The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-12 00:00:00

SERIOUS NAVVY RIOT IN SCOTLAND.

Clovenforda has been the scene of another of I
those diagreosful seeress of violence which have made the
district notoriogs since the formation of the Gnlsehiels and
Peebles Railway °enamoured. Clovenfords is situated about
three miles from Gdashiels in the di,ection of Peebles.
Saturday was the navvies' monthly pay day, and according
to custom they congregated at some wooden houses,
used as stabling, smithy, sad joiners' workshops, near
Clovenfords, to receive their month's warms. A email, of
the men are in the immediate eminloymeut of Means. Trews-
dale and Soo, contractors, and • considerable proportion are
employed and paid by a sub-contractor named M'Farlane.
The origin of the mischief arose, it is said, in coosequenos of
M•Fulane's men getting no pay. M'Farlane, it appears, had
refused to take what he oonsidered too small • sum of
money offered by Trowsdale—he insisted on having a larger
sum, holding that the small one was iosufficient to pay his
men. Troweisle's men were consequently served first, and
when the other detachment discovered that then was no
pay for them, owing to the circumstance related, they be-
came Moused, and at once set to work to take forcibly
what they saw was not to be bad by peaceable meets.
There were present at the accmeoosment of the riot about
70 or 80 men. Apprehendiog a resort to violent measures,
the cashiers, Mr. Fairs and Mr. Davie, devised a stratagem
to get the money which was intended for M'Farlane con-
veyed oat of the way. Posies got into • gig for this
purpose, and the driver attempted to lash the hone
and drive furiously through the midst of the maddened and
Maappointed crowd, whilst Mr. Davie made off soother
way. The men thereupon tried to seise the horse and
detain the party, whim the gig was from some cause sud-
denly overturned, and Mr. Fosiac and the driver thrown
out. It was soon discovered by the mu, however, that •
ruse had been played off, and that the money was gone.
This still further roused the ire of the auricle, who hang
about in espy groups. A large number subsequently re-
paired to the village inn at Clovenfords, and num-
bers of them were soon in various stsges of intoxi-
cation. As the evening wore on a group of
twenty or thereabouts quarrelled among themselves sad
proceeded to blows. This wee between seven and eight
o'clock in the evening. The noise drew out the pollee and
villagers, who, not apprehending so serious • result, did sot
think it necessary to interfere, when one of the navvies
called out that he had been stabbed, and immediately fell.
By this time the polio preened fccward, and saw the man
who bad committed this assault attempting to that the
knife, (ethos in which he threw it down, and ran, taking
aloes the front of the village and through the fields, pur-
sued by the police. They overtook hint in a cutting
of the railway, and immediately handcuffed and secured
him in the police cells at Clovenfords. The
wounded man bled most profusely, and, au soon
as a converse*, could lb. procured, be was taken home to
his but in • very weak and prostrate state from lase of
blood. He had been stabbed is three Ouse—once in the
right thigh, the knife here making • very deep incision, at
least four or five inches deep, and nearly severing the
femoral artery • and twice on the left hip. Although very
weak, ao fetal 'remit is anticipated. The woundedman's
name is John Lapin, and the name of the party in custody
is Patrick MIA inlay. When our reporter left Cloveefords
on Saturday night there waa no further appears*ce of
rioting, but much dirsatinfaction wee expressed that the
men should have been incited to violence by the non-receipt
of their pay.—Scobresan.

DECIASE or Mr. JOSHUA MATVILL.—This gentle-
man, who was a brother of Dr. Gideon Mantel!, the distin-
guished Sussex geologist, died last week at Dr. Newington's
private asylum at Tmehnrst. The deosamed gentleman was a
native of Lewes, where he was educated, though be after-
wards resided at Newick, where he practised as a surgeon.
He was distinguished in horticulture and Sericulture, and
was the founder of the Newish Horticultural Society, and
the chief editor of " Barter's Library of Agriculture and
Floriculture," and the author of "The Farmer's Ational,*und
"Mantel's Floriculture." Some years ego, while visiting his
patients on horseback, Mr. Manton was thrown from his
horse, and though he was ebbs to resume his duties int-
' asediately, and to continue them for some time, yet his
Drab' had received so injury from which it never recovered.
1 He was removed to Dr. Newiegton's establishment, where
he remained up to the time of his death, and where, some-
I what singularly. he bad bees actively 8,0(4 professiseally
or 30 years previous to his sccideat.—Brughton Guardian.