24 DECEMBER 1870, Page 3

A new tspirit seems to have come into Derry, possibly

with the -new stipendiary, Mr. Keogh. After a good many years of delibe- mtion over the point, the magistrates of the brave old town came this year to the conclusion that law ought to be obeyed, that broken leads were not lawful, and that celebrations leading to broken heads were not lawful either, and ought to be stopped. So, having legal authority for their act, they prohibited the annual riot got nip by the "Apprentice Boys" on the 19th. The Apprentice Boys -were of course irate, and threatened all manner of things ; but the magistrates were firm, Colonel Hillier, commanding the armed police, was firm also, and the Orangemen had for the first time to give way. Nobody was killed, nobody was wounded, and nobody was much the worse, unless it be Colonel Hillier, who is threat- -ened with an action for damages for arresting Mr. Rea, a gentle- man well-known in Ireland as, on the whole, perhaps the least turbulent and most silent Irishman who ever lived.