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London, England, 1826-05-08 00:00:00

THE DISTURBEDDISTRICTS.

'From the Bolton Express, Saturday, May 6.]
We are most happy in being enabled to state,that our neighbour-
ing towns, so recently the scenes of riot and disorder, are fast sub-
siding Into their former tranquillity. A few days since every
minute teemed with disastrous news, and " that of an hour's age
did hiss the speaker:" but either from a conviction of the folly
as well as wickedness of such excesses, or that the means
adopted for their prevention are too formidable to be overcome, the
misguided numbers that joined in the commission of so much wan-
ton annihilation of property have peaceably dispersed ; many of
them, we tear, to mourn over calamities which they have sharpened
by their rashness, and in some instances rendered irremediable by
the consequences which it may unhappily involve.
At such a moment of peril, however, it is astonishing that Jour-
nalists were to be found who could pander to the popular appetite,
too keenly an edge to refuse the coarsest aliment. Our neighbour the
C?.ronicic joined last week in the cry raised by the Blackburn Mail
against machinery ; but the Mail is certainly the less-culpable of
the two ; that paper might have taken up the cause with an idea
that a few more copies might be sold in consequence, and there the
matter would end ; and we think, through the lameness of its de-
fence this week, that considerable contrition LB discoverable. But
the Chronicle had no such plea ; like the merciless wrecker, it ex-
ulted in the uproar of the storm, and trampled deridingly upon
surrounding ruin. They may say. " did we not express regret ?
did we not exhort the people to be quiet ?" But we say, such an
exhortittion, accompanied by remarks calculated to !name the
madness that prevailed, was a mockery.

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tfrorr. the Preen* ehronick.l
We have the satisfaction to gay. that in this town every thing has
remained perfectly quiet. On Ilirthrlayf, indeed, the town was
thrown into some alarm, from the droops besting to arms ; but it
turned out to ligve been occasioned by a ludicrous mistake. A
pugilistic contest having taken place on the Moor, a great concouras
of people was assembled to witness the fight ; the crowd
er:ts set n from the upper story of one of the rectories, and no doubt
being entertained but it was a muster of luom-breakers, the military
were ordered nut, and the drums had newly gone their rounds be-
fore the mistake was discodered. _ .

A troop of the 24 Dragoon °wards, and a detachment of the
73d regiment of Foot, have taken op their (Tauten amongst us ;
the factories are guardel at all points, &till have been stored with
paving stones in the tipper rooms, so that no fear is entertained of
any attempt .to break into them.
l'he civil officers have this week been vigilant in their endeavours
to secure the ringleaders in the various distriets where outrages hays
been committed, and several parties of prisoners have passed
through this town for Lancaster, escorted by the military. We
have ohtsined a list of the prisoners who had arrived at the Castle,
up to Thursday evening; which in as follows
APRIL 27.—JamesRyding, aged 29. weaver, of Livesey, sent
from Blackburn ; Thomas Dickinson. 19. confectioner, of Black-
hurn, sent from do Thomas Leaver, 25; w ,of do. sent from
do. ; William Sutcliffe, 22, butcher, of do. sent from do; and
Simeon Wright. 36, weaver, of Samleabury Miff, sent from do.
APRIL 28.—Mark Cockerbill, eget; 29, wearer, of ',scup, sent
from Bacup ; William Coekerhill, 23, do. of do. sent from do.
Richard Rawstorne, 20, navigator. of do. tent from do. ; George
Ashworth, 21, weaver, near New Church', sent from do. ; Richard
Tattersall, 29, do. of Bankfield, nee do. sent from do. ; Jame,
. Taylor, 214, do. of near New,Chureh. sent from do.: Patrick Gib-
bon, 35, calieo-prinfee, of %cup: sent from do. ; Joshua Bald-
win, 21, weaver, of do. sent front do. John Holt, 99, do. of near
New Church, sent from do. ; Edward Yate, 18, do. of Limey,
sent from Bury ; Henry Melling, 22, dn. of Edgeworth, sent from
do. ; Betty Cunliffe. 2.1, do. of Bacon, sent from Bacup ; and
James Buskey, IC, ealic.--printer, of Edgeworth, seat from Bury.
APRIL Mt —Thomas Sharpies, aged 23, weever, of Tockholes,
sent from Blackbern; and Jansta Shotrock, 29 do. of Darwen,
sent from Blackbnrn.

MAY 2.—Thomal Emmeit, aged 22, vieaver, of flaalingden,
nent frnn Haalingden; and Mary Hindle, 27, do. of do. WO
from do.

3 —Alice Lord. aged 19, weaver, of New Clnstrch, vent
from Burnley; Peggy Lord, 20, do. of do. sent from do.• Anse
Ingham. 28, do. of do. sent from do; John Ashworth, 22,;1tt. of
near Ban:p, sent from Burnley; Thomas Ash wor. h, 27, laboarm,
of do. sent from do. ; James Rostron, 20, do. of do. sent from
do. ; John Ingham, 114.-.stonemitrion, c? 4. sent from do.; Jamas
Latham, 18, weaker, of Blackburn, sent from Blackburn ; James
Ormrod, 18, do. of do. sent from do.; Richard Ray, ?7, do. ado.
sent front do. ; and Michael Tomlinson, 211. do. Aldo. sent from dol.
Tne following have also been brought to the House of C.orreetiou
M this town, but are not yet fully committed
Margaret Ifadcroft, aged 44, of. Tottingdon, weave'; Margaret.
Yates, 18, of Church, do. ; illary :Barden, 311, of Oswald.'
whistle, do. Betty Howarth, 17, of Yate Bank, do. ; Henry Cook,
28, of Over Darwen, do. ; John Hunt, VI, of Pate Bank, do.
William Hunt, 28, of do. do. ; William Its,cliffe, 1.8, of Turteln,
do. ; nod Taylor.2o, of Tockholes, do.

tFrom the Leeds Mcraery./
EsEns. hatctrday, Mays,
In ritimidst of all the agitation by which me are surrounded,
the Pleasure iy still allowed us, of stating, that the town of Leeds
his remained perfectly free from any except. Some tumultuous
indications did, indeed. exhibit themselves in the susits on Tues.
day and Wednesday nights, but they were for the most part the
mere ebuffirions of juvenile folly, resenibllng more the breaking up
of a set of mischievous school.boys on a holiday, than the conduct
of men bent on outrage, and goaded on by want. It is due from. us
to say of the great body of the labouring classes in the West Riding
of Yorkshire, that they have conducted themselves, during the last
fortnight of agitation mid excess, in a mariner that reffects upon
them the highest honour, and that proves that they understand
their own interests and the interests of the community. This e
duct is the more laudable, because two or three abortive attempts
have been mile to circite therh to mischief, by Tritons we do nos
know—certainly not by their friends, and probably by those who
would have been the first to betray them, if they had listened to
their dangerous counsel.
[From the lifonchertcr Guardian of Saturday.)
We are happy to state that all the accounts we yesterday received
and persons we saw, from the districts of this county which hail
chiefly been disturbed, concurred in representing them to be
completely restored to tranquillity. Neverthrlesti, measures of pre-
caution must be kept up, so long as the number of the unemployed
poor continues great.
In this town, but for the ill-timed and reprehensible turnout of
, a few of the power-loom weavers, and who, speaking of them as
body compared with the hand weavers, have much to be thcnkful.
for, both as regards employmint and wages, We should, sines
Tuesday, have been in a state of complete quiet.
THE ARMY. _

Reinforcements have arrived or are arriving, at 3lancheeter, and
in the neighbouring towns, as follows :
Major Whinyates's troop of Royal Horse Artillery, from
Sheffield ; Major Chester's troop of Royal Horse Artillery, from
Woolwich, whence it came, with post horses, in 46 hours. The
Rocket Troop is made disposable, according to circumstances. A
Brigade of long nine pounders hag been stationed at Burnley.. Se-
veral convoys of ammunition are in march, from Woolwich, Hull,
and Chester Castle. The King's Drggoon Guerda, from Leeds.
The 10th Royal Hussars, from Nottingham and Northampton.
The 2d battalion of the Coldertreem Guards, and the lot battalion of
the 3d guards, from London, Per easel. The 38th Restirnevir,
from Chatham. The 611th and 73d Regiments, fro n Dublin. Thu
two Regiments of Cheabire Yeomanry Cavalry, on permanent duty
at Manchester, Stockport, and Hyde t and the Bolton, Wigan, and
Oldham corps, in their own towns. The Ist Regiment of Life
Guards it arriving at Nottingham, from London, and the Carob'.
neers at Sheffield. Troops have been stationed at Warrington,
Wigan, Chorley, Preston, Blackburn Bolton, Bury, Burnley,
Clitheroe, Rochdale. Oldham, Ashton-iroder-Lyne, Hyde, Stock-
port, and Macclesfield, which communicate with the troops is
Yorkshire, upon which county troops are moving in different direc-
tions ; and the whole of its Yeomanry is already out on duty.
Lieut.-General Sir John Byng has been appointed to /he com-
mand of the troops in the Northern district, and has fixed his had
quarters at Mancnester.
RELIEF OF THE POOR.

The following is an account of the distribution of yesterday :
No. of Bacon Oatmeal Peas Herrings
Tickets. lbs. lbs. meas. brill.
Shuaehill 4702 6672 35280 61 li
Oldham-toad 2533 3053 22560 40 0
Ancuats - 1846 3527 11280 34 0
Watson-street 2451 3623 17610 39 0
Alinshull-st. 2373 2962 21210 20 2
Chorlton-row 1128 1196 7152 37 0
Ardwick 265 2113 1651 121 0

15298 21316 118803 2461 3
Cash received for provisions sold at the different stt.tions.
41/, Bs. 3,1.

Food distributed to the poor of Hulme, Friday, May It-
-2,431.11b5. potatoes ; 7Wilbt..meal ; 2911bi.t. bacon ; 53 quarts peas.