The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-28 00:00:00

PRESTON MANUFACTURERS IN BLACKBU.RN.

We have already noticed in this journal the violence
offered to certain gentlemen attending the Blackburn market,
recently by parties either connected or sympathising with the
operatives now on strike in the mid districts of Lancashire.
The spinners and masters of Preston believing they were the
especial objects of dislike on that occasion, have addressed
Lord Palmerston upon the subject in the subjoined letter.
We may here state that the Mayor of Blackburn was of
opinion that a large part of the people assembled upon that
occasion had followed the masters over from Preston. His
worship estimated the numbers present on the occasion at
4,000, and is of opinion, in which his brother justices coin-
cide, that the ordinary civil force of the borough is unable
to cope with the sudden interruptions to the peace to which
Blackburn, under present circumstances, is subject, and that
a company of soldiers should be placed there. The town
police are to be increased to thirty.
It is said that the operatives of Burnley will take the
masters' offer to resume work at the old wages, and forego
connexion with the strikes in other places. The mills of
Bacup, will be opened on Thursday next, on the Burnley
terms. The Harwood millowners are, it is rumoured,
about to work short time and take off the ten per cent,
co-operating with those at Accrington. At Accrington, says
a London journal, where to the present time only a couple
of mills have been closed, the rest having given the ten per
cent, advance, notice was served upon the weavers generally
ten or twelve days ago that it would only be given a fort-
night long ,r, and it is expected that 4,000 looms will there
be thrown idle, adding largely in a few days to the unem-
ployed if the operatives should resolve to strike, as it is ex-
pected they will do. A meeting of Blackburn masters also
had been summoned for yesterday, to consider the pro-
priety of doing the same thing, and this had become public.
The memorial or letter addressed to the home secretary
is as follows :

"My Lord,—We beg to draw your lordship's attention
to the riots and disturbances which took place at Blackburn
on Wednesday last. Blackburn is the seat of a large cot-
ton manufacture, and the master cotton spinners, agents,
manufacturers, and others from Preston and other places in
the district, are in the habit of meeting there on Wednes-
days for the purpose of transacting busineSs.
" Most of these gentlemen stay at the Bull Hotel in Black •
burn, and at the front of that hotel they assemble to transact
their business.

" On Wednesday last the Preston cotton spinners were
informed on their arrival in Blackburn, that they were to
be attacked by a mob and turned out of the town. This
threat appears to have been partially carried out, and from
what has since transpired, there is every reason to believe
that it was a preconcerted step, and that it was known in the
town that something of the kind would be attempted.
"We will not here trouble yew lordship with the parti-
culars of what took place, but send for your lordship's
perusal the three Preston papers containing accounts of the
disturbance. But we may be permitted to call your lord-
ship's attention to the fact, that after a mob of people had
been assembled for a lone, time in one of the most public
streets in the town, with the avowed object of ill-treating
the Preston masters, the safety of the persons and pro-
perty in the principal hotel in the town could only be
secured by allowing six delegates from the mob to search
every room in the house for those whom they wished to
attack. At the present time most of the operative cotton
spinners and weavers in Preston are out of employment in
consequence of the dispute between themselves and their
employers, and we are happy to state that hitherto no se-
rious breach of the peace has occurred. For this we are
mainly indebted to the generally well disposed and peaceable
character of the inhabitants, but also to the mayor and other
borough magistrates, for the firmness which they displayed,
and for the decided measures which they adopted here at the
commencement of the strike.

" On the other hand, whilst the operatives engaged in the
cotton trade in Blackburn have been, and are, in full em-
ployment, that town has been for some time past the scene of
great excitement and disorder. Acts of violence and dis-
turbances have frequently been repeated, and on more than
ono occasion persons and property have seriotudy suffered at
the hands of lawless mobs.
" From what occurred on Wednesday last, it is quite ap-
parent that the Preston cotton masters have rendered them-
selves obnoxious to the operatives of Blackburn, and in the
present state of feeling in that town cannot, without danger
of annoyance and injury, continue their necessary visits to
that place, unless some steps are taken for the purpose of
preventing such acts of ungoverned violence as those we have
alluded to.

" That such steps are rendered imperatively necessary we
;hink there can be no doubt.

" We have the honour to be your lordship's most obedien
servants." -{Here followed the signatures.]

SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.

In our law report the reader will find reported an appli-
cation on the part of the chairman and directors of this
company, against the Times newspaper for a libel contained,
as is alleged, in an article printed in that journal on Tuesday
last. The Railway Times has the following extraordinary
statement respecting the same body :
The directors have voted £5OO to Captain Moorsom, the
gentleman who did not expect anything, for his services in
the cause of the Dorchester Extension ; they have ordered
the plans to be finished, as, according to the view of Mr.
Bircham, they may be useful at another time ; they have
refused to print the poll as suggested by Mr. Sergt. Gaselee,
and laughed outright at a proposition of Captain Johnston
to print the votes in May iu juxtaposition with those in
November. But as to whether or not the Dorchester Exten-
sion is abandoned or not, even for this year, no official
declaration exists ' • we only know that the expenses in
general, incurred by the board in their extension crusade
during the last few months, amounting to £15,000, are in
course of quiet and orderly liquidation out of the funds of
the company. Mr. Scott has been talking at "his club" of
resigning, and fortunately, it is there suggested that this is
the only course a " gentleman" can adopt ; but the board
is not yet favoured with his resignation. Mr. Hutchins, an ,
old candidate for a seat in the direction, is spoken of to
supply the probable vacancy, that gentleman having a nice
little extension to Lymington to propose.

On the other hand, the shareholders' committee are
making converts rapidly. Mr. Chaplin considers the ques-
tion finally settled. Mr. Kay will be no party to its revival.
These two names alone take away nearly £200,000 of the
£600,000 so vauntingly produced as the majority of capital
in favour of the ext,;a6ion. When we state that the remain-
der is more than made up by the votes of the bankers, the
solicitors, the engineers, and the contractors, each personally
and pecuniarily interested in the extravagance, we need not
further dwell on the topic. All the " deadweight " is
already thrown in against the shareholders, and every vote
that can be brought forward in opposition to it, must lessen
its severity and faroo. If is fharofnril occontial, vitally so,
that the shareholders at large, if they desire the current of
adhesion now fixedly setting in to continue, should conduct
their future operations with more than ordinary decorum.
That alone is necessary to place Mr. Snell's committee in a
position to command a majority of the entire capital of the
company at the half-yearly meeting.

The Death of Lady Sandford is announced in the
journals.

THE DUKE AND THE SAILORS' HOME.—The Duke of
Northumberland, who is deservedly held in the highest
esteem by the seafaring population in the north-east ports,
is about to make a princely donation to the seamen visiting
the Tyne. Notwithstanding 25,000 vessels enter that port
durinc, the course of the year, no " Home" has been pro-
videdbfor the immense number of seamen who bring those
vessels into port. The Duke of Northumberland, however,
is about to erect, and present to the port, a handsome Sailors'
Home, at North Shields, the cost of which will be 4,0001.
The land, which has also been contributed by his grace, is
worth 1,0001. more. The building will have accommodation
for above 100 seamen, and will be furnished with a library,
savings bank, baths and wash-houses, nautical school, &c.
All 'that the duke requested of the shipowners of the port,
before commencing with the building, was, that they should
raise 2,0001. for its endowment. 1,6001. have been sub-
scribed, and the other 4001. have just been guaranteed by
several gentlemen belonging to Shields. The trustees will
be appointed by the subscribers. The duke has also pro-
mised to erect and endow a chapel for the use of sailors.
MUSICAL PROSPECTS OP THE NEXT SEASON.—The Italian
Theatre at Paris commenced its season on the 15th, under the
management of Colonel Regani. The opening piece was Ros-
sini's ever popular " Cenerentola," and Madame Alboni, Na-
poleone Rossi, Tamburini, Gardoni, and a debutante, Mdlle.
Cambard, a Frenchwoman, but bearing the Italianised name
of Cambardi, figured in it. Alboni was received with enthu-
siasm ; and she well deserved it, as, though not one whit less
stout than she used to be—au contraire—she sang with all
her wonted sweetness. Tamburini, too, was heartily welcomed;
but she is not the Tamburini of former days. Halevy is
writing a new two-act opera for the Grand Opera at Paris.
Meyerbeer's comic opera, " The Northern Star," is still pro-
mised at the Opera Comique, for the first or second month in
the new year.

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POLICE COURT.-SA.TI7IIDAY.

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STEALING A WATCH.—Peter MtAnney, and his orty
M'Anney. who had previously been remanded, 1114,
afford the police an opportunity of finding the 0
watch found in their possession, and supposecolteefoiJ
were again brought before the bench. The naatr
had traced the owner of the watch, who was a s 1"0
wheandt brothel,understoodan and searched
eenlrtil yo Hfh
eae
jthoehnkele
watch—he said it was his own—but the female Prf.,,,
consequently
it had been left at her house by an elderly gentlterifie
the watch produced. The male prisoner had
owner of the watch, a sailor, stated he was in et ill!
sehadar chaewdt hatatheteht
house;h
ne
their h
When
road on the previous Saturday night, when he g.„;o'
pany with a female, and after she left him he...17d
priStuleol"4
watch, and also his money. The female
that she had told the officer that an elderly' gen the
left the watch at her house, and now said it 105
cutor, who had come to her house with only a pot, ,
pocket, and told her he would leave it until he sowin:
it. The prosecutor most positively denied be rod
house, and persisted in the statement that he„
robbed in the London-roa I. The magistrates "'for
the male prisoner, and committed the woman
month.
STOLEN SPOONS.—A lad, named George Alt
charged by police officer 357, with having eTe
spoons in his possession, supposed to be stolen. the
officer said there were other boys, belongin,g.,. to
gang as the prisoner, had also some spoons ei-u—eri
produced. Mr. Clough said the spoons were Of
value, and there was no doubt that they had he: ,
from the St. George's Bazaar on the night LI es
was on fire ; therefore it would be difficult to nu'
The magistrates discharged the prisoner.
ROBBING A PUBLIC HOUSE.—john 1001-
,
sailor, was apprehended near Prince's dock, by l fire,
737, about eleven o'clock on the previous niglitt 100
ing him, but at the time of his apprehension, ee,cier
possession some glasses on which were Mr. Swife sekr
Mr. Swift, of the " Old Fort" public home,
dock, identified the glasses as his property, and j,
repeatedly seen the prisoner in his house. etof.
The prisoner denied all knowledge of having tO
in his possession, and said he was intoxicated
and not having previously appeared before the be
discharged with a caution.
STEALING COPPER.—Patrick Melia,
by police-officer 225 with stealing some
as it was being conveyed from the dot
street. The prisoner was detected by t,
of stealing the copper, and the magistra
for one month.
FORTUNATE THIEVES.—George Willie
titutes, named Lucy Gardner and lathe,
charged with stealing a watch, but as the
appear to substantiate the charge, they w,
ROBBING A SAlD.—Randle M'Coy was
ing a bucket from the ship " Thomas Stl
aoner was detected by the mate of the vess,
the bucket away. Committed for 14 day:
STEALING A GOWN. —Ann Audley was
ing a gown and other articles, the propert3
the wife of a soldier, now stationed at Belt
went to lodge in the same house as f
during her absence took the clothes. Th,
from off her back. The prisoner alleged
chased the shawl in the Pedlars' market.
to produce the person from whom she had
A BRUTAL ASSAULT.—Patrick Picket/
ful-looking fellow, was charged with ha
violent assault upon his wife, a rather d(
looking person. It appeared that the prisoner ok
apprehended some days previously, but was not roe.
in consequence of his wife being unable to 000
wife, apparently much affected, stated that her he,. •
been in the habit of treating her very badly, g 4
very bad usage, and she hoped the magistrates we
out sending him to prison, bind him over.
Mr. Wybergh : You must state what he dl
when he was apprehended. t °
Complainant : I had only been confined tin' ),e33.
when he struck me as I lay in the bed, on the
had a knife in his hand. fit
Police-officer 325 said on Friday night 11. e. 000
instructions from the medical man to take the P.-00,44
custody, as he was threatening the life of the Ivn„fpe`.o
went to his house, around which were a great ine".3'o o'ol
and on going up the stairs he heard the 10°000°01
b
c, murder."
ullpoen taweknitng and procured
prisonerrocuredthheeashsearistadnebe.lvdai
officer,o
woul have her lip," and he had a knife in his t
he
Thheel d
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dw aisntloyinnega t
iionn bed.as
an 0.08;4°
offence he had committed.
LA efSefidil
The magistrates said it was a most brun4 of
they had the power, by a recent act of puha," ooa
him to prison for six months.
The Wife : Pray gentlemen, do not send .11'" t
I will forgive hin—l have three small children' le °t
The
egWgeed mustto make 91'....7i1"
etharasegtearyse. He 711u:to: for
. one 0.--/ti-given. The
ROBBERY AT THE ...Joe... John Beans and Dan
father and son, the former of whom was a custons,ol
were charged by Inspector Swaine with stealing s'
from the Queen's dock, the property of Messrs' 4,
The police-officer spoke to taking the corn, a largeeet'
of which was on the quay, from the Prie,„- carq
was clearly proved that the father was the Fe" ea°
the robbery. The magistrate discharged the oncoefi
it was disgraceful that the father, who had
ode
the :property, should have been guilty of the e'
poor
~tuthoritil.esf.
committed him for one month. from the poor-
a
A POLICE-OFFICER AT FAULT. —Peter Noss an
Duffy, were charged with, on the previous nightibed
police-officer Wilson. The police-officer, who ''ffei
his uniform since the assault, swore that he had be ii,
about" by the two offenders. On the part of
cit
ants, witnesses were called who proved that the Pv col be" f
had been in Mr. Moss's shop, and taken hula ,t'e
eleven o'clock, saying that he intended to have a srssP.l
the night was over; land that at the time the
alleged to have been committed, the police-offiee,'o
drunk and in fault, and in fact assaulting all Wne
in the street. The magistrates dismissed the 07 s
the defendants, and requested
occasion, when the charge agW
officer named Nelson, who hat.
action, would be fully investiga

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I the defendants, and requested their attendance °„d 0 NI
• occasion, when the charge against officer Wilson liPty ' VA
) officer named Nelson, who had been implicated ill '44,
action, would be fully investigated.
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L Parliament stands prorogued to the 3d Januft,„l.l' r 9
• At the court held at Wmdsor Castle on Fria'cjeo,
L W. Wynn was presented upon his return fro i„ of
L and Capt. Leman of the Waterkloof Rangers, Ch
Hope, was knighted.
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