New-York tribune., 1868-12-22

speech should be saluted by some brawny
longshoreman with "Put in thy Gods
"head and shoulders Yet this would be
the mere seasoning of Yorkshire speech.
Sometimes the speakers go into these meetings
with "scientiflc backers"-men able and will
ing to bark hOot, YELL or whistle down their
antagonists, or to lay gentle hands (noMter
mdnuS impOnere) on any opponent who should
attempt TO groan, cackle, or crow in the
opposite interest, or to hnri germs OF
British poultry at the scOnce of his own right
honorable candidate. In case both parties
adopt this salutary precautiOn, the best blood
of Britain flows freely at about the cost of the
like quantity of beer We are told of ono
meeting that "after long discussion
"upon the Irish Church and its pros
"pects, they fought for half an hour"
On another occasion a dauntless demo-
crat is engaged lowing to an inability to
agree on the Irish Church question: in single
"combat for several minutes with highly
respected friend Of the constitutional cause"
"The farmers, young and old, hit out tremen-
"dousy for Church and State, as well as for
"maIt and corn, and they are generally too
"many for tho towns people. at Ilawick the
"border men quite oyerpOwered the weayers,
"the original Dandy DlnmOnt being able to take
1.-TWO Of the weaver bodies in his brawny
EARNS, knock their heads together, and then
" drop them, stunned, for another pair" Alasl
under our system Of universal suffrage Q0r
nearly all this fighting is done by men who
have no votes, and hence no other means OF
striking blow for their cause than by breaking
the skull of somebody who has)-under our
system, heads, however empty, have acquired
factitious value which prevents their play
ing so useful part IN the fight
Lists Of the killed and wounded'trom all parts
of tho kingdom are not yet received 1t will
take as long to collect them, and they VIII
occupy, if printed, nearly as many columns IN
The Gazette as would tho casualties after
an important battle. Hardly any county
or borough was exempt from riOting,
and many leading towns were swept over
by successive mobs for days together the
police and military being the only parties
who were thoroughly subdued and disposed
to let everybody alone. At Belfast, the
roughs captured the town, and the candidates
fed for life. At Monaghan, the Liberal ruff
fans waylaid and shot a Conservative party
At Blaenaford, PontypOol and Aberyschan
continued and fatal riots occurred,
the towns being for several days con-
tested between force Of four hundred
special constables aud tho rioters, the former
succeeding in arrcsting seventy-seven OF the
latter after they had sacked the inns and other
buildings and destroyed number Of lives. At
Bolton the soldiers were called out and the
Riot act read. At Upton the Liberal mob beat
and nearly killed the Conservative candidate.
At Newport the soldiers, in charging Oh the
rioters, ran through with the bayonet, not only
n young man, one of the rioters but his
mother also, who was attempting 20 save his
life.
Wigan In Southwest Lancashire Or. Glad
stones district) contained so strong an anti
Irish mob that its devotion to the Established
Church could only be appeased by clubbing
every man who dared vote for Gladstone and
Grenfell. The Rev. Philip Hans. the vicar
of tho parish though q clergyman OF
tho English Church. had warmly favored
the disestablshment of that church In
Ireland US fraught only with evil to the
Christian cause and to the Irish people For
casting his vote for Gladstone he was beset
by this crowd of boors on his way from the
polls, beaten down. kicked "with their clogs
"in the usual Wgan style" until stunned,
when his life was barely saved By two Tory
gentlemen at the risk of their own.
We might continue the recital Gd nGuSeGm.
Even including the damning atrocities of the
"month of assassinationsn which preceded our
late election in the Southern States, where
race of conquered and rebellous shareholders
were permitted to vote on terms Of equality
and side by side with race of unOffending
freedmen, tho history of American elections
presents no parallel to the vulgar depravity,
crime, and lawlessness which characterized the
ate contest in Great Britain. III change of
Government accomplished or sustained by
successful forco be a revolution, England has
been moro thoroughly revolutionizod than
Spain. Bribery also was very openly and
generally practiced. "The man in the MOON"
with Go for every voter who would sell his
vote, was readily accessible in some
back corner Of nearly every borough. Offices
we're opened for tho purchase Of votes,
as in New York for the sale of certificates Of
naturalization. Fraud, in far moro manifest
and shameless form than was practiced here
characterized some bOroughs. AT meeting OF
the committee acting for Mr.. Beales, the de-
foated candidate for the Tower Hamlets. it was
alleged by him that two or three hundred
voters were refused permission TO vote because
they had forgotten their proper numbers; others
were kept back by the police. Mr.. Beales pre-
dicted that the rejection by such means OF Mr.
Gladstone in Southwest Lancashire, of Mr.
Mill In Westminster, and of himself for the
Tower Hamlets, would ultimately secure the
ballot TO the people of England. Considering
.Iat .a nor;ao ,rlo In n,nat raanecta cOrre-