The OrangeTories complain bitterly of the violence of the Catho.

lico. Liberal party. The times are gone by when Protestant ascen dancy was the order of the day. Now, if we believe their own story, the Protestant gentlemen and yeomanry are the " best.abused" people on the face of the earth. No doubt, on both sides there are outrages.

Within the memory of not old men, Catholics were hunted like wild beasts; whipped in the Castle-yard of Dublin, while their wives and children were driven out of their cabins by the emissaries of a Protes tant Goverionent. 'rue arm of power is not now stretched forth to protect the Orange ruffians; and it is not improbable that an exaspe

rated people may fancy that the withdrawal of protection and encou

ragement from their oppressors is equivalent to impunity for their own excesses. Certainly, just at present, the Protestants are the objects of Catholic hatred and Catholic vengeance. The Tory papers are filled with instances of' violence and intimidation practised by the dominant

party at the election. The following account of a murder in Sligo County is taken from the Times ; and it is to be observed that the offer of a rewitrd for the apprehension of the murders by the Irish Governs merit is confirmation of the main fact.

" A month ago," says the 7'imes, " there were living, within the parish of Achoury, in the county of Sligo, two Protestants, of the rank of yeomen', one named Allen, the other M'Kenzie. On the oc.

casion of the contest for the county, which began on the 14th of last month, they set off together for the town of Sligo, where the election was held, either to give their votes for the Conservative candidates, or, according to other accounts, to escort a freeholder in that interest.

Duy after day elapsed, but they neither appeared in the town of Sligo, nor returned to their own abodes at Achonry. Their friends became

alarmed. It WaS known that they bad taken the mountain-road, and

the minutest search was anxiously instituted. At last, on the 19th, after live 41;1:-. anal live nights they were found on the inountain.side,

one of the ii With his urn I fraetured, and both of them bound, blindfo:ded, tun] disfigured with bruises and wounds. From the 14th to time 9th, they laid remained in that helpless condition, exposed to the eau unities of liutiger, damp, and cold. " '1 heir history MIS a short but a frightful one. At the commencemem of the elect ion, u hand of ruffians had taken possession' of' the mount

tain-roads, to prevent the Protestant freeholders flour paasing to exercise

their frane!4ise. When Allen and M'Kenzie, two resolute Protestants, arrived tit the ',Lee where this body was stationed, tin y were first seized 111141 cruelly beaten. They were then eartied into an min Iiiihited Itutise or barn, in a village called Cloonacoule ; where they found another elsetor, also a Conservative, already confined, iiuid there they

were kept immured for a part of that day. From hulf-hour to half hour their persecutors would come to the door of this building, and, thunderiog at it, would call to the three prisoners within, revile them for being Tories, and then exhort them to pray for their souls ; asset. iug them that they had only a few hours to live, and would be beheaded in the following night. Under these apprehensions, which one of the poor prisoners described as more excruciating than evert the pain of their wounds and bruises, they remained till towards evening. But before the night set in, some of the con,pirators entered, and having blindfolded them, to prevent any recognition of the guilty parties, tied the legs and arms of all three, and carried them forth anion g the crowd assembled without, to the number, as computed, of between :3,000 and 4,000 per sons ; who received them with tumultuous mockery. In that state, with their ankles crushed together by tight cords or bands, they were dragged along the ground to a distant height where Allen and M'Kenzie n ere dropped on one side of the mountain, and their fellow-prisoner on the other. A deep hole or pit was then digged, into which Allen and M'Kenzie were lowered ; a guard remaining over them at the pit's edge. Allen repeatedly implored them to relieve him from his suf ferings by shooting hint; but they were not so merciful. After a time the two men v..ere brought up and taken into the shelter of a house or cabin. This change for the better appeared to produce an improvement its their strength; upon wnich they were carried back into the open air, and lowered again into the pit. The third prisoner before the close of the election, submitted to the force of his persecutors, and consented to vote as they commanded him. He was accordingly taken from the hill into Sligo ; where he saved his life by voting for the Roman Catholic candidate. Allen and M'Kenzie, whose powers of endurance were greater, remained in the pit till the election was over ; when, on the 19th, they were discovered by their friends. On the 20th, Allen died ; and 1St Kenzie has since followed the same fate. We have now before us a letter from a gentleman of respectability, who saw the remains of Allen, and who says, his legs had mortified in the cords, and his widow told me that in washing the corpse the calf fell rotten off one leg: I saw the other leg, and it was a sickening sight.' " This is a specimen, we are told, of one kind of violence committed by the Catholics : but intimidation as well as murder was resorted to. " This system of withholding labour appears to have been acted upon very generally against the Protestant and Conservative landholders.. It is an affair of regular organization, and appears to be under the direction

of the priests. A letter written last week by a gentleman of rank in the county of Sligo runs thus—' The excitement consequent upon the election is not subsiding, as I had hoped. There is a determination, still adhered to, not to work for the Protestants. Your mowers refuse to work, as mine do. Not a man will work for N. who has twenty-two acres of oats,' &e. Another gentleman writes—' C. was here to-day, begging for arms to protect his life, which is threatened, and he can get no one to work for him. I intended to have gone up into your mountains to. day or to-morrow, but I am informed from good authority that it would be at the risk of my ; that part of the country, particularly the neighbourhood of Cloonacoole (the place where Allen and M' Kenzie were first confined) being still in a frightful state.' A gentleman's bailiff writes to his master, August 23—' There are notices up in all ploces against working for Protestants.' A farmer sends to his landlord for a pistol to protect him: be says, August 23—' I send a woman for it, as she will be least expected of having it. The people are in an awful state of excitement here. I am afraid to go to bed any night. My servants were ordered to quit me, and they did SO: any man who will do any labour for me is denounced."

Now, we have no doubt that the Orange or Protestant party was as violent and guilty as the Catholic; but it is certain that the former have been much more adroit and industrious in getting up their case.