A FEMALE POLITICIAN.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 476, 11 March 1869, Page 3

A FEMALE POLITICIAN.

During the Cork county eleetios, when Mr Bagwell should have been addressing the electors, this scene occurred : —Mrs Scaunell: No cheers. —all the Feyniau prisoners.- They are confined in prison. Three cheers for the Feynian prisoners.—(Cheers.) Mr. M'Carthy O'Leary Coomlegane, came forward to propose Mr Boyle. Mrs Scannel: No Saxon need apply. A voice {a supporter of Mr Boyle's) : For justice sake, let us be heard.— (Hisses.) Mr Powell: Mr O'Leary ought to be heard, at any rate. Mrs Scannel: He is no O'Leary : he is a Saxon bad luck to him! and she stood up in an awful fit of rage, attempting to get closer to Mr O'Leary. As she could not do this, she gratified herself by applying her thumb gracefully to the tip of her nose, and outstretching her fingers in the form of a fan. This little amusement was accompanied by a couple of " bahs" as loud as her lungs would allow, and which she accomplished with the greatest ease. (This spectacle was enlivened by loud cries to Mr Boyle to withdraw, and cheers for Mr M'Carthy Downing). Mr. O'Leary was going to 'spy that the Church in Ireland could'never have been called a national one, when he was again interrupted. Mrs Scannel: It is 1500 years too late—to hell with the Saxons ! The shouting and yelling still continued, and after Mr O'Leary had made several attempts to address the electors, he retired amidst the most awful uproar. Mr Nichols Dunscombe, Kingwilliamstown, came forward to second the nomination of Mr Boyle. Mrs Scannell, who might be called indeed the heroine of the day, here jumped from the recumbent position she occupied on the table to her feet, and in a peremptory tone told him to shut up. From the continued uproar he addressed himself exclusively to the reporters, who had to get up close to him to hear his voice; and Mrs Scannell, seeing the unconcerned manner in which he heard her order to hold his tongue, went round the table, grasping hats indiscriminately to convert into missiles to hurl at Mr Dunscombe. Mrs Scannell then made an onslught on'the reporters who were taking Mr Dunscombe's speech, and attempted to drag them away from the bench.