The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-13 00:00:00

TEE RIOTS AT CORK.

The correspondent of +.llc, nines writes thus on Wcrlr.r:',
day: "Cork still continues to he a sctne of disturbanc“
and outrage. Reports were received yesterday evenin;.
which encouraged the hope tliat tranquillity had been
restored, but later in the night it was dispelled by a tele
gram from a correspondent of the Daily Exprrss, which
brought the intelligence that a man whom two policemen
attempted to search on suspicion discharged a revolver at
the constables, who returned the fire and shot him.
This occurred at the north of the city. After he
received the wound the police hastened to the infirmary,
which was close at hand, to obtain medical assistance,
but, on returning, found a crowd carrying the
wounded man away. A party of constabulary after-

wards went to the place and arrested two men, one
of whom had a loaded gun in his possession. A later tele-
gram, received this morning from the same correspondent,
states that the police have succeeded in arresting the man
who fired. his name is Daniel Dineen. He was found
concealed under a bed in a lodging-house. His nose was
nearly by the bullet. Ills revolver was also found.
He was 6-tot in the head and was left insensible. A sharp
lesson has been administered to the Cork populace,
which, it may be hoped, will have a salutary effect. It
is the first instance in which the revolver has been used
with effect by the police. The local papers contain
details of the riotous proceedings on Monday, which
appear to have been sufficiently alarming. The excite-
ment arose in consequence of the arrest of two men
on suspicion of having fired at Courtney, the detec-
tive. It is stated that for eleven hours afterwards the
city remained in the possession of ' a howling mob,' who
assaulted the police with missiles of every description. In
many places almost every stone in the macadamised strata
of the streets had been removed, and it is supposed that if
the showers which they flung were collected, they would
form considerable heaps. The manner in which the arrest
was effected shewed at once the vigilance of the police and
.he audacity of the Fenians. About one o'clock a con-
..,table in Patrick-street observed two men, one of whom
appeared to answer the description of the one who
fired at Courtenay. He proceeded to Union-quay
station for assistance, and brought back Constable
Hogan, who at once identified one of the men
as the fellow who fired. The two were arrested and
taken to the Tuckey-street station, and thence to
the police-court. While they were being removed an
excited crowd assembled, who groaned, yelled, and gesticu-
lated in a threatening manner, but did not at first resort
to actual violence. After the prisoners were lodged in the
Bridewell the mob began to throw stones at the windows
and over the walls. Several of the police were struck.
They sallied forth occasionally and charged, but on their
return the mob closed in again and still kept stoning the
constables. After the holding of a private investigation,
the prisoners were brought up at the police-office, and
one of them, named O'Brien, was identified by Hogan
as the man who fired at Courtney, and he was committed
for trial on the charge of shooting with intent to
murder. The other prisoner, who is named Eddy, was
remanded. At the close of the proceedings the riot-
ing was resumed with increased violence. Showers of
brickbats and bottles were thrown upon the con-
stables as they escorted the prisoners to gaol. A
man who was suspected by the populace to have given in-
formation was followed with shouts of Informer,'
knocked down, and beaten in a savage manner. At
length some constables came to the rescue, and arrested
one of his assailants, whom they took to Tuckey-street
station, followed by the mob. The stone-throwing con-
tinued with little intermission, the police turning and
charging the crowd. In one of these charges a mounted
constable thrust his sword into the back of a man's neck,
who fell bleeding to the ground, and was carried off by the
populace. In the height of the excitement a young man
named Prendergast got on :the Berwick fountain and ad-
dressed the mob, exhorting them to fight against the
' Peelers.' Two constables got over the railings and arrested
him. The crowd closed in upon them and broke the butt
of one cf their rifles. In a subsequent charge a boy, 1.
years of age, named O'Leary, was ridden down and so
severely injured that his life is despaired of. Several of
the police received severe blows and cuts. When chased
by the police the rabble rushed into the shops on the
Parade, which received in consequence considerable in-
-lury. Towards midnight the city became tranquil.
Several of the rioters were taken into custody, and two of
them, who were identified as among the worst, were
brought before the magistrates yesterday, and committed
for trial before the Recorder."
The correspondent of the Daily News finds great fault
with the conduct of the police as having tended to ex-
asperate the populace. He says : " The streets were densely
crowded ; but the demeanour of the people was generally
quiet. The absence of disorder did not, however, satisfy
the police. Parties of men were despatched at intervals
from the Tuckey-street guard-house to prevent the people
from collecting into crowds, and the conduct of these pat ols
was violent in the extreme. They rushed wildly into
every knot of persons of the lower class, knocked ir.divi-
uueis

and pricked with their bayonets those who chewed any
reluctance to fly before them. This extraordinary con-
duct speedily produced great excitement. In all directions
crowds of people were to be seen running into the lanes
and houses on the Parade, and into the South Mall and
Patrick-street, to avoid the charges, returning through
curiosity the moment the police had gone back to their
barracks. To add to the excitement, mounted police rode
through the streets, flourishing their sabres, and snaking
their horses prance upon the terrified spectators. The de-
tective police, who were not in uniform, had revolvers in
their hands, and the whole force acted as if a desperate
riot were going on, though all the time there was not a
trace of tumult or disorder iii the streets save what the
police themselves produced. A respectable man named
Ahearn, a butcher, while passing through Tuckey-street
on his way home, was set on by a police patrol
knocked down and severely beaten about the head and
shoulders with the butts of their guns, two severe scalp
wounds being inflicted on his head. About nine o'clock a
number of people took refuge in the shop of a tobacconist
from another charge, and some of the policemen actually
followed them into the shop, and there wounded two or
three with their bayonets. At eleven o'clock the Riot Act
was read, though the crowd was still far from turbulent,
and immediately after a party of policemen were despatched
down Paull-street, where the fact of the Act having been
read could not have been known, with orders to use their
bayonets freely ; and SO I believe they did. Altogether,
the conduct of the police was very reprehensible, and
might in the present temper of the people have led to
even more serious consequences than those which have

occurred.
" 9.30 p.m.—As I close this despatch, I learn that a police-
man has just been fired at in South Main-street."

MEAT PRESERVING IN AUSTRALIA.—We reau
in the Melbourne Argus of the 27th of December:—
"The meat question has during the last month created a
good deal of discussion, and general satisfaction has beer
felt at the interest which the subject has called forth at
home. Some facts have transpired during the month which
clearly shows the enormous disproportion between the
price of butcher-meat in England and Australia. While
at the last date mutton was selling in London at 10d. and
is. a pound, excellent legs of mutton were disposed of
at Ballarat last week at 9d. each. The great ques-
tion, however, is to get this meat sent to England
without loss of quality or flavour, and we are happy to
state that a system has been introduced which promises to
solve the difficulty that has hitherto attended the matter.
In the early part of the present month several cases of
meat, preserved according to one of the simplest or most
inexpensive processes that could be imagined, were opened
at Menzie's Hotel, in the presence of a number of gentle.
men chiefly interested in opening up a market for our meat
produce. It was' prepared in Melbourne, and had been
over two months in the case. There were samples of boiled
beef, roast mutton, and roast beef ; and when the cases were
opened the purity of the aroma which arose from the meat
was sufficient to shew that it had lost none of its essential
qualities. The `tasting' proved equally satisfactory.
Nearly all the gentlemen present lunched off the meat, and
it was generally pronounced to be excellent, and to have
lost neither its flavour, its succulence, nor its tenderness.
A case of tongue was also opened, which was prepared some
two years ago, in Europe, after the same process. It was
found to be in good condition, though perhaps its charac-
teristics were not so completely preserved as in the beer
and mutton. The process by which this result has been
accomplished is of the most simple description, and
requires only to be carried out with care and attention.
The air is taken from the canister, and the meat is pre-
served in the vacuum. It is placed in the tin in a raw or
parboiled state ; the tin is then put in a chemical solu-
tion, capable of producing a high temperature. By
the heat the meat is cooked and the air evaporates in the
form of steam. At the proper moment the canister is
sealed, and the process is complete. The great recom.
mendation of this method is that the meat is preserved
entirely free from any gaseous or other unpleasant flavour,
which more or less attaches to the meat prepared by any
other process. Then it is neither novel nor experi-
mental. Large quantities of beef and mutton prepared
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endeavouring eveenralbrgouengthltemaerue
to form a company to carry it on on an
extensive scale. The company has a fine field of operations
btfore it. Meat was lately selling in. London at 10d. and
ls. per pound, and prepared
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than the other, but it would have this advantage, the,'
the meat could be placed on the London market uncooked
in joints—no slight consideration in the eyes of JAI
I Bull."