There has been much rioting daring this Election, but the
only serious affrays have occurred in Dublin and Cardiff. In Dublin, on the 5th inst., a Nationalist procession smashed the windows of a Conservative working men's club, and the inmates, after throwing out bottles, fired into the crowd, wounding several of the assailants. The police entered the club, and found two revolvers hidden away, and arrested eighty-five men. This riot was of the usual kind ; but at Cardiff it is said to have been caused entirely by the police. A body of county constables had been drafted into the town, and seem to have considered it their duty to disperse all crowds, however innocently engaged. They charged repeatedly, felling men and women with their batons, and it is alleged striking savagely with their batons at wounded men. A large number of persons were seriously injured, and the hall of the Liberal Club looked "like an ambu- lance ward." We have not yet heard, it must be remembered, the police account of the affair ; but on the face of the Times' reports, it looks as if the Welsh police acted under some impulse other than the wish to maintain order, probably hatred of the Irish workmen in Cardiff, who give trouble in the neighbour- hood. The affair should be sharply investigated, the police in most places behaving with conspicuous moderation. They are sometimes sorely tried; but in Cardiff there seems to have been no attack, except.by the force itself.
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