The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-26 00:00:00

INCLUSIVE.

_.,.. _.
Sugar. B.P. 931 hhds. _
Tallow . 2088 casks
Ditto . 147 res. Flour . 280 brls.
Ditto . . 41 brls. Turp,mtins 3199 brls.
Ginger . 56 bets. thk Berk . 210 brls.
qrflett - . 262 casks Tobacco - 31 hhds.
Ditto . - 59 brls. Tar 4 brig.
Cocoa . 6:a3 bags I little, • 2758 cow &ox
Molasses . 185 puns. Ditto . Gs7B salted
Rum . - 147 puns. Ditto - 60117 horso
Ditto . 1 hhds. I Hair 121 bales
Ashes . 1115 brls. Pimento - 183 bags
Fustic . 13 tons 31 adder . 7 casks
Logwood . 41:9 tons Flax Seed - 194 bags
Nicaragua Wood 26 tons GiflCTil . 14 puns
lUahoga.., - 13 lop
COT TOX.
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West India
Egyptian .
New f hleana
Qtlier ,tmericaft
Brazils

Total

31 Wes
3:.51 baIN
4211 Wes
4908 bales
5761 bales

18492 bales

EXTENSIVE ROBBRIII diT BOULTON.

Sometime between Saturday night last and Monday
morning, the bank of Messrs. Ormrod, Hardcastle and Co.
of Bolton, was entered by means of false keys, and in a way
which showed great ingenuity and dexterity in the parties
concerned. As no person visited the premises on Sunday,
the robbery, though in all probability committed on Satur-
day night, vas not discovered until Monday morning, when,
on entering the hank at the usual hour of business, it was
found that the iron safe, which was supposed to be well-
secured by one of Bramah'n patent locks, had been opened
in the following novel and ingenious manner. The small
springs in the lock which prevent the bolt from being shot,
except by the key which belongs to the lock, had been
bored out, (apparently by means of a brace) and entirely
destroyed, so that the lock was readily opened by means of
a blank key, which the robbers left behind them in the
bank. It hail evidently been recently heated to soften the
iron of which it was composed, and had been filed on the
spot, to make it fit the lock which it was intended to open.
In the safe were the following bills and cash, all of which
were carried off by the robbers:— _

In gold - vas 111
In promiscuous load notes . 175 10 0
In Bleekbirrn notes . - 626 10 0
Is Bolton bL audit. awes - 640 0 0

Total - Lsot. 18 6
Besides a draft for 801. and four hundred M. notes of the
Balton bank, unsigned, but dated the let of August, 182.5.
On examining the premises, it was found that they
had been entered at the front door, by means of false keys.
With what species of locks the door was fastened, we do
not know ; • but they bad been of very little use ; for they
had not only been opened by the robbers when they en-
tered, but carefully locked again by them when they
went away, so that no external appearance of violence •to
the door presented itself ; and had it not been for a secret
bolt on the inside of the door, which they were unable to
shoot, and had therefore forced, they would not have left a
trace of the way in which they obtained admittance.
From the ingenuity displayed in effecting this rubbery,
there appears to be little doubt that it was cammitte I by
sortie members of that extensive gang in London, by whom
so many banks have been robbed, and who confine their
operations almost exclusively to this species of depredation.
It is not at all unlikely that the persons who committed it,
have been for some time at Bolton, watching for an op-
portunity, and making themselves acquainted with the
locks and other difficulties they would have to overcome,
We believe, that prior to the late robbery of the Paisley
bank, where the the gang obtained a booty of 22,0001.
they spent neatly three months in the neighbourhood be-
fore they effected their purpose ; and, when one of the
banks at Liverpool (we forget at this moment which) was
attempted, it was ascertained that the robbers had made
six or seven visits to the bank to examine the fastenings of
the strong room; each time opening the outer-doors, and
then locking them so as to leave no trace behind
them ; and the attempt was at last frustrated by their ac-
cidentally spoiling a lock before they were prepared to go
through with their enterprise. In fact, such are the skill
and perseverance employed for these nefarious purposes,
that no locks, however strong or complicated, can afford
security to premises which are left daring the night without
persons to take care of them.—Maachester Guardian.

The harvest is entirely gathered in in this neighbour-
hood. A gentleman, in a journey of 50 miles distant, says,
he saw not a stook of grain, in the whole of that distance,
in the fields, excepting a few etooks of barley in one field.
We have bad here, in the last fortnight, the most variable
weather Imaginable : a succession of showers and fair
sunny weather, the most sudden and frewent. No pro-
vidence has been able to screen those that must peregrinate
in their affairs, from the distress of a wetting, short of
that obstinate providence which makes the umbrella one's'
constant companion, whether the sky promise fair or foul.
Nalsirday's Liverpool Advertlier.

THE BRITIH

PRESS.

COMBINATION .ei NI) RIOT OF WORKM EN

IN F7I.4NCE.

COIIFT OF ASSIZE AT ROUEN.
The rt:al of Roostel, surnamed Cognani, and hal three yellers
pr;,onery. oq Tuesday and. Wednesday lac, drew an immense
crowd to the Court where it took place
aaaaa *cur. proprietor of the manufactory at Houlme.
and his son. were the first witnesses called. They gave a dmailed
account of all that had tome to their knowledge on the unfortunate
days of the fith and 6.11 August ; tnsich, however. was upon mere
hearsay. It was among the beat paid workmen that the first du-
content was mani:ested.

A woman named Boulard was the third witness. She deposed
that slit was much alarmed in consequence of an intlamma:ory
cular whleh was thrown into the ahup where she worked : her fear
made her quit the numufemory on sth August. and take refuge
in /Cr.: AI. Her companions were astulrttritated against her, and
threw her Into the water.

A brigadier of gendarmerie, named Portevin, proved that M.
Lesavasseur said, `• Uentlannes do your 4,luty," and not, as was
asserted by the prisoners. lAiliebere and Gossinit. " Fire upon that
centail:e." Several workmen wholtal been arrested were set free
upon the 3layor's responsibility.
Adeline, Mayor of Iloulme. was then heard. He made a
deposition that completely clashed with one already made. bearing
upon an iis anent tact in the cause. He deposed, that after the
six rioter' had been restored to liberty, the {treater part of the ring.
leaders retired, and few or none remained except front curiosity.
➢l. Levavasseur putting himself at die head of the seven genstlarmes,
ordered them to charge and fire upon those canaille. It was this
raised the indignation of the workmen, who having re-united after
the departure of witness, committed those excesses on the person
and manufactory of M. Leratasseur, which unhappily closed that
day.
The Paternr.srr, by the discretionary power vested in him,
finally ordered that the garde-eltampetre and another titan, said to
have heard the above expression, Should have notice to attend the
Court.

M. l.erarasaeur denied the fact with an energy which excited
considerable noire in the Court.
The PIIESIDENT re.eatablialied order by declaring, that if in
scandalous a scene was renewed, the diourhers of order should be
arrested and immediately brought to the bar.
(Ma of the Barristers obterreill that, according to the testimony
of rortavin. M. Letavaraeur at past said •• Gendarmes do your
duty !" which could not at all be considered as a mean of
conciliation.

11.
Levavasseur did not deny uttering the expression, but did not
mean it in the sense that was now attemptedio he put upon it.
The PHESIDENT poidred out to the Jul.'? how improbable it
WWI that M. bevavaeseur should bare uttered the expression attri-
buted to him ; besides, that it bad been unanimously denied by
the gendarmes to whom it was sat a to be addressed.
M. Adeline still persisted in his assertion, and maintained, that at
the time those men that had been arrested were restored to their
companions, order was re-established, and that it had only been
again disturbed by Levert's/tem's proceedings. He justified
thu measures he had adopted in consequence, as, he thought,
there were no other means to put an end to the troubles. He
added, that his example had been followed on the following Mon-
day by the armed force, which had also set two individuals, who
had been arrested, at liberty. He bas, moreover, always thought
that if M. Leravasseur had consented to take back into his service
the four workmen, excepted by him in the augmentation, the
seditious movements of Monday would not have taken place.
Thirteen other witnesses were called, who deposed to feet'
bearing upon the whole four of the prisoners. The deposithos
relative to the murder of the gendarme Vivicr were heard on IVed-
mislay. It is Itoustel who is the most concerned in this.
The Advocate-General was to be hearth on the following day.