IRELAND.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1459, 2 October 1860, Page 5

IRELAND.

TWELFTH OF JULY RIOT

The Times of 14th July, publishes the following teiegfram from its correspondent, of a desperate party riot in the North. It is dated from Dublin, Saturday morning. He says : The I2ih oi July did not it appears, pass over without a serious, if not fatal breach of the peace. The papers publish this morning, accounts from Lurgan, in ihe county of Armagh, where a fearful collision took place, in which no less than sixteen persons of the Ro.nan Catholic party were wounded, two, it is feared, mortally. One version of the affray 'is as follo.vs: —

Large parties of those connected with Orange Societies, or sympathising therewith, including women and children, entered Lurgan from the country districts, and were accompanied by fifes and drums ; there were several thousands in all, and they attended Divine service in the parish church, aud afterwards separated to return to their respective homes. One of the parties, on arriving at about two miles and a half from Lurgan, was met at a place called Moyntaghs, near Derradcl, by Roman Catholics and a riot ensued.' The disturbances having continued for sometime-, some of the Protestants returned to a Protestant house in the neighbourhood, and there procurred firearms, with which they returned to the spot, and fired at the Roman Catholics, sixteen of whom were wounded and two of them (Thomas Murphy and Charles M'Cann) are not expected to recover. The riot occurred near to a Roman Catholic Chapel. Ten arrests were made, some on the declaration of ihe dying ram.