THE OUTRAGE ON SUNDAY-SCHOOL CHILDREN, CASTLEDAWSON, IRELAND.
[To THE EDITOE or THE " SPECS/Ma 11."] SIR,—In your notice last week of the outrage committed by Hibernian on a Sunday-school party at Castledawson you refer also to the conduct of an Orange mob. I presume this reference is to disturbances in Belfast, but it might be thought that there was an Orange mob at Castledawson. There was no party of Orangemen there. There was only the annual excursion of Whitehouse Presbyterian Sunday-school, con- sisting of about 500 children, accompanied by their teachers and a few of the parents of the children. This party was wantonly attacked by 300 Hibernian men, armed with pikes and bludgeons. There was no provocation given by the
Sunday-school party. The sight of a Union Jack flag and the presence of so many Protestant children seem to have maddened the Hibernians.—I am, Sir, Asc.,
ROBERT BARRON,
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