The Orangemen of Belfast seem to have gone wild wi
and unfortunately the town has a mayor who sympathizes, Orangemen. The Presbyterians and Catholics, who are Libel are tired of electing a Tory because he hates them both, and ha started Lord John Hay as a candidate of their own. The exasperated mayor accordingly filed the Orange anniversary as the day of nomination, and the Orangemen, armed with square bludgeons, packed the Court-house, and for more than two hours turned the place into a pandemonium. Every one who tried to enter was bludgeoned, and the mad crowd within howled, and screamed, and cursed, and demanded that Lord John Hay should be thrown down from the hustings on to them. The Admiral stood all the time quietly contemptuous, never even glancing at the missiles flung at him, and trying in vain to speak to the reporters. Sir Hugh Cairns asked for a hearing for him, but in vain, and the disgraceful scene ended by the mayor declaring that the show of hands had been in favour of Sir Hugh Cairns and Mr. Getty. The Liberals of course were not deterred by this demonstration.
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