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Show PARTY RIOTS IN IREIAND- ' Tbo Irish Roman Catholics h been celebrating the anniversary of tbo disestablishment of tbo Anglican Protestant church io Ireland ; and the Belfast Orangemen called in the de-i de-i .patch to be lbund in another column, Protestants with an illiberally bred I or narrow partisan feelings, determined if possible to prevent tbem. Just so i tho Koman Catholics of Ireland won d ! prevent tic Orangemen celebrating ' tho annivcr-ary of the battle of the Boyoe, or Protestant ascendancy in Britain. By the telegraph wo learn that rioting, commenced on Thursday, was temporarily suppressed, and broke j out again yesterday afternoon. Bel- fast the leading city of the north of Ireland, has a population now ol a hundred and thirty thousand, with a mijority of them belonging to the different Prctcatant sects. Party feeling at times runs very high, as in tbo present instance ; and riots of the most serious character arc far from unusual. But while such evidences of illiberality aro manifested, first on tho one sido and then on the other, what powerful claims caH the Irish put forward for the sympathy of tbo world in their struggles for independence? inde-pendence? This time it is the Orange faction that is disloyal to the government, govern-ment, for it feels embittered at tho liberal polioy of Gladstone, which removed re-moved tho burden of supporting a obureh they would neither respect nor attend from Komao Catholics and Dissenters of different denominations. Yet such scenes aro disgraceful to the country, no mattor at whoso hands tboy havo their origin; and Ireland oan never be truly freo, even if it had a republic to-day, until publio sentiment senti-ment in tho "green islo" is so strongly opposed to them that they will not ooonr. |
