The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-10-28

~noAAAs AhSAO io III iuctouVc h0inos-oA WIN
renown for co nmerce, manufactures, literature and
piety-which has also 0rangemen and Ribbenmen.
Their chaplain, DR.. Drew, preached to the former
on July the 18th, the day that commemorstes-
On July the l2n, in oldbridge town,
There wasa grievous battle,
Where many . man lay dead On the ground
| BY tho caDnons thai did rattle.
And his text was, aye are the salt of the earth,
which, and its application were very pleasing to the
men of Sandy Row. But the latter, the denzens Of
the Pound, on the watch for an insult, heard some
sounds as Of fife and drum in the distance, and rush
ing to their DOORS were Mortified at the spectacle of
man on q car waving a bunch Of orange lille
around his head as he galloped along. 1t turned out
that he was one Of themselves and that he did it to
kick up row; and he succeeded. SO that for nine
mortal nights fighting, firing and house wrecking
! went on.
when the military had gained the mastery over
this, the Rev. Hugh Hanna, knowing that there are
multitudes of outliers who don't "come i'm to the
churches, which are numerous enough and have
room enough, instead Of going and getting his cleri-
cal brethren ana town missionaries to so from house
to house and from street, to compel the 0uters to
"come In ard fill the empty space in the churches,
determined to address them without. They wouldn't
stand it, and 30 there another set Of night rOwdy
ing and wrecking, and the Lord Lieutenant in coun-
Gil bad to proclaim the town. And when, instead OF
giving up their arms and living in peace, the fight
| ing men carried them over the border, he had to
amend the proclamation by including in it Ballyna-
leigh and 1ullyhubbert, and a dozen other Fullys
and Ballys, with polysyllabic and unpronounceabls
| aouncts.
Then we have commission sitting in Galway.
the city of the tribes" to investigate the state Of
matters to the exercise Of the elective franchise;
for it appears that the Belfast people had taken
TO the breaking of heads and windows, the freemen
of Galway bad been in the habit Of breaking mem
bers of Parliament by the sums they required for
their votes; to make up for which they had other
resources, whether liberal or patriotic, or indepen
dent than to sell their own votes to turn the minis
try for the time being The Commissioner, Mr.
Leahy Q. G.. acted very wisely; he first ruled that
no one should suffer by any disclosures, and forth
with there was rivalry in confession aud discovery.
The sum is that canvass meant bargaining for
votes; sometimes the bargain was with the landlord,
and then it was matter of calculation whether ii
was cheaper to give him, say $500, or TO deal with
the voters individually At other times there was
market price varying according to the times or the
purse of the candidate or his calculation to what
he could make by his sale of situations from flO to
| f3 per VOTE
| In making returns of the election expenses,
| this money was never taken into the account; for
the candidate left his trends to regulate all this he
knew nothing of the amount till it all over; and
then, to his cost, he often found himself mulcted In
| thousands, where be only counted upon tens TIE
| brides were paid by tickets, given out by person
whose face was not seen, and carried for payment
after having voted, to hole in wall through which
the money was handed by another invisible. So sys
tematic and hsbitual had all this become that honor
able ard respectable men that is, in other respects
ana in other tTansactons-Dr. Browne one oftbe Col
lege Professors Mr. Flaherty, who had been 81. p,
and Mr.. Blake candidate could see nothing wrong
in it, They have in Galway men enough as free
men"-ihat is belonging to some of the guilds, as
shoemakers, carpenters and the ike-to swamp the
respectable householdels as we have in Dublin; but
with this difference, that in Galway they must be
actually of the craft, but in Dublin the right to be
bribed goes to the sons and erandsons.
Nor is it only out OF home affairs that we have
contrived to elicit discord the whole Irish press
beng in hot warfare, whether in the Belfast riots,
the Roman Catholics are the "causeess aggressors'
or innocent martyrs" We are all ct skies and
sevens about India. Not only are De papers named
at the commencement of this accused of ex-
ul.iBg in the atrocities perpetru1d on the English
in lndia-whe these papers distinguish between
these atrocities and the struggle OF the natives,
foreign yoke-which accusation and defence give
full employment TO the press. There Is variance
between the Cardinal Legate OF England and the
ArchisPiscopal Legate OF lreland-Drs. Wiseman
and Cullen on the one hand, and the government and
Protestant clergy and public on the other-as to con-
trbutions for the fearful and wide spread distress In
winch the sepoy massacrss have involved such null.
| titudes.
The great body Of the people both in Britain and
Ireland think that the first thing is to recoDquer
India and relieve those who have escaped massacre
with the loss of all-then talk of good government,
outstanding and fair play for all classes and creeds
in India DIR. Wiseman will appropriate the collec-
tons made the result Of his pastoral, first to
pair the losses Of vestments and sacred utensils and
surplus, If any, to the relief OF temporal suffering.
DR.. Cullen, now in Rome, writes TO his vicar, DR..
Yore that collections had better be suspended till ii
is ascerained that they will be distributed fairly,
there was partially in the management Of the Cri-
mean patriotic fund and that soldiers should be
shy Of enisting till there IL better provision made
for a supply Of Roman Catholic chapains. None
Of the Roman Catholic clergy attended the meeting
10 form an Indian relief fund and the outcry Is the
greater that more than fls0 900 were contributed in
India to the Irish famine relief fund.
believe the rightjudging think that England was
unrighteous in acquiring and tyranncal in ruling
much Of her Indian territories that for long time
she discouraged the propagation of her own reli.
gion, and up 70 the present time the great mass Of
her officials dishonor 1t, leaving the natives TO infer
that they are infdel and irreligious people, But
10 leave that country TO be parceled out again iato
petty, rival states Mohammedan or Hindoo, would
e 70 give It owe, to lasting anarchy bsrbarsm and
| and then contend for fair and honest govern.
ment, free course for Christianity the prompt aid
Efficient employment OF the means OF civilization
| peace ard happiness.
There has been a series OF mshaps in regard TO
the erection Of the statue OF Tom Moore. First II
was 70 have been inaugurated with oil the honors,
curing the meeting OF the British Association1in
which 30 many Of our fair countrywomen enrolled
themselves, shelving that they are capable Of some
thing better than what Moore in bis songs repre-
sented them, that IL, 70 be mans pretty paything
| while he Ia at his wine-but the pedestal was
| crockett must be altered Then, another day
was fixed but the storm had displaced much OF the
| pedestal 1T was postponed. Then Wednesday last
was 70 be the day; but the Queen, in council,
ordered all TO 60 70 church and pray for the suf
ferers in India and contribute 70 their relief and
| il is now fixed 10 be next Wednesday. Meanwhile,
| there stands Tom, covered over with sackcoth TO
keep profane eyes from seeing him in marble, till
i Carlisle the representative OF the wings bis pa
4 irons lands and uncovers him.
| Our Queens University has Just held It's annual
meeting for the examination for honors and prizes
and the comforting Of degrees on the students Of
| the three coleges-Belfast, Cork and Galway
| which, united, form the said University. IL will
crafty the lovers OF intellectual and social progress
10 learn that these colleges ore advancing in the
/ numbers OF students, and their success at public
competitive examinations, while the fact that 80
| many of them are intended for pursuits FOR which
/ degree IL unnecessary, causes fewer 70 graduate
/ than would otherwise be the case.
Our Berlin Corrsspondsoos.