The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-02 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-BACIIELOR OP ARTS,
1853.—First Division—Robert Stone Ashton, New; Alfred
Austin, St. Mary's, Oscott ; Edward Stephens Bayliffe,
Spring ; John Bell, University; Alfred William Ben-
nett, University; Semuel Haywood Blackmore, Univer-
sity ; John Baptist Bodeen°, Stonyburst ; Francis Thomas
Bend, Queen's, Birmingham; Rev. John Bonser, Wesley,
Sheffield ; Wells Butler, University ; John Frederic Cheet-
ham, University ; George Cornish, New ; Harris Crass-
weller, Stepney ; Joseph Upton Davis, Stepney ;
William Dyson, Wesley, Sheffield ; John Earle, King's ;
Alexander Eccles, University ; William Roby Fletcher,
Lancashire Independent ; Francis Edward Fox, University;
Arthur Jewitt Geden, 'Wesley, Sheffield; Robert Henry
Gibson, University; Henry Gowird, Spring Hill; John
Matthias Green, University ; Albert Greg, University ;
John Howe Owyther, Lancashire Independent; Thomas
Egerton Hale' King's ; Richard Ford Heath, University ;
Alfred Peach Heosman, University; Joseph Howard,
Universit; Henry Charles Hull, University ;
Long
Edward Jacob, Queen's, Birmingham William
Kay, Stonyhurst; William George Lemon, University;
George Ltdgett, Wesley, Sheffield; George Lingham,
King's; Thomas Lawford Lingham, University ; Joseph
Meade, St. Paul's, Prior Park; Edmund Miller, New ;
Richard Watson Giver, Wesleyan, Taunton; Henry Pace,
Stonyhurst; Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, University ;
William Henry Potter, Manchester (New) ; William Mat-
thews Robertson, New ; Michael Thomas Sadler, Wesley,
Sheffield; Thomas Sidgreaves, Stonyburst ; Alfred Smith,
University; ; Edwin Smith, Manchester (New); John
Frederick Stevenson, Stepney ; John Radford Thom-
son, New; Henry Turner, Manchester (New) ; George
Waugh, University ; Philip John Worsley, University ;
Second Division.--John Brown, Lancashire Independent ;
Thomas Watson Brown, Wesley, Sheffield; Charles Gould,
King's; Thomas Green, Spring Matthew Outte-
ridge, Dartford Grammar School; Edward Henry Harbour,
University ; John Auld Magennis, Royal Belfast Academy
Institute ; Miles Monk Magrath, University ; Francis
O'Beirne Stonyhurst; Thomas Stevenson, University;
James Russell Storrar, University ; Charles Smith Slur-
rock, Spring Hill.

75efinicil shares the latest Stock Exchange quota-
tions are subjoined :—Ashton and Oldham, 168;
Brecknock and Abergavenny, 821 ; Birmingham
(guaranteed 4 per cent. by the London and North
Western Railway), 971; Derby, 63 ' • Coventry,
200 ; Grand Junction, 691; Grand Surrey, 50;
Grand Union, 121; Kennet and Avon, 61; Leeds and
Liverpool, 554; Leicester, 67; Leicester and North-
ampton, 441; Loughborough, 550 ; Macclesfield, 56;
Oxford, 1121; Peak Forest, 97 ; Regent's, 161;
Rochdale, 66; Stafford and Worcester, 410; Stour-
bridge, 290; Severn and Wye Canal and Railway,
24 ; Varwick and Birmingham, 41; Warwick and
Napton, 19; Worcester and Birmingham, 36; Wilts
and Berks, 7.
Prices of Gas and Coke Companies' shares range
as follows :—British Provincial, 22; Brighton, 15;
City of London, 132); Continental (Third Capital),
671; Equitable, 27 ; Great Central, 14 ; Imperial,
851; Independent, 46; London Parliamentary Pre-
ference, 23 ex div. ' • Phoenix, 271, 28 ; Ratchff, 70 ;
United General, 21 ; Westminster Chartered, 381;
ditto New (101. paid), 72.
Waterworks stocks are thus marked :—Berlin, 2;
East London, 130 ; Southwark and Vauxhall, 891, 2;
West Middlesex, 113.
. . _

Shares in bridge associations command the follow-
ing prices :—Hungerford, 12 ; 4Vaterloo,s ; Vauxhall,
231.
Other stocks are thus quotes':—Canada Six per
Cent. Bonds, 111; City Navigation Three-and-a-
Half per teat. Bonds, 87 ; Price's Patent Candle Com-
pany, 281, 28 ex div.; ditto, New (201. paid), 221.
Annexed are the latest reports from continental
bourses, as received by Mr. iteuter's express :
Amsterdam, Monday, closing prices:—Dutch Four
per Cents., 921; ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
61. Spanish Defers ed Three per Cents., 21 9.16; the
Coupons, 5 3.16 ; the Old Three per Cents., foreign,
44 5-16. Austrian Five per Cent. Metallies, 77 1-IG.
Peruvian Now, 70. Portuguese New, 374. Mexican
New, 241. Granada Active, 191; ditto Deferred,
7 13-16. Equador, 4. This bourse shows a general
and marked advance, caused doubtless by the rapid
rise reported from the London, Paris, and other
markets. Vienna, Monday :—Five per Cent. Me-
tallies, 91 1-16. Exchange on Loudon, 11.4. Bank
shares, 1,292. The tendency of this bourse is in the
direction of a rally. To-day being a holiday, the
Paris bourse was closed.

LONDON COURSE OF EXCBANOE.—Nov. 1.
Time. J.l:l,l".a!!sgollats., this dliy.

Bilis mg IL— Slemer.
Amet.rdaza pert Short tie. 1iqa..... 111. ISM%
D!tto
Rotterdam
. ...

Amite 2atr. Ifac. ... 25tr. 2i o.
Bruaie.A
Harnatua and Alton .. „ I.3roca. Siocil. 13mes. 6act
St. reteraburg per rabic. „ 37ipenc• ... 372 pence
Paris per S Short 25tr. Oc. ... 25fr. 05e.
..... _ _

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CITY MONUMENT TO TUE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
It is stated that the Wellington Statue Committee, of
Guildhall, of which Mr. John Wood is chairman, have
selected the models sent in by the six following sculptors
as those entitled to the premium of 100 guineas each •
Adams, Baines, Bell, Foley, Smith, and Thomas. The
number of models before the committee was thirty. The
committee have not yet determined upon the selection of a
model for the monument, and it is not known whether any
one of the above-mentioned artists is to be engaged to
carry into execution the great work.
LUMLEY v. GYE.—The curious case of Lumley
o Bye is still pending, and wiU be tried at the sittings
after the ensuing Michaemas Term. It is an action against
Mr. Gye for inducing, as is asserted, Miss Jobannah Wag-
ner, the celebrated German artiste, to break her alleged
contract with Mr. Lumley, who lays his damages at no less
alum than 30,000/. The principal witnesses, including
Miss Wagner herself, being beyond the regular jurisdiction
of the English courts, a commission has been issued to take
their evidence at Berlin, where their examination and cross-
examination will he conducted by English counsel, through
the medium of a sworn interpreter. Mr. Hayward, Queen's
Counsel, has been named sole commissioner, and will dis-
charge pro [onto, the duties of a judge at a nisiprius trial.
The commission is to be opened at Berlin on the 7th
instant.

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION.—ShortIy after one
o'clock this (Wednesday) morning, information was received
at the various stations of the London Fire Brigade and West
of England office, that a very disastrous fire had broken
out in the Borough, to which spot five or six of the brigade
and the West of Englaud engines started. Upon gaining
George-street, near the Bricklayers' Arms Tavern, the
firemen found that a fire of considerable magnitude was
raging in the premises of Mr. Levisage, a wheelwright,
and two private houses, numbered 4, George-street, and 3
in the same thoroughfare' the last named being tenanted
respectively by Mr. Powell, a general merchant, and Mr.
Covartinia. In spite of the meet strenuous exertions of all
present, it was nearly 3 o'clock this morning before the fire
Gould be said to be entirely got under. By that time the
whole of the wheelwright's factory was levelled with the
ground, and the private residences of Mr. Powell and the
other gentleman were partly gutted. Mr. Wm. M. Wil-
liams, the patent and common clay pipe manufacturer, it is
stated. has lost one or two vehicles in the conflagration.
Mr. Haynes, a general dealer, has lost a valuable horse in
the fire, and so has a tradesman named Burkitt. The origin
of the disaster is at present unknown.
THE PASS OF TONALE.—The Austria of Vienna
announces that the new road, commenced this year, which
is to connect Lombardy with the Tyrol, through the defile
of Tonale, situated at 6,250 feet above the level of the sea, is
in active progress. It is to supersede the old road over
the Stilfs, which is upwards of SOU) feet übJrc the level of
the sea, and is often impassable for months together on ac-
count of the snows.
GLOVES AT FAIR..—As an emblem of power and
an acknowledgment of goodness, "Saul set up a hand"
2 SAM. IS, Isaiah, lei., 5. Tee Phmnician menu-
! after his victory over the Amalekites, 1 Sam. xv., 12
ments ore said to have bad sculptured on them an arm and
hand held up, with an inscription graven thereon. If, as
stated ey your correspondents in the article referred to, the
glove at fairs " denotes protection," and indicates " that
parties frequenting the fair are exempt from arrest," it is at
ileast a r.markahle coincidence. The Phatnicians were
THIS DAY.—Two O'CLOCK. the earliest merchants to the west of England that
The English stock market has shown a decided we have any account of: can any connexion he traced
tendency towards fluctuation to-day, consequent upon I historically between
etehz Phmniciana traffic and the
}loras
tierAcitemeemeomfbeetftnizeg
feelings ho,da,
neeranglwovnen,
the telegraphic statements of the cm:Mug of the I
toraptidfolyr quest,d deart
with which I gazed when taken in childhood to see " the
Danube by the Turks. The funds showed at one
time a fall of 1 per cent. from Monday's prices, but glove brought in" and pl red ever the Guildhall of Exeter,
the present range shows a fall of per cent. only.
bateetnhenalimeimafeendewemitrhottnoief
f"aiLeafmnammesiteFeanirm.'m'
enHeaesentehnef,glanovde
Consols were sold as low as as 921 for
lif no!, how far hack can its use be traced ? The history of
• the fair is briefly this : it existed before the Norman Con-
and was a great mart of business; the tolls had
"cose.nned and third of
Trlupontoeyt,l3bitH
Tpiotercphreasessent thgeunotcaatirroniedis thmer
be-
money,he
and 931 to .1, for the 10th November. lontod to the corporation, but King John took one-half,
corporation, who
Stock is extremely scarce, and money stock rules
"sold
gave
the
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withto
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air;
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over
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highernpte.ec ent
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ited uteheed cihusovten
nfodrengel account.
iunn
at .tPhilip and 7,lary
;have ever since been lords of the fair. (Izacke's " Memo-
-01 ofExeter," pp. 83, 138,
Tto
to !t_'; the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 93,1 p. 19 ; „ History
to 91; ; India Stock, 218 ; Bank Stock, 213 to 215; &,:.) —From "-Notes and Queries."

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
A Mood E !is ion of "The Expre.e." containing the lallt! tff Dine.
"Oaa,tte," u published ',try Tuesday and Friday night, in wee
Ise post. . . _

deertvements Int/Ivied foe " The Tsprees," to:melon Eresmg paper,
out be at the neat. 10, Beweerie-street, by Two o'c'.e.k ea Om
day et pubLiatica.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tv@ DST—Morale', 2h. 15m Afterm 2b. Me.
Temoutow—liortung, 2b. Aternwm, 2b. 16is,

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2.

A TURKISH force hu, it appears, crossed the
Danube from Widdin and occupied Kalafat, on the
left bank of the river. Upon this point all the several
telegraphic messages received yesterday, from Vienna,
in London and PaZiS are agreed. There are unessential
differences as to the day on which the movement
took place, the exact number of troops that had
crossed, and the manner in which they were met by
the Russians. The evidence appears to preponderate
in favour of the version which represents the Turk
as crossing the river on the 28th, to the number Of
20,900, and the Russians withdrawing their troops
from Kalafat, leaving it to be occupied by the ammay.
What imparts a degree of probability approaching le
certainty to this news is, that it is the natural
development of the military movements previously
reported—the occupation of the island is front of
Widdin by the Turks.

Here then evaporates the talc of " an armistice "
with which a contemporary startled the town from its
propriety on Saturday last—disturbing the balance
of power between Bulls and Bears upon 'Change.
The journal in question stuck stoutly for a time to
its legend of an armistice, pooh•poohing the
account of the affair at lsaatchi, and every-
thing else tending to shake men's confidence
in it. Hut the collision on the Lower Danube
was confirmed ; and the armistice was ad-
mitted to be no armistice, only au instruction to the
Turkish General to postpone for a few days the com-
mencement of hostilities, which instruction was sub-
seqsently announced to have been only conditional.
Thus gradually and piecemeal has the figment which
for a time sent up the drooping funds in Paris and
London evaporated. _ _

It is now apparent that the Turks are in ear-
nest. The Russian steamers and other craft
which attempt to pass up or down the Danube are
fired upon from the Turkish forts. Omaa PAM!!
has pushed his troops across the Danube at a point
whence he can take the Russian forces in Wallachia in
flank. The Russians, according to the most intelligible
and credible accounts, extend along the river from in
front of Bucharest to Kalafat, or near it. Their troops
at the latter place have been called in. If Oxza
PACUA advances along the river, they can at first
present but a narrow front to him ; or he may strike
inland and get in their rear, placing them between
the detachment of the Turkish army which has
already crossed and any detachment which may
hereafter cross lower down. To obviate these disad-
vantages, the entire position of the Russian army
would require to be altered; it would require to fall
back upon Bucharest, at least, and present its front
to tho west instead of the south.

This may be the object with which the Russian ad-
vanced posts have been withdrawn from Kalafat,
Or they may have evaded a rencontre with a view to
keep up for some time longer the farce of pretending
that they will act only on the defensive and in case
of necessity. It is indeed a farce for them to speak
of the defensive when they are so far advanced into
the Turkish territory. Whatever be their schemes,
they seem in no hurry to accept the defiance tkrown
in their teeth by the Osmanli. In the rencontre at
Isaatchi they appear to have had the worse, and now
they show their backs to the enemy at Kalafat.
Meanwhile the diplomatists seem to be renewing
their pen and ink campaign with fresh vigour. A
new Vienna note is said to have been sketched out,
which the SULTAN can accept in all honour; and
the Cz.e&, it is alleged, professes his readiness to
consent to anything in reason for the avoidance of
war. Could the slightest credence be afforded to
this latter rumour, it might be reasonably hoped that
hostilities, though commenced, would be of brief
duration. It is in the power of the CZAR, and of the
CZAR alone, to remove every cause of war. His armies
are where they have no right to be upon
Turkish territory. But for the crossing of the Pruth
by the Russians, there would have been no mustering
of Turkish forces, no declaration of war by the SCL-
TAN. Let the Russians beat a retreat out of Walla-
chia and Moldavia—recross the Pruth, and not an

Ottoman soldier will follow into Bessarabia. The
armies of the SULTAN will follow till they see their
country cleared of enemies, and will remain for a
reasonable time to watch the frontier, but they will
not retaliate by invading Russia.
But, war having begun, there can be no peace till
Russia evacuates the territory it has so lawlessly
seized, and expressly abandons her groundless
pretensions and projects of aggrandisement at the
expense of Turkey. At present everything appears
to favour a speedy delotouetnent in this sense. Disease,
it is known, prevails extensively among the Russian
troops on the Danube, and, notwithstanding the
road-making propensities that have been attributed
to the Russian Government, the pushing forward of
reinforcements cannot be a speedy, an easy, or an
inexpensive operation. It is yet too early
to judge of the strategy of OILER PAcuA—
it has not yet been sufficiently developed—but
what is seen is of good augury. France seems
willing to play its part, by the substitution of BA-
HAGUAT IYHILLIERS, the man of war, for M. Da LA
Coca, the man of peace. If France and England
act with promptitude and energy it will be no
difficult matter for them to cripple Russia.
As thus : on the northern shores of the Black Sea
the Crimea juts out boldly. Whatever Power or
Powers are in possession of the Crimea, and have the
upper hand at sea, can command the whole of the
Russian ports from the Danube to Kherson inclu-
sive on the one hand, and upon the sea of Azoff on
the other. Now the only place of real strength in
the Crimea is Sebastopol, and though in front
it presents a formidable array of guns and batteries,
by landing a force a few miles to the west it may be
turned as easily as the great fort in Burundi was
the other day. The Russian fleet at Sebastopol looks
vastly imposing, but some awkward revelations re-
specting its efficiency have just been published by
Mr. OLIPHANT, who visited the place last year. Of
all the stately ships not above three could be ventured
round Cape Horn, of such wretched materials
has Russian peculation caused them to be run up.
The English, French, and Turkish fleets command-
ing the Black Sea, it would be an easy thing for the
allies to seise and hold the Crimea, and thus para-
lyse the whole trade and industry (such as it is) of
Russia on the Black Sea, and as far as Astrakhan,
Nijnej Novogorod, and Kiew. This derangement
of the Russian finances, coupled with the necessity
under which the Cz ut lies to retain large garrisons
in Poland, and send large reinforcements to Cir-

cassia, would keep his Danubian armies on a footing
that could give no great trouble to Onza PACHA.
The course of all wars and all negotiations is
uncertain. Unforeseen casualties may turn the tide
at any time. But such are appearances at present.
It oily ;swim to add, that it the Qs& maim

obstinate, it will be necessary to keep an tje on the
Baltic. The Russian fleet in that sea is, compared
with its Black Sea fleet, almost an efficient one;
and it is reported from Copenhagen that Russian
ships of war have been seen cruising in the vicinity
of tho island of Bornholm.

THE STRIKES.

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

PRESTON, TVIIDAY. 2 o'CLocx.

No communication from Wican hu as yet arrived,
although five trains have been in since the departure
of the troops, and the prevalent belief is that nothing
has transpired at Wigan at least to give cause
for anxiety. I remarked that I waited (pa-
tiently enough) for the arrival of the troops at
the station, and the occupation of waiting. was
tiring enough. The interval between the arrival of
the troops at tho station and the time when the
officer at the barracks received the order must have
been at least two hours. Many persons here think
that this delay is reprehensible. A similar delay
took place on Friday, and strange rumours are cir-
culated as to the cause of it. As a non-military
judge is not competent to decide upon the question
of how long it ought to take to get 130 men in
marching order in a disturbed district, I shall not
give an opinion as to the amount of praise or blame
to be awarded to the military authorities
in the present instance. This, however, I,
although a civilian, feel justified in assert-
ing, that I never witnessed greater confu-
sion thci that which took place in getting 0-e men
into the carriagi; thei.: antral .t the sallow. You
know how quickly many hundreds of passengers
take their pllaaceess in a train after ten minutes'
stop at a railway station. It is done in two minutes,
although they have no concert with each other.
Each one follows his own will, and yet there is
very little disturbance. Hero there was a semi-
riot. Nothing was more easy than to have embarked
a thousand men under perfect discipline in a few
seconds. The carriages were all prepared. Their
numbers had been calculated with a precise
knowledge of the amount of force to be trans-
ported, each carriage was known to be able to
hold • certain number of men, and nothing
would have been easier than to tell off the
men, with reference to the number which a car-
riage would hold. The affair thus managed would
have occupied but a few minutes at most. As it was,
there was as much confusion as if the regiment had
sent a detachment of " unprotected females." The
railway porters were rushing about frantically,
pulling and shoving men into the various carriages;
whilst most of the officers were smoking cigars, and
looking as if they had little to do in the matter. I
noticed one, it is true, who was evidently impressed
with the seriousness of the business he bad to conduct,
and he may have had some imitators, but I did not
see them.

In spite of the most earnest attempts to get at in-
formation here, and the partial success of many of the
efforts I have made, which I will take care to put
into a proper shape as soon as time is allowed to me
to balance the evidence, I find the greatest difficulty
in getting at the true solution of the nature of the
present " situation," it indeed there is a solution. I
perfectly agree with you in your leading article of
to-day that nothing will ever afford the least help
towards a proper adjustment of the dispute, but an
arbitrating authority. It is, however, important to
observe, that at present there is no possibility of
getting at a proper arbitrating authority. The
masters assert that they themselves alone are the
proper judge of what is the right remuneration for'
their investments, and will brook no interference.
At the same time the men declare that, since indivi-
dual protest is attended with nothing but ruin to the
men protesting, they have no resource but to make
common cause, and invest some mediatorial autho-
rity with the collective aggregate of their several
powers. " Why," said I, to-day, to one of the best
workmen at one of the largest firms in the town,
" why do not appeal to the masters in your own
proper person, if you are dissatiafied ?" " Be-
cause," he answered with a most contemptuous laugh,
as if he thought that 1 was the smallest pigmy in
the world, endeavouring to become acquainted with
the affairs of giants, " because they would say no,
and take on the first hand that they could get, in
order to turn mo adrift. They'll ruin one man, if
they asks a question, donut you see, so we sends 'em
George Cowell wi' 25,000. How will they answer
that ? " I think that the owners have a ready an-
swer as far as their power to maintain the strike is
concerned. As far as lam able to judge, the masters
must obtain for the present the victory, but it re-
mains to be seen how long they will be able to reap
the fruits of it. _ .

I just give you the heads of what I have noticed.
To-morrow, most probably, I shall be able to give
you some results.

SECOND RIOT AT WIGAN.

SEVEN PERSONS SHOT.
(TROY ODA LOCAL COII4IIIPONDIIN

WIGAN, ThIIDAT.

The affair here last night wan of a rather more
serious nature than might be inferred from the brief tele-
graphic account in the Express te-day. Eight or nine
persons have been shot, and one, it is feared, may have
been fatally injured.
Yesterday morning the coalownere, true to their resolu-
tion of Friday, threw open their works to any of the turn-
outs who might be disposed to resume labour at the old
prices. The colliers held a numerous meeting at the Lane
Ends, Aspull, at which they came to a resolution not to re.
turn to work on the terms offered. In the meantime the
Welsh colliers, brought by Mr. Peace, agent to
the Earl of Balcarres, to supplant the turnouts,
and who have been lodged at the works of
Earl Baleares, at the Spriaphridge Haigh, nearly two
miles east of the centre of Wigan, ever einem their arrival,
were sounded by the managers of the colliery, as to their
intention of working. A portion of them signified their
intention of taking the situations offered them, and
descended the mines. About 24 ezpremed fears of violence,
and at their own request were sent back to
the principality, by railway, at once. The turnout
colliers were very indignant when they learnt
that the knobsticks," as they term them, had
gone to work, and threatened revenge. These threats were
uttered without much concealment, and towards evening it
was rumoured in Wigan that the night would not peas over
without vengeance being wreaked on some of the parties
concerned. One report was That the turn-outs intended to
attack the coal raise in which the Welshmen were
at work, and fill it up—or, at least, so far to
throw down earth as to make it a grave for the
11 obnoxious men. A second report was that they would
attack these men at the saw-mills whilst in bed at night ;
and a third was that an assault would be made on the
house of Mr. Peace hintaell, at Haigh, neer the seat of
Lord Balcarres. Mr. Peace resides • mile and a quarter
from the saw-mills, and it was well known that both hie
house and the saw-mills were prepared for such an eventu-
ality, and that Haigh Hall had also been put in a very out-
plats state of defence. Notwithstanding these rumours,
people in Wigan were very incredulous, and pointed signi-
ficantly to the soldiers as a means of security. So things
remained up to abaut half-past five yesterday evening.l
The darkness so patiently waited for by the colliers
as a cover to their movements, and to much feared
by the inhabitants, was then Pest settling over the face of
the earth. Immediately afterwards a mob of 3.50 to 400
Where, mostly youths of 19 or 20 years of age, marched
through the town with fifes and drum, and the importance
attached by the authorities to this movement was imme-
diately mule manifest by the hurry and bustle which suc-
ceeded in the disposition of the police and military. The
bugle of the 31th infantry soun^ed through the streets, and
the soldiers being hastily mustered, were placed under arms
at the Public Hall. The borough police were assembled in
the same building, the magistrates were in consultation,
and messengers en foot and horseback were seen hurrying
to and fro. The colliers, who had marched through the
town so merrily with their music, had taken the road to-
wards the saw-mills, but the most prevalent rumour as
to their designs was that this was a ruse, and
that the real point of attack was Mr. Peace's
house. I was anxious to see what these misguided
men would really do, but it was seven o'clock before re-
liable information could he obtained—the authorities being
apparently u much districted between coatending ru-
mours up to that time as the public. Unacquainted with
the road to Springs-bridge, which is a bridge over the canal
skis to the saw-maills,; at Hsieh 1 tried the hotels kw •