4 DECEMBER 1869, Page 15

THE TIPPERARY ELECTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "EPECTATOR.1

Six,—The practical lesson of the Tipperary Election is very simple. We must have vote by ballot. I hate vote by ballot ; but it is a hateful necessity. An Irish rural constituency, caring much about tenant-right and little about anything else, has been bullied by the rabble into electing the nominee of a party that would plunder landlords and tenants impartially. Intimidation by mobs at Irish county elections is an old thing ; what is new here is only that they have turned against the priests, a change which I cannot regret. But the ballot is needed alike to protect rural constituencies in the North of Ireland against landlords, and in the South against mobs.-1 am, Sir, &c., JOSEPH JOHN MURPHY.