Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-08
THE RIOTS AT BELFAST, (IarIAsD.)

THE RIOTS AT BELFAST, GaELAsD)
We again have reports from England that the riots at
Belfast have besn suppressed and quiet restored These
disgraceu disturbances began the 9th Of August when
mob OF orangemen burned o'Connel in efigy This
aron to the Liberators memory greatly irrtated the
Catholics and the wol kDgmon OF both parties have been
hghhng 1t OUT by attacks property and skirmshes
on more less extended scale. In point Of fact the
town for whole week at the mercy Of two hostile
mobs The police fired the crowd, and some thirty
persons were shot, many Of them fatally. Churches
schools, stores private dwellings nunnsry the residence
OF the Catholic bishop, and public buidings were
assailed and either totally destroyed greatly damaged
On the 18th utmo the mob subsdiug in the presence
Of very large military force.
The Dublin Freemans Journal SAYS that up to Wednes.
day night August 18th, hundred and twelve persons
had received gunshot wounds Of the fighting on Tuesday
the Northern Wing says: s
"At early morning the mobs of the town were again
ready for battle and continued at their
ngs throughout the day About four O'Clock terrible
yelling shouting mob assailed the houses the Shankh
rOa Lodge road Christopher street, Townsend street.
Israel street Broadbn street. and the streets adjoining
There were not fewer THAI five hundred houses
less injured and the mob spared neither friend foe In
some instances the assaants did not stop short with
breaking windows, but pulled the furniture outside and
broke it to atoms About five o'clock riot Of most
neighoorhood The two opposing parties here into
collision and stones being provided in abundance the
females fierce battle ensued Both parties appeared to
be well supplied with firearms The riot ragged for up
wards OF an tour in the of which seven men
badly wounded with shot and some parties sustained
severe fractures by being beaten with budgeons. troop
OF the Fourth Hufsar about two hundred infantry and
large number OF the oonstabury quickly brought to
tho Of action The crowd were quickly dispersed
but Of course not until very serious damage had been
DONE and 1t is feared that least has lost his life
in this action. Several skirmshes wards took place
IN the same district in the Of the morning but
general riot took place. About the same time mob of
backguard- attacked the houses in Joy street aud the
neiRhPohood and smashed to only but
window frames-pung them to the streets aud tearing
them to pieces making budgets of the with which they
ran along the streets yelling like fends. Asz ff1
"The police, who were few in number obliged to
seek refugee and messenger dispatched for assis-
lance to the Albert Crescent Barracks immediately af
forwards bInspecto Caued brought about forty men
with fixed bayOnets at rapid run to the place, and when
halt WAS made several voeys of stones were thrown in
amongst them and some OF the police received bad
The foroe which amounted to about sixty men,
ordered to load by Mr. Caufed and Of the crowd
hearing the command sought shelter in the houses hand
However great portion of the mob stood their ground
aud continued TO throw brlckbats and stones at the police
and 1t is said that guns fred at them. In
short time the constabuary fred the mob amid great
shout from crowd who had collected behind We under
stand that the only person killed named John
Mcconnell, who resided in Sandy Row. Another person
named Robert Davidson standing at door, when
ball fired from the police inflicted very scalp
wound The stringent measures exercised upon this oc
cason had the effect Of keeping the crowd inside doors for
| considerable time
the present awful riots occurred about halLpast
o'clock, when immense Of shp-carpenters and
Others assembled with sticks and budgeons of very
mdable character and many of them armed with gums
and pistols and thus paraded the town The rst appear
ance we saw Of them 10 Peters Hill, about ten
o'clock There could not have been fewer than hon-
sand men IN the crowd all armed have described
his display in opposition to the procession Of the
navvies the previous day, but unlike the navvies we
did not them wreck single house, in fact their lead
many occasions told them not to dare TO do So
They cheered Justify they marched along the Shankh
road The told the people not +, be afraid This part Of
The town in state OF the utmost condemnation and
the proprietors OF Roman Catholic houses 10 the
greatest repdaton and alarm but beyond the cheering
Of the crowd and the terrifying exhibition Of the fury OF
mob law there was nothing at this particular part Of their
progress calling for remark They matched to the
Falls Road and then encountered large mob from
the Pound district when bludgeons used on both
sides with great effect and number Of shotsrwere fired
The police got between Them and would have fired upon
them 1t is said had they not separated However before
they separated, two three gunshot wounds in
hlcted and many people were badly MANNED about the
Tie at the General Hospital on Tuesday night il
thus described by the Belfast Northern whig
"We visited the place about ten O'clock and with Prof
Gordon went through the wards where the unor-
tunate wretches lying, many 10 the agony Of the
direst PAIN and some in the last agony Of ALL Half aa
hour could not eapse during the day without person
being broughtto the institution manned with bullet wound
or with sugs Ihe agony Of the men they brought
in dreadful to look atstrong. bold men, half an
hour previously had been in deadly encounter with their
fellow men, defence OF their lives and properties and
uans engaged the eees which occurred BROUGHT
in side by side wang and writing in the torture of de-
spar We witnessed thirty of these all brought
to the hospital Three wards OF the hospital are Ilod
with wounded, manned, and dying-he most unfortunate
OF whom and those most to be amened poor men
frgbuly beaten at the Ulster railway station who were
attacked by mob of savages from Sandy Row, who
thought the passengers by the train from
Dublin and Tpperary and other places In the hospital
beds were Immediately made to accommodate the extra
patients Throughout the day DR. Cory attended about
twenty patients who brought to his surgery, having
been severely beaten and bruised by of the mobs
The Manchester Guardian, in speaking of these fesrfu
riots, says: s1 /. url
Belfast is in state of siege The reign Of law and
order is suspended in the manufacturing capital of the
sister Island. Voleys Of brickbats showers Of paving
stones budgeon blows sword cuts bayonet TRUSTS and
gnshot wounds have been for past the ordinary
Incidents of LIE The inhabitants OF great commercial
emporium have been successfully to reproduce
the worst features Of agricultural Donoybrook The
whole town has been given faction Eight on grand
SCALE Protestant and Catholic Orangeman and National
ist have closed desperate and deadly struggle till the
wall Of the wounded and the dying has filed air. till
several lives have already been sacrificed till the number
Of the wounded only be guessed at till the orderly
population is panic stricken and business altogether
standStl Above hundred persops suffering from gun
shot wounds under the OF private medical men
and the hospital surgeons are busy with amputaons all
day long" Ii #t. 81 ~ Fan
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