The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

PURITY OF ELECTION.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
Mr. O'Connell and his committee found the constituency
of Belfast guilty of bribery, because some trifle of money
had been expended in car hire. No other species of bribery
was proved ; and it is at least to the credit of Belfast that
the car hire was paid.
Now in Dublin it appears that on the side of liberal elec-
tors bribery was held forth and car hire promised; but the
bribes were paid down on the spot, the car hire remains to
this day unpaid, and the subject of litigation—ex. gr.
" LORD MAYOR'S COURT.

".Several carmen summoned Mr. Thomas Hutton,
brother of the ex-M.P., for fares due to them for the use of
their cars during the late election. Mr. Hutton was one of
Lord Morpeth's committee, and authorised the ward club
to engage six cars, one of which belonged to the complain-
ant. The amount claimed was £2 10s., being at the rate of
10s. per day for five days.
" Adam Ward, a street agent for Lord Morpeth, deposed
that he engaged the carmen, pursuant to the circular from
the central committee. The complainant was one of the
men so engaged.
" The Lord Mayor.—As I never again intend to stand for
Dublin, I may say I never knew anything so shameful as
the liberal electors requiring cars to come up to vote at the
last election. In Tipperary some of the voters walked 50
miles to the hustings ;-in Cork:some walked 100 miles ; but
at the last election here nobody came up to the poll unless
he was coached. (Laughter.)
" Mr. Ray.—They will not even come to the registry, my
lord, without cars, and they think we can hardly expect
them to come to the hustings without them. They expect
greater facilities at elections than at registries.
" The circular from the central committee, authorising
the ward club to employ the carmen, was then read.
"The Lord Mayor said that he could not avoid giving a
decree against Mr. Thomas Hutton.
" Mr. Kelly, who attended on behalf of Mr. Hutton, con-
tended that the action should have been brought against all
the committee, and not against an individual member of it.
It would be a great hardship to make one member liable.
" The Lord Mayor said, that the law made any member
of the committee liable; and as Mr. Hutton was summoned,
and the case proved against him, he should give a decree
against him.
" His lordship was about awarding £2 to the complainant,
thus cutting off 10s. of his claim, when
" Adam Ward said—l think, .my Lord Mayor, jt is a very
unjust thing to cut down a poor carman's fare, when so much
money was squandered at the last election.
"The Lord Mayor.—There was no money squandered.
" Ward.—Upon my oath, I know freemen to have re-
ceived, by their own confession, £7 for their votes.
" The Lord Mayor.—Upon the liberal side ?
" Ward.—Yes, my lord.
"The Lord Mayor.—This is an additional reason why I
should never again stand for Dublin. Upon your oath, did
you know of any bribery at an election when I was a can-
didate ?

" Ward.--No, my lord, I did not.
" The Lord Mayor.—You did not ; and I would not take
the return of all the cities in Ireland by bribing a single
person.
" Ward.—lf the freemen, my lord, received so much
money at the last election, I do not see why an honest car-
man should be curtailed of 10s. I submit you are bound to
protect these honest men in strict justice, as a reward for
their honesty.

" The Lord Mayor.—Oh, indeed, it is not a reward for
their honesty. I decree the complainant £2 Ils. Bd.
" The complainant stated that he had received 10s. from
Dr. Kirwan, but it was given merely as a loan, and he
should be obliged to repay him.
" The Lord Mayor then struck off 10s., and decreed
£2 Is. Bd. to the complainant."
Mr. O'Connell has done with the city of Dublin, or rather
the city of Dublin has done with him. He may, therefore,
afford to tell the truth. But we needed not his late con-
fession to know how thoroughly corrupt and utterly con-
temptible that party was by which he and his colleagues
were returned to parliament. The entire scene between the
Lord Mayor of Dublin and Ward, the carman, is instructive
and amusing. The most entertaining part of it, however, is
the little colloquy in which his lordship endeavours to excul-
pate himself from sharing in the disgrace of Lord Morpeth
and others. "On your oath," quoth he, " did you know
of any bribery at an election where I was candidate ?"
" No, my lord, I did not," is the ready reply • and " I
would not take the return of all the cities in freland by
bribing a single person," is the prompt rejoinder of his
lordship.
His lordship is too well read in " Joe Miller" to be un-
acquainted with the case in which a countryman of his own,
charged on the evidence of two witnesses with stealing a
shovel, urged in defence that he could bring 50 witnesses
that did not see him steal it. His lordship must have been
a very maladroit candidate indeed, if his bribery were so pal-
pable as to be known to every jaunting-car driver in Dublin.

DONCASTER RACES.—The town council have given £l,OOO
to augment the value of several prizes.

COMMITTAL OF RIOTERS.—We understand that upwards
of 150 chartist rioters have been committed to York Castle
for trial.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston fully intend to return
to this country early in the ensuing month from Germany.
Her ladyship's health is quite restored.
A large quantity of American pork has been selling in this
city within the last few days from 41d. to 5d., and is of ex-
cellent quality.—Hampshire Independent.
Sir George Ilayter has just had presented to him the splen-
did casts of the Laocoon and Apollo of the Vatican, which
were given by Pope Pius VII. to the late Sir Thomas Law-
rence.

Chester is the oldest city in England : according to Sir
Thomas Eliot, it was built by a great grandson of Noah !
The mayor had formerly the power of respiting executions
without previous application to the Crown.
The staff of the northern district of England has been re-
modelled. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot takes
the entire command. General Brotherton and Colonel Broke
have been added to the staff. The head-quarters arc to be
Manchester and Bradford.
It appears from the Railway Maniteur that a correspon-
dence has taken place between the French and American
Governments on the subject of a steam-boat line between
Havre and New York. The French Government proposed
that each should supply two or three steamers. The Ameri-
cans have not yet come to a decision.

PROGRESS OF THE Cnuncii.--All the newspapers of the
American Church testify to her rapid advancement and suc-
cess. Even in Vermont, so long depressed and dead to a
sense of duty, Bishop Hopkins beholds a rekindling of Gos-
pel:light, and a glowing desire to rectum into " the old path."
In Maryland, we see the same good work going on : for a
correspondent of The Banner of the Cross, writes thus :
"In this diocese all we want is funds, and the Church
could be establisheu in every corner of it. On this eastern
shore, the inhabitants are everywhere turning their attention
to the Church. This, for a long time, as you arc probably
aware, has been a stronghold of Methodism. But that is on
the wane." Confirmations are being held, almost weekly,
by the American Bishops in every part of the United States ;
and the truth, set forth in the Prayer-book, that " From the
Apostle's time there have been three orders of Ministers in
Christ's Church, Bishops, Priests, and Deacons," sinks
deeper and deeper into the American mind.