The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE iiiittpial tailb:arV & Onterat Ciantmercial AVllerficr. No. 1616.1 TUESDAY, NO EMBER 1, 1853. [GRATIS. Standard Office, Two o'clock, p.m THE RIOTS AT WIGAN. The town was perfectly quiet up to last evening. A good many people were present at the pleasure fair, which yesterday succeeded the cattle fairs, but the purchasers were mostly country people, a great portion of the townsfolk being too much impoverished by the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] THE EASTERN Q The Ch There is an uneasy feeling -prevalent withhold the following telegraphic despatch which we lest the peace should again be disturbed, some of the colliers having been heard to threaten more serious disturbances than any that have yet taken place. There are people who point to the soldiers as a source of security, " but," said a collier, who was talking to one of these, "the colliers as a body are too ignorant and uninformed to calculate the risks of such a collision ; a thousand strong ablebodied men might be chosen from them who would do much mischief before they could be stopped, and that is all at present they think of." The prisoners taken on Friday night were brought before the magistrates at the Town-hall, at eleven o'clock yesterday, but the only evidence taken had reference to the riot generally, and no special evidence was given implicating them. The witnesses examined were Ed ward Birchall, police-officer, in charge of the police- office on Friday night, and Mr. Part, the clerk to the magistrates. The accounts given by these wit nesses bear out all the principal statements already given, but Birchall gave more minutely the details of demon strations made by the mob at the commencement of the riot in front of the Town-hall and of the Royal Hotel, where it appears that many stones were thrown at the police in volleys, before they were driven from the front of the mob. _ have received from our correspondent at Vienna, but, like him, we attached very little credit to it, and regard both the statements which it contains as in a high degree improbable " VIENNA, MONDAY.—A private despatch from Times war states that 26,000 Turks have crossed the Danube and occupied Kalafat. From Ortova another despatch says that 52,000 men have crossed, and that hostilities have commenced. This news is believed in, although not authenticated." The other morning papers contain no later news from Vienna or the East. The Times has good ground for confidence that the late effort in the cause of peace will prove successful. If the Turks attempt to cross the Danube, the result must be disadvantageous to them. MONDAY_ °faci allY nominated to the embassy at Constantinop le An unfavourable reaction at the Bourse. Threes' closed at 73 15 ; Four-and-Halves', 99 65. aav de Hillie The prisoners were remanded until to-morrow (Wed nesday). To-Way (Tuesday), the municipal elections may be ex pected to cause a good deal of excitement. All candidates for the Town Council obnoxious to the turn-outs will, of course, excite strong feelings should they be successful. M ANCLIZSTER STOCK. EXCHANGI —Mrs DAY. La NV tl eashire and Yorkshire, 63 ; London and North eate n) , . and - r , , 103 ; Sheffield, 19i ; Midland, 60 ; South-Eastern ...I ov . er, 171. boys attaked the Saw Mill at Lord Crawford's Colliery, New Springs, Aspull, and were fired on. It is believed two of them are wounded, but none of the rioters were ieft on the LEEDS STOCK EX.CFINNGE.• NOON QUOTATIONS , stern Union, 8., 7. ground. The finVf Miii is a large building witere the joinering, smith-work, and waggon-making for the colliery is done, —Tats DIY and about 120 Welsh colliers, (" knobaticks,") as they are here sometimes called,) are at present lodging in it. It is about two miles from the centre of the town. It is said, that yesterday afternoon the authorities received an intimation that an attack upon the place was me ditated, and that threats had been used by turn-Jut colliers to the effect, that they would have the Welshmen's blood that night ; and Mr. Peace, manager of the colliery, was warned. About six o'clock the mob came to the Saw-mill, from the direction of Wigan, armed with sticks and making a great noise. Inspector Gillet and ten country policemen and Mr. Peace and half-a-dozen of his men tried to prevent the rioters coming through the gate leading into the saw-mill yard, but after standing a shower of stones for some minutes, tney retreated to the saw-mill, and the mob then broke through the gates, and advanced about sixty yards to where a large fire was burning ; this gave forth a bright light, a thing they did not appear to want, therefore they threw it over. A shot was then fired at them srom the saw-mill, and they retreated to the gate; but rallied and returned to within a few yards of the building. Four shots were then fired at them, and they retreated and ran towards Wigan. Two men are said to be wounded, one in the face, and another in the leg. It is said one had to be carried away. The military were sent for from Wigan, but when they arrived all was peaceable. Thirty soldiers, and Mr. Acton, county magis trate, remained at the Saw Mill all night, but the rest of the troops were marched back to Wigan. Two additional troops of the 34th regiment of infantry were telegraphed for from Preston, and arrived at ten o'clock, and at two o'clock this morning a troop of cavalry came from Manchester, having been sent for. The troops are quartered at the new Public Hall. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Amphitrite, hence at Bruges 28th ult. ; Freiheer Otton Pon Manteuffel, hence at Danzig 24th ult. ; Emerald, hence at Browershaven 25th ult. Jeune Ida, from Bordeaux for this port. The Muskingomo, from Havana; Whampoa—at Gravesend 31st ult. The James Booth, from Calcutta ; Chance, from Madras , Patrick Henry, from New York—at Deal 31st ult. Sea Queen, from Scholes (inhabited by colliers and factory people), was much excited, when the report of the attack and firing spread through the town, but towards half-past 9 the streets became less thronged, and by 10 o'clock few were to be se en out of doors. All is now quiet. About one o'clock on Sunday morning, the houses of five .4 knobsticks" (labourers who have gone to work in coal-pits belonging to Lord Crawford) were attacked by about fifty men with blackened faces, and the windows were smashed, but nothing further done. These houses are at Blackwood, 3i miles from Wigan, and they are the property of his lordship. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Tars DAY, There was only a moderate attendance of buyers at our market to-day, but a fair amount of business was done both in wheat and flour at the advance of Friday last, which was ld, to 2d. per 701 b. on wheat, and 6d. per brl. and is. per sack on flour, over the rates of this day week. In barley and malt also the same firmness was manifested, the advance of Friday last being maintained, oats id per bushel, and oatmeal ls. per load, dearer. For Indian corn, a fair demand at the advance of Friday, and the same remark will apply to beans and peas. We have received into this port, during the week end ing yesterday. a tolerable quantity of Oatmeal, but of Grain or Flonr, thence or coastwise, the arrivals of the week are inconsiderable ; while of any kind of Grain from abroad the import is perfectly insignificant. Of Flour, however, we have a fair supply, chiefly from the United States and Spain, and partly from British colonies-1892 barrels from the latter, being a reshipment from Australia. During the same period the exports of Wheat and Indian Corn, however. exceed, and those of Flour nearly equal the importations subjoined. LIVERPOOL: Printed and Published every Tuesday, by the Proprietor, ROBERT PEARSON THACKER, of No. 7, Percy-street, at the STANDARD GENERAL PRINTING OFFICE, No. 4, St. George's Crescent, Liverpool.—Tuesday, November I, 1853.