Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-08-11

THE ENGLISH ELEcrIoSs.-The English cleo
tions resemble nothing So much as hurri-
cane. For two or three days the storm
RACES in London. and, having spent its fury,
goes on ~ rage in Scotland and lrclanu.
" here il has passed, the reporters gather 10
trace its workings, and the papers TEEN with
accounts of how many political bones were
broken-how many comfortable tory or whig
boroughs turned tOIsy turvy, and not uDire-
auently how many Leads were, in plain
physical sense, smashed. There have been
10 fewer than dUzen violent mobs, inyoly-
ing in one or two cases loss of lie, and still
more losses of limb. The hustings IN Lon
don presented scenes which beggar descrip-
ton The crowds were like surges under
the lash Of storms, and have IN my memory
only a hOl eless mass Of roaring, yelling
roughs, and OF candidates with arms and lips
moving in dumb show. The whole detcrmi-
nation of a crowd at the hustings u not to
let single word Of any candidate be heard
on any consideration whatever, and for this
they screech, sqneal, squeak, shrek, whistle,
yell, yawp, and roar, from tall 1, when
one great climsteric shout proclaims that the
funeral wake Of one and the birth-pang OF
another candidate has passed.
The most considerable riot during the
election has teen at Belfast, where the syn
chronization Of the 18th OF July with the
nomination dav gave occasion, as might have
been expected, TO q row. The Orangemen
are said TO have begun the mischief by pack
ing the COur, House and refusing hearing
to Lord John Hay and his supporters. sir
Hugh Cairns was received with frantic
cheering, waving Of bludgeons and orange
ha andkerchiefs, and the kentish hrc. cir
Hugh Cairns made q personal attack IN his
speech on Lord J. LAY, and persons who ln-
terrupted were beaten and expelled. Lord
J. Hay rose to speak bat for hall an hour he
was hooted and hiss d. Meanwhile blud-
gems and orange scarfs were being waved
lie declared ths, he would ~ to the poll and
6yht to the last. The military were IN
force in the streets Of the town, and quiet
ness vas at length secured. though not for
long time, as stoue-throwing mohs met soon
aft rward and engagements ensued. The
police drove them away and made some cap
lures. but later IN the day 800 men, armed
with bludgeons. dashed 0ut of Snithheid,
the Roman Catholic quarter, into Brown
street, the Protestant quarter, where the
navyies wrecked the schOolhouse last July.
They broke all the windows and reiterated
into Smithield.
At Chippenham the mob seem to have
taken hint from Belfast, and commenced
wrcckingn Conservative houses, stoning
one sick old gentleman as he lay in bed, tIll
his life was only preserved by his servants
holding mp boards around him. lt was at
last found necessary 10 send for troops from
Windsor, and fifty men Of Ehe guards. under
the command of Capt. llencage, We're de-
patched by train, with sixty rounds OF ball
cartridge spieec. At Dudley, Mr.. Trus-
colts commi tee were compelled to advise
| electors not to subject themselves To further
| danger and lndignIty by attempting 10 reach
| the polling booths and at Lynn. Mgr
| Walpole, the conservative candidate, was
wounded IN the face. Ia Carlisle the prO-
ceedings were stopped by vUlleys OF hays hli-
! ed with SCOT and dye powder, and Alr. n"dg-
son returned thanks for his election, booking
like q negro melydist. AT Oldham the mill
ary were called out; at Nottingham the riot
act was read at Tayistock Mr. Slmuda was
| forced, after election, 10 run t0r hIs LIE, and
/ leave the tuwn secretly and at Sheffield the
mob suddenly decreed that bats should not
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appeared in particular streets.
Mr.. Haig. the Conservative who opposed
| Thomas Hughes, gave, in an address alter
his defeat, an amusing account OF the sor-
rows of candidate who is beaten. lie
said -!0la.lr .rr
" He did not comc TO Lambeth. IL was
Lambeth that cam TO him. lie received q
4 letter, stating that there were fifty Conscr-
yative gentlemen of the highest position in
the borough, who would act on his commit
tee lie Immediately went TO the writer,
| and told him lie had f300 lying on deposit
| receipt at his bankers, and he would pay
that down. The gentleman thereupOa told
him to 90 and write an address. lie went
TO his chambers and wrote very fast and with
yery little consideration. the address which
he had been told was the address OF a Radi-
cal. After be had paid for the insertion OF
his address in the papers, the same gentle
man came 70 HIM and said that what he bad
promised he could not perform; that be
j could not guarantee that his. Mr. HaIg 81
A cxpeuses would not bc more than E3O0, and
that the fifty gentlemen Of high rank would
not fnd a shilling. lie thereupon said to
4 shis gentleman, You cannot contest fhc
borough under { 300 you must find flOOC
somewhere IL vas painful position to
have an addrss in the newspapers and ther
be compelled either to withdraw l, or tC
spend $1,000. lie could fight q losing battls
with as much pluck as most people, and be
determined TO spend the $1,000. lie hac
spens it. or at least supposed 80 Il was al
out OF his own pocket, all but fl0. which h
had borrowed " hls nephew. lie did no
believe that the gentleman TO whom he hat
referred intended 70 deceive him. and he de
cl,ped 20 give his name. Butt was pain
full; position, @, Iie sat alone 10 his eommitse
room and nobody had come near him. y
4 London letter. july Is. .,-