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Show THE BELFAST RIOTS. Tho disgraceful rious in Belfast continue, con-tinue, and theciiy has had to be placed plac-ed under military rule. Unlike other parts of Ireland, occurrences of this character arc not so readily suppressed in the capital of the "Black North." While the people have enoushofthe impulsive temperament of the Irish mco to provoke thsm to act rashly and ill-advicdly, tho admixture of English and Scotch Mood makes them more itubborn and determined in their riot ous oourrfe when once they enter upo-j it. Hetweeu the denizens of Sdmy How or Brawn's Square, and cliJ of the Friar'a Bush region, euds always exist, which a triflir cause will pro-voko pro-voko into deadly hostilities. Then the flhip-carpenters, who are nearly to a man Protectants, armed with adzrv axes and other edge tools of their cvft, fuh into the city in hundreds, i lind tlicrose.vea confronted by the batchers, who are nearly all Ronji Catholics," armed with cleavers and similar formidable for-midable weapons. It is not a " faction fight " that has been holding carnival in Belfast. Ii is the old religious feud that has deluged de-luged different oatious with Wood; tho struma W'.weeu Protestantism and Kom Catholicism, which must 1)0 b1'. Lho more bitter in. Ireland how that the formor arc losing influence and prestige, which gave to their inferior in-ferior numbors a certain superiority dating back to the time when disabi lilies were heaped upon the .Roman Cotholio population after the accession acces-sion of William of Orange to the throno of England. Bat tho efforts to maintain orsecuro religious ascendancy by such means harmonize but illy with the gospel both parties profess to be lievc ; and the cause that has to de pend upon rioting, wrecking houses, destroying property and bloodshec Since tho above was in typo fuller details of the rioting have been received, receiv-ed, which will bo found in our night dispatches. As wo expected, tho ship-carpenters ship-carpenters and tho Hercules street butchers aro playing an important act in tho disgraceful scenes. Indeed they are the nuclei of tho opposing parties, and were they left out the riots would not extend over a day or two at most, for they arc generally desperate, determined deter-mined men, of both sides. By the latent news received it seems the entire city has suffered from the mobs. York street, Thompson's Bank, the Antrim road, Sandy Row, and Pound Looey (lane) aro almost the extreme points of tho city east and nest, north and south, and run over to the Ballymacarrctt, or County Down side. Were (he civil authorities to get fully over ! tho horror so generally felt in Britain against bloodshed, and were tho mob to be charged and a Ecore or two of the rioters shot down in their tracks, peace would be restored to the city in a few hours. But the rioters have been trifled with until they have grown desperate in their boldness, and continue tho Btrugglo to the lasting disgrace of tho manufacturing capital of Ireland. |