The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-14 00:00:00

gentleman, an inside passenger, taken out, questioned,
and searched, and, after a delay cf nearly half an hour
the horses were permitted, after much entreaty on the
part of Doolan, to be again put to and the coach al-
lowed to proceed. The mob was under the imme-
diate control of an apparent gentleman, mounted on a
large bay horse, well accoutred, and nothing done
except by the directions and command of the captain,
as this person was called.
It is intended to send an escort of military with the
mail to-night.
EJECTMENTS IN BELFAST.

Monday forenoon, North Anne-street, Earl- street,
and part of Corporation-street, presented a scene
which, from its very novelty in this quarter of the
country, and the peculiar circumstances connected with
it, may, with all truth, be said to "baffle description."
Upwards of forty individuals, the inhabitants of
about twenty houses, were forcibly dispossessed
from their homes, their furniture cast out, and
themselves obliged to seek shelter where they could
best find it. The circumstances under which the
strong arm of the law has in this case been brought
into operation are somewhat curious. The title to
the houses, which are three stories, capacious, and
well finished, has been several years, and is still
pending, in the Court of Chancery, in the case of
Wise v. Medill. No receiver, we understand, was
appointed over the property. No individual was re-
cognised as having the slightest claim to it, and the
consequence has been that those who were in posses-
sion at the commencement of the suit have remained
so ever since, without paying a fraction of rent, and
houses which were then unoccupied became crowded
by some unknown means, with a class of tenants who,
we may presume, never harboured the ambitious idea
of being the immediate proprietors of such valuable
and splendid mansions. Tinkers, " gather-ups, "
carters, navvies, and a heterogeneous mass of the
refuse of society had not only managed to get and
keep possession of several of the dwellings, but had
actually secured, in a few instances, numerous
lodgers, who were paying them a tolerably round
sum for the use of apartments for which they
themselves had never paid, or intended to pay, a
single shilling. With such tenantry it might be
expected that the houses would suffer; and so they
did, most shockingly. For some time past repeated
notices to quit were served upon the parties ; but the
servers were treated with ridicule and contempt. The
inhabitants seemed to be fully persuaded that no
power could reach them until the Court of Chancery
had given judgment in the case of the claimants ; and
even yesterday, when the warrant for the forcible
ejectment had been received, and a number of police-
men had beset the houses, to see it carried into exe-
cution, the doors were found to be well barricaded,
and a number of the " unwashed" peering from the
upper windows, put their finger to their nose, and
jocularly exclaimed, " It's all right, Mr. Peelers—
don't you wish you may get in ?" It was not with-
out considerable difficulty that an entry was effected,
but when effected, the bailiffs made a clean sweep,
the result being as we have stated.—Banner of
Ulster.