The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-30 00:00:00

ad nee MI any pia, and after getting be.. I found a
~all bele in my Meek, • little larger than the heed of a pin.
After murales to the right of the column, I gave the word
. fin !" Thi. order was repeated by the colonel of the regi-
ment, and the ma Md. As moon as we fired the mob
o.awi worn than ever; the roam flew as thick se ball.
Ilse mob attempted td ran upon as. The recorder was on
sy right TM coder we* given to us to are again. I pve
the order to are low so if blood was to be spaded life
meld aot be Men. 'TM hallooing, end isereamine. sad
bestieg, wages peat that it was inapomilde for these 30 feet
tom mesa bear the order. Several of the 'military bad to
be tikes tom the paned is enessequesee of their braise,.
Tke mob kept ealliag oat to we that we bad leather lints
cad bleak cartridges, and to " Cme on, boys." After the
woad an, we immediately crossed Aretor.plsee, and faced
the Befell. The order for the mood firing was given
Mee time before it was caseated. If the military bad not
AM, I do not believe that one of them would be left stand.
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iv* miastee. In Mine the Bowery, we were still
with stems, and I think the recorder said we should
or to fire @pia. I requited some person, either the
sheeilr er the ebbe of police, to go to the crowd and per-
mute them to leave. TM oreeeder cad me or two others
went. The remoter told us not to fire mill he returned
I mid we should not ; there would be no danger until he ,
Minted. In •kw moments they »turned, as tbey Mil ,
been mailed with Maw. The recorder ordered 1101
mord te leave. The crowd did not leave. Ibis et 1
ear art had been injsund. Toe order wee aim
to tea ; the order was executed. The mob in b of
me amused la •kw moments. The military had peseembea
el** frost. A mob was left at the corner of Ledayettmpleme.
ia. Latayetemplees. Another crowd wan at the corner of the
theatre. The recorder stated that we should be ander the
necessity of Mug *gill'. After addressing the right wing
to level their oboes obliquely toward Lafayette-place, the left
wing to level their Mots obliquely to they.b toward Eighth-
street, the order was pros to fire. It was executed. After
the mob was dbipmeed, on 1 okiog up our lines we found that
we had missed about 60 men, who had been wounded.
There were liar die inet Brier. The secoad battalion did
not fire again. Tim rioters eonsitted mostly of boys 16 or 18
yeses of age. The presence of r. many citizens me were trim
helped as doubt to eacourage them to acts of violenoe. I
was not aware acid after *boat an hour that any person had
been killed. No orders were given to lire suites give* by a
Magiserata
A Jarer—l should like to know if the law justifies the
olden of the recorder and sheriff to fire ?
Conner—Yes; they are magistrate'.
Gen. Hall—We bad ao authority to protect ourselves but
with orders from • magistrate, and if we bad not each we
would have been under the necessity of withdrawiag the
tag: resmed on Monday at 10 o'clock, when
semealtrr wan
witseeees were *items I Their t.stimisoy was
fa mistime the same as that already published.
The jury retired at half-past six o'clock. and after being
eat a abort time, »earned and delivered the following ver-
dict -.—" We believe that Geo. A. Curtis, John lii'Donsid,
Thos. Aylwood, George Lineal's, Timothy ,Torßurns ry
Otten, George W. Brows, Wm. Butler, Geo. W. lor,
Owen 8e.., Thos. Bahasa, Neil Gray Mellia, Asa F. Col.
Ens, Wm. Harmer, Thoe. Heiman, Matthew Cahill, Geo.l
N. GM's'', cam to their deaths by gun-shot wounds from
belle fired by the military during the riot before the Opera-
house ea Thursday evening, 10th May inst., by order of the
civil authorities of the city of New York ; and that the air.
meastances existing at the time justified the authorities in
giving the order to fire upon the mob. We further believe
that if • larger camber of the OW had been Deleted out,
the necessity of • nowt to thew ef the military might bare
been avoided."