The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-02 00:00:00

THE WIGAN DISTURBANCES.

On arriving at Wigan on Tussday evening the
detachment of the 68th Regiment sent from Manchester,
soesisting of 130 men, under the command of Major Trent,
proceeded to the Saw Mills. Haigh, • short distance above
the Lindsay Pit, where the prinoipal disturbances have
taken place, and there the men were located for the night.
Incensed by their two previous failures to prevent the
" knoketicks " descending the pit, the torn-outs, it is
aged, intended to achieve their object yesterday morning
at all bawds ; but the presence of the MB bed • deter-
rent effect, for quietness reigned in the
The police force of the borough proceeded to plass at 4
o'clock, armed with entailer and revolvers; they remained
at the pit • couple of hours, and then marched hack.
One of the places of assembly, yesterday morning, for the
r country maws, preparatory to their clamant on
was reported to be the Boar's Head Bridge,
About midnight, 400 or 500 men, many of el= armed
with loaded sticks, congregated at this plaos ; bat if their
=cldestination wee Whalley, the arrival of the
caused a change of the plan, far after • eonsalta-
ties the pasty mead to the Wigan Coal and Iron Oom-
pany's Prospect Pit, about three-quartas of • mile away.
There they smashed the windows, end did further damage
to the weighing-machine house. On moving away, and
when near the Horseshoe Inn, Standish, they were met by
a body of county constabulary, who had beau
in the village in expectation of a disturbance, and a
collision took place. The collides rested the pollee
with • shower of atones, but the *Mows, who were
armed with staves only, dispersed the mob, after some
little restraints had been offered. The ostrages, it ap-
pears, are not osollsed to one district, ter en Sun aril
the woodwork of the pumping engine-how-howat the Wigan
Coal and Iron Company's No, I Pit was set on fire by •
party of men whose faces were covered with crape masks.
Another meeting of magistrates was held in Wigan yes-
terday, when it was cleated to remove the soldiers from
the saw mills into the aware of the town, and, if possible,
the public-hall will be 'lapsed as a barracks.

ST. PAUL'S CATICILDRAL.—The following are the
the appointed by
meth
of of London to reek in
the Cathedral in the on of April, 18018 :--litunday,
April 5 (morning the Bev. Arthur Martineau, ILA., of
Trinity College, , reser of St. Mildred., Bread.
street ; Friday, April 10 ( Friday manning), Re. F. R.
Lloyd Jones, ILA., ordinary of Newest. and elasitii
the Lord Mayor ; Good Friday afternoon, Rev.
Josiah Irons, D.D., of Queen's Oollage, Oxford vicar of
Holy Trinity, Brompton ; Sunday, 19th (morning), Rev.l
F. R. Lloyd Jose, ILA., ordinary of Nergabs sad dep.
lain to the Lord Mayor ; Sunday, 26th (wreathe), Bev.
William Calvert, ILA. On Sunday, the 12th (Amer
Day), the sermon will be preached by the Tay Rev. Dr.
H. H. Mihail', Den of St. Paul's.
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army years ago. If I midair* sot, the story was told me
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