The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-07-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CORK.—In this city the outrages commenced on Satur day evening, and were continued on Sunday night, large mobs perambulating the city, and knocking at the doors of the supporters of Colonel Chatterton to intimidate them against voting. On the morning of Monday, the great day of polling, they proceeded to actual violence, stoning without mercy, and assaulting with bludgeons the voters for tho Conservative candidates. At half-past eight o'clock two gentlerden, who had just voted, wereattacked by a mob of 500 persons, and, severely ill-treated, one of them being stabbed in the head by a sharp instrument. Shortly after four other gentlemen, named Bradford, were murderously assailed at one of theolling booths, and one of them, an aged man, was frightfully cut in the head and had his gold watch and his hat stolen. A clergyman was assailed in the same booth, and a sub-inspector of police in endeavouring to protect him, was severely cut in the face with a stone. After this, complete terrorism existed throughout the city ; and an, information sworn _to by Mr, French, as justice of the peade, states that " after one o'clock any persons coming to the-Poll to vote for Colonel Chatterton could not proceed with safety, to their lives. "Throughout the day," remarks the Cork Constitution, the "dilapidation of houses and the assaulting of voters continued almost uninterruptedly by vast mobs, who perambulated all the streets of the city, dragging people from their houses to vote. and surrounding those of others, to prevent their voting. These outrages, it cannot be denied, are the result of the peace arrangements, which were most effective in allowing the mobs to run riot through the city. To swell these mobs, bands of desperate women, more savage in their demeanour than the most brutal men, were brought in from rural parishes, and over 100 of them took their discharges from the Cork workhouse on Monday morning, and so well did they all execute their order, that even Mr. Fagan, when addressing them in the evening, could not help ejaculating, " Glory to the women of Cork ! Them are we to thank for our position to-day !" ** * * The Protestant Churches seemed to be specially decreed for attack. The mobs broke the windows in several of them, and tore up the trees in their burial grounds. Even the aged Protes tant female alms-houses were not forgotten—that of Blarney-lane was tattered unmercifully." Whilst these outrages were going on some 2,000 dragoons, infantry, and police, under the orders of a stipendiary magistrate, were slowly parading the principal streets in almost useless array ; and, even when they were assailed by the mob with stones and other missiles, no orders were given them to repel the assailants. Under these circumstances, it will be seen that out of a list containing about 3,000 voters, only two-thirds voted. The following is the close of the poll : Murphy .. Fagan ... . . . 1220 Chatterton Perrier .. On Wednesday evening a very numerous and influential meeting was held, when a series of resolutions were passed, expressive of the determination of the Conservative electors to support Colonel Chatterton in the prosecution of a petition against the return of Mr. Serjeant Murphy and Mr. Fagan. A. sum of £6OO was subscribed in the room, Mr. Hudson, M.P., putting down his name for £lOO.— As a specimen of the influence exercised by the Roman Catholic priesthood, we quote the following from the Cork Constitution :—As one of a number of poor fellows said on Saturday to a gentleman to whom they had promised to vote, as they had before voted, for Colonel Chatterton —" We'd like to vote for the colonel, sir, but what can we do ? The priest has been here and he told us we'd go to hell if we voted for Colonel Chatterton ; and you know, sir, we don't go against the priest, for we have no one but him to look to when we're dying, and he won't give us the rites of our church if we go against him."