The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-03 00:00:00

MATCH FOR A PURSE OF SOVEREIGNS,

On Saturday a rowing match took place between six
pair of oars, from Westminster-bridge to Putney, for a
purse of sovereigns, given -by Lord Chetwynd, Captain
Hobhouse, and one or two other celebrated amateurs, of
Whitehall. At three o'clock the start took place, under
a salute from Rawlinson and Lyons ; and after an excel-
lent contest, the men arrived at Putney as follows:
Edward Brumwell, Bankside, and G. Butcher, Hunger-
ford, first; Fred. Hill, Whitehall, and Geo. Brumwell,
Vauxhall, second; Chas. Brumwell, Bankside, and R.
Wood, Whitehall, third ; J. Castle, Whitehall, and J. Jar-
rard, Whitehall, fourth; Charles Westwood, Whitehall,
and G. Mackey, Whitehall, fifth; and David Eld, Old
Swan, and Richard Westwood, Whitehall, sixth. The
first pair received 141. ; the second 4/. ; tnd the third 21.

KING'S THEATRE.--•CIMA ROSA'S grand
heroic opera, Gli Orazj e Curiazj, which had been re-
vived with so much success on Thursday, was repeated on
Saturday night, and closed the performances of the season
at this theatre.

CHASE EXTRAORDINARY.—LaSt Monday
three men who were straying by the side of a pool, near
Gorsworth, saw a pike pursuing a water hen. The fi.h,
which appeared to be about sixteen pounds weight, leaped
about a yard out of the water to seize its prey, but missed
it.—Macclesfield Courier.

PROGRESS OF TOLERATION !-A correspon-
dent informs us that a man of upwards of sixty years, who
is inflicted with paralysis, and who has been above twenty
years an inmate of the Protestant Alms House in Little
Ship-street, has been lately turned on the street, because
some spy gave information of, his having been once seen
coming out of a Catholic Chapel.—Dub/in Morning
Register.

ELECTION FOR CLARE.

MR. O'CONNELL AGAIN iIETITRNED

The election for the comity of Chre,‘vhich has
in all its previous stages occu.pi, d so much public at-
tention, was brought to its terminatio:t on Thursday
last, by the return of Mr. O'Connell, as Mcm!!er
for the county, witliont opposition.
On Thursday morning, at eleven o'clock, the
High Sheriff entered the Court-house, which is, like
most of these buildings in country towns, rudely
constructed, and far from being commodious. About
the same time Mr. O'Connell entered, accompanied
by his brother and two sons, several members of the
late Catholic Association, and a crowd of friends,
followed by a host of the public, who took the
Court-house by storm, upsetting every barrier,
overthrowing each other from the seats, climbing
the posts of the gall, ries, clinging. to their surbase
and railing, and grasping every plojection or bracket
by which a strong wrist could maintain itself.
Nothing could be more appalling than the spectacle
of this first rush,—those who had by courtesy been
permitted to take early seats were ejected out of
them ; the table presented a tumulus of people
hoisted upon each other's shoulders, entirely dis-
placing the crier, and obstructing the view of the
bench for the Sub-Sheriff's box.

Some kind of order being at length obtained, the
crier was elevated from the mass of people upon the
table, and the Court was opened in the usual form.
The proclamation, the Sheriff's precept, and the
wilt from the Crown-office, were successively read,
and, for the moment, an almost breathless silence
prevailed : all eyes were directed towards the bench
where the High Sheriff and Mr. O'Connell stood,
anxious to catch a glimpse of the mysterious rival of
the popular candidate.
At this early period of the day some attention was
momentarily drawn► from the preliminary business of
the bench, by the appearance of a fashionably-
dressed man, who contrived to scramble over the
people's shoulders through the area of the Court,
then to climb up the front of the side gallery, hold-
ing on by the railings, until he could get his feet
upon the heads of the gentlemen who stood in the
avenue to the bench, where he alighted—it was Mr.
O'Gorman Mahon, decorated in a green sash, with
some kind of medal appended to it. The inconve-
nient time of his attendance might have been acci-
dental ; but if the delay were occasioned by the ar-.
rangement of " the decoration," honest people's
heads and shoulders were very wantonly trampled
upon, for the display of as silly an exhibition of toyL
shop childishness, as ever weakness and vanity ob-
truded upon the simple and impressive march of a
cause whose principle was in the highest degree bold,
manly, and straight-forward. Mr. Steele bad also
one of these ribands, but without a medal. He,
however, appears to wear it as a part of his ordinary
dress on all public occasions.
At half-past eleven o'clock the regular business of
the day was begun in right earnest, by the call of the
High Sheriff upon the electors for the county of
Clare to proceed forthwith and put in nomination a
fit and discreet person to represent them in Parlia-
ment. At this moment the air resounded with
cries of " O'Connell," which were repeated with-
out the walls of the Court by the throng who could
not obtain admission.

Mr. O'GORMAN MAIION then stepped forward
and said, " Mr. High Sheriff,—Before we proceed
to nominate a Knight of the Shire to represent this
county in Parliament, I beg permission to inquire
whether we have more than one candidate before us
on the present occasion. I having had formerly the
pleasing duty of nominating my Friend Daniel
O'Connell for that office, now come again to claim
the confirmation of that nomination, though at the
hands of a constituency differently formed from that
which before did the good work, and has been since,
I lament to say, disfranchised by the Legislature.
Before I ask you to confirm the decision of the
lately deceased and ever-to-be-lamented forty-shil-
ling freeholders, I am desirous of knowing if it is in-
tended to offer any other candidate to your notice in
opposition to O'Connell, that I may shape my
course accordingly, and be guided, according to the
answer I shall receive on this point, in the mode of
proposing my Friend. I wait for a reply."—(Here
the cry was repeated, " No other candidate, none
but O'Connell.")
After a short pause was obtained from the ex-
claiming multitude, it was inferred from the silence
of all present, that no rival candidate was intended,
and the shouts for Mr. O'Connell became again
deafening.
Mr. O'GORMAN MAHON then resumed his ad-
dress, and said, that as the freeholders of Clare had
heard the question put, and received no reply, he
and they were entitled to infer that there existed no
intention of opposing the return of Daniel O'Con-
nell—(loudcheering)—an event upon which he most
heartily congratulated the independent freeholders of
the county of Clare. He then praised the military
for their excellent conduct in contact with the people
of the country. He recollected the pleasure which
he felt when, at the Rotunda meeting last January,
Col. Westenra mentioned the meritorious appellation
which his regiment had acquired during a long ser-
vice in India, where they were denominated " the
Regiment of Gentlemen," because they had never
offensively interfered with the religious rites of the
inhabitants. This was exactly in unison with the
general body of military now in Ireland—ex uno
disce onines—they all deserved the epithet of " regi-
ments of gentlemen."—(Cheers.)—Reverting to
the exclusion of Daniel O'Connell, he again de-
plored the price at which emancipation had been
meted out to them; but it must be recollected that
the people were not the venders of it. All he
should entreat of them was to confirm by their una-
nimous acclamation the choice of the honest forties,
and return Daniel O'Connell, not only as the re-
presentative of this particular county, but of Ireland
at large. (Loud cheers.) And if it was their fancy
at a future election to unite with such a man, another
friend of liberty, in the representation of their county
then they might, if they pleased, consider his (Mr.
Mahon's) claims. (Laughter and applause.) He
then put Mr. O'Connell in nomination to represent
the county in Parliament, amid the loudest cheers.

Mr. STEELE carne forward to second this nomi-
nation, and was hailed with loud applause. Mr.
Steele then coucluded by seconding Mr. O'Connell's
nomination.

Major MACNAMARA next came forward, and was
received with warm greetings. He said he should
only trespass upon their attention for a few moments
for he considered this election rather as a ramifica-
tion of the last, than as an original proceeding—it
was an emanation of the same body, under a new
name,—it was the work of the old forties, put out
of hands in the same fashion, by the new ten-
pounders, who now represented them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'BRIEN, of Elm-vale, then presented him-
self to the Court, and was cordially received. He
rejoiced, he said, at the evident result of the pre-
sent election, and trusted it would be found the last
expression of difference of sentiment in the county.
Mr. RICHARD MACNAMARA pronounced a warm
eulogium upon Mr. O'Connell, as the deservedly
popular representative of Irish feelings.
No other person appearing to address the Court, the
HICK SHERlEFcaused the usual proclamation, descrip-
tive of the business of the day to be thrice read, after a
short interval between each reading; during this cere-
mony there was a breathless expectation renewed at
each pause, and nobody appearing to interpose an
objection to Mr. O'Connell's nomination, after the
third proclamation the enthusiastic uproar of the
people lost all bounds, and it was only after the
stentorian lungs of Mr. Nicholas Purcell O'Gor-
man had been exercised at their highest intonation,
that the multitude just gave silence enough to enable
the High Sheriff to declare that Daniel O'Connell,
Esq., was duly elected a Knight of the Shire to re-
present the county of Clare in the Imperial Parlia-
ment.

This announcement was made soon after twelve
o'clock, and the shouts were renewed with deafen-
ing vehemence, when Mr. O'CONNELL came to the
front of the hustings, to return thanks, which lie

did in a speech which lasted for more than two
hours. They had not now to complain of political
disOnctiom enacted for mere religious opinions;
still, however, though the spirit of these cruel en:lrt-
merits had been expunged from the statute 1.):)ok,
not a sipgle Catholic had, as far as he could learn,
derived the slitaitest direct benefit from the encou-
ragement of the Government. Those in atitho-
City had refused him the exercise of the right to
which he had shown he was legally entitled; and
though he knew the little motives of his oppo-
nents—some of them men of rank, and lawyers—
he would not now stoop to expose them. It was
a mockery for persons in high judicial stations,
whose minds were made up by sinister motives, to
sit in judgment upon the rights of any man. Of
one profession, his own, he could say that once he
thought it an honour to belong to it now he knew
none more degraded by the machinations of power.
In advocating his own cause with the House of
Commons, he had at once put forth his legal ma-
sons in the shape of a pamphlet for any and every
man to read. No man had ever applied to it with
an authenticated name ! in the form of speech in
the House of Commons, he knew, indeed, it had
been attempted to controvert it. . This was done
by the late Solicitor-General of England, now the
Chief Justice, whose love of place overcame his
sense of law; and the man, looking at the Judge,
saw reasons to equivocate where he ought to have
been just. There was nothing which he more
deprecated than to see men in high stations thus
palter with their understandings. These lawyers,
one in particular, when they went against him, made
the most egregious blunders. The now Solicitor-
General ( Su gden) u as foremost in his legal blunder-
ing; and thirdly, Sir James Scarlett, the present
Attorney-General, whose conduct in this instance
he viewed with abhorrence, and whose opinions he
treated with contempt. Sir James Scarlett differed
in opinion with him upon the nature of his claims;
but he deprecated, as a lawyer, any attempt to en-
force the penalties which Mr. Sugden thought so
applicable. Of Sir James's speech upon that occa-
sion, Mr. Huskisson truly said, it had convinced him
he ought to vote for him (Mr. O'Connell) ; and
Mr. Jephson, of Mallow, had told him likewise, that
he sat near two English members who had come pre-
cisely to the same conclusion, although, strange to
say, Sir James Scarlett was not equally convinced
by his •own speech, which had such an effect upon
otheri,; for, after making it, lie declared his readi-
ness to vote exactly the other way.—(A laugh.)—
When speaking thus of these English lawyers, it was
with pride he announced, that Henry Brougham,
the greatest of them all, had throughout stood by
him like a man and a statesman. Of the unbounded
information, enlightened genius, and wide philan-
thropy of that great man, he had not words to utter
his unqualified approbation. Praise and thanks were
likewise from him due to many of the class of
Whigs,—to such men as Lords Duncannon and Eb-
rington, Mr. Spring Rice, to the Knight of Kerry,—
to whom, indeed, it would be now too formal for
him to proclaim himself a debtor, after having re-
ceived from him, during a long course of years, so
many proofs of his friendship. He knew no man
who had sacrificed more to his unbending attach-
ment to the Whigs than Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald
had. In this view, also, he could not forget the il-
lustrious name of Grey, and others of tha: noble
family. Still, with all this high support, the decision
was against him—a decision which he did not hesi-
tate to .proclaim as being against law—one which he
should always, in and out of Parliament, firmly re-
sist, and against which, now that they had given
him the full authority to speak face to face to his
opponents, lie should raise his voice where it would
be heard, to the shame and confusion of those who
had pronounced it. Much had been said in praise of
the late Catholic Bill : still, however, it had great
faults; the promoters of it began by pulling down
(as they called it) the Catholic Association. Alex-
ander the Great's exploit in " slaying the slain"
was not greater than that triumph of Ministers;
for at the very time of its cehtbration, the Ca-
tholic Association had by an actof its own put down
itself; so that Peel and Wellington had the glory
of killing that which had already been suicidal to it-
self.—(A laugh.)—On the Association necessarily
the attack was ridiculous, but what he complained
of most was, that it planted despotic power in the
hands of the Lord Lieutenant. He assured the
people that he should not be one fortnight in the
House of Commons before he should have this part
of the late legislation revised. In the next place,
he would denounce the disfranchisement of the forty-
shilling freeholders. It was a base violation of jus-
tice, and a scandalously partial act of the House of
Commons,--of that House of Commons which had
left the corrupt boroughs of- EaSt Retford and
Penryn untouched, notwithstanding the flagrant
corruption of which their own Committees had
proved them to have been guilty; and yet, after
thus acting, they attacked the rights of the forty-
shilling freeholders of Ireland, who had been guilty
—of what ?—of nothing but of setting the high
example that poor men could be honest in the exer-
cise of the elective franchise.—(Cheers.)—So that
little knots of corrupt English borough-electors,
proved to be notoriously corrupt, were spared, and
250,000 men, who had shown themselves to be in-
corruptible, were at one fell swoop divested of their
lawful rights. There was another point which he
meant to urge in Parliament, that disfranchisement
was a breach of the articles of Union, the basis of
which was equality of privilege between the Irish
and English electors. This attack upon the Irish
forty-shilling freeholders struck at the root of that
arrangement. The Act of Union once re-opened,
was so far favourable to Ireland. He would see in
Parliament how far the breach could be widened so
as to have that impolitic measure repealed. But as
to the good faith with which the late Emancipation
Bill was carried into effect, let them look at the
conduct of Government and the corporations. Take
Dublin as an example : it was 36 years since a
Roman Catholic wits eligible to be a member of
it, and yet not one had been elected, although
it was notorious that the great rank, wealth,
and commercial respectability of Dublin, were
in the hands of Catholics. Why, then, should
Ministers feel surprised at the people being
still dissatisfied, when they must know that their
minions had refused to pour any oil over the
troubled waters of their system ? There were, he
knew, at this moment, some symptoms on the part
of the Government indicative of their desire to put
down the Orangemen; but there again he had to
complain that they came too late. A week before
the late outrages, he had had an interview with
Lord Leveson Gower at the Castle, he gave him
natice that the Orangemen were at work, and that
if the Government did not promptly interfere, more
than sixty lives would be lost in the ensuing week.
The Government did not interfere until after the
mischief was done, and the consequence was as he
had predicted, that above sixty lives were lost in the
battles of the north of Ireland. With respect to
his conduct in Parliament, he must, in the first place
remind the people of this, that he had no ministerial
patronage, he had no favours, places, or pensions, to
bestow on those who looked for such returns. He
should be therefore, in point of interest, an un-
profitable servant. They would, however, always
find him to be the shepherd, who was watchful of
his flock,"und unflinchinglyattentive to the trust they
bad reposed in him. There was, he knew, a great
deal of irritation arising out of the last election, and
upon that- subject he wished strongly to impress
upon the people that there were many gentlemen
who were so peculiarly placed on the last election,
that they could not have acted otherwise than they
had done without a breach of honour. They now
saw that these gentlemen did not come forward to
thwart the popular feeling, and surely they ought to
have credit for such conduct.—(Applause.)—
" Why," continued Mr. O'Connell, " should we not
dojustice to every one ? Let us look at the situa-
tion of these gentlemen, and see if we could have
acted otherwise ourselves; of one of them I can
never speak without the warmest admiration. I
should be base and unworthy of the public confidence
if I could ever forget. the . conduct of Mr. Vesey

Fi•zgerald.—(Applause.)--The Catholics I know
put him out from the representation of this county,
end what revenge did he not inflict upon them in
ret to tt by he made the best speech in their
fa vow. (hiring the deba- eon their question. I
know not in history a more powerful or magna-
i►iniotis instance of exalted patriotism, than
.Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald exhibited upon that occasion.
—(Cheers.)—And with respect to his talents, I will
add, that I-think him beyond all comparison the
ablest man of the present Administration,---ore who
Would hold the highest official, as he does mental

place, if he were not restrained by the modest feel-
ings which always attend true elevation of intellect,
from pressing his own value into its proper scale."
When he (Mr. O'Connell) was thus ready to do
justice to the gentlemen of Clare, let him also do
it to the people. if the people arrayed the forty-
shilling freeholders against the gentry, let it be re-
membered that the latter first established Brunswick

Clubs against them. That was • a great error, but
one which he hoped the one party would forgive,
mid the other forget.-,--( Hear, hear.)—Mr. O'Con-
nell then went at considerable length into the detail
of the various local improvements which he should
recommend to Parliament, as connected with their
county ;—the better navigation of the Shannon;
the establishment of safe and commodious harbours,
independent of the -exposure and suppression of all.
the local jobbing, which was for the private put,
poses of the rich; and at the expense of the poor.—
With respect to his own qualifications for effecting
these improvements, he admitted they were mode-
rate. He had no pretensions to be classed an
orator; forensic habits had, it was true, given him
a fluency of speaking, and a habit of reasoning ; but
no flight of poetry was ever borne to his mind on
fancy's wings; but, what he wanted in genius he
could promise to make up for them in zeal and
energy. He was besides, to all intents and pur-
poses, a man of business; he must be an early
man who rose from bed earlier than he did,
and he must havo a cool head who went
to bed with a cooler.—(A laugh, and cries of
" Hear, hear.")—He would promise them to attend the
house with the Speaker, and to leave it only when
he did.; he would have his study with him in Lon-
don, as he bad in Dublin, and they would find him
in London perpetually at his post during the sitting
of Parliament. What was his object in going into
Parliament and devoting himself to the people of
Clare ? Why, he went in fact, and lie confessed it,
to let his soul work out its salvations,—he went to
Parliament to do good to the people, and obtain
justice for the nation. He hoped his motives were
pure, his conscience at all events sustained him.
Mr. O'Connell then took a review of the condition
of society in this kingdom, as to its divisions in re-
ligious sentiments. With the creed or doctrines of
the Established Church he never should interfere :
he would always go out of the House of Commons
when they were debated; he would never open his
lips in Parliament upon any subject connected with
the religion or discipline of the Protestant Church.
In this respect he would certainly do to others as he
wished he should be done by. Respecting the tem-
poralities of the Church, however, the case was dif-
ferent, and one of the first measures he should pro-
pose in Parliament would be to equalize the salaries
and emoluments of the clergy. The next point
would be to revise the laws relating to the landed
possessions of the Irish clergy : these lands were ha-
mense, and he. was prepared to show, if properly ad-
Ministered, be quite sufficient to maintain the esta-
blishment without burdening the people with tithes.
With respect to Catholics and Dissenters, he should
introduce laws for the more easy administration of their
respective charities, which were at present dread-
fully shackled by the intricate operations of law. As
a lawyer he had here advantages which he should
not fail to use in behalf of the institutions of these
classes of Christians. He would likewise call upon
Parliament to revise the late law enacted against
Jesuits and monastic institutions. His blood boiled
when he reflected upon the injustice done to these
enlightened and liberal classes. He would first pre-
sent a petition from the English and Irish Jesuits,
praying for an inquiry into the whole of their affairs.
Let the Committee be exclusively Protestants. He
would not have a single Catholic upon it. Let the
opponents of the Jesuits be alone the judges of the
doctrines and conduct of the Catholics, and he had
no fear of the result.

Mr. O'Connell was then proceeding, at consider-
able length, to detail the various measures the intro-
duction of which he contemplated in Parliament.
His sketch, in fact, comprised every measure which
was within the scope of legislation. He at the
same time strongly urged an alteration in the present
plan of the currency, and expressed a firm determina-
tion to resist all projects of emigration, being, he
said, convinced that under an improved system of
domestic economy, enough of subsistence could be
provided at home for any amount of population.
Our express (which we received yesterday morn-
ing) left Mr. O'Connell still speaking in acknow-
ledgment of his return. The people were enthusiastic
in his cause, and perfectly sober and tranquil. Se-
veral of the most influential of their parish clergy
were on the spot, and there was every appearance
that the chairing which was to follow would pass
over without the least violation of the public peace.
Mr. O'Connell's family had set out from Dublin to
join him; he was about to proceed to his seat in
Kerry before he returned to the assizes, where he
has volunteered to conduct the case of the people of
Borris-o'-keen against the police, in the trial for the
late melancholy loss of lives.
Later in the day Mr. O'Connell entered the
county of Clare at the passage of O'Brien's Bridge.
The concourse of people was here prodigious.
On advancing towards Killaloe the cortege con-
tinued to accumulate, the huts on the road-side
were decorated with wreaths of wild flowers, and
the people,—men, women, and children,—who
flocked upon the roads, were decorated with laurel
branches. There were likewise occasional arches
formed by the bending of boughs from large trees at
each side of the road; and every opportunity which
rustic ingenuity could furnish was aptly used to
swell the note of a popular triumph. It was an odd
coincidence, that as the procession was entering
upon the most prominent line of a range of romantic
scenery, with the chain of the Clare mountains,
lately christened by Mr. Steele " the O'Connell
Hills," from which some of the forty-shilling free-
holders last year poured down to assert the free ex-
ercise of their now abrogated franchise, a storm
burst from the horizon, the thunder was reverberated
among the mountains, the lightning flashed vividly,
and heaven and earth appeared to be in convulsive
agitation. While the thunder " leaped from cliff to
cliff," the peasantry shouted, and although drenched
from torrents of rain, the crowd still mingled and
advanced in procession.
A curious scene, however, took place as the
throng approached Killaloe. Mr. O'Connell was
met by the Rev. Mr. Vaughan about half a mile
from that town, who informed him that Mr. Lloyd
(the Magistrate) was called into the neighbourhood,
that the police and rifle corps were then under arms
in the barracks, and the most determined spirit
avowed to prevent the procession through Killaloe
of any multitude of people. Mr. O'Connell in-
stantly declared that nothing should induce him to
expose the honest freeholders of the county to the
slightest risk of unpleasant contact with any of the
authorities,—that his whole object in passing
through this part of the county was to exhort them
to the maintenance of peace and tranquillity, and
that he would proceed at once, and alone, into the
town to assure the Magistrate of such being his sole
intention, and of the evident disposition of the as-
sembled multitude to respect this injunction. Mr.
Steele, however, insisted, as being a local resident
of the county, that the task should devolve upon him
of making this statement to the local authorities,
and he rode on promptly to Killaloe for that pur-
' pose. The police had previously removed some
boughs which the towns-people had placed in front
of their houses, and some of the inhabitants declared
their dissatisfaction at this interference. Mr. Steele
had a speedy interview with the Magistrate (Mr.
Lloyd), and Captain Goldfrap, the commandant of

the rifle corps, stationed in the barracks. There was
a good deal of discussion in the street between these
gentlemen, which was, in substance, the inquiry of
Mr. Steele, if the local authorities meant to interrupt
Mr. O'Connell from meeting his constituents on the
road to the place of election at Ennis; and to
know, if such were the intention, upon what au-
thority, and at whose responsibility, this interrup-
tion was to be made. The magistrate declared that
he had no intention of preventing Mr. O'Connell
from meeting his constituents in a legal way and in
addressing them in a legal manner, hut that his
assistance was called to preVent a disturbance of the
public peace.
It was at once determined by Mr. O'Connell to
avoid the least pretext for magisterial interference
in Killaloe, and he proceeded with the cortege to
Broadford, near this place, where he again addressed
the people, and in the strongest terms enjoined
them to peace and tranquillity.
At half-past eleven o'clock last night he reached
the seat of Mr. O'Connell, of Kilgorey, where he
slept, and from which he is about to set out, as 1".
close this letter, to arrive at Ennis in the middle of
this day. The greatest preparations »se every
where made by the poor people to receirq him.
The hills last night blazed with bonfires as !tetra-
yelled, and few of the wretched huts of the peasan-,
try were without the illumination of a candle.
Somebody late last evening was seen travelling in a
chaise-and•four, with postilions and green uniforms,
on the road to Ennis. Some here say it was Mr.
O'Gorman Mahon; others Mr. Toby Glascock.•