The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-08 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The New York packet-ship Oxford, Captain Rathbone, arrived
at Liverpool on Monday night, with New York papers to the 17th,
after a passage of twenty.one days. She brings twenty.one cabin
passengers. The news, both political and commercial, is without
interest. Advices had been received from Texas, but nothing of
a decisive nature had occurred. The country was quiet.
The New I ork Courier and Inquirer of the 16th June, rays
—" A rumour has been circulated at Washington and Baltimore,
said to rest upon good authority, that the President has offered the
mission to England to the Hon. Louis M`Lane, of Baltimore."
These papers bring no later intelligence from Quebec.

IRELAND.
INQUEST AT BALLINHASSIG.
Several witnesses were examined on Friday relative to the fatal
affray. Dr. Wall, after deposing to the arrest of Sullivan, one of
the party charged with attacking the police, was asked whether the
police had considerable d.filculty in conveying him (Sullivan) to
the dispensary P—They bad. Did the crowd follow him to the
dispensary ?—They did. To the door ?—To the door ; the door
was off the hinges previously. Now, before or immediately at the
time did you hear any expressions or acts at the dispensary P—The
only thing I saw thrown was a stick from behind the crowd at the
police. This was at the moment the prisoner was being put into
the dispensary. Did the crowd increase ? I should say so. What
followed ?—The crowd remained outside the door. Did the police
remain at the door ?—They came out to the front of the door
and loaded. Could you see the door or windows then P—l could
not. How far off were you from the door ?—Ten or fifteen yards.
What next attracted your attention P—The firing. Did anything
else take place between the throwing of the stick and firing ?
The crowd continued there. Were they peaceable P—No, roaring
and screeching. Were they in a riotous manner 7—They were.
Did you see persons with sticks P—l did. Were they wheeling ?
They had them up in the air. How many were there assembled ?
Over a hundred. The noise was considerable P—lt was. Words
may have been used you did not here P—There might. Did you
see any stones thrown 7—l did not. He then described the attack
made upon the dispensary with stones, which destroyed the sashes
and glass of the windows.

Edward Duggan deposed to the arrest of Sullivan. There was
then, he said, a rush from the country people in on the police, and
the police began stabbing them off with their bayonets, and moving
them out from them ; the police then got inside the door of the
dispensary. They were not two or three seconds within when they
tired a volley. I put out my head and saw a man stretched on the
cross. I heard more shots fired, and I put out my head again and
saw another man stretched opposite Tady M'Macarthy's house. I
saw the police coming out and present the guns, and fire off the
shots. They moved in, and another flank came out. The crowd
ran away, and I saw some of them come back, and a few went to
the back of the dispensary and threw a few stones. The people did
not run to the back of the dispensary before the first shot was fired.
The police came out and fired thice times. Were any of the
uolice in the dispensary when the roof was broken 7—There were.
Juror—How many shots were fired from the house at first ?
From three to five. How soon did they commence to fire again ?
—Less than a second of time. At this time was the roof broken ?
—Not until some people were shot.
John O'Brien, of Cork, was also examined, but his evidence was
not important, as he did not see the beginning of the affray, and
could not say what provocation the police got The Court ad-
journed at half-past five till ten o'clock on Saturday. The inquest
will last for several days.

THE THUNDER STORM YESTERDAY MORNING.—
About twenty minutes to four o'clock yesterday morning the town
of Erith was visited by a rain and hail storm, accompanied by
thunder, which, while it lasted, greatly alarmed the inhabitants.
'1 he thunder was heard at a distance, and as it approached was ac-
compani,cl with large drops of rain. In the course of a few seconds
a shower of hailstones descended, which continued from five to ten
minutes, and was immediately followed by showers of rain, which
came down in torrents for about five minutes more. The hail-
stones in some places were the size of marbles, and did an immense
deal of damage amongst the hot and green-houses. At one place,
Lord Saye and Sele's grounds, there were upwards of 4,000 or
5,000 panes of glass broken, which will cost from 20U/. to 300/.
ti repair, and the fruit damaged. The most extram dinary part of
the affair is, that over the strawberry beds thick mats were placed,
through which the hailstones brat as well as through the glass.
BOROUGH VOTERS.—AII occupiers in boroughs
do well not to forgot, that unless they pay all the poor-rates and
assessed taxes that were due from them on the 6th of April last
before the 30th of the present month, they will lose their right to
be registered as Parliamentary electors for the next year.

EXETER ELECTION.

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES.
At ten o'clock on Monday morning, the nomination of can-
didates for a representative for the city of Exeter, to serve in
Parliament in the room of the late lamented Sir W. W. Fol-
lett, took place at the Guildhall in that city.
A large number of the friends of Sir John Duckworth were
admitted into the hall long before the proceedings commenced,
who amused themselves by vociferously cheering the Tory
candidate. At ten o'clock the front doors were thrown open,
and in an instant every corner of the hall was crowded.
Tke preliminary business having been disposed of,
The SHERIFF made a very neat address, and passed a very
eloquent eulogium on the memory of the late lamented repre-
sentative of the city.
C. BIRD, Esq., then rose to nominate General Briggs.
He was received with loud and general cheering, but we were
unable to catch the first sentences of his address, from the low
tone in which he commenced. He said, his heart responded
to the words which fell from the Learned Sheriff in reference
to the lamented gentleman whose decease had occasioned
their meeting there on that day. In recommending to
them fair play in this contest, he would express his convic-
tion that when there was lair play on one side, there was seldom
found amongst Englishmen unfair play on the other.—(" Was
it fair play to pack the hall ?")—( Groans and hisses.) He only
wished that this meeting had begun in fair play—he had him-
selfa difficulty in getting to the place where he now stood.—
(Groans and loud hissing.) The Learned Gentleman, placing
his hand on his heart, exclaimed in a loud voice, " The fiercer
the storm without the greater the calm within." Before they
had entered the hall the election had commenced amongst
parties favourable to the Hon. Baronet.—(Loud cheers and
hisses.) For thirty years they had known him, and he had
not betrayed their interests.—( Question, question.) What
was the question then—was it not a question of packing the
hall ?—( Uproar and great confusion.) Fellow-citizens,
Hear me for my own cause, and be silent that you
may hear."—(Loud cheers, which Were followed by a
general melee, occasioned by an attempt to turn an
individual out of the hall.) It was not a personal
question, it was a question of public justice, not affecting the
city only, but the country and the world at large.—( Cheers. )
At his time of life he could not have aroused his nerves to meet
the frown of those amongst whom he had so long lived in
amity if he had thought the question they had met to decide
was a mere question between Whig and Tory—if it had been
merely a question between the two candidates lie would not
have been there. Like the Hon. Baronet, he was courted—he
had not sought the place in which he stood.—(Cheers.) The
person who had first proposed Gen. Briggs to them should new
have held his place ; but, as a point of duty, he now
stood there to propose to them, as a fit arjdir=
person to represent Exeter in Par:lament-313j e
Briggs.—( Vociferous cheering.) He was told tha(tctoh-nefruesnas,
one great objection against General 13ric
groans, and hisses.) He could assure them thgat‘ neither groans
nor hisses would put him attemptingdown—in to throw dis-
grace upon him they only disgraced themselves. was ob-
jected to the General that he was a stranger. Mr. Moffatt
was a stranger at Dartmouth the other day—he was now Mem-
ber for Dartmouth.—(Loud cheers.) Why, the o then party
have sent to the Carlton Club for a candidate.—(Laughter.)
General Briggs came here before by invitation, and he went
back having 5:29 votes recorded in his favour. If General Briggs
were a stranger, be was a stranger who had done his duty in
foreign climes; but he was a stranger nowhere, he was a citizen
of the world.—( Loud cheers.) On what principles does the
Gallant General seek your votes ? On the cause of the free
sdnd. (Here some interruption occurred, when the Learned
Gentleman, addressing himself to Mr. Nicholas Tuckett, said,
" I wish not to give any man personal offence, but I can see
that you are acting the fugleman to the persons who are creat-
ing the noise below." This rebuke had the effect of producing
a temporary lull amongst the disorderly Tories.) General
Briggs was favourable to education—he wished that the people
might chstinguish their duties to God and man—that they
might understand the Constitution ender which they lived, aye,
and to plough it up even to the subsoil, where it required
eradication.—(Loud cheers.) He will support free trade and