and flanked on the other, with the Constabulary, under SubInspectors Crawford and Wray-than whom there are not in command of the Constabulary force officers more efficient; and thus were hemmed in the ruffians who came, not to assert the liberty of the subject, but to prevent the exercise of the constitutional right of the subject-not to vote, for even one voter the vile crew mustered not in their array-but to hinder, by physically incapacitating, those who were qualified to vote. Disarmament was the order of the day. The Crawford mob was speedily relieved of knives, daggers, fire-arms-in bulk and quantity justifying the supposition that the sacking of the town was contemplated; and, very properly inferring the intent from the exposition before his eyes, the Magistrate, officially representing the Executive Government, promptly promulgated the following notification, which perceptibly had an immediate sedative effect:

"NOTICE.-COUNTY OF DOWN-Whereas I have received information, on oath, that it is intended, by force and violence, to interrupt the taking of the poll, at this election, I hereby give notice, that the punishment for said offence is transportation for seven years, pursuant to the statute 35 George 3rd, cap. 27, sec. 12. In consequence of a large mob, several of whom having fire-arms and ammunition secreted among them, and all being armed with bludgeons, having entered the town this morning, Notice is hereby given, that, in case of any outbreak, the authorities are determined to use the most summary means to suppress same, and to punish the aggressors.

"BARTW. WARBURTON, Resident Magistrate. "22nd July, 1852, half-past 9, a.m."

The electric shock, thus communicated, operated to an unexpected extent. Against brute force, brought into play by the priests of Rome, moral energy and religious principle, by such a spell conjured, at once stood arrayed. The mob demonstration, the aspect and the war-cries of the gang and, of the priests by whom the array was ushered in, availed, to our personal knowledge, to bring over to the side of civil and religious freedom not a few of the thoughtful and long-headed Presbyterians; who, deluded by a mock pretence, had been lured into the camp of the enemy of their church and of their faith.

That enemy was unscrupulous in the use of means. There were every available appliances brought into operation, to corrupt, to intimidate, to coerce. Mill-owners we could name who most liberally offered, to poor and struggling men, the temptation of the bribe, which they attempted to gloss as an "Indemnity." Obstructions were, in all quarters, placed in the way of free access to the polling-booths. The conveyances bringing the tenants from the Fortescue estate into Newry were

delayed, by substantially-built barricades, erected on the road between the Blackskull and Dromore, necessitating resort to a circuitous route of several miles. To a numerous body of voters from Morne-headed by Mr. T. G. Henry, J.P., and Mr. James Coates, J.P.-such interruption was threatened as necessitated recourse to the protective presence of a company of the 71st Highlanders, conducted by Major Hall, J. P. Nor was the intimidation confined to the early part of the day. In the afternoon, the cars conveying homewards the voters from Rathfriland, and Hilltown were set upon above the Hospital; but the waylayers found the points presented by the Lancers overpersuasive arguments. Half-way to Rathfriland, another onslought was made, equally ineffectually. In Hilltown-apparently owing to the fact that the cars bringing the voters from that locality had found shelter at Hilltown Lodge, the Inn being occupied by the troop of Lancers-Mr. W. B. Lindsay was waylaid on passing through the village; but, again, the cowardly waylayers found that manhood might overmatch sneaking treachery.

From the Downpatrick Recorder.

But were these Ribbonmen identified with the Tenant Leaguers? Clearly so. It is the genius of popery to seize upon every new phase which promises to convulse society, and lead to plunder. Many have been revolutionary societies with which Romanists have been connected, differing in names, but possessing the same essential features. In O'Connel's lifetime, they changed like hues of the chameleon. When the rebellion

of '48 was exploded, the disappointed rebels threw themselves eagerly into the ranks of the Tenant League, becaused it promised the same chief object-the property of the country. The guides of the assailants in this case were the would be rebels-now Tenant Leaguers. But the identity of the Ribbon and Tenant League proceedings was made apparent on Monday by the parties themselves. There were, as stated in the report, three parties-one from Saul, a second from Loughinisland (these two Ribbon bodies), and a third, professedly Tenant-right men, from Rademon. When the second party had arrived in town with their "big loaf," a few of them proceeded to meet the Rademon men, thus showing a previous knowledge of their arrival, and a preconcerted arrangement. When these two parties formed a junction, the Rademon men enquired of the Loughinisland men if the Saul men had arrived; showing a previous knowledge and preconcerted arrangement. The Rademon men had no bludgeons, but, as if to confirm the saying, that "evil communications corrupt good manners," as soon as they were met by the Loughinisland men, they filled their pockets with stones. There is clearly, then, complete identity

in this case between Ribbonmen and the Tenant Leaguers, There was, also, identity in action. If the Rademon men did not mount the gallery and bludgeon the Conservatives; they did what mischief they could in the lower part of the house. Yet, Mr. Girdwood tells us Mr. Crawford's friends are no partymen! Ribbonmen and not party-men! But take it the other way. Suppose Mr. Crawford's friends are not Ribbonmen, yet they are the men who committed the disgraceful attack upon unarmed and inoffensive individuals. The parties who committed this outrage are Mr. Crawford's friends! He may be proud of them-men who have not a vote among them.

What could have been the objects of the unmanly attack referred to? We think we can see two. The assailants, at the same time, gratified their hatred to Protestants and served their friend. And how did they serve him? Why the intention of those who employed them was to intimidate electors, and prevent them coming forward to the poll.

MONAGHAN.

From the Warder.

THE TENANT LEAGUE-At the summons of the priests, large numbers of the popish peasantry were drafted from the neighbouring counties, to assist in overpowering the Protestants of Monaghan, and upwards of twenty thousand infuriated ruffians were prepared to act at a signal from their ecclesiastical leaders. But so admirably were the arrangements by those entrusted with the conduct of the election, and so firm was the attitude of the Protestant party, that the venture seemed too perilous. There was, indeed, just enough of violence to indicate the ferocious intentions of the popish mob; but they were restrained by prudent apprehension of consequences, and the Tenant Leaguers had to quietly submit to their fate.

From a private Correspondent of the Newry Telegraph. CARRICMACROSS, July 19.-Yesterday (Sunday) the ultramontane candidate for this county, Dr. Gray, attended the various chapels in this neighbourhood, and lectured after mass. There was no 10 o'clock mass in the town, as the clergy were assisting the Doctor in the country The 12 o'clock service was hurried over (extra steam put on). The "sermon" was preached by Dr. Gray; after which he started for another Chapel, in the parish of Enniskeen, to agitate. Some whiskey was distributed amongst the town vagrants, who, getting rather unruly, were taken charge of by the police. Will any Presbyterian vote for Dr. Gray-seduced by a word-a mere humbug-" Tenantright ?" No one here understands what it means. It is for

their religion they (the Romanists) are to contend. The Ecclesiastical Titles' Bill-Derby Proclamation, and Stockport riots, form the stock in trade of the agitators here. Tenantright is for gulling the Protestants.

DERRY.

From a Correspondent of the Newry Telegraph.

The Election for the county Londonderry comes off on Monday, the 19th, and Tuesday, the 20th inst. The excitement throughout the country is very great, but the returns up to the present are in favor of Messrs Bateson and Jones, The opposite party are using every exertion to secure the return of Mr. Greer. They stop at nothing to support their weak and tottering cause. The priests are using every exertion possible in his (Mr. Greer's) favor. Two respectable men were canvassing, on behalf of Bateson and Jones, one day last week, when they were met by a certain priest not forty miles from Moneymore, who asked them were they canvassing for those gentlemen ? "Yes," was the reply. "Then," said the priest, "you are canvassing for the devil." Terrorism of every kind is exercised over the heads of every one canvassing or intending to vote for Messrs. Bateson and Jones.

Nor did the priests confine themselves to the exercise of the intimidatory and coercive influence of anathematizing and denouncing. In all parts where there dare be recourse had to positive compulsion, the Roman Catholic Electors, who, under the notion that freedom of thought and action might be asserted in a free State, attempted to emancipate themselves from a condition of spiritual serfdom, were set upon by the bullying priests and their bravoes, and coerced into submission and obedience.

PRIESTLY INTERFERENCE.-The Derry Standard says:

"The spirit of sacerdotal intimidation at elections, which unhappily prevails to so great an extent in the south and west of Ireland, has, fortunately for us, heretofore been little known in the north. It has been reported to us, on trustworthy authority, that at several of the Roman Catholic chapels in the county an order has been read from the altar, directing the different members of the congregation to vote for Mr. Greer. A document, forwarded by Archbishop Cullen to the various Roman Catholics in this county, is stated to be the cause of this unusual movement. At Newtownlimavady on Sunday, the 27th ult., the priest is reported to have stated that the rites of the church would be denied to any Roman Catholic elector voting for Captain Jones or Mr. Bateson. At Dungiven Chapel, on Tuesday, being St. Peter's day, the Roman Catholic

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elctors were cautioned not to vote for the present members, but to support Mr. Greer; and the order from Archbishop Cullen was read from the altar. At Maheraboy Chapel, the poor deluded people were called upon strenuously to support Mr. Greer, the priest declaring that he would sooner suffer his right arm to be cut off than vote for Jones or Bateson."

DONEGAL.

The polling commenced in the several baronies at nine o'clock on Tuesday morning. It was soon evident that Mr. Johnston, the League candidate, and nominee of the Radical faction, depended for his return principally upon brute force and intimidation.

The voters in the barony of Raphoe were polled in Lifford. At an early hour in the morning the town was filled by most ruffianly-looking fellows, all armed with bludgeons. These scoundrels came from a distance, and were unknown to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The first attempt was to prevent the voters of Conolly and Hayes from entering the booth, and in this they would have succeeded, had it not been for the untiring exertions of Robert George Montgomery, Esq., assisted by Sir Robert Bateson, Bart, who headed the constabulary, and kept the avenues leading to the different polling places clear. Sir E. S. Hayes and a large number of voters, on their way to Lifford, were detained for some hours in Stranorlar, surrounded by an immense mob, until the arrival of a body of constabulary, when they were escorted into Lifford. Mr. Johnston, SUPPORTED BY A STAFF OF PRIESTS, appeared opposite the Court-house, when the candidate of the "Catholic Defence Association" delivered an address to the hired rabble, the nature of which may be imagined from what followed. Captain Fenwick, J.P., received a severe cut on the head, from a stone thrown by Johnston's supporters, which prevented him from acting officially, and he had to be conveyed home. Latter in the day, Mr. Conolly was brutally attacked, receiving some severe wounds in the head, after a manly and most courageous resistance. The Rev. William Knox, of Clonleigh, an aged clergyman of the Church of England, was waylaid on going home, and badly beaten about the head. Mr. Johnston, jun. of Woodlands; Mr. Wilson, Solicitor, of Newtown limavady; Mr. Athill, and Mr. Barney, likewise received various injuries. The Rev. Mr. Fullerton, of Stranorlar, when passing over Lifford Bridge, on Wednesday afternoon, was stopped by the mob, and his hat knocked off by the blow of a stick. Fortunately some persons standing by knew him, and interfered for his rescue, otherwise the consequences might have been serious, as the mob was very violent.