Line 4.0.0 ATTACK OF THE ORANOE3IEN ON- TIE COo

Line 4.0.1 STABULARY.

Line 4.0.2 About ten o'clock an attack was madebtpon

Line 4.0.3 a guard of.about twenty of the constabulary

Line 4.0.4 who were stationed on the so-called " Boyne.

Line 4.0.5 bridge" to prevent the Sandy-row mobs from

Line 4.0.6 beating inoffensive people passing by. Whilst

Line 4.0.7 the men were standing to arms, a savage as

Line 4.0.8 sault was made upon them by the mob, who

Line 4.0.9 threw bricks; stones, and every available mis

Line 4.0.10 sile in great confusion. The police, whowere

Line 4.0.11 few in number, were obliged to seek refuge,

Line 4.0.12 and a messenger was despatched for assistance

Line 4.0.13 to the Albert-crescent barracks. Immediately

Line 4.0.14 afterwards Sub-inspector; Caulfield brought

Line 4.0.15 about forty men with fixed bayonets at a rn.

Line 4.0.16 pid run to the place, and when a balt. wa,

Line 4.0.17 made several volleys of stones were thrown I'

Line 4.0.18 amongst them, and some of the police receive/

Line 4.0.19 bad cuts. The force, which now amo'inted I

Line 4.0.20 about sixty men, were ordered to load by '

Line 4.0.21 Caulfleld, and some of the crowd,ihearing t.

Line 4.0.22 command,' sought shelter in the houses`,.

Line 4.0.23 hand. However, a great portion of :the mob

Line 4.0.24 stood their ground, and continued to throw

Line 4.0.25 brickhats and stones at] the; police, and it is

Line 4.0.26 said that even guns were fired at them. In a -

Line 4.0.27 short time the constabulary fired on the mob..

Line 4.0.28 amid a great shout from- a crowd who had

Line 4.0.29 collected behind. The only person killed-was'

Line 4.0.30 a man named John M'Connell, who resided'in,

Line 4.0.31 Sandy-row. The stringent measures exer=.

Line 4.0.32 cised upon' this occasion had the effect of:

Line 4.0.33 keeping the crowd inside doors for a consider

Line 4.0.34 able time.

Line 4.0.35 TIIE 10SPITAL-THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.

Line 4.0.36 The scenes witnessed in the Belfast,Generali

Line 4.0.37 HIospital on'the'night of the 16th would have

Line 4.0.38 appalled the hardest heart. We visited, the

Line 4.0.39 place about ten o'clock, and went through theb

Line 4.0.40 various wards where the unfortunate wretches V

Line 4.0.41 were lying, many in the agony of jthe direst

Line 4.0.42 pain, and some in "the lastj agony of all.7

Line 4.0.43 No such scene.has been witnessed in this .in...;

Line 4.0.44 stitution for years.·t Half an hour could not

Line 4.0.45 elapse during the. day without some persona?.

Line 4.0.46 being brought to the institution maimed with

Line 4.0.47 a bullet wound or with slugs. The agony of,:'

Line 4.0.48 the men as they were brought in was dread-.

Line 4.0.49 ful to look at-strong bold men that half an

Line 4.0.50 hour previously had been in'deadly encounter.,"

Line 4.0.51 with their fellow-men in defence of their lives'.

Line 4.0.52 and properties, and rufliaris enigaged in the:-,.

Line 4.0.53 melee which occurred, were brought in side by.

Line 4.0.54 side wailing and writhing in the torture of-:;i

Line 4.0.55 despair. We witnessed thirty-one of theses

Line 4.0.56 cases all brought to the hospital. . Three

Line 4.0.57 wards of the hospita! were filled with wound.-'

Line 4.0.58 ed, maimed and dying-the' most unfortunate

Line 4.0.59 of whom, and those most to be lamented, were

Line 4.0.60 six poor men frightfully beiten at the Ulster.

Line 4.0.61 railway station, .who were attaked by a mob

Line 4.0.62 of savages from'Sandy-rowv; who thought the

Line 4.0.63 passengers by the train were coal-heavers

Line 4.0.64 from Dublin, the body guard of O'Connell,

Line 4.0.65 and from Tipperary and other places. In the

Line 4.0.66 hospital beds were immediately made to ac

Line 4.0.67 commodate the extra patients, and every at.

Line 4.0.68 tention was shown to them.. INumerous other

Line 4.0.69 cases were attended to by private physicians

Line 4.0.70 through the town.

Line 4.0.71 In consequence of the shooting which. had

Line 4.0.72 taken place, the magistrates proceeded to all

Line 4.0.73 .the gunpowder warehouses in Belfast, and

Line 4.0.74 seized their whole stores, which will' hereafter

Line 4.0.75 be returned to the owners.,,:.

Line 4.0.76 'The Roman Catholic.bishop had jissued an

Line 4.0.77 address to the Catholics of Belfast.calling on

Line 4.0.78 them not to participate in" the riots, but 'to.,

Line 4.0.79 show the greatest forbearance.' The magis

Line 4.0.80 trates held. a consultation; and -were waited

Line 4.0.81 upon by several influential deputations; re-

Line 4.0.82 questing that the town might be-given up to

Line 4.0.83 the military or put under martial law. '

Line 4.0.84 At a meeting of Catholics,'.held 'in 'the va

Line 4.0.85 cant ground.attached to the Catholic Institute,

Line 4.0.86 a resolution to the following effect was adopt

Line 4.0.87 ed :-"" That, as the magistrates had proved

Line 4.0.88 false to their .assurances, and had proved

Line 4.0.89 themselves throughout the riots thorough par

Line 4.0.90 tisans, the Catholic party have lost all confi

Line 4.0.91 dence in them, and feel bound to at once take

Line 4.0.92 measures of their own accord for the protec

Line 4.0.93 tion of their lives and properties."

Line 4.0.94 Since Friday, the 19th,- no outbreaks have

Line 4.0.95 taken place, and the riots appear to havecome

Line 4.0.96 to an end ; and it is worthy 'of remark that

Line 4.0.97 this result has been brought about, not'by

Line 4.0.98 any action of the magistrates, the police, or

Line 4.0.99 the military, but by the respectable inh'abi-'.

Line 4.0.100 tants of the city taking the matter., into' their

Line 4.0.101 own hands i gentlemen in whom the .antago

Line 4.0.102 nist parties' had confidence visiting theo dis

Line 4.0.103 tricts where the rioters were; reasoning' with

Line 4.0.104 them; calming their passions, and exacting

Line 4.0.105 from them promises which -appear to have

Line 4.0.106 been faithfully kept wherever given; that if

Line 4.0.107 they were not attacked they would not be

Line 4.0.108 come aggressors. Several persons have died;

Line 4.0.109 several are in hospital wounded; and though

Line 4.0.110 several are under arrest, it does not appear

Line 4.0.111 that any are apprehended on the charge of

Line 4.0.112 murder.

Line 4.0.113 DISTURBANCES IN OTHEIR TOWNS.

Line 4.0.114 The proceedings at Belfast 'had naturally

Line 4.0.115 ,enough produced excitement in other towns.

Line 4.0.116 During the night of the 18th and 19th August

Line 4.0.117 a Catholic mob collected in the streets of

Line 4.0.118 Newry, who smashed some.panes in the 'win

Line 4.0.119 dows of Protestant houses, and created some

Line 4.0.120 other disturbances, which were immediately,.

Line 4.0.121 put down by the authorities. Attempts'at

Line 4.0.122 riotous proceedings were also made in Lis-.

Line 4.0.123 burn and Dundalk, but they-were soon sup-.

Line 4.0.124 pressed. On the night of the 18th a crowd

Line 4.0.125 of about 400 persons, chiefly boys, paraded'

Line 4.0.126 the streets of Cork for several hours, singing,

Line 4.0.127 whistling, and shouting, but-the police inter

Line 4.0.128 fered and disrersed them. On the samenight

Line 4.0.129 pickets of police were stationed in the neigh

Line 4.0.130 bourhood of the chief places of worship in