On Sunday afternoon, about six o'clock, the neighbourhood of Newington Butts was in a considerable state of alarm in consequence of the violence of a large assemblage of Irish. It appears that the body of a man named Mahony was to have been interred in Newington Church-yard at three o'clock, at which hour the clergyman was in waiting to perform the ceremony. From some cause or other, however, the corpse and its numerous attendants did not arrive until six o'clock, and then there was no clergyman in attendance. The circumstance was explained by the sexton, but to little purpose. The friends of the deceased said that they could do as well without the parson and they were determined to bury the body; with this view they hastened to the grave, and the chief mourners seized the spades of the grave diggers, and commenced operations, threatening to annihilate anyone who interfered to prevent them. The church-yard and its vicinity soon became a scene of uproar and violence. At this time Mr. Dowling, the superintendent of police, arrived with a party of constables, and in a very short time peace was restored and the ringleader of the riot in confinement. The corpse was detained in the church, with the understanding that it would be buried in the morning at ten o'clock.