FATAL ORANGE RIOT AND PROCESSION AT LIVERPOOL.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 664, 13 December 1851, Page 4

FATAL ORANGE RIOT AND PROCESSION AT LIVERPOOL.

Liverpool, Monday, j q ] v .. The various Orange Clubs in this J ** its vicinity, having resolved upon 1,3 to-day, to celebrate the battle of th °n“ ioB assembled at their respective lodiT B ° yne ' early hour, and proceeded to the phl’J' aD dezvous, the statue of King Georoa in the London-road. There is a larL ‘ '' l| room in this spot, similar, in 80n ~ B P ac ® of to the square at Charing-cross, Lond 68^01 * 1 fore the fountains were erected' Th ° n ’ gate number could not be less than was probably nearer 3000, Th g were fixed in “lorries,” 8 speX J?”’ low cart that, being readily tur Oe{ j f oa B impassable barricade at cross streets ° r . ! 7 8a a moment’s delay. Every officer’ of'th lodge had an orange and blue scarf, J member was decorated with the same col in festoons and rosettes. Eight banh tf music were engaged, and nothing could ceed the grandeur and imposing effect si the immense assemblage deployed before th monument above alluded to. e But it was determined on the part of the Irish inhabitants of Liverpool, that this procession should not be allowed to pass off quietly ; accordingly many of them assembled in the neighbourhood, armed with pockets foil of stones and other missiles. The “ tylers ” however, of the various lodges had each'i drawn sword, and as these altogether amount, ed to upwards of a hundred, and very ma n j of the Orangemen bad also halberds and other truncheons, while some carried loaded pistols in their pockets, a desperate conflict was speedily got up; and we regret to say, has terminated in the loss of human life, the ex. act extent of which we cannot as yet determine, but one policeman, one of the procession, and an Irishman, are killed, numbers dangerously wounded, and very many have received injuries more or less severe. There is a great difference of opinion expressed as to the propriety of allowing the procession to take place at all, especially when it was known that the arms were not merely intended lor ornament; be this, av it may, as soon as the procession hud got a. little beyond Seymour-street, the Irishmen saluted the Orangemen with a volley of brickbats and stones. The Orangemen advanced; those who had tbe pistols drew them, and fired upon the crowd, while the swordsmen and halberdiers rushed on to their assailants, wounding many severely, and putting them to flight, The scene at this moment it would be impossible to describe ; several were on tbeground, weltering in their blood; others were hastily borne off by their companions; and the Orangemen, being left roasters of tbe field, coolly reformed, and proceeded through tbs streets, the bands playing “Tbe Boyne Water,” taking the route to Toxteth-park, Duke-street, Great George-street, Ranelaghstreet, Bold-street, Church-street, Lordstreet, Castle-street; in short, all the principal thoroughfares of tbe town, extending half a mile in length, and the swordsmen at intervals throughout the line on either side, about 200 policemen, with Mr. Commissioner Dooling at their head, formed into a comped body, bringing up the rear. Numbers of spectators who took no p>d in tbe affray, received severe injuries from the indiscriminate attack of the ar®® 1 procession. The inhabitants are naturally in great dread of the approach of m'ghtThey know that fearful retribution is ID ‘ tended; not a “lumper” on the docks re turned to work after the dinner-hour, w should the Orangemen not have wbdly di' persed before nightfall, the consequent’/' indeed be terrible. It is the that, bad the mayor or magistrates rea Riot Act when the first violence ocean much of the after consequences would been spared. Tbe shops of the streets are closed ; numbers of Irishmen, slips of grass in their hands, are to e in every part of tbe town, evidently plating a rendezvous in the cour ’ e a areJ t evening. Three lives are lost, and a number are in the Hospital some o are not expected to recover.— Chronicle, July 15.