears in a Bristol
paper :—" Notice.—lf the Liberal intimidator who
cuwardly threw the clasp-knife, 6i inches long, through
Mr. Miles's committee-room window, at No. 33, Wine-
street, on the morning of the Bristol election, when the
organised gang passed through Wine-street, throwing
stones and smashing windows, on their way to Prince-
street, will kindly apply to Charles Shackell, as above,
he shall have the same returned to him."

YE BANKS AND BRAES.—Napoleon once charac-
terised this as the only good melody England had ever
prod ,ed. We should of course call it Scotch. Burns
tho ght it so, and knew it as " The Caledonian Hunt's
Delight," when he wrote to it the words which have
made it so celebrated. But a lover of Scottish music
in the London Scotsman says: "It turns out, however,
that the tune is neither English, as Napoleon thought,
nor Scottish, as Burns asserted, nor Irish as many have
suspected—but French ;itisto be found in a French
collection published in Paris long before Burns was
born."

A telegram which appears in the Ungarische?.
Lloyd of Thursday surpasses all that we have hitherto
seen in the way of English election intelligence. " From
the provinces " it reports the election of " Laird, Ayston,
Beales, and Lordmayor Lawrence ;" for Greenwich, Lowe,
Bonmdell, Palmer, Forster, Fawcett, and Cardwell."
"At Grosvenor " another fabulously over-represented
constituency--" Childers, Layard, the Minister of the
Interior, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the
Minister of War." The electric telegraph promises to
supply the place of the lost " mythopoaic faculty in our
prosaic modern life."

THE RAILROAD AND THE INDIANS.—A freight
train on the Union Pacific Railroad was stopped on the
30th of October, about two miles west of Alkali Station.
The train was captured by cutting the ties in the
centre, and thus spreading the rails, so that when the cars
came along, about two o'clock in the morning, they were
piled up together and made a perfect wreck. One of the
firemen was jammed in between the locomotive and the
tender, where he remained for three hours, suffering the
most horrible torture, after beseeching the engineer to
kill bim, before death came to his relief. All the men on
the train except the engineer fled the moment the disaster
occurred, to escape from the Indians. He, however, re-
mained, and tried in vain to extricate the fireman from
his terrible position. Great complaints are made along
the line of the road at the inefficiency of the protection
afforded by the Government troops. They are mostly
infantry, and are utterly unable to compet, witit,the
Indians, who, being well mounted, are el-1,13d to coidnit
their depredations and effect their c--gx: before the
inaa:r-: can reach the zcem. 4f trouble.