The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-28 00:00:00

FATAL RIOT.

ATTACK UPON PROTESTANTS RV A MOB 0
IRISH PAP ISTS.—TH E MILITARY CALLED otl

BIRKENHEAD,
The magistrates toting for the Bit k —Dlt
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eld fir •
of the hundred of Wirral, In the county of
received a numerously aimed requisition to to
meeting for the purpose of adoptiag a loyal eddr,P°
Mildly Teeming the recent papal aggua,i,v,,,a,k
was fixed for this day at one o'clock, at the t0,„44
placard calling the melting expressly steed that it too.,
a meeting of ratepayers, but it was knows previonc,'
the Roman esthetics had held several meetings., "41:
priest, the Rev. E. Brown, had counselled ill bi,
above ten sr ears of age to attend the meeting. Keyes
taken for the purpose of preventing thou entering ano
manifestly not ratepayers. Ar scaly as ten a't:ock
body of Irish Roman ettheics ausmbled is :raw,
town-hall and took poseenion of the main
after, the local police having received the
of a body from Liverpool, the piece ea s:
The mob then became disorderly and ran oty too
the docks for the avowed purpose of analog tn,„.
and procuring Mettler assistance. Son afterward; es
memo body marched towards the place of metier
bludgeons and sticks over their heads. They con .f„„„
noisy and disorderly manner in front of the Town a,. •
shortly before one o'clock. In the meantime the lift.
Brown, another priest, Mr. Aspinall, barriaterolo.
several other papists, had assembled at the office ni
Bre herton, an attorney, whose ffice is in the neichst
of the Town Hall. From this place they matched
place of meeting. Oa arriving there kir. Brows a
the mob armed, insisted on their gin ne up their
to him. This was done to some extent, and he Ind,
on the ground but no 110011$T had the griut Nnt.l
back than the mob again took emersion of their erei
though the priest might easily have delivered then
the police, who were close at hand. Alton' row..•
after the priest and his friends had °Mutes
mission into the Town Hall, an attack was
mental upon the private room of the rateiruni
and the whole of the windows swathed. Tb..i,4.,1
the police office and the Bridewell were next atteek,d
broken to pieces by brickbats and ether missile., tr, of
threatening to pull the building down. The polite, ua
the command of Mr. M'lleg, and the coon:y cost,i
under the special high constable, Mr. Palmer, us,„
mob and attempted to drive them off. A fagot.? ten; ki
place, many of 'be mob being armed with pokett
bludgeons. One of the Liverpool police was tsr4 la I
fray knocked down, having been struck on both lido
tt
lisatull an iron bar and a bludgeon. Hs was with G4%1
from the mob and carried into the Blkit•t..
dying state. Another was knocked down and em.t
an office on the opposite side of the street, apuruty „
tally wounded. About ten others wire Leo crti;al
wounded about the head, and after fighting for an, tm
the violence in some measure exhausted itself, but to bit,
several bystanders were also wounded, and 11, y.zeivi

driven away.
The magistrates came on the bench shortly telt
o'clock and were about to open the meeting, ham/
the priest and his friends that every one desirous u ri+
ing the meeting should have a fair hearing. hit at
moment the attack on the police bad commenced arc
of the officers was carried through the hall cor red
blood and apparently in a dying state. Omni r
followed in almost is dangerous a state. The 131141`4
therefore, fearing further violence, firm the excised cm
the mob, at once determined todissolre the ruee..r%
that fact was immediately announced by the ch,irm;a,
the lion. Sir Edward Cuat. The hliowing is • crpy
resolution come to by the magistrates:
" The magistrates having railed a public meeting, ,
inane* of a most respectable riquisition, for th. pm., -
presenting a loyal address to the Queen against the it.:.
menu of Rome, and having found a mob assembl.:
the place of meeting with stkks and stones, Nlio iii;
Townihall and the room where the magistrates um I
bled, and violently assaulted the police, we, the utd
under these circumstances, have not deemed it eur
magistrates to endanger the public peace, and fuse ft •
adjourned the meeting until the inhabitanis con to sum
to express their opinion with the freedom of Eeglithan:
(Signed) EDWD. COST, J. D. CASE, WM. HALL, J.l
SHAW, Woe. JACKSON, J. S. JACISON.—To
kenhead, Nov. 27, 1850."

The Rev. Mr. Brown and Mr. 13rethertoc,
mob had partly exhausted its fury, watt cttttl, ou
dressed the mob. The priest then went totranli L.
house, followed by the mob, shouting in a most
manner, and threatening death to the proteetenta.
About half put two o'clock, a further body of tte
pool police arrived, under the command of M. G.
ling, Esq., the head constable, and took up their p.s:
front of the Town Hall, but the excitement still co
and in consequence of the state of the town, the :Lap
have deemed it necessary to send for the a..hw
Chester.

Five o'clock.—Two of the policemen who .e
attacked are considered by the medical men to be mit
state. From the serious nature of thoirwoands the,

considered hopeless. (It was stated in Liverpo, Ixi
that one of the woundul policemen, named Grant,

dead.)
Information has just been received at the Torn fl i
the dock labourers will assemble, armed, at
great fears are entertained of further outrage Tu
consists of about 3,000 men, nearly the whole of Cum
Irishmen end Roman catholic*. Threats hare 110
made to nut off the gas, so as to place the wk.',e to
darkness.