The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-18 00:00:00

THE BELFAST RIOTS.

road and the Falls-road, was the scene of
a dreadful riot, the contending mobs using,
not sticks and stones, but guns loaded with
bullets. For half an hour the fir© was kept up
between the mobs, who did not show a spark of
cowardfce on either side. Volley after volley roared
along the street; the rapid discharge and whirr of
the bullets as they rushed past, the shouting of the
mobs, and the cool determination with which they
stood at their posts, made up a scene absolutely
thrilling in a civilised town.
Several people were injures with bullets. Those
belonging to the Pound side had to be taken to the
General hospital, two of them having their legs
amputated at the present time, and many received
wounds from balls and slugs, and were carried home.
The Protestant party, so far as we learn, were
uninjured, except in one instance.
Another fearful rencontre took place on the
Falls-road, and it is said that the Catholic party
fired from the windows of Hughes's bakery, and
wounded several, who, it is alleged, were about to
wreck the estab:ishment. That part of the town is
in a state of the greatest excitement, and no busi-
❑ess is being done.

A large mob of men and women from the Sandy-
row district, assembled at an early hour this morn-
ing opposite the Ulster Railway, with the object of
pouncing upon any unfortunate navvy who thought
it his own interest to leave the town. As soon as
any person suspected of being connected with the
Catholic mobs made his appearance; a yell was set
up and he was belaboured ,unmercifully by the
crowd in waiting. Some parties were chased for
their lives trAci succeeded with getting off with only
a few bruises.

A lot of fellows waited at the station the arrival
of the nine o'clock train, when some individuals
apparently about to proceed to the harvest in Eng-
land and Scotland, were set upon and beaten with
sticks and stones. One man, who bad been severely
injured by the mob, was sent to the General Hos-
pital by Chief Constable M'Kittrick.

We have been informed. by two gentlemen who
were witnesses to the outrage committed at the rail-

way station that not a solitary policeman was to be
seen while they were going on.
We understand that the reason of these brutal
attacks upon labourers coming by the trains is, that
a rumour has gone abroad that the Roman Catho-

lies expect assistance from Dublin and Tipperary.
Shortly after the assault upon the persons at the
station a party of police patrolled in the neighbour-
hood.

Last night, in the course of a riot at Wilsons
street, both military and police were ordered to fire
upon the mobs. Several persona were severeiy in-
jured in consiquence.

'the magistrates seem determined to exercise very
stringent measures for the future, and to-day bodies
of constabulary are continually patrolling the streets
and preventing as much as possible the assembling
of crowds.

There ere now 37 cases in the hospital. Two men
are on the point of death. So far as we can learn
there are upwards of 100 cases of injuries from
gunshot wounds attended to by private medical ;nen.
During the day a large reinforcement of consta--
bulary is e.upected from the Phoenix Park, Dublin.
The whole constabulary force now in town is under
the command of Major Elmonde, Deputy Inspector
General, who arrived last night from Dublin.
About 260 of the 78th Highlanders arrived in
town het night.

DUBLIN, Wednesday.
The navvies and the Orange ship carpenters did
not come into collision yesterday. The former
were not to be seen, but the latter, hearing that
the Dublin coal porters were to arrive in Belfast
to Help their co-religionists, awaited the evening
train in great force, about 1,000 strong, and all
armed, determined to attack them. The report
happily turned out false.

The magistrates swore in a number of special
constables yesterday, and took possession of all
the gunpowder in the shops.
About 60 persons were shot, and the mobs had
to be separated at the bayonet point. The respec-
table inhabitants want the town placed under
martial law. Dr. Dorrian has called on the Ro-
man Catholics to avoid rioting,
All business is suspended.
DUBLIN, Wednesday Afternoon.
The rioting continues furious.
The military and the constabulary fired last night
upon the people.

Many were wounded dangerously. Thirty-seven
are is the hospital. Above a hundred are under
private medical treatment.

Harvest men coming by the trains were sadly
maltreated, under the idea that they came to assist
the Catholics.

Both parties fought, vvishaut the slightest
cowardice, with slug and bullet charged guns.
Several limbs were amputated.
The authorities arc at length acting vigorously.
The constabulary are under the command 01
Major Esmond.

DUBLIN, Thursday, One o'clock.
Belfast quieting. At six o'clock last evening a
serious collision took ,place between ship carpenters
and navvies. The latter were forced into mud-banks
in the harbour, and were fired upon from the banks
of the river by the Orange party. Nine or ten re-
ceived gun-shot wounds, avid one is reported dead.
Their appearance, up to the neck in mud, was truly
heartrending.

THE FRENCH DITTO TO " How's YOUR POOR
FEET ?"—One feature of the fete -was the starting of a new
and unmeaning cry—"As-tu vu Lambert ?"---which seemed
to create great amusement, and in which some people de-
tect a political signification. It is something of the same
kind as the inquiry about "poor feet," which used to bo so
popular in London.

(From the Second Edition of the _Northern Whig.)
BELFAST, Wednesday, 12.30 P.M.
The present disastrous riws continue, and more
people have bsen injured and maimed with bled..
geons, and fired at, and perhaps killed with gunshot
wounds.

The riots were renewed this morning in the dis-
turbed districts, unabated in their terrible nature,
and with similar terrible consequences.
Five more men have been taken to the General
Hospital weltering. in their blood. Two of them
ere not likely to survive—indeed, it is said, cannot
survive the injuries they have received.
About four o'clock this morning the rioters made
ready for another day's campaign. Similar out-
rageous scenes to those we have daily described oc-
curred, but with even more terrible determination
and deadliness of purpose. The mobs met in
several instances and belaboured each other with
the fury of savages.
Dover-street, which runs between the Shankill-