The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

. DUBLIN, TUESDAY.
THE PROCLAIMED CITY.
The Rev. Mr. Hanna and his admiring disciples
have had another field-day on Sunday last, but,
without any thanks being due to them, the peace
of the town was preserved, and a sufficient police
force and a general disinclination on the part of
the people for a Sunday brawl prevented a repe-
tition of the disgraceful scene which necessitated
the placing of Belfast under the supervision of some
2,000 of her Majesty's troops in addition to a large
police force. The Belfast Mercury has the following
sketch of Mr. Hanna's Sabbath recreations :
" Yesterday we were very nearly having a renewal of
the disturbances which have taken place in this ttwn for
some time past, and we congratulate the public on the
narrow escape we have bad. It was stated that the Rev.
Hugh Hanna would again preach in the open air in
the vicinity of the quays, and this having reached the
ears of the magistrates the necessary arrangements were
made by them. At half-past 1 o'clock all the available
police, constabulary and local, were marched to Done-
gall quay, where they took up their position. The
constabulary were under the command of Mr. Williame,
County Inspector, and the local force under Messrs..
Lindsay and Green. An immense number of people,
men, women, and boys, were on the spot, and as the
hour were on, the number increased until it amounted
to, probably, 3,000 or 4,000, scattered about in groups.
At three o'clock the Rev. Mr. Hanna attempted to
preach in the waste field near Prince's Dock. His con-
gregation was large. The Mayor, Mr. Clarke, Mr.
Tracy, and Mr. W. Verner, remonstrated with him, and
warned him of the consequences that might arise if be
persisted in preaching. He refused to comply with
their request, and told them he would assert his consti-
tutional right. He was encouraged'hy his congregation
to go on, and while he was proceeding the magistrates
directed the police to clear the ground. This the police
effected without using any violence. Mr. Hanna then
made his way to an enclosed yard, belonging to Mr. G.
Dunbar, and ho was soon joined by another congrega-
tion, whom he at once commenced to address upon the
rights of British subjects and the duties of the magis-
trates. He did not attempt to go on with any religious
service, but chiefly directed his harangue to the subject
of magisterial interference that day with his rights, :slid
also to the propriety of the people around him separating
and going quietly to their homes. While he was so pro-
ceeding the police were again ordered to disperse the
people, who were at the time considerably excited, and
they at once executed the order. There was no attempt on
the part. of the Roman Catholics to interrupt or at all
interfere with Mr. Hanna ; but if he had beers allowed
to go on without being stopped by the magistrates it is
difficult to say what might not have Lappened, as the
assemblage was at that time much larger than it has
been there on any preceding occasion. The police
marched in bodies along the quays for upwards of an
hour after, preventing the people from collecting in num-
bers at any particular place, after which they proceeded
to their barracks. There was no rioting at all during
the evening. We understand that the magistrates, in
directing the thoroughfares to be cleared, were acting
under the orders which they had recently received irons
Dublin Castle. At 10 o'clock a.m. Mr. Matler preached
at Donegal quay to a small number of persons who had
assembled to hear him. In the evening at five o'clock
he again preached iu Sandy-row."
THE IRISH SEPOYS.

The Freeman's Journal, the leading Roman Ca-
tholic organ in Ireland, administers the following
creditable rebuke to that section of the Irish press
which has volunteered the advocacy of the atroci-
ties perpetrated by the Sepoys. Commenting upon
the petition adapted by the Chamber of Commerce,
at Calcutta, the Freeman says :
" Some vile enemy of the Irish people has attempted
to get up a murder and rapine spirit in Ireland, and to
stimulate a pro-Sepoy feeling by the issue of placards
in the southern districts, for the purpose of inducing
the belief that in the more Catholic districts of the
country the brutalities of Sepoys are regarded with
sympathy, and their treatment of the Irish and Eng-
lish ladies approved, because their husbands and
fathers are assumed to be connected with the British
army. This infamous attempt to identify the people of
Ireland with Sepoyism has met a prompt and effective
ebuke from the Catholic town of Carrick-on-Suir, who
indignantly repudiate the nefarious' attempt, and have
opened a eubscription list for the purpose of detecting
the emissary Of: yism who brought the vile placards
we allude to to elf town. The Irish people condemn
most heartily the system of oppression and misrule prac-
tised by the East India Company, but they have no.
sympathy with the butchers at Cawnpore, and the bar-
barities which form the charaoteristie of the war waged
against women and children. Some of the best men in
India—English, Scotch, and Irish merchants at Cal-
cutta—have protested against the misrule practised in
India ; but while these men hairs the manliness to de-
nounce the errors of the Goßernment in the petition
which we subjoin, and from the midst of the revolt to
demand a free and constitutional Government for India
under the sovereignty of our Queen, they have the wis-
dom to discriminate between rational liberty and ram-
pant licentiousness ; and, while fearlessly exposing the
evils which led to this revolt, they as fearlessly take up
arms against the system of indiscriminate murder which
the Sepoys would inaugurate, and their Irish sympa-
thisers would have their dupes, if they could get any,
to follow."