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&ion, the people left the ground, and a large betty peeeeetted to Ac-
crington, the piece where some indications of riot 'exerted on the
Pith inst. and where eon Wderable Ararat had been excited !Aleut hilf-
past nine in the morning. by show 140 armed 'nee peesiiije
through the village on their we_y to Henfield. AmoVet the hilt.
there assembled there were a faege body, not less, it is asserted
than five hundred. who were armed With pikes, or to speak more
correctly, knives and pieces of iron ground sharp, and &locoed at
the end of sticks ; some carried acythee, others had large hedge
hammers, and a few had pistols arid guns. The messenger who
had been despatched to Blnekburn for military aid, had not re-
turned, when, about twelve o'clock. the mob proceeded in a rapid
but deliberate manner to Messrs. Sykes's new mill, which they im-
mediately broke open, and in the course of fifteen or twenty
minutes completely demolished the power-looms, sixty in number,
with the dressing machines and other apparatus, and the warps and
cloth in the looms; they likewise greatly injured the theritlee and
the steam engine. The shops of' the provision dealers were almost
cleared of their content*. From thin place they ',mere led to a
place called Wood Nook, where there were about twenty loceus
these likewise they destroyed. They then went to 31r. liefijamin
Walmsley'n, at Rough Hey. where also they broke twenty looms,
and did considerable other damage; they did not, howevitr, do any
wilful injury In the spinning pen of the machinery. From Bough
Hey they proceeded to ilr. J. Bury'. at White Ash. where they
dewtroyed eighty or ninety looms. hitch was the rapidity of their
operations, that it was not until they had gone to thin place that the
account ne the rioters having eetually proceeded to violence reached
Blackburn. A party of the Quee4 PI Bays infmtelively set out for
White Ash'oi
but the work of destruction had been ceeleted before
their arrival.
A second demand for military aid hid been sect
from Acciington ; the first, sent when no rioting had actually taken
place, not hemp been attended t.'. At length eighteen of the
dragoon% were despatched, and en their way et Aceringtou they
met and passed through a large body, the most moderate estimate
we have heard say five or six thousand, of the rioter., who were
then proceeding to Blackburn, having broken all the looms at
White Ash. They did not, it is stated, appear to be at all intiml-
dated by meeting the military, but carried their pikei. dec openly,
and in a very menacing manner. 0.) entering Weekbile., a large
number, from a body or 4or Mel, entered the Bay Horse Inn, a
market house, demanding bread and beer. The landlady, with
some difficulty, got her doors closed. and having distrif,ined a con-
siderable quantity of liquor, and all the breath she had in the
house, amongst those who had come in, they rejeined their comps.
ninny in the urea, and proceeded on withot doing u. 7 tur•bee
injury,

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The next place which the mob visited was the extensive power.
loom factory of Mem& Bam ister, Eccles, sod Co. in Darwin.
street, Blackburn. where they arrived shortly rafter three o'clock.
A party of dragoons was here as soon as themselves ; but such
species of force could be of little or no avail in checking their pro.
reeding& Tier to rid n t prevent them front entering the factory,
and therefore still leas weld they prevent the destruction of the
obnoxious maclonery it contain?, . Mr. Eccles, we understand,
met them at the door of his mill. en I endeavoured to prevent divot
from entenng it. but a pike was lama lately put to his breast. Ile
was told that they did not wish to do him any harm, but the de.
',ruction of his looms they were de ermined 01. l was at this
place that the eMdiers and the mob first more into collision. Tit,
former were mist violently stoned by she latter. who were them-
selves screened from attack, and ore ant ter wag considerably hurt.
Same ore-anus also were chscharged by tl e m rb. fn consequence,
the Riot Act was read shout half-pan three o'clock ; one or two
soldiere, we believe. tired their pieces, and one of the rioters received
• ball, and was slightly wounded in the back. The whole of
Mr. Eccks's power-looms and devising rentehtnea were reduced
to a complete wreck ; the worm' and do h on the beams were
also destroyed, tut no injury was done to the spinning ma-
chinery. Whilst Ste mob *ere at this plate our informant
saw s poor fellow lie down before the feet of the soldiers' hones ;
he said they mieht trample on ban if they liked, he was starv'ng
to death, but he would p rein in breakii g th- power.tooma. Dar-
ing the time the rioters were in Mr. Eccies's mill, the military had
so ranged themselvia about the entrance, and on three side* of the
building, that the escape of the former wan rendered a matter of
difficulty. Finding they could not make their way ()Thy the d tar,
many of them actually jumped out of a window two ironies high,
and escaped by muting a stream, on a side where there were no
soldiers posted. From Messrs. Eccles and CoN the rioters pro.
ceeded to the mill belonging to Messrs Fielden, Thrnp, rot
Townley, in King-street, which was intended to have contained
power-looms, but none having yet been set up, they departed with.
out committing any violence. A party, however, proceeded to Mr.
Ilmtglitan's, at tirimshaw Park (whither, also, sonic of the dra.
Notwithstanding
were detached), where there were about twenty-live looms.
Notwithstanding the presence of the soldiers, they effected an en.
trance into the building, entirely destroyed the harms, and threw
the twist, the warps, and the beams on whieh they were wow d,
into the canal. At this place, also, the soldiers were severely pet..
ed with stones, and in some instance* tied on. A portion of them,
consequently, discharged their fire-arms, and one rioter in the
building is stated to have been shot. Another man was shut
through the ear, the ball coming out of his mount; and knottier
was so desperately shot in the back, that there le said to be no
chance of his recovery. All these persons are atlfl living; two,
however, with little or no hone of tecorory. Four or five othets,
we believe, are severely, hut leas dangerously wounded.
We have been informed by a military ofhter who was present on
this occasion, that the audacity and desperation of the rioters ex.
ceeded any thing that he could possibly have expected from a mots.
At Mr. Iloughtoa's factory, where the ground was tather. unfarour.
able for cavalry, they made a regular charge, with levelled pikes,
on a party of six or eight of the lit Dragoon finned& forted then
back from the spot where they had posted themselves, and drove
one mast and horse into the renal.
The devastation at Mr. Hinigarton's terminated the lawless pro-
ceed;nga of the rioters yesterday„ A very large number of people,
it is said not less than BLOM kept parading the sneers of Ithick.
burn in the evening, anti displayed so much excitation, that it was
deemed necessary to reed the Riot Act tyke. About eight o'clock
the Dragoons were otderetf to clear the %meta, which they did by
striking with the flat edges of their sword., but i t no instattee, we
believe, Inflicting personal injury. Indeed our information kids
us to believe, that the coolness, temper, arid humanity dfilplayed
by the military, throughout the trying circumstances in which they
were placed, were most exemplary.
ATTEMPT ON LOW MOOR, NEAR CLITHERO.
From the commencement of these lawless proceedings, appro..
hensions have been entertained of au attack Upon the extensive
spinning and power-loom establialtmern of Molina Garnett, and
Floridan& at Low Moor, near Clithero, anti the proprietors of that
establishment had spotted no pains in preparing to repel it, by anti.
ing their own workmen, and sending for military aid. 'On satue.
day evening last they procured the assistance of 30 ofthe Craven le.
gion of yeomanry ; and oh Monday an officer and fifteen men of the
Ito dragoon guards from Burnley. Finding, however, that a most
tiihnidable attack on their premises was meditated an the followiha
day, they despatched messengers to Manchester, Blackburn, and
other places, to obtain reinforcements; and on the following morns
ing, about eight o'clock, two troops of the Ist dragoon guards, tin.
der the command df Captain ()pick, and ohe troop of the 11 des.
goon guards, commanded by Captain Smithy, as well as a strong
party of the Craven legion, with two guns, arrived on the spot. and
placed the property out of the reach eftlanger.
Early in the torenoon, however, vast numbers of people. in par:.
ties of from ten to one hundred each, began to approach Cliihero
from all parts of the Meialibourhood, butt chiefly from Coroe, thou.
ley, Padiham, and their vicinities. The majority of them were
armed with large sticks, but at Whalley, and other places at a few
miles distance, they were observed to have amongst them pikes,
fire-arms, hammers, axes, and other weapons, all of which were
carefully concealed when they approached Clithero, but their Sticks
were displayed without the slightest reserve. As they drew near
the town it became apparent, from the indecision and Oncertainty
of their movements, that they had heard of the large military forte
which had arrived for the protection of the property which they
came to destroy. They avoided collecting together in one burly,
and some of the parries, after approaching near to the promise&
turned back, and remained at a distance from them. Selo* hun-
dreds, however, occupied tho road between the town anti the
works, some of them advancing a. near the latter as the Witter).
would pertnit them to conic. Several gentlemen during tbit Awe-
noon rode amongst them, and demanded to know what wits their
object in corning there; to which they replied, without hemfation,
that their intention was to destroy the powealoorns, and they tit.
dared that they would not go away until that intention was exc.
cured ; but they offered no violence or insult to thbae who ques-
tioned them. During all this time the number of the people wee
continually augmenting, until there were at least COM periwig ftt
the immediate vicinity of the town, and not less than BIM* within
half an hour's Salk of it, but still they evinced no ineilhatiou
attack the premises.
At lens;fh, about two o'clock in the aftemnon, the 31agistiates
determined to drive the away teem the vicinity of the'vrorke.
portion of the military consequently advanced towards theot. and
the Raot Act having been read by the Rev. Mr. Abbott, thellra-
goourbegan to deer the roads, driving the people along, and tak.
inetheir sticks from them At one point die Met) appeared to
stake a stand; but the production of a few carbine., made ?will
lgive way, and they dispersed about the town and into air fields,
where the yeomanry could not follow them. The military Ilea
returned to she works, and all remainea perfectly tranquil, with
the exception of the throwing of a few stories at a party of sprout
constables, by which, however, no mischief wilt done. Altont fitio
o'clock a shower of rain began to fall, Web rimanued without id.
termision during the evening. The public-110'foot having Wirt
dosed by the orders of the Magistrates, the mobs, were compelled to
return to tiveir homes, and by about nice o'clock the town was
completely cleared of them.
HASLINGDEN.
Some r being apprehended in


Some outrages being apprehended in the neighbourhood of flu.
lingdens• troop of the second dragoon guardi, under the coondatd.
of Captain Kearney, set out for that place at an early bout on Tiles.
clay morning, and• arrived soon after eight o'clock. There Was at
that time a considerable itinneot in the place ; but, at there were no
indications of immediate riots, tl.e troops were ordered info
tent, and remained there until about two o'clock, when infermati
was breogsd to the cototuanding officer, that a mob had suddenly
attacked the
afsigtily of Hews. Turner, at 'Hein. Wore. a hoir bah' a
mile rum II en. The troop wetelndmettiately ord;red °tit
but when they h assendsted, Captain Kearney refu.ed EU, p t.
to the spot without arnvistrate ; and the Ifererena they,
the only magistrate resitting in the town, muttt not be aietwiih, ha
having pmelouffily made the best of hit iuty to the atede of disturb.
once, whiOlt was not !mown to his tingly: The anhiary, tioweter,
at length proceeded. %o the spot, whets they awed ton limy
to prevent the entire destruction of the golivel;latims, bet in Urns
tornske prisoner' of about twenty perfti, whb hid been optt.
cellist! in breaking third. These treble etriwiett to the Mt,
Inn' Rom whitli plioto' they yore :raed to claret* is a
tte& iZ
'te certainly: feiserkt-eset, aba .lush