Glasgow Courier. — 1857-04-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

RIOTS IN THE NORTH.  There has been disgraceful rioting at Lisburn and Belfast, growing out of the elections in these places. Windows and heads have been fractured, but no life lost. The doings at Sligo, as they are to form • subject for the consideration of Parliament, are from the Sligo Journal: —' It would be a profitless task to offer any comment on the many violent outrages perpetrated by the Soruerite mob doting the past week. We will at ores briefly trace the course of these unmanly and murderous attacks. After the sudden flight of Mr..Ball,the general expression amongst, the mob was, that they would 'put in Somers over the bodies of the Tories.' This determination was well acted up to. On Monday and Tuesday night the parish priest, accompanied by a large crowd, armed with sticks, and discharging fire-arias, canvassed the electors. In Market Street the windows of Martin Peenarty's house were broken. In Radcliffe Street the windows of Charles 'Tiernan's shop and house wen smashed. Parties of po'iee, which were placed at each end of Radcliffe Street, so as to prevent the combined movements of the mob, were ordered to quit their posi lion by the Mayor, who also threatened to commit the worthy officer in command for adhering to the directions of a county magistrate, who thought their; precautionary measures necessary for the preservation of the peace. The night of Monday was spent by the inhabitants in a state of fearful excitement. On Tuesday the mob visited the houses of some electors in Rushee°, which they entered, destroying in a most wanton manner the furniture, &c. On -Wednesday morning the mob gave early intimation of the course they intended to pursue throughout the day. The Messrs. Dudgeon, Knox's Street, chandlers, having voted for Mr. Wynne, were pursued to their residence, which they gained, after receiving some severe blows. The mob then commenced the work of destruction. The shutters were torn down, every window and sash in the house smashed, and the valuable goods scattered through the streets. It Wall only by the exercise of what we would call too great leniency that the police succeeded in staying the work of destruction. The next attack made was upon the house of a man of the name of O'Brien. The mob seemed to be incited by a demoniacal feeling against this person; for although the party of the Bth Ilus,ars were drawn up in front, immense stones were hurled into the house. some of the ' _ . _ .  :idlers struck, and the valuable furniture carried into the street and smashed against the market cross. The Riot Act was read on three occasions, but all in vain. The Provincial Bank of Ireland, Mr. Vernon Davy'a, Sir Robert Gore Booth's office, the Independent Chapel, Mr. Whittaker's, Dr. Armstrong's, all in Stephen Street, were more or less injured. Mr. Midd'eton's, Quay Street; Mr. Hunt's and Mr. Cunningham's (late Ramsay's) also suffered severely. In Castle Street the police were brutally assailed. Head-constable Lowe was kicked down, and when on his hands and knees was about to be murdered but for the interference of a Catholic clergyman. One of the soldiers of the 4th Regiment was severely assaulted ; in fact, it would fill a large space to recount the wanton brutality and lawless acts of the mob, which victoriously paraded the streets of Sligo on Wednesday. We thank the whole election demands inquiry. Blame is attachable in some quarter, and the peaceable inhabitants and ratepayers have every right to demand redress. A brick was thrown at one of our county magistrates while walking down Castle Street, which struck him on the head, and cut him severely. In our neat we will furnish more fully the various outrages which took on this eventfol day. As a slight evidence of the brutality of the mob towards all constituted authority, we may here mention an incident which occurred at about four o'clock on Wednesday. A. member of the constabulary force, Subconstable Clark, having been separated from his cornpanions, was brutally set upon by the mob, knocked down, his carbine broken, his clothes torn, and when about to be deliberately murdered, Sub-Constable Chas. Little, forgetttng everything but the imminent danger of a comrade, rushed forward, and gallantly succeeded in saving poor Clark, NOIO sustained some serious injuries.'