The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-12 00:00:00

COUNTY GALWAY.

Galway, Thursday Evening, July 6.
This fine election is over at last--the " glorious struggle'
closed at three o'clock this afternobn ; and Mr. Richari
Martin is once more ii British Senator ! A more superl

triumph for the
,freehowlders of Connemara and Dillyna-
lfirnif has not °centred " since. the Emerald ffetn of the
western world was set in the crown of a stranger !" It is
true,:thete have:been sonic. six or seven freehowlders and
others killed, either by burningoo stoning, or pistolling;
and spine forty or fifty wounded--"part of whom. may yet
(lie of their wounds ; but what then ?—" a few forty,
shilling freehoWlders, more or less,” as the agents say, " is
of no ;orl of consequenc6---they can .be put down in the
Gill; and lenty more of them can very easily be made at
any time." They are merely
" woolleir vassals, things created
To buY and. sell with groats 1"
On Tuesday the voting was again all in favour of Messrs
Daly and Martin,: the old emancipatory members; and
not ono-in favour of Mr. Lambert, the emancipatory can-
didate.- As soon as his Kinumy-tee-men fired their pistols
in the streets, in defence of his freehowlders---instesAl of

leaving them to fight it out amongst themselves, in the
old and most approved way-4rom that moment all his
friends deserted him, and drove their flocki of freeholders
into Mr. Martin's booths. His very dearest friend, Mr.
St, George, who had faithfully premixed 'hint the votes
of all his linefreeholders; . one hundred and' fifty in num-
ber, was so shoeked at the said pistolling, that he handed
the entire lot over to Mr. Martin; ,and his professional
agents and Counsel, learned in the law, finding him in
this awkward predicament, scampered away from hint as
fast as they could—just as those shrewd animali, called
rat, will scamper away from a lulling Wise. And truly.
Mt'. Lambert was rightly served in all this : for what
business had his Kottimp•tee-men to prevent the free-
howhiers killing each other a little ? It is, their anciqnt
privilege; and neither Mr. Martin, nor any Of his Kormry.
tee interfered with that priYilege—not even when the
Connemara and " Clatalgh" freeholders. were buining and
braining the Lamberters by, Wholesale. Well, th.e voting on
Tuesday went .0 yin favour of Mr. Daly and ".Squarra
Martin ; ' and it was curious to see how much practice
hall improved the poll-clerks in ,the at of Swearbig in the
freeholders—for it is an• art, and a- very great art. At first,
when a batch of twenty or thirty was ready to be sworn,
" the book" went round 11111011 St them from hand to hand,
like a drink of whisky; but now, for despatch sake, the
poll-44411c kept the book in his own hand, and passed it
along the chins of an entire row in a moment ; and
though not one. in a dozen could get a kiss at it as it
pas*efl, yet it seemed to answer the purpose quite as well
as the old awl more, tedious method; besides being Much
more pleasant for thOse wliose
_consciences might be
somewhat of the tetederest—sucli as the thumb-kisers,
Ste. :Nevertheless, spine of all this Prosp eritY and 4"-
terity, there were some few instances of 'stupid refractO-
riness among the Comiemant freeholders. One instance
may serve to exemplify that. 5ame......“ Corney Keough 1"