Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

CONTINITED RIOTS IN BELFAST.

The disgraceful rioting of Sunday having been repeated
on Monday, and continued on Tuesday nights, it was
hoped that there would be a cessation on Wednesday
nigh', and that the ruffians engaged at both sides would
abstain from their infamous oroceedings. These hopes
have not been fulfilled. Wednesday night, says the
Belfass Mercury, opened just as badly as any of those
which preceded it; rni there really seems to be no hope
for restoring the town to tranquility utiess a resort is
had to some extreme measure, such as placing the
inhabitants of those strews in which rio's have taken
pace, and those other streets and places from which rioters
are known to have come, under a system of martial. law.
The town is now protected by an imposing posse of
constabulary, the expense of which will add very con-
siderably to the ratepayer.' taxes.
County Inspector Williams, an officer of great expe-
rience, and possessed of great tact in dealing with mobs,
has been ordered to change his head quarters permanently
to Belfast; and, in adli7ioa to Sub inspector Bandon and
Head Constables Henderson and M'lntyre, with the
constables and privates under their command, we have
just now in the town Sub-inspector Armstrong, Newry;
Sub-inspector Kelly, Armeg't ; and Sub-inspector Taylor,
Antrim; with Head Constables Rankin, Antrim; Stafford,
Lisburn : Matchett, Newry; and M.Carron, Lurgan ; and
150 rank and file.

This formidable force was fully employed. Piequets
were stationed in all the disturbed street•, but their patrol-
lug was el sely watched, and the moment they turned
their backs the onslaughts on the houses of obnoxious
partif s commenced.
It has not bte•-, previously mentioned that three
houses in De by-street have been wrecked. They wore
in the occupation of persons named Margaret Vance,
John Mulholland, and William' Lewis. Four musket
balls were fired into one by the assailants, and into
another there were two balls fired. The inhabitants had
time to escape.
It w2.s pitiable to see women coming to the Police-
office in Durham-street, begging for protection as far as
the houses of their relatives who resided in the district
about Albert Crescent, the point d'appui of the rioters
The protection sought was in all the cases we witnessed
readily afforded thorn.
The house of a man named Taylor, in Massereene-
street, was broken open ; everything was wrecked ; and
the ruffians brought the poor man himself down stairs
into the street, and were about to wreak their wicked
will upon him, till some women interfered, and they
desisted.

At half-past seven o'clock, the hm,e of a deservinT poor
man, named Hugh Kenny, at the top of Sandy-row, was
wrecked in the most shameful manner. Not content with
demolishing windows and doors, the brutal mob smashed
the furniture and the cooking utensils, leaving hardly
anything whole in the house. The work of destruction
was almost instantaneous, for Sub inspector Bindon had
only left the locality fir a moment, to go towards the Tea
lane

At e ght o'clok, the noise of wrecking was heard at the
Police-barrack in Durham-street ; and County Inspector
Williams and Mr. Hunt went instantly to Stanley-street,
from which the sounds praceedei. They received a salute
in the shape of a volley of stones, from invimitPie err rapidly
disappearing assailants, and found two houses in the street
Vith the windows completely smashed in.
Almost c3temporary with this ex?loit, another was
coming off in Scott-street, where the house of a musician
named Davison was completely sacked. Here the mob
to k the character of Vandals, for they carried this poor
man's piano into the street along with his bass fi idle, and
smas',ed bath. Then they tu:•ned to and smashed the
windows.
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While the patrols were engaged in these streets, as
invasion of a formidable character wag made on Hamill
street. A mob of wreckers rushed through it, flinging
stones into the winjows as they passel. Into the house
of a widow a stone wag flung which weighed fully four
pounds and it carried the w.ndow and its shutters clean
before it, knocking down the old woman herself, but
doing her, we are glad to say, little harm beyond the
fright. Sab-inspector Bindon, with Constable Simpson,
and ten constab es armed with loaded muskets, were on
the spot, as the local police were retreating under a shower
of stones; but it was fortunate that they did not fire at
the retreating ruffians, aF, had they done so, the probability
is some constables might have been hit, wh ) were just at
that moment at he other end of the street. In a second
the wreckers had disappeared like rabbits.
Such is a summary of the occurrences of a few hours of
Wednesday night. There is no exaggeration. The simple
facts are only stated, and it would be wrong to individualise
one party more than another, for the rioters came from
both sides.

CONSTANTINOPLV, Sept. s.—The Ottoman dignitaries
have offired to the Porte to name a ruler for the Princi-
palities, either a brother or son-in-law of the &Pan.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL HAWYAYNE —This unfortunate gen-
tleman fell off the south pier, Lowestoft, on Thursday
evening, and sustained a can mssion of the brain, which
proved fatal
ROYAL DONATIONS TO THE INDIAN RELIEF FUND.—The
following is a copy of a telegraphic despatch from Colonel
Phipps, to the Lo:d 3layor, dated Balmoral, 9th :—" You
may announce subscriptions to the fund for the Indian
sufferers of £l,OOO from the Queen, £3OO from the Prince
Consort, and £lOO from the Duchess of Kent"
THEFT or £215 —A dealer from Elgin lost £21.5 in
bank notes at the Falkirk tryst yesterday. He supposts
the ro'ney to have been st den from his pocket while be
was standing in a crowd loJking at a party of gamblers
engaged at their or,linn.ry crcniiati hut c t hive no
further information as to his loss.—North British Mil.

FRAUDS BY AN ATTORNEY.—The Daily News in its city
article contradicts the exaggerated statement in yesterday's
Advertiser. The facts of the case are as follows : —Mr.
Thomas Dean, solicitor, of 7, King's Bench Walk, Teeiple,
has absconded, and detective officers have gone in pursuit
of him, being charged with fraud and forgery. The total
amount of his liabilities', as far as can b 3 ascertained, does
not exceed above £25,000 The circle of sufferers scarcely
exceed half a dozen persons, chiefly his own relations and
immediate clients, and the sum in which the bank referred
to is interested, is under £2,000, and nay be partially
covered by other securities. Mr. Dean lived in a plain
way at Barnes Common.
Tile CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BELGIUM.--Oa Tuesday the
Bth, the Bishop of Bruges laid the fi:st stone of the church
of Notre Dime de Dadizetle, at Dldtzeele, in the pretence
of the Bishop of Gbent, Mrlrne. la Princess de Moat-
mo-eacy and Luxemburg, Mlle. do Luxembourg, Mee-
steurs les Comtes de B aufort, Stirum, et Pain, les Barons
de Noilles et Bethione, the governor of Cie province, and
several other ladies and gentlemen. There were also
present upwards of eleven th us and speceators. Tue
church is in the Gothic style, and will contain 4,000
persons. It is to be ere,ted with the donations gathered
from the en'ire diocess. After the ceremony, the distin-
guished party partook of a magnificent dinner given by
Madame la Princess.
A NEW CLAMANT TO THE SHREWSBURY PEERAGE.—
The Worce.stershire Cie -onicle repor:s th at another claimant
of the Shrewebery peerage and estates has been found in
the person of Thomas Evans; a middle aged porter at the
railway statien, Worcester, who was accosted at the station
a few days agn by a gentleman, who shook hands with
him, and asked him if he knew ha was the Earl of
Shrewsbury ! Some explanations followed, and It is stated
that during the late investigations into the ramifications cl
the Talbot pedigree, Evans was discovered to be descended,
on his mother's side from the Talhots, and that his great
ueee was Earl of Shrewsbury. It is said that Eians
always had a notion that he h el grand encestors, and that
he has a vo•y ancient family bible which will support his
pretensions, or rather the pretensions which the lawyers
seem disposed to raise on his account. He does not seem
in any way sanguine about the matter.
How NORMAN LIST HIS WATOIL—A Highlander was
walking leisurely along the E ast India Brest, Greenock,
in the arternson of Saturday last, when a well dressed
man asked the road to the railway station. The Celt
pointed oat the way, for which the stranger was so grateful
that he must needs treat him to a glass, and the invitation
was so civilly give❑ that Norman accepted,and they ad
journed to the nearest public house. Three men entered
the shop almost simul-aneously with our two friends, and
both parties were put into the same apartment, where teeth
had some drink. The three begau to play at the c and trick
for money, and the man who watt with Norman became
interested in the game. Norman got up to leave, but his
new friend pressed him to stay almost by physical force
Norman's friend staked at the card trick and lost it, and
then he appealed to Norman to lend him £1 to win hack
his money, bat Norman said he bad not a XI. " Lend me
your .wa'eh, then, just for two minut.:s,•" said he, as he
seized on D ►nald's watch from his pocket (a watch which
eost him £6 a short time ago), and b-fore Norman had
timo to deny or concur in the request, the watch was staked
against £lO, aed next moment was transferred to one of
the gene, a'l cf whom immediately got up and ma le off,
leaving Norm in in a state of perfect bewilderment, the
who'e affair being the work of a few minutes. On regain-
ing his reason he rushed after the man with the watch, and
had him taken to the po'ice office, where he gave his name
as Jones, but he held the tranese iota to be quite fair,
urging that Norman was no doubt quite prepared to take
the £lO had be won it. He very magnanimously, however,
offered to disg etge the tea ch far £2, Norman soon brought
this sum to the police, but they were net disposed' to part
with their man on such easy terms. They detained hiet,
threatening to commit bim for fraud or theft, till, at last
the man lowered his pretensions to half a sovereign, which
was handed him in exchapgefoy the Highlander's watch.