The Sun. — 1850-12-16 (London, England)

THE LIMERICK ELECTION. TRIUMPH OF MR. GOOLD. (From the Dublin World of Saturday.) We are delighted to be able to announce that the Limerick election has virtually terminated in the triumph of the representative of rational Liberal principles, and the defeat, not alone of the champion of stolid, stupid, "learn-nothing-forget-nothing" Irish Toryism, but the total discomfiture and ignominious rout of the gang of lay and clerical imposture, who under the " felon flag" of the Tenant League, have perambulated the county during the last six weeks, and done their utmost by stirring up the worst passions, by the utterance of the foulest calumnies, by exciting class against class, to accomplish their object, which was openly avowed not to be merely the return of Mr. Ryan, but the commencement of a reign of terror, bullying, and intimidation, in every county and borough in Ireland. Mr. Lucas announced, a few days ago, that upon the issue of the election he would stake the very existence of the Tenant League. Well, clearly, unequivocally, and with trumpet-tongue, has the county of Limerick addressed the delusion " Thou shalt die.', The honest men of Limerick have literally followed our advice—they have " repudiated and cast from them" the landless and peripatetic adventurers, who presumed to dragoon them in the exercise of their political privilege. Lucas, however, and his fellows, will still endeavour to trade upon what remains of popular credulity, which is " becoming small by degrees, and beautifully less." The following is from our own reporter:— Limerick, Friday evening. The contest is, in reality, at an end. Goold, your favourite, rides the first horse. The Dicksonites are sadly chagrined; but the rage of the supporters of Ryan, the Tenant League nominee, knows no bounds. The Roman Catholic clergy, almost to a man, at the eleventh hour, consulted their true instincts, and refused to have anything further to do with the itinerant bullies of the Tenant League. At five o'clock the High Sheriff entered the Court, and directed his deputies to close the books; he also intimated to the Tenant League orators that he would cause the Court to be cleared at six o'clock. This announcement gave rise to a disturbance, which for some time assumed a threatening a,pect ; till candles were, with one solitary exception, extinguished. When order was restored, the meeting was addressed by Mr. Ryan, the Rev. Mr. Bell, Mr. Joynt, Mr. Fuller, and Mr. Lucas, in the usual strain, the heads of which may be summed up in " Partizan Sheriff—bristling dragoons—gross bribery—landlord tyranny—victorious defeat—right f petition—murdered families—colours nailed to the mast—gauntlet thrown down—snivelling, sneaking Whigs—covert enemies—open foes—traitor priests, Sze.' They also charged the High Sheriff with limiting them to one hour's oratorical display; but when it is remembered that they had the exclusive occupation of the hustings, that all their speeches were ex parte, and the subjects of which those speeches were composed consisted of unmitigated abuse of the High Sheriff himself, the authorities, civil and military, and the rival candidates, perhaps the impartial and unprejudiced mind will admit that the privilege should have been courteously acknowledged, and not made the means of indulging in the most unrestrained and virulent liberty of speech. The followipg is the state of the poll:— Poll for the Day. Geoid 74 Dickson 44 ... Ryan ... 21 ... Majority of Goold over Dickson Ryan  Gross. 226 la 9 128