The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-08 00:00:00

4is which will compel Sir itoliert Peel and his
colleagues to lay aside their idle and distasteful

idemical education and popish ag-
grandisement, and set themselves in earnest to vin-
dicate the law and to protect life and property in

crotchets of

that unhappy and disorgarAsed country. Last week
me had to shock the ears of Engli hrnen with the
details of a murder of unprecedented and unpro-
voked brutality, the perpetrator of which still walks
abroad, known to hundreds, if not to thousands,
I'o-day we have to remark upon
a scene of barbarous outrage which would disgrace
;avage Indians; and yet this too has oc-
religious Ireland"—" moral Ireland"—
the finest peasantry in the world," whose
reverence towards their spiritual teachers is so ex-
emplary, and whose love of their Church and her
doctrines is so sensitive that to offend either is re-
garded as a crime! Well might Sir R. Peel de-
dare, on an occasion well-remembered, that " Ire-
land was his chief difficulty." Presuming, as we
are quite warranted in doing, that he had then de-
termined upon the line of policy which he would
and is now pursuing, the task of grappling
with a state of society presenting so many irrecon-

et undenounced.

a tribe of

curred in

pu rs II e,

cileable anomalies—so much religion and mo-
rality" (!) mingled with so much hideous crime and
appetite for bloodshed—might well be esteemed a
difficulty. But to our task of recording this last
outrage and its disastrous consequences.
On Monday, it appears, a fair was held in the vil-
lage of Ballinhassig, seven miles from Cork; and at
the conclusion of the said fair, notwithstanding all
the sobriety, which is the especial boast of the Irish
people just now, when the magistrates who had been
present to repress disorder had returned to dinner,
the usual preparation for a faction fight commenced.
We give a description of the scene which ensued
from the Cork Constitution :

"They

were. how

'er, but a short

time gone, when the leader of one faction, a man named
an, who is better known by the cognomen of ' Ran-
w up his hat in the green, and whirling his
e the faction whoop, when his friends anti ad-
mmediat ly gathered about him tumultuously.
)weeer, interfered, and the men of the op-
'he ' Neills,' retired from the green. Ran-
rtv then lett the green and took a different
Neills. In a few minuses the latter re-
) to the number of at,out two hundred,
mounted the ditches
In a moment

ler and

around

expectation of a fray

after, Ranter appeared on horseback and rode furiously
the hill, fullowed by over three hundred men. When
cross, he pulled up and ad-
broke a new hat which
1. This was the signal for
i the cross, which
I their opponents on the
Ranter leaped

;ot to th:! !riddle of t

other f

t

entnnce of the green,
.vas met by the leader
t. He grappled him,
eon, Constables Pigott
nob, and lsid hold of
e time. lie struggled

at th

e moment,

a Christian and a civi-

:I:within- which a

canna

bout the

beina rai

s head

faction

1 and a savage fight ensuing !
enlightened signal for the on-

ans " broke a new hat
nd then followed " yell"
! But now see the brutal
:Aired the gallant interference