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

SERIOUS STREET DISTURBANCE ON
SUNDAY.

On the evening of Sunday last,the inhabitants of Byrom-
street, and several streets diverging from it right and left,
in that populous quarter of the town, including the lower
parts of Dale-street and Shaw's-brow, and also Fontenoy-
street, were for a long time kept in a state of commotion
and alarm, by an immense and riotous mob, composed
chiefly of the lower Irish of the neighbourh ood, some of
whom had commenced an attack on a peaceable pro-
cession of Orangemen, on their return from the interment
that afternoon in St. Mary's Cemetery, Kirkdale, of a de-
ceased brother of the order. The procession which is
represented by all parties to have been quite peaceable,
was somewhat disturbed on their way towards the ceme-
tery, when nearly St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Cleipel,
Scotland-road, but the Orangemen bore the taunts and
attacks of their assailants with patience. On their return
however from the funeral, arid while in Scotland-place,
they were again thrown into confusion by stones and other
missiles cast from the bottom of one of the small but densely
peopled streets on the other side of the area; and finally
when passing along Byrom-street, opposite the bottom of
Great Crosshall-street, a general attack was made upon
them, though a small body of police under Mr. Superin-
tendent M'Donald, threw themselves between them and
their assailants, with a view to keep them asunder, the
language and movements of the parties having indicated
the probability of violent hostilities, the Orangemen being
compelled to act in defence of their lives. The police thus
employed were numerically the greater sufferers, many of
them including Mr. MDonald having received severe in-
juries from the stones and brick-bats aimed at them and
the Orangemen, which had been chiefly procured from an
old building in Great Crosshall-street and the neighbour.
hood, and which were for a long time flying in showers,
strewing the streets in every direction, and wounding all
in their way, as well as breaking several windows, and
alarming every one passing in the locality. When the af-
fray had lasted nearly half an hour,the Orangemen, many
of whom were pursued up Shaw's-brow and other streets,
moved homeward for protection towards Toxteth-park,
the funeral having gone from New Bird-street, in that
township. Mr. Dowling, head constable, soon after came
up with a strong body of police, and no further violence
afterwards took place. A very heavy shower about an
hour afterwards also served to disperse the congregated
rabble. The only display which these enemies of
Protestantism could torture into a provocation w the nap
of the merest bit of orange sa.s•—• sue shoulders of a
few of the ....tiers (Attie procession, Several of the most
active in the mob, in throwing stones and dealing blows,
were apprehended and conveyed to bridewell. They were
yesterday brought up before Mr. Rushton, and the magis-
trates at the Police-court, and the following are the beads
of the evidence :
Mr. Superintendent M'Donald said that about five
o'clock he, with five or six police-officers under him, fol-
lowed from Mile-end to Scotland-place the funeral pro-
cession, which was then returning. Most of the parties
wore scarfs and orange favours, and they numbered in all
about four hundred. The great body of them passed
p aceably until they g)t to the end of Great Crosshall-
street. Several young men, not of the procession, but
who were bringing up the rear, then gave a shout, and
rushed up the Street. Many persona, whom he took to
be Irishmen, were in that street at the time. He saw the
prisoner, Walter Gr ens ood*, go up to one of them,with
three or four others, and he struck the man and knocked
off his hat. Another blow was made at him with a stick,
which he (the superintendent) arrested with his arm.
He gave the offender into custody. The police and him-
self were immediately attacked by the parties in the
street, not in the procession, and while they (seven or
eight in number) stood between the two parties, stones
and bricks were thickly thrown at them. No stone had
before been thrown that he saw, but he had heard that a
stone had previously been thrown at the procession.
Mr. Davenport called witnesses for the defence :—John
Pembroke said he was in the procession, but did not join
it regularly. It was peaceable until it came to St. An-
thony's Chapel, when some disorder took place, but how
it arose he did not know. Order was very soon restored.
Near the chapel, in corning back, a great many lookers-
on rushed after it. He saw a soldier who appeared to
have been drinking surrounded by many people, and ex-
citing a commotion amongst boys and others, and spoke
to a policeman to get him from the ground. The police
and Mr. MDonald came up between the two parties at
Great Crosshall-street, and took an active cart in a dan-
gerous position. Stones, &c. were thrown at them from
an old building. He was quite sure stones were thrown
at the procession before Mr. MDonald came up there.
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would have molested no one, if allowed.
Another witness, who had walked in the procession, a
little behind the prisoner, saw a man come up to him
with a large stick, and say, " You d—d Irish b-, if
you don't mind, I'll make you so that you can't turn out
on the 12th of July." The man took him by the collar
when he said this. After the disturbance, four or five
men chased him (witness) up Shaw's-brow, where they
broke two or three of Mr. Allin's windows.
George M'Fadden, who was also in the procession,
spoke to the disturbances met with before getting to
Great Crosshalt-street.
Seven other pr'soners were then brought up, namely,
Patrick Kinyon, Lawrence O'Malley, Charles Managan,
Peter Ready, William Wilson, Joseph Gill, and Thomas
Managan, and their several cases heard seriatim, on the
evidence of a number of police offic;rs ; and the grievance
in each was either throwing stones, having them in their
possession, or urging others to throw. It is worthy of
remark that one of the police officers, 185, (Cook), said
that at the Catholic Chapel, about half-past four, (when
the procession was going out,) " there was a sort of sham
fight amongst the two parties," and that when he got up
to Mr. MDonald, at Great Crossball-street, " the Irish-
men had commenced throwing stones."
Mr. Rushton ,having ordered the first prisoner whose
case bac: bean neard to be also placed at the bar, ad
dressed the whole of them. lie said, in effect, that it was
chiefly from a dread of such disturbances as these that the
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magistrates had. strongly recommended that all✓ party de-
monstrations in the streets should be abstained in a town
where antagonist religious feelings were on such occasions
so strongly excited. I his injunction had for some time
been complied with, when it was unhappily broken through
by an Irish society, and now it appeared that another of

a contrary feeling had commenced a practice which was
calculated to renew former feuds. It was greatly to be
lamented that such proceedings should take place, to the
disturbance of the peace of The town, that too, on the
sabbath day, amongst parties who, whatever the religious
differences are, ought to be subjects of the queen in amity
and good will. He admitted it was difficult to dn.', with
such cases, but when any such were clearly proved before
him he was determined to deal with them with the utmost
severity of the law; and he should therefore commit them
all to the highest tribunal that took cognizance of such
offences. He fi .ally committed the whole for trial at the

se-sions, intimating-, however, that they might be released
on bale of £5O each, and two st:reties in £2O each. The
prisoners are all working men.

* This man we are assured is not an Orangeman

COLERIDGE'S OPINIONS.—The following extracts
from various portions of Coleridge's " Table Talk," are
as valuable as they are seasonable at the present moment.
Mr. Pitt has received great credit for effecting the Union ;
but I believe it will sooner or Ipter be discovered that the
manner in which, and the terms upon which be effected
it, made it the most fatal blow that ever was levelled
against the peace and prosperity of England. From it
came the Catholic Bill. From the Catholic Bill has come
this Reform Bill! and what next? (Page 146, date 1831.)
The penal code in Ireland, in the beginning of the last
century, was justifiable as a temporary means of enabling
government to take breath and look about them; and if
right measures had been systematically pursued in a right
spirit, there can be no doubt that all, or the greater part,
of Ireland would have become Protestant. Protestantism
under the charter schools was greatly on the increase in
the early part of that century, and the complaints of the
Romish priests to that effect are on record. (Page 202.)
Clergymen are now almost afraid to explain in their pul-
pits the grounds of their being Protestants. They are
completely cowed by the vulgar harassings of the press
and of our hectoring sciolists in Parliament. There should
be no party politics in the pulpit to be sure; but every
church in England ought to resound with national politics,
—I mean the sacred character of the National Church,
and an exposure of the base robbery from the nation it-
self,—for so indeed it is—about to be committed by these
ministers, in order to have a sop to throw to the Irish
agitators, who will, of course, only cut the deeper, and
come the oftener. You cannot buy off a barbarous in-
vader. (Dated 1833.) How lamentable it is to hear the
Duke of Wellington expressing himself doubtingly on
the abornin.ble sophism that the coronation oath only
binds the king as the executive power,—thereby making .a
Highgate oath of it. But the Duke is conscious of the
ready retort which his language and conduct on the Eman-
cipation Bill afford to his opponents. He is hampered by
that affair. (1834.) There are many able and patrii,tic
members in the House of Commons—Sir Robert Inglis,
Sir Robert Peel, and some others. But I grieve that
they never have the courage or the wisdom, 1 know not
in which the failure is, to take their stand upon duty, and
to appeal to all men as men,—to the good and the true,
which exist for all, and of which all have an apprehension.
They always set to work—especially, his great eminence
considered, Sir Robert Peel—by addressing themselves to
individual interests; the measure will be injurious to the
linendrapers or to the bricklayers ; or this clause will bear
hard on bobbin-net, or poplins, and so forth. Whereas
thair adversaries, the demagogues, always work on the
opposite principle; they always appeal to men as men ;
and, as you know, the most terrible convulsions in society
have been wrought by such phrases as, " rights of man,"
" sovereignty of the people, &c., which no one under-
stands, which apply to no one in particular, but to all in
general..... Consistent truth and goodoess will assuredly
in the end overcome everything; but inconsistent good
can never be a match for consistent evil. Alas! I look in
vain for some wise and vigorous man to sound the word
duty in the ears of this generation. (Page 136. 1831.)
One day this week a man living at Seaham Harbour,
being tired of his " better half," bethought himself to
sell her to the highest bidder, and she was eventually
" knocked down" for the munificent sum of five shillings;
but, owing to what (by the knowing ones) is technically
termed " wicked." she was returned the next morning,
" safe and sound," to the
,great chagrin no doubt of herloving " lord and masters'