IRELAND.
The Longford election has terminated in the victory of the Re- formers; the numbers at the close of the poll being— For Mr. White 619 Mr. Fox 526 Majority 93
The Tories strained every nerve to carry this election ; and were so violent, that the gentleman who proposed Mr. Fox, and who dis. graces the name of Lovell Edgeworth, did not scruple to threaten the Catholics from the hustings. He said-
" Let me again revert to the subject of landlord and tenant ; 'have no hesi- tation in statiig what I myself will do as a landlord. I speak here only as Mr. Edgeworth ; 1 speak my own sentiments, and boldly tell what I will do. I will say to my Catholic tenants, Vote for me—( Cries of " You are not a can- didate! ")—vote as I vote ; and if you don't do so, I will never sign a lease for a Catholic again, or give him the power of voting."
An attempt was even made to bully Captain Auchmuty, who pro- posed Mr. White, and who is a gentleman of property.
"If," said the Captain, " I had a doubt of the course I should adopt on the
present occasion, that doubt has been removed by a letter which I received from Dublin no later than yesterday ; and I beg to tell you, electors of Long- ford, that that letter contimed menaces and threats. People may talk of in- timidatioo ; but when it conies from high quarters, and is used towards men of honour and independence, we can have little notion of the extent it may be carried to where men have the power of putting their threats into execution. I tell you, gentlemen, those threats have decided me."
In addition to this, it is said that one of the Messrs. Lefroy offered to "do any thing " for the son of a voter, now imprisoned as a criminal, if the father would vote for Fox ; and that Mr. White's voters were kidnapped and abused in the most shameful manner by the hired ruf- fians of the Tory party. Yet the defeated faction talks of a petition ! —in order, probably, that we may have fresh l'arliamentary evidence to prove the necessity of protection to voters. In the mean while, the rage and mortification of the Orangemen is extreme.
One of Mr. White's voters, kidnapped by the Fox, or rather Lefroy party, was carefully kept from all communion with his wife, and brought up in one of Fox's tallies ; but just before he was about to vote, his wife shouted out—" Oh, Prunty, my boy, remember your soul and li- berty! " What effect the exhortation may have bad, we cannot say, but the poor fellow voted for White. We are glad to see that Mr. White, who is very rich, pledged himself, when the election was over, that "the frieze coats should not suffer,"—meaning that he would protect them from the vengeance of their landlords.
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