The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-21

A series of cable kilograms, dated in Dublin
and London, enables US to report in the
columns of the HERALD to-day tho progress of
the Irish riots in Belfast during the hours
which interviewed from the date of the latest
dispatches on Monday to the moment of five
O. clock yesterday evening" and also to present
to our readers the efforts which were made by
the authorities for the suppression of the law
less movement The chronicle contains, of
course, an account of the scenes which were
witnessed during the night from midnight OF
the 10Th to the morning of the 10th instant.
The record has q variable aspect. particularly
when it is read in the light Of morality and
with q due sense of respect for social order
and it's maintenance. We behold in il the
savage instinct of the unoducated and
abandoned prompting demoralized frac-
ton of an otherwise respectable and
decorous community to the commission of
the most outrageous acts of violence against
property and even against life itself We see
that the exciting cause of this action was a
desire for public plumber; an unreasoning
wish to subject the savings and household
means of their more industrious neighbors to
the seizure and subdivision rules of an ex-
temporized communism which was presented
to the hearts and eyes of half-drunken mob
under the attractive garb of religion, stitched
up here and there with the warp of extra
loyalty to the Grown and constitution. Pinned
and inspired from these sources, and with
such motives, the Belfast rioters proceeded to
plumber stores, to sack and gut dwellings, to
display and use loaded firearms in the
thoroughfares and to indulge in regular
Donnybrook Fair saturnalia, with the differ
once, however, that all the amusing and play
full national traits of the time-honored market
festival were wanting and apparently for
gotten. There was no ''going into tent to
spend half a crown" and then meeting friend
and "for love knock him down." in this Bel
fast fray. It was dark in it's inception and
entirely foreign to the Irish character in its
mode of execution. The municipal authori-
ties of Belfast stood paralyzed for a moment
in face of it. They did not recognize it as an
ofshoot of the old factions fight stock, nor
did they understand how it could
result from the profession or practice of
religion in a town where the temples of
Presbyterians, Professionals, Roman Catholics,
Methodists even of Arians range in the peace
inspiring beauty of modern architecture almost
side by side, and where the hierarchs, presby-
tiers and preachers of oil these different Chris
tim denominations meet daily on terms of
perfect equality and with genuine, friendly,
Irish greeting of salutation. Hence the NUM-
cipality did not know, apparently, what to do.
That grand curator of citizen interests, the
sword, came to their relief. Martial law was
proclaimed. The rioters heard the sound of
the voice of order. They could not afford to
despise it. They commenced to recede from
their position in face of the military, and 1t is
quite evident from the news this morning that
the Irish riots in Belfast have been extin-
guished
An almost ridiculous side of the story is
shown in the small number of persons who
have been injured, some three or four only
being in the hospitals. Now will come the
secondary consequences committals
to Jail, balls, bonds, trials, judicial sentences
and the penalties. Then Belfast will be peace
able again, and it may be that after the next
general election her people will enjoy repose
from the debauching efforts her local and
itinerant politicians