Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

THE BELFAST RIOTS.

It may be said that the disgraceful scenes, which have
rained for Belfast sttch unenviable notoriety, have been
brought to a close. Last night, up till a late hour, there
was no appearance of disturbance; no persons 'were
assaulted, and the police patrols reported all as quiet. in
the different districts, at their head quarters. Indeed, it
could hardly be otherwise, with 350 men mad' r arras, and
a reserve force of •upwards of 200 men ready to be called
out en an emergency. Besides these fine fellows, a fresh
accession was made to the military force of Belfast.
yesterday, by the arrival, tram Newbridge, of a detach.
ment of the .ed ;Light Dracoons, consisting of three officers
and 45 men. They were bilietted throlTh the town, anti
can be available on a moment's notice- From inquiries
we have made, we do not hear of any fresh outrages
having been committed in town on Mond ty night; shots
were tired in various quarters of the town, and some
personal conflicts took place, but that was nearly all.
Last night shots were also fired, but not so freely
as before; and there is
,no reason to doubt that
peace has been at last established. This is in
great part owing to the precautions taken by
the Government, which seems to have at last resolved
upon a vigorous course of action. It is now known
in every house almost in town, that we are vir
tualty in a state of siege, and that further outrages would
be attended with much more serious consequences than
the cowardly rioters choose to risk. Not, indeed, but ex-
tensive preparations have been made on both sides. It is
a matter of certainty that the fellows, not content wi h
guns and pistols, have actually procured small pieces of
ordnance, with which to batter down their opponent's
houses, and there cannot be a second opinion that the
deadly weapons would have been freely used. Two of
these (we believe ship's guns) are in the possession of the
" Pound men," and one is known to be in charge of their
enemies, the Sandy-row rioters. this latter instrument
the supporters of " the constitution" have called by the
historic name of Derry's famous long eighteen-pounder
"Roarine Meg ;" but the gallant Apprentice B ,ys will
not feel flattered by this compliment, paid by, as it is, by
men who violate the constitution which their forefathers
aided in obtaining by the thunders of their favourite
" Meg." What steps will be taken to enfore his Excel-
lency s Order in Council remains to be seen, but all must
desire the most vigorous precautions to be taken to ere
force peace in the disturbed districts, the inhabitants of
which should be made to feel the full effects of their
misconduct.—Belfast Mercury. .
Belfast has heen subjected to the Whiteboy Code by His
Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, under the provisions of
the Crime and Outrage Act. His Lordship in :Council
has proclaimed this dtsrict, and placed it on a footing, in
the eye of the municipal law, with the Conuty of Tip-
perary. This is, we believe, the first occasion on which
the North Eastern Counties have been subjected to the
Irish Curfew Statutes, Our readers are, doubtless,
aware that the geaerai effect of this proclamation of
Belfast will be to give to almost all breaches of the peace
and lawless demonstration a degree of criminality very
much beyond that with which they are regarded by the
common law, and the ordinary criminal code of the
country. I's most obvious result will be to make every
member of the Guts Club tie) legal criminal, that we
have long since supposed him merally to be, if he does
not forthwith hand over his musket to the proper
authorities, and make his name of Gun-clubist as delusive
as that other name, "Liberal," of which he boasts.
Assaults on houses, even should they consist but in stone-
throwing, now become offences which, hitherto, scarcely
punishable by a 40s fine, are serious misdemeanors,
entailing penal servitude. The tiring of guns for purposes
of intimidation becomes an offence graver than ordinary
cases of felony, and may, under circumstances, be visited
with transportation. And we could not hope for a more
felicitious inauguration of this comparative suspension of
the common English law than that, taking up the Gun
Club in its practising ground to-morrow, it might
snmrnarily try the members by a special commission,
and send them forth to the East, to turn their musketeer
ambition from. Peostestants to Brahmins.—Belfast Newi
Letter.

At LRWIi & CO './PANY'S, Raneagh-street.
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Ages or Six to Twenty Years,

SNuFFitco us our.—His magnanimous and Imperial
Majesty, the Emperor of all the [tussles, has been gra-
ciously pleased to extinguish the English language. Nut
having succeeded in kn eking out the bruins of his for-
mer uight trusty aliy, he will pluck out his tongue at all
events, if he can. German being of no use in the refined
region of Irkontslr, and English being, alas ! necessary
for the purposes of trade, au Imperial decree has been
sent forth to quash the former in the public schools, and
to teach the young idea bow to read and talk Yan Kee
in its place. 6' Be par 1.3 Czar," quoth the St. Petersburg
Gazqte, " qu'on enseigne la Gangue Ainericaini ! ' not
meaning merely Choctaw nor NiAock, but old Saxon,
after the style of Wall-street, I guess. This is chewing
up us Western Islanders pretty curs
C URIOSIT IFS OF ANIMAL i'IN.iATION.—A decapitated
frog nihnifests the same movements of eel-preservation as
it manifested when its head was on, When engaged in
certain fuuttions, his leg may be cut ff without causing
him to desist. An insect will sometimes continue eating
if pinned to the table, and will only struggle to fly away
when the food is devoured. "Soft, I:bricated, and irri-
table as is the skin of the naked mollusc, says Professor
Owen, " there are not wanting reasons fur supposing it to
be possessed of a very low degree of true sensibility.
Baron Ferusr,ae, for exacip'e, states that ho h,s seen the
terrtstrial gasteropodes, or slugs, allow their skins to be
eatea by ethers, and, in spire of the large wounds thus
produced, show no sign of pain." But even if they showed
"signs" of pain, we might legitimately question whether
those signs really signified what they teamed to us to indi-
cate. Nothing can be concluded from struggles, shrink-
ing% and cries. A decapitated man, in whom all con-
sciousness is necessarily obliterated, struggles to free his
hands, attempts to stand upright, and stamps with his feet.
A headless fly, fish, or worm, writhes about if touched,
although entirely deprived of sensation ; a fly makes the
movement of brushing its eyo by reflex actioa, alth3ugh
its head may be off. Animals that fight with their hind
legs use them vigorot.sly when decapitated, at every
irritation applied to the nerves. Headless insects deposit
their eggs with es much care as others,-- Blackwood's
.Magazine.

TILE LATE Mr. DOUGLAS JFRROLD —Mr. Blanetard
Jerrold, the present editor of Lloyd's Newspaper, proffers
the following explanation which he nays, h, feels due to
the memory of his late father My f tho.r left property
sworn at Doctors' Commons at £1,500. In addition to
this sum, my !author hel l a policy in her own right, on
my father's life, value £1,000; other items raised the total
sum to £3,000. The copyrights of my father's plays re-
alised an average income of £lOO. More, the petition of
the members of my father's family would have enabled
them, had there been need far their exertions, to supply
any deficiency the above property could not cover. It is
due to the memory of my father that the public should
know that ho left a suthciesey for my mother and sister;
and that the love of his own kindred, in any case, would
hare ensured this sufficiency. In explanation of the
Remembrance' performances I, as a repr-sentative of my
father's family, should state that I declined emphatically
to receive anything that should wear the appearance of a
charity—sueh charity being. needles-. rat, 'Remembrance'
performances, I was distinctly agaured, would be in honour
of my father's memory, and bt offered as art addition to
his estates. If the public h.J,e ge'.herel any idea front the
conduct of these performances that they were effects cf
charity, I have only to assure them, on the p-trt of Mr.
Douglas Jerrold's family, that the illuvrious dead had
hue-tended enough againat the need thereon—even after the
lots of thousands, for which, in the cthivalry of friendship,
he became security. I Click the rarnnt friends who have
conducted there performances for their val and kind
intentions; but I decline to permit the Thiglish public to
remain impressed pith the idea that there wNs need to pass
the bat round—however gracefully—in the na me of Doug.
lag Jerrold; a name that shall not want my s‘xertton, ax
least, to preserve its independence."