The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-13 00:00:00

We are !Mainline in our expectation that a acconti
defeat anitQ him in Carlow, Priostism and rufliani"
are certainly doing their uttermost to save him from
this catastrophe ; but the precaution and vigilance of
the Conservatives have been so great, that we trust
their reverences will not succeed. We may infer from
the steps which the Conservatives have been obliged to
resort to, to protect their men, how perfectly savage
and demoniacal the courses of their adversaries have
been.

For the last fortnight a large body of Conservative
electors have been garrisoned in Dorris Castle, the
beautiful seat of Mr. Kavanagh, maintained and pro-
tected there at the expence of their landlord. In other
parts of the county also, the houses of the gentry are
converted into defences for the eVranchised peasantry,
whose liberty and even lives would be unsafe were
they to remain at home in their ordinary way. We
know ourselves of two men who were sent over to this
town to be out of the way of their enemies until the
election, and who did not feel themselves safe even in
Dublin !

The mode in which the Conservative electors are
brought in to poll may be conceived from the following
graphic account taken from the journal above referred
to :

"GRAND CAVALCADE.-At eleven o'clock this day, one
hundred and sixty men, the `Boys of St. Mullin's,' arrived
in this town (Carlow) under an escort of cavalry commanded
by Captain Johnson, accompanied by two magistrates of the
county. The cavalcade presented a most imposing appear-
ance, the men being mostly in vehicles drawn by four horses
each, and outriders. The whole party in full gallop accom-
panied by the dragoons proceeded to Shaw-hall House, where
they will remain till the poll. This body are Roman Catho-
lics to a man, and have always been the firm adherents of the
House of Kavanagh."
From precautions so apparently adequate and judicious,
having been taken, we are, as we have said, induced to
augur favourably of the result, and to hope that the
Conservatives will win. At the same time must we
not ask, if it be not the most absurd thing in the
world to confer a parliamentary franchise upon men
who can only exercise it by such means as these ? Is
it credible that these poor Roman catholic electors can
desire a privilege which involves them in such exquisite
torture ? We are quite sure they do not ; but on the
contrary, that they would feel vastly obliged to any
body that would relieve them of the burthen.

As Sir Stephen Glynne has pointedly said Flint-
shire has obtained the " RARE" distinction of re-
turning to Parliament an adherent of the present
doomed administration. There seems to be no denial
of the fact, that the election has been carried by means
almost unheard of in any British county. A regularly
organised system of kidnapping, as well as person-
ating voters, appears to have been carried on, and
the cases of perjury upon the oath of identity are in-
numerable. One man was brought to poll for Mr.
Mostyn, at Mold, representing a person named Jack-
son, and the real voter soon after appearing and ten-
dering his vote for Sir Stephen Glynne, was not al-
lowed to poll. Amongst other acts of intimidation
and violence, a brutal attack was made at Rhuddlan
upon a Mr. Jones, who was knocked down and beaten
by a party of ruffians. Many cases of bribery. co-
ercion, and disgraceful riot were freely committed, and
ca❑ be easily proved, and we therefore anticipate that
if there be justice to he had, Sir Stephen will shortly
be placed as representative for Flintshire, for which his
energy and talents so well qualify him. He is now the
representative of a majority of the electors, who have
been permitted the free and lawful exercise of their
suffrages. With the solitary exception of this county,
the Conservatives have not lost a single unit of their
numerical strength which they previously possessed in
the counties of Great Britain.

Conservative Freeholders and Electors of South
Cheshire, to the poll, and out with the Radicals !
Permit us to remind you that the eventful hour is now
come, and that the eyes of your countrymen are upon
you. Haste then to record your votes for the Conser-
vative candidates, and complete the good work now so
near to accomplishment. We cannot doubt for an in-
stant that you sympathise with your countrymen of the
northern division of your county, and that even for the
sake of " uniformity," you will find a pleasure in
ousting Radicals and returning Conservatives. Do
not delay then in proceeding to the poll. A certain
and glorious victory is before you—hasten to achieve
it. Prove that Mr. Wilbraham's shuffling and equi-
vocation at the hustings on' Saturday are not lost upon
you.

We hope to be able to add to the many other glori-
ous Conservative triumphs recorded in our paper this
day, that of the Conservative candidate for North
Northumberland, who opposes the ex-official, and
eccentric, vet almost Ministerial Howick. It is time
to have done with waverers, and we shall therefore
feel much pleasure in reporting that progress in his
lordship's course which shall conduct him to the out-
side of the county of Northumberland. We are war-
ranted in expecting such a result. When the honest
yeomen of North Cheshire have sent the newly-pro-
moted Paymaster of the Forces to the right.about,
without giving him the trouble, or putting him to the
expense, of a second day's polling; when the inde-
pendent yeomanry of the West Riding of Yorkshire
have dismissed the Right Honourable the Secretary
for Ireland from any further parliamentary labours on
their account, and intimated their satisfaction at so
doing by a majority of above one thousand,—we are
quite willing to suppose that the yeomen of North
Northumberland will make no bones of shelving a
personage of deservedly so little influence as that crot-
chetty and capricious hybrid, Lord Howick.
We hope the O'Connell-Melbournites have now had
enough to satisfy them that it is time to retire. The
country has surely pronounced not only upon their
measures, but upon themselves. What have they to
say to Yorkshire ? There is a county containing al-
most treble the number of voters of any constituency
in England, and five out of the six county members it
returns are Conservatives. This one division, which
has expelled their Cabinet colleague, and the son of
the liberal Lord Fitzwilliam along with him, contains
from twenty-four to twenty-five thousand freeholders;
and everybody knows that Yorkshire is one of the
greatest agricultural, manufacturing, and trading dis-
tricts in the United Kingdom. The Duke of Devon-
shire and Earl Fitzwilliam, two out-and-out Whig
lords, have immense estates within it; and yet such
is the fate which Popery and Free Trade, alias hum-
bug, suffer at the hands of its sturdy yeomen. Good
Yorkshire ! and especially thou Morpeth-ejecting por-
tion- of it !—we wish thee health and prosperity ! May
you cherish your pure, your genuine Old English
principles for ever, and send only such men to Parlia-
ment as will cherish them also !

The Whigs have no set-off whatever against this
crushing blow. Lord John Russell's return for Lon-
don was an actual defeat; for although his lordship
got in upon a miserable majority of nine, two Whigs
at the same time got out. Ministers, then, are beaten
like hacks, and nobody can deny it. Parliament has
condemned them ; the nation has condemned them ;
and it is inevitable that the incubus must at length be
flung off. It will be a great deliverance, worthy of
being celebrated in verse, and added to our national
anthem Of-LONG LIVE THE QUEEN !

Since writing the above, we have received the final
state of the poll, from which it will be seen that Lord
Howick occupies his proper position—at the bottom.

MERCURY FABRICATIONS.—In the Mercury of Friday
last is a long article which indulges in ludicrous lamentation
over a few panes of glass which were broken in the office of
our contemporary by some boys on the day of election. So
grieved is our senile friend over this calamity, that he breaks
out in unprovoked attacks upon a young man who is assistant
teacher in St. Jude's school. This youth took no part what-
ever in the outbreak of the children ; and the Mercury has
as much reason to charge ally other person who was passing
at the time as Mr. Sampson. We regret, however, to add,
that another part of the Mercury's statement is correct. Mr.
Sampson happened to be passing along Preston-street on the
same day, and merely because he had a small piece of red
riband in his coat, was waylaid by a party of ruffianly
who beat him most unmercifully; but we are happy to add
he is now recovering gradually. Not the slightest provoca-
tion was offered, and the outrage only affords another speci-
men of the cowardly assaults of these bloodthirsty villains.
WEXFORD ELRCTION.—On Friday evening, we regret to
state that our townsman, James Bourne, Esq., was in a
minority of four at the election for the borough of Wexford.
The town, as is usual with Irish contested elections, was in a
state of riot and contusion the whole time ; but a vast majo-
rity of the really respectable inhabitants hailed Mr. Bourne's
appearance, and by their presence sustained him under the
tumultuous and disgraceful howlings of the mob. The man-
ner and self-possession of Mr. Bourne before such an obstre-
porous multitude exhibited no small degree of personal cou-
rage, and his speech affords plentiful evidence of great ability
and talents.