The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-28 00:00:00

DUBLIN ELECTION

The election commenced on Monday morning, and, we
are happy to say, with the utmost good humour on both
sides—a feeling which, we sincerely hope, may continue and
be kept up throughout the contest. The speeches were all
characterised by good temper and moderation.
Lord Morpeth was proposed by the Hon. Mr. Caulfield—
like his principal, a non-resident and a stranger to the citi-
zens of Dublin, and who has not even the privilege of being
an elector ; he was seconded by the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Gregory was proposed by Sir John Kingston James,
Bart., ex-lord mayor, and seconded by George Moore, Esq.,
formerly, and for many years, the respected member for the
city.

The Hon. Mr. Howard, brother of Lord Morpeth, then
addressed the assembled multitude, as proxy for the absent
candidate. _ _ _

Mr. Gregory then came forward. He said he asked for
nothing but fair play—he asked for nothing but what was his
most earnest wish to grant to every political antagonist.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He felt, however, that it was due
to his character to refute some misrepresentations which had
been circulated in reference to him. It had been said that
he had been at a public meeting when a cry of " To hell with
the Pope" was raised, and that he joined in that cry. He had
passed too many days in the Eternal City,—he felt too much
respect for the grey hairs and age of the venerable prelate, to
participate in such sentiments as those in which it was said he
had concurred. He owed it to his Roman Catholic friends,
honourable and upright men as they were—to refute the mis-
representations to which he had alluded. He solemnly decla-
red he had never heard the expression, and that if he bad, his
only feeling would have been disgust. (Immense cheers.)
He came forward to solicit the suffrages of the Conservative
constituency of Dublin. He came forward to be placed in
a position to represent the four great elements of which
their constituency was composed. He came forward to re-
present the clergy, the landed proprietary, the commercial
men, and the legal profession. He would ask of what class
of persons Lord Morpeth desired to be the representative ?
Did he desire to represent the repealers ? No, for a inure
decided and determined hostility to repeal and repealers was
never evinced by the most furious partisan upon the other
side than had been evinced by him. The speaker then
quoted a paragraph from the speech of King William 11. r.,
delivered in 1833, expressive of his disapprobation of the
agitation for repeal, and his determination, at all hazards,
to preserve the legislative union between the two countries.
Lord Morpeth voted for the address in answer to this speech
which was an echo of it; and it was in the course of the
debate upon that occasion that the whigs received the happy
name of " base, brutal, and bloody." (Loud cheers.) It
had been said that he was but a boy ; and he asked his
political opponents would they act judiciously in raising a
man in all the vigour of intellectual superiority to a station
in which he would have an opportunity of opposing the
darling objects of their lives—repeal ! Would it not have
been better to have selected a man who was not able to
retard the measure by any talent or energy ? (" Hear," and
laughter.) But his lordship's opposition to repeal was not
the only cause of complaint which be had given to his party.
They had heard of a bill stigmatised as the Coercion Bill.
Who voted for that bill !—Lord Morpeth. (Loud cheers.)
It was in the course of the depate upon that measure that
the most influential supporter of his lordship declared that
if the bill were carried into execution it would produce in
Ireland a civil war. Lord Morpeth voted for this bill, and
' consequently should be regarded as an exterminator, and one
ready to fan the flame of civil war in the country. (Cheers.)
Had not Lord Morpeth ever refused to lay upon the table of
the House of Commons a bill for the extension of the fran-
chise? This privilege did not compromise the consistency
of a member, either as to tke principle of a bill or its details,
and Lord Morpeth might have brought it forward without
any sacrifice of principle. (Hear.) . It had been said that
this was an awful crisis, and that the foreign relations of
England were in a most precarious position ; but he asked
was Lord Morpeth, who differed with Mr. O'Connell (by
whom the statement had been made) in his views as to
foreign policy, the proper man to select to relieve England
from her embarrassment ? (Hear, hear.) What chance had
Lord Morpeth of being supported by the clergy, the landed
proprietors, the mercantile men of the country, or the bar?
He had been associated with a ministry who reduced many
of the Protestant clergy to starvation—(cheers)--he was the
advocate of corn laws which would destroy the properties of
the landed proprietors—(cheers)—be would of course pro•
mote the manufactures of England instead of patronising
those of Ireland, and he was a member of the ministry who
perpetrated one of the most unblushing jobs, in the appoint-
ment of a Scotchman as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, that
ever disgraced the annals of a country. (Loud cheers.)
He, therefore, could not expect support from the bar, com-
mercial men, agriculturists, or the clergy. (Cheers.) Ili;

(Mr. Gregory) was termed a boy, he was an' " Irish boy,"
and fully identified with Irish interests, and any electrical
shock of a revolutionary nature through Ireland would in-
volve the interests of himself and his family. (Loud Cheers•)
When the proceedings terminated, Mr. O'Connell was
heard to express himself in admiration of the display made
and after Mr. Gregory bad concluded his speech, Air. George
Roe, Mr. Peter Purcell, and several other demon
gen • •
to the conservative candidate in politics, requested to be
in-
troduced to him; and thus ended the first day of election,
unlike any that ever occurred within our recollection ni the
city of Dublin opposed

THE POLLING.
CLOSE OF FIRST PAY

Gregory.
Morpeth

CLOSE OF SECOND DAY

Gregory.
Morpeth

Majority for GregorY

SUDDEN DEATU.---on Monday, Abraham Copeland, of
Tathwell, labourerEsq., alter eating,
symptoms of dissolution.—Lincoln Herald.
while. engaged in tying up
Fred• Chaplin,
straw in '3
hearty dinner, and t°
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Chaplin's stack-yard, expired without manifesting, the slight...
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that, in the town of Maid-
enhead, United States, the girls have made an improvement
in ironing which beats the steam-engine
all hollow ! They
WAumJaonr—AST :
spread eam-engine on common roads
out all the clothes on a smooth
platform, and fasten hot flat-irons to their feet and skate
over them! This is combining the recreative with the useful
and ornamental.

'STENIrCOMET.-Mr. J. Jennings, of South Pool, Devon-
shire, discovered a comet in the constellation Leo, on Friday,
the 14th. The place of its perihelion is in 27 deg. 50 m. of
Leo, its hetiocentric motion is retrogade, and consequently
its orbit is inclined towards the north east part of the
heavens ; its parallax is very small, consequently the at-
mosphere must be exceedingly clear to render it visible to the
naked eye, It has a small appendage which proceeds from
its atmosphere, reflecting the solar rays, and will disappear
in a few evenings.