The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.
SCGAR.—The public tiles are going off heavily, and
prices are with difficulty supported. The refined market
doll; grocery lumps, 441. 64. to 465.
CUTYEE.—The only public sale today consisted of 250
bags native Ceylon, which were bought in at Cis. A !mall
parcel has been sold by private contract at 465.
TlA.—The market is very firm, sad medium Con4on
continues in goof: demand at the full prices of yesterday.
The &Thiele generally bee great confidence.
Saurmus.-1,800 bags were offered, for which previous
prices were not bid, and they were bought in ; refraction
61 to 151, 295. to 30e. 64.
RICE.—The market is dull.

CorroN.-500 bales sold yesterday on 'Change.
In other articles no material alteration. Markets gene-
rally dull.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Tho telegraphic news from the seat of wsr has check.l
the disposition to sell which prevailed yesterday. The
market is firm at the following prime :—Town tallow, 58s.
nett cash; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 675. ; Oct. to Dec.,
56e. 3d.; Jan. to Ilarch,s7s. 3d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports the supply large and the trade
heavy, at rather lower prices. Prime meadow hay, 90s. to
110 s. ; inferior, ditto, 50,. to Ns. ; rowen, 4.35. to 60s. ; clover,
90e. to 1255. ; second cut, 701. to liOs.; straw, 36d. to 401.

GAME IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS.

Mr. Henry Marshall, of Thorpe Hall, has furnished

an interesting statement in the form of a return of the
quantity of game, &c., killed in the Arctic regions by Cap-
tain M'Clure, Lieut. Creuwell, and a portion of the crew
of her Majesty's ship t►e Investigator, when discovering the
North-west Passage, in search of Sir John Franklin. Tho
return extends from the Ist of October, 1850, to tho Bth of
April, 1853, although the principal part was kilted during
the spring of this year :

Number killed. Average weight each.
Muck-ox
Deer

Hans 169

'6
lb..

Grouse

not weighed.

Ducks l9i
Geese 22
Wolves

Bean 4

Total head killed 1005
I am informed, says Mr. Marshall, by Captain Hamilton,
that the size of the musk ox varied considerably, but •the
deer that were killed did not vary in size so much. The
deer were found to be very fat, although their
principal food merely consisted of the herbage which
was obtained from a small tree called the dwarf willow.
As the crew only kept, as it were, on the ridges of the
no other food was observable, but, there is no doubt
the deer found an abundance of food further up the coun-
try. They were very wild, and the gunners had to dis-
play great precaution in shooting them. The manner
in which the crew got within gun-shot was this. They
secreted themselves in various parts of the ravines, or
behind the sand hills, and listened with breathless silence
until they heard the deer tap the snow off the willow with
their feet in order to eat the herbage. When the hair wall
frosty, and the weather calm, this tapping could be beard
at a distance of about 200 yards, and by listening end oh-
serving minutely the gunner easily detected the position in
which his prey was located. As soon as this was correctly
ascertained a person was sent a considerable distance round
the deer, and a slight noise having been made at their hack
they immediately rest off—probably past the gunner. It
was in such instances where the chances of "a kill" oc-
' eurred. One hundred and ten deer were thus killed, and as
they will run long distances after receiving wounds, it is
fair to suppose the' many ',lmrs would bovo ben secured it
the crew had bean accompanied with a brace or more of
deerhounds.

The grouse, I was informed, were not so wild as
might have been expected ; but the wild fowl were some-
what wilder than those usually found in Ireland and
Scotland.

The musk ox was found to be a ♦ery ferocious animal,
and great danger necessarily attended the attacks. They
were easily approached, and when wounded they ran hea !-
long at the gunner. One of the crew had a very narrow
escape from being turn to pieces. lie had tired one charge
without its taking effect, and having no more ammunity.n
with him. he luckily tired his iron ramrod at the inturived
beast, and dropped him lifeless just as the animal WAS about
to make the attack.
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If the expedition had had an opportunity of going further
up the country, away from the sea, there is no doubt but
thoussads or game would have been killed. There is no
mention in any of the despatches received at the Admiralty
of the existence of either the snipe or woodcock; but in a
country in which large flocks of wild fowl of every descrip-
tion swarm there •re certain to be both woodcocks and
snipes, and in all probability a species of pheasant might
have been found higher up in the woods.
When gold was discovered in distant colonies, the an-
nouncement was startling, but not more so than the tact it
the discovery of • country in the Arctic regions, containing
fine green volleys, intersected with noble riven; extenelie
plains, lakes, woods, and parts of the earth covered with
simple but lovely wild flowers.
An uninhabited country like this is almost sure to con-
tain wild beasts of prey ; but, when we learn that it
abounds with that description of game which is to be met
with on the moors of Scotlatd and certain parts of Eng-
land and the Continent, our surprise naturally becemes
excited. The naturalist, however, can only imagine and
admire the wild beauties of that country. which presents so
many opportunities for studying the works of Divine Pro-
, vidence.

If Sir John Franklin has ever reached this diatant part
of the globe great hupcs may reasonably be entertained of
his safety, as it is not very probab'e that mankind could
ever want in m rich a land, evideptly pow tsing etetything
that nature can desire.

Ehe orprego.

arbitrators had that knowledge of law which
is so singularly admired and prised in Ire- i
land. We should be heartily glad to see In-
dustrial Tribunals solidly and effectually tested,
for the settlement of disputes about wages,
hours of labour, and so on. If a group or series
of such tribunals should be wanted for different kinds of
manufacture and production, let us try them. The
money sunk or unproduced through a single Strike
of the many now occurring would sustain any need-
ful number for many a year to come. It would
answer well to everybody to maintain handsomely a
hundred Industrial Arbitrators, if we could thereby
save our manufactures and commerce from the
mischiefs of those Unions, which are but another
word for desperate divisions. We might get our
industrial legislation perfected by such a representa-
tive agency as would thus be constituted. We
might also get other advantages, great and many,
more than we can even indicate now.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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LONDON. TUBBD.4T, NorEmBER 1.

TnERE is probably always a feeling of shame in
every Englishman's mind when Strikes take place.
If they do not run on into violence, there is no secu-
rity that they will no•. From the moment that
employer and employed differ as to the share that
each should have of the proceeds of united capital
and labour—differ practically, so as to split off from
each other—there is present every probability of
an outbreak of bad passions, with all its humili-
ating consequences. 'there never was a stronger
occasion for national shame about the relations be-
tween capitalist and labourer than the present
condition of 'Wigan. More soldiers wanted ; the
streets strewn with broken glass, windows boarded
up to keep out the weather, valuable paintings
demolished, furniture broken and half-burned, ladies
and children chased from home—such is the aspect
of Wigan. And who is there that can tell what
in the world all this has to do with the respective
shares of the capitalist and the labourer in the
proceeds created by their union? How is the
question helped forward by all this waste?
How is the case improved to ans body by all this
dead loss being added to that which has been
arising from the cessation of labour for many
weeks past? The brawny colliers have been impo-
verishing their neighbours for nobody's gain—un-
lese, besides the thieves who were caught with their
pockets full of tea and sugar, there were others who
escaped. The brawny colliers are probably not ex-
ceedingly proud of having afforded a rare opportu-
nity for paltry thieves to steal tea and sugar.
The passiveness of the Preston ;men is as dis-
tressing as the foolish violence of the Wigan rioters;
but the factory operatives are at least free from the
folly and vice of useless rioting. If the colliers
kept to the question rationally, and the factory men
kept their own affairs in their own hands manfully,
we might be sorry for the want of knowledge that,
by the very nature of the case, must exist some-'
where, either among masters or men—but we should
cordially respect, on any side, the effort to obtain
justice. As it is, the whole spectacle is a very
painful and shameful one—the idleness and depres-
sion at Preston; the violence and wanton mischief-
making at Wigan; the weakness of the guardians
of the peace. Indeed, the whole transaction, which-
ever way it is looked at, is very bad; and the
more so since it occurs at a time when rational
people, with any sense of the real good to be
desired in life, should have been remarkably
easy, and with more reason for thankfulness for
sound prosperity than ever they had in their lives
before. If it be true that the special' constables ran
away the first moment they were wanted, and that
the Riot Act was never read, so that the injured
victims of the mob can claim no redress from the
county funds—those are special causes of shame and
indignation.
And is there anybody wbo can give a fair and
really accurate account of the case ? The employers
think they can, but the employed deny it. The
operatives and colliers think they can, and the mas-
ters deny it. The agitators among the men claim to
do so, but, from the nature of their function, too,
much suspicion attaches to their statement to
permit the public to be satisfied with it. We
complain that there are no means by which
the public may be fully informed of the facts
about these last Strikes. We are perfectly sure of
the principles involved in all such cases—the princi-
ples, economical and moral; and the historical know-
ledge which is so important in instances of such col-
lision is open to as all. What a thing it is that
nobody—or nobody who will be regarded as autho-
rity—oan put us in possession of the means of judg-
ing of the existing Gem which is putting the peace
and prosperity of our country to hazard. Here, as
so often before, cornea in Mr. HUME with his wise,
disinterested, and quietly benevolent advice. He
was the instructor of the youth of many of us, and
we cannot do better than take him for our instructor
still, in matters to which be has devoted the study
of a life. His suggestion of an arbitrating authority
ought to have our earliest and most earnest at-
tention.

The question that will be first asked is—whether
the disputants would admit the jurisdiction—would
steadily abide by the decisions of such an autho-
rity ? We have no doubt whatever that they
would. Our want of faith in the efficacy
of international arbitration at present (however
it may be in a remote future) arises from the ab-
sence of any firm basis for decision in international
cases. No natural laws are there concerned; and
even questions of fact have some quicksand of opinion
under them. In economical cases, it is otherwise.
In that province,. there are natural laws at work
among elements that may be computed; and if only
the requisite knowledge can be obtained, the deci-
sion may be indisputable. Some sacrifices must be
made. The employers must give up their taciturnity,
and explain their position, and the employed
must give up their two favourite notionsi—
that the wages fund is inexhaustible, and that
wages ought to rise and fall with the price of
provisions. But these concessions are trifles which
no wise man would regard in comparison with what
he would gain. The Preston men, who now stand
at the corners of the streets waiting to be told what
to do next, might be glad enough to be guided by
wiser advice than any they are getting at present;
and the employers, who are maintaining garrisons in
their mills, or sending away wives and children in
the dark through gardens and back doors, would
think it anything but an evil to say what they were
worth, as the price of enjoying each his own house
as his castle. The benefits derivable from a sound
scheme of Industrial Arbitration are so obvious and
so greatly needed that we shall certainly have it,
I sooner or later; and those will be good citizens and
patriots who help us to it soonest.

THE STRIKES.

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

rRESTON, MONDAY.

Yesterday formed no exception in the apathetic
appearance of the town. When every day is a holi-
day, Sunday in particular "shines no holiday" to
anyone. 'the same sad sauntering through the
streets, the same absence of purpose, were the prin-
cipal characteristics of the scene. There was action,
however, going on somewhere, but it was hidden.
The nearest approach to life out of doors was visible
at the corners of the streets and opposite the doors of
gateways, on which were pasted large placards,
addressed" To the Thirty-five Associated Firms of
Legree Brothers!" This address to the millowners,
couched in a tolerably vigorous style, with a tendency
to declamation, appeared to be hugely relished by
knots of the " turn-outs" who were in general con-
tent to receive its contents through a reader, who
gave it aloud for the benefit of the rest. I was
struck with the manner in which more than one of
these men performed their task. One in particular
read in a deep clear tone, with a solemnity of man-
ner and a perfection of emphasis which I have
rarely beard equalled. The impression he produced
was very marked. One of the listeners—a tall,
gaunt man, of about fifty, with features apparently
pinched with want—remained during the whole
time of reading, his eyes fixed on the reader,
with a look terribly earnest. At the conclusion he
seemed for the first time able to give utterance to
the feelings which possessed him. His remark
was prosaic enough, but it was uttered with
such sincerity that it met with a ready
res from the assemblage : " Roight if ye ne'er
anither word, man." " Aye, lad," was the
chorus, and the body walked off with their hands in
their pockets, to listen at another corner to the same
tirade. Not a very refreshing incident for the
masters.

I said there was a little more life going on, but
out of sight. This was where the delegates met to
tan accounts of the money they had noi-
sed to pay it into the common stock. The
principal meeting was that at the Cockpit, •
building close to the town. There was little to
notice here, except the business-like manner in
which the proceedings were conducted, and the
perfectness of the organisation. There was a
terseness and a precision in their mode of
expression which might be advantageously imitated
in societies of far grater pretensions. There was
also an evident consciousness of right, and a certainty
of success which, when viewed apart from other cir-
cumstances, sugared well for their ultimate right.
George Cowell. who is the most popular of the
leaders—indeed, the only coo that I could find
commanded much popularity at all—is • striking per-
sonage in his way. He is rather under the middle
size, of a sallow complexion, has clear,open, mirthful
eyes, great breadth of forehead, and an expression of
resolute adventurous determination which makes him
master at once of the sympathies of his audience. He
the broad dialect of the county, uses all the
Tot: mof the class with a clear consciousness of the
force he gains by so doing, and stems all op-
position by the good-humoured decision with
which be puts aside all objections. He
chooses his words well, and is, in short, one of
the most effective popular orators I have heard.
Such a man as this has immense power over masses
composed of such elements as the Preston operatives.
There was not much to bring him out at this parti.
calor meeting, but I shall have more to say on him
in connexion with the movement. _

The first consideration is that the question is not,
as so many are saying, a matter of opinion, strictly
speaking, but a question of fact. If it were a matter
of opinion—that is, case of interpretation of feats
according to the differing perceptions of varying
minds—there would be no certainty that the object
would be gained by merely transferring the power
of practical opining to a set of minds appointed by
the disputants. Mach would be gained by the
question being transferred to disinterested persons;
but still, while their decisions rested on opinion only,
they would always be open to question, and subject
to dissent; and there would be no great probability
that the dissent would not far exceed the sweat,
among disputants whose minds must be biassed by
class views and interests. The truth is, the question
in all Strikes is fundamentally and certainly one of
fact ; and the evil of our present condition
is that none of us can get possession
of the whole of the fact, or prove that we have done
so. Now, such a tribunal of arbitration as Mr.
Hums suggests not only might, bat must, obtain or-
derly and quiet possession of the whole of the fact in-
volved, and be able to produce it in justification of
their decisions. They mast be informed of the history
of the kind of production concerned, and the statistics
of the existing period of it must be obtainable by
them frem public documents. Knowing the whole
state of the case—the amount of raw material in-
volved, the amount of capital and labour, the former
and present conditions of demand (which include
the price of the necessaries of life)—knowing all
these conditions of the case, and any others
that may belong to the particular instance, the
tribunal could not fail in deciding, and in pointing
out, what proportion of the ascertained proceeds
should go to the capitalist, and what to the labourer.
It seems clear that if the facts were at this moment
known to the disputants, the dispute would be at en
end. It is the tendency to selfishness on both sides,
which is an auxiliary to ignorance, and canes, that
conflict of prejudice and passion which disturbs the
peace of our towns, the progress of our prosperity,
and the harmony of our citizenship. If there could
be thorough knowledge and perfect openness,
there could be no dispute. Such thorough
knowledge is, then, the thing wanted : and
it might surely be obtained and supplied by a
set of men qualified for the business. The way to
do it is not to summon a few men at random, on an
emergency—still less to make a tribunal out of a
sommittee of masters and men involved in the exist-
ing dispute; but to have something more like an
tatt.ntion Inv the maoagement of such affairs.
O'Contzl.t.'4 Arbitration Court: answered extremely
well for as long as they were wanted/ heautte the

The crowd outside displayed the usual apathy. They
have turned over the ent of their affairs to
their delegates, and wait with a blind trust in destiny
that you could scarcely expect from any one but a
Mahometan. Some are evidently unaware of the
nature of what they are asking for. " What do you
mean by your 10 per cent. advance ?" I asked of a lad
about 18, who was walking away from the meeting.
"Why, di get twenty shillings now, I am to get thirty
shillings, then, that's all, I suppose," was the reply.
Ido not mean to insinuate that this youth should be
taken as a fair sample of the operatives on strike ; it
is sufficient, however, taken in conjunction with
many other incidents, to show me that in a very great
number of cases the "hands"are totally unacquainted
with the merits of the question, and that they are
submitting patiently to their present inconveniences
in the vague persuasion that something magnificent
will " turn up" in the way of increase.
This morning a large meeting was held in the
open air. There were large numbers collected
together, but I have not heard how many. The
reports vary between five and ten thousand. Never-
theless there was very little excitement and scarcely
any enthusiasm. On Cowell's making his appear-
ance there was a slight movement. " CoweLl's the
lad"—" Give it 'em " (the millowners), were heard
in various parts, but there were no outrageous
testimonials of sympathy. The mob came to listen,
and not to be hurried into extravagance. He
congratulated them on their prospects—told them
that the committee had 1,7001. in baud to pay the
turnouts for the last week, and was certain
that they could stand out, even with the
resources at present promised, until past Christmas.
He alluded to the disturbance at Wigan, and blamed
the rioters for their attacks upon property. What
madness to destroy what you yourself had created.
The working classes made property, were they the
persons to destroy it ? Men were in fault, not pro-
perty. I looked round to try to discover whether

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1853.

any one in the crowd looked as if be thought there
i lurked any significant hint in the orator's words, but
I coal perceive nothing of the sort, and I do not
believe it was intended. He stigmatised the con-
duct of the millowners as arbitrary, unjust, and
cruel. The " belly-floggcre—to distinguish them
from their American types the back floggers—must
be brought to their senses. In addition to the ordi-
, nary modes of attack, these men must be
,I ousted from the town council. Let the voters
v amongst the working men go to the poll to-morrow,
' and vote utterly without any reference to politics.
V Let them be solicitous only to turn out the belly
flogger.. He was heard with the most profound
attention, but I could not discover that any move-
, meet took place, except upon the vehement iteration
of the obnoxious epithet helly-floggeis. There was
little or no cheering, and Cowell left the meeting
without exciting any marked attention.

I consider this absence of enthusiasm the most
peculiar and dangerous feature of the strike, and I
think it easily shown from the following con-
siderations. There are at least 2.3,000 men,
the greater portion of whom allege that
they have not "turned out" themselves, but have
been " locked out" by the manufacturers. They per-
sist in calling themselves " lock-outs," instead of
submitting to the usual appellation " turn-outs."
These men could have " gone in" at any
,time before
the masters' late determination, and possibly now,
after the 9th instant, by merely rejecting the media-
tion of their committee and negotiating personally
with the masters. The masters who are in the most
favourable circumstances at present for holding out
refuse to admit of and• mediation, but insist
upon all future negociations being conducted
between the owner of the mill and his own
men. The men with scarcely any hesitation
cling to their own committee, and place the conduct
of the matter without condition or limit in their
hands. They wash their hands of responsibility,
and leave the whole of it to rest upon the committee.
They have given up the old plan of bawling ,and
hooting unpopular owners, of committing occasional
acts of violence. They are bound hand and foot by
the decision of the committee, and are content to be
as still as machines until they are wound up. They
make no superfluous displays of-energy, but they are
evidently keeping back simply because they have the
most superstitious confidence, the most un-
limited faith in the men who have taken
the conduct of affairs in their own hands.

away. The mayor wished us to take some of the rioters,
but I told him there was no oue to support us. Ile then
took us rep the Bagleiard. All the (root of the Eagle
was smashed in. I saw the mayor struck several times,
and I was hit myself. We remained there two hours, and
during that time I heard yelling and breaking of windows,
sufficient to satisfy me the town was in great commotion.
The mayor then went to the railway station, where we
afterwards joined him, and remained until the military
came. Wither described the course taken by the inagii•
triter, constables, and military after that time through the
streets of the town until the Erects were cleared.

Mr. Thomas Past, clerk to the magistrates, was next ex-
amined, and described at some length what he saw and
heard of the disturbances before the Eagle, and in various
parts of the borough. The military arrived at ball-past ll,
or soon afterwards, and the mob was dispersed. The pri-
soner Clayton was running past witness after the mob was
dispersed, and he gave him into custody.
The court, at this stage of the proceedings, was adjourned
until Wednesday.

The elections of town•councillors to-day (Tuesday) are
expected to create a good deal of excitement, as several of
the candidates *revery obnoxious to the turn-outs, and their
success will naturally create a strong feeling.

(ui ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
WIGAN, MONDAY NIGHT, 8.30.

A mob at Lord Crawford's colliery has been fired
upon, and a man was carried away on the shoulders
of others. The soldiery were called out, but have
returned without any further collision.

PRESTON, MONDAT NIGHT.

Tho Mayor of Wigan has just sent for two addi-
tional companies of troops. It is reported hero that
rioters are fighting at Haigh colliery. Colliers are
said to be pouring into Wigan.

WO Court.

The committee, then, are practically the leaders ;
the officers of a compact (in all moral aspects)j disci-
plintd force of 23,000 men. They pay this force,
they organise it, they relieve it from all necessity of
cousulting for tho future, they control all its move.
meats. A strike in put times was *rude, undisci-
plined outbreak, in which the individualities, by
their opposing action, damaged the action of the
masses. The present strike, on the contrary, receives
its whole significance from the fact that the indi-
vidual merges into the mass, and that the masses are
subject to the action of a powerful external force.
This is recognised by the owners themselves, who
bear willing testimony to the qualities of their
workmen, to their docility most particularly,
but who complain that there is no doing anything
with them now they have given up their freedom of
action to " foreigners." (This term is applied to
intruders from other towns or other mills.) I leave
the right or wrong of the whole question out of dis-
pute; the discussion on that is to come. Here is one
division of an army of labourers, as disciplined, as far
as the surrender of freedom of action is concerned, as
the troops of the Czar himself. But the Preston
division of the great army of labourers, although
25,000 strong, is only one contingent. It is cal-
culated that in Lancashire alone the army will this
week be 70,000 strong. Remember the great
feature in the tactics of the present men is the adop-
tion of Napoleonic stmtezy. They beat the enemy
in detail. They make one town work to support
another town on strike. Blackburn alone sent 6131.
to the Preston men this week. They see no difficulty
in supporting this vast army on this principle ; and
from some accounts which I have seen, it is clear
they are not without some shadow of ground for
their belief. If this is the case, all the capitalists
mast be beaten town by town. " Ah," says the ob-
jector," two can play at the same game. 'The capi-
talists are now adopting the same tactics. They are
becoming united." True : but what does this show ?
That thepreparations for contest are day by day becom-
ing more and more perfect,that each party is thinking
more and more of its own powers of offence and de-
fence—that the antagonism of the two classes be-
comes more and more inveterate—that the diffictety
of reconciliation increases daily. In the mean time
capital is wasted away; labour is deteriorated; the
labourers become first idle, then corrupt ; hundreds
are walking. through neighbouring towns and vil-
lages, gaining a miserable living by singing their
woes ; girls are roaming through the streets of
Preston, and the same must happen in various places;
and all the end to be looked for is, not a reconcilia-
tion, but a victory—a victory that will have damaged
the capitalist, and ruined and corrupted the labourer.
I see the greatest evils threatening us from the very
perfection of the organisation of both parties. It
will give rise to thoughts similar to those of Southey
when he wrote the "Glorious Victory."

WINDSOR, Om 31.
The Queen, with the Duchess of Brabant, drove
out this morning in an open pony phaeton. Col. the Hon.
Charles Grey attended on horseback.
Prince Albert, with the King of the Belgians, accom-
panied by Earl Granville, went out shooting.
The Duke or Brabant and the Count of Flanders, attended
by Baron Prism and Cul. Wylde, left Windsor this forenoon
by the South Western Railway for Woolwich.
Earl Granville, the Portuguese Minister and Countess
Lavradio, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord John Russell,
and Viscount Haruinge, lift the Castle to-day for London.
The French Ambassador and Countess Walewski, Ma-
dame Van de Weyer, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl
of Elgin, Lord Elphinstons, Lord Raglan, Major-General
the lion. Sir Edward Cust, and Sir James Graham, have
been invited, and are expected this afternoon.

The Turkish Minister visited the Earl of Clarendon yes-
terday afternoon, at the Foreign-ottice.
Earl Granville returned to town yesterday afternoon
from Windsor Castle.
Sir James Graham left town for Windsor Castle last
evening, on a visit to dm Queen.

The Duke of Rutland entertained a select party at
Choseley-park, Cambridgeshire, during last week.
The Earl of Wilton has arrived an Grosvenor-square
from Newmarket. _

The Bareness de Cetto and family arrived in IHU-street
on Saturday, from a visiting tour. The Baron is still en
con4Q in Germany.
Lady Brougham, who has been staying at Brougham
Hell since the departure of the noble and learned lord for
his chateau in the south of France, comes to thwfton-street
early in the ensuing month for the season. Hts lordship
will remain abroad until after Christmas.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has left town for
Hawarden Castle, near Chester.
Lieutenaat•General Wyndham and visitors left Cocker-
mouth Castle on Wednesday last for a brief sojourn at his
seat at Westward Park.

THE RIOT AT WIGAN.

Lord Stanley, daring hie late visit to Lynn, inspected
the Athenteum in the town and the progress of the new
cut of the Norfolk estuary.
Lord Stanley of Alderley has left town for his seat at
Alderley-park, Cheshire.
The marriage of Lord Frederick John Fitzroy. young-
est son of the Duke of Grafton, with Miss Wescomb,
youngest and only unmarried daughter of the late Rev. W.
Wescomb, of Langt,rd-grove, Essex, was solemnised on
Saturday at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, in the
presence of the Duchess of Grafton and a distinguished
circle of the friends of both families.

Apartments have been taken at the Hotel de France,
at Nice, for the ex• Queen Marie Amelie, the Duke
de Nemoun, the Duke d'Aune ale, the Prince de Joinville,
and a foreign princess who is travelling with them. A
Spaaish steam-frigate is waiting at Villefranche, to convey
the party to Seville. The latest accounts from Geneva
speak of the ex-Queen of the French as being in a satis-
factory state of convalescence after her recent severe ill-
ness, and it was hoped that she would be well enough to
travel at the beginning of next week.

COURT TREATRICALS.—The aeries of royal dra-
matic representations in the temporary theatre in the
Rubins Room at Windsor Castle, are to take place this
year, under the management of Mr. Charles Kean, on
Thursday, the 10th of November, being earlier than natal.

(FROM OUR LOCAL

All was quiet at Wigan up to yesterday evening,
bet some fears were entertained that the disturbances
would be renewed. The colliers deny that they were the
rioters, and some of them have been heard to promise that
they will let t►e inhabitants see what they taus do.
The magistrates assembled at the Town Hall, to hear the
examiaations of the prisoners taken, but the police were
not in &condition to complete the cases against these people.
Only two witnesses were examined. The names of the pri•
sonars en: Richard Clayton, Richard Birchen, John
Hughes, John lacy, John Baker, and Richard Norris.

Edward Birchen, on being sworn, said—l was in charge
of the police-office on Friday night last. About ten minutes
or a quarter before 12 that night several persons were
brought to the aloe and given in charge. All the prisoners
except NOM' wore brought to the office. /dr. Hopwood
brought the prisoner Baker. I searched Baker and found
on him some tea and three; or four biscuits. Two of his
pockets were filled with loose Ma.

Wm. Siam said—On Friday aftemosta there was a
great crowd of people assembled in front of the Eagle (other.
wise celled the Royal Hotel), in consequence of a meeting
of the coal masters being held there. The mayor came to
the police-office about 5 o'clock, and seen after he had left
I received information that he had seen a lad throw a stone.
I shortly after went down to the front of the Esgte. The
people assembled seemed very math excited, and several
times hooted and shouted, but I could not see the
(shiest of their excitement. 1 should think It Would be
about 6 is'elciek (but I cannot speak positively) In-
formation same that they had broken Mr. Johnson's
windows. I had :previously seen the main body move off
from the Ragle. I also received information that they
were throwing stones at the Dog and Partridge. I went
there with a part of the police force. and remonstrated with
the mob, and several parties then cried oat—.
don't fear him,—go at him." Some one cried, " Knock off
Chow glazed hats." Stones then begun to Sy at us.
Several of** officers were hit ; Topping was one. I bad
seat off to the mayor, and finding it utterly impossible foe
us to remain where we were, I marched the men to the office
is Mitigate. The streets were crowded as far as I could see
in every direction, and the crowd shouted. Stones were
thrown at us, but a way was opened for us through the
mob, and some of the men took refuge in the Wiend (a
narrow streqt to the east of Wallgate). An attempt
was made to throw me down by laying hold
of my legs, and I was stoned all the way
to the police office. The mayor then summoned
the magistrates. and Mr. Cook and Mr. Broome
came. Mr. Cook went out six or seven minutes and then
cam back again, saying that the mob had get to the Eagle,
and were smashing in the front. By the mayor's
orders we then again turned out, about 30 strong (including
specials), two of the regular force hacks been sent by the
mayor to the railway station. The mayor and magistrates
went in front of us, and the mayor charged all persons to
assist us. Some of them went oH'. We went to the front
of the Eagle, and there was a great crowd collected there in
a body. All the market-place was filled as fares I could
see, and all Standishgate also. The mayor said, " I request
that all persons will go quietly to their homes." S stones
were then thrown by the crowd. There was great shouting
and excitement, and stones were thrown at us, and pieces of
the stalls in the Marketplace were broken off and thrown
at us. I saw Mr. Cook hit. A regular volley of stones
were thrown at us, and after that all the constables except
myself and police•conatablee Hart and Watmough ran