THE LATE ROW AT ADDISON'S.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 222, 17 April 1868, Page 3

THE LATE ROW AT ADDISON'S.

Sir, —In reply to the letter of Tin- ; dicator, I beg to state that the getting up of the banner was left entirely to own discretion. There was no policy whatever on my part in the painting of it. I gave it the salmon ground in order to receive the other colors. If Vindicator would again refer to the national flag of Ireland he would find that the Harp is invariably drawn upon a blue ground. In briefly dismissing this question, I cannot conclude without expressing my feelings of the manner in which the loyal subjects were greeted on their return to Addison's. As soon as they had reached the centre of the far township, they were confronted by a formidable body of men I should say about three hundred, and about forty in the procession. The mob simultaneously showered a volley of stones into their midst, seized the "flag of Great Britain, and shattered it into a thousand pieces : many of them eating portions of it with the voracity of ravenous tigers. The small number of loyal subjects seeing they were greatly overpowered, considered "discretion the better part of valor," and took to flight

The mob yelling with such barbaric hideousness, enough to make one believe that devils had usurped the forms of men, pursued them with unflagging exertion for a considerable distanee.many of the poor fellows were sadly bruised, and several men ran to Westport for protection. The ruthless crowd turned up Kyn-nersley-street and when in front of the Casino, sent a volley of stones into the windows and lamp of the house on the opposite side, the property of an inoffending girl. Yours &c. Jomr Hookeb. The above was received two days after the disturbance, and would not have been inserted, but for the evidence of Mary Kinnehan which appears in another column.—Ed. W. T. § C. A.