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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 1.

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patch you had communicated to me previously, has
neon seriously examined in the; Council of Ministers,
and submitted to the high consideration of my august
Sovereign:,
I must, in the first place, answering with an equal
frankness the sincerity of your Excellency's declarations,
state that his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand
Duke's Government has been painfully affected and sur-
prised at the receipt of these documents, and that my
august Prince has shared this sentiment.
Being charged to signfy to you the painful impres-
sion which has been felt at their perusal by my So-
vereign and the members of his Government, I must add
that the latter was necessarily entitled to look upon this
affair as terminated, after it had been arranged with the
official representative of the British Government, and
that this -negotiation had received in the English Par-
liament the most explicit and solemn sanction, with flat-
tering eulogiums of the conduct of that honourable agent.
Relying on those acts, the Tuscan Government had
reason to expect that no modification would be made in
the settlement of this affair, such as Mc. Scarlett had
accepted it; and the British Government cannot forget
that, as appears from the dispatch of Mr. Barron, who
acted in the place of the Charge d'Affaires during
illness, of which dispatch your Excellency has comma-
niceted to me an extract, the pecuniary indemnity ac-
corded to Mr. Mather was accompanied by a generous
and spontaneous act of the sovereign prerogative to-
weeds the Messrs. Stratford, English subjects, who had
rendered themselves guilty of a political crime, for
which act the Government of her Majesty the Queen
of Great Britain, yielding to a sentiment of just pro-
priety, has already expressed to his Imperial and Royal
Highness the most formal thanks.
Your Excellency, in admitting. that the negotiation
had been at first accepted and justified by your Go-
vernment, then developes all the succeeding stages of
this affair, quotes the instructions which yourExcallency
has received on the subject, and explains how,
according to those which had been given to
Mr. Scarlett himself, the British Government
has thought itself obliged to disavow, as is
declared in Lord Malmesbury's dispatch, the conduct of
its representative, and annul his work. In appreciating
these explanations, I hasten to come to the main points
of the question, and to declare that the -Gland Ducal
Government will never ignore its rights and its duties,
counting amongst the first thereof that of being just to
every one, and of according to foreign subjects the most
extended and cordial hospitality; nor can the excep-
tionel case of the special jurisdiction to which the soldiers
of the Austrian auxiliary force are subject affect the
exercise of those rights and of those duties.
The refusal of Mr. Mather to receive any indemnity
having induced the British Government to give to its
demand the new form which is, according to your
instructions, communicated to me by your Excellency,
I must first remark that the note of Mr. Scarlett,
which led to the conclusion of the affair, having now
been completely disavowed by the English Govern-
ment, ant being annulled, I acknowledge that all the
correspondence which followed, and which was only
a consequence of the first document, shares logically the
hy ets),
!fame fate. The whole is therefore to be considered as
it it. had never taken place, and passing on (to other
w
I am happy to seize eagerly this occasion to
beg you to be the means of expressing to the Govern-
mens of her Majesty your august Queen the most lively
regrets of the Grand Ducal Government at this unfor-
tunate affair of the wound received by Mr. Mather,
which affair ought not in any wise to disturb such an-
cient, such intimate, and such amicable relations as ours;
and concerning which, moreover, a satisfaction has been
given by the Australian military authority. The per-
fect harmony which has constantly united the two Go-
vernments, the friendship which reigns between the two
august Sovereigns, and the sympathy which has always
been felt in Tuscany towards the illustrious English na-
tion, must dispel every supposition contrary to these
sentiments, and the Tuscan Government rejects such a
supposition with all the energy and all the sincerity of
the sentiments which it has already experienced.
The Grand Ducal Government, in priding itself on the
identity of its conduct with its sentiments, is always dis-
posed to accept the obligation of m.aintaiDiug the rights
and of providing for the safety of British subjects, as
well as of other foreign subjectsin Tuscany, by means
of the tribunals, as a general rule, and hastens to recog-
nise the principle that this duty becomes more impera-
tive on the executive power in those exceptional cases,
such as the one which now exists in respect to the Aus-
trian auxiliary force in Tuscany, which cannot be
submitted to the ordinary tribunals. It therefore de-
clines none of the consequences imposed on it by that
protection.
I am happy to acknowledge M. le Ministre, the great
tact and the conciliatory spirit of which your Excel-
lency has given a proof in this delicate conjuncture; and
I have the confidence that you will derive from my
language a conviction that the Tuscan Government,
far from having abdicated its independence, of which
it is jealous and proud, is resolved, on the contrary, to
uphold the rights and to exercise the duties of that in
dependence.

The enlightened and impartial Government of her
Majesty the Queen of Great Britain will no doubt share
this conviction; and nothing will henceforth be able to
disturb the continuation of these official and amicable
relations which are of ancient date, and ;which the two
Governments have ever been so happy to maintain. For
my part, I shall be proud to contribute to drawing closer
these bonds, and I doubt not but that your Excellency
desires equally to arrive at the same end.
The justice which your Government is desirous of
rendering to the zeal and talent of the Hon. Mr. Scar-
lett, notwithstanding the disavowal given in this case to
his conduct, induces me to express, on behalf of tho
Grand Ducal Government, the esteem and confidence
which that able gentleman has constantly merited.

I arail, &c.,
(Sigced) THE DUKE OF CASIGLIANO.

No. 3.

SIR HENRY BULWER TO THE EARL OF BIALMESRITRY.
(Received June 25.)
Florence, June 18, 1852.
My Lord,—Your Lordship will read the correspon-
dence which has taken place between the Duke of Ca-
sigliano and myself, and appreciate the difficulties which
I have had to encounter previous to obtaining the note
from the Duko which I did myself the honour to forward.
In regard to the two most important of her Majesty's
Government's demands, the answer of the Duke of Casig.
liano Seems to me in perfect conformity with the letter
and spirit of those demands.
In the third there is a slight variation between the
terms of my request and the terms of .the Duke's reply,
though it appears to me there is no essential difference
between the fact consummated in the one case and the
object sought for in the other.
Her Majesty's Government requires the withdrawal of
the Duke of Casigliano's note of the 10th of
May, and
the cancelling of Mr. Scarlett's note of the 11th of
May; and I am also authorised by your Lordship to
withdraw Mr. Scarlett's note of the 6th of May, which
gave rise to the subsequent correspondence.
The Duke of Casighano accepts the disavowal of Mr.
Scarlett's note of the 6th of May, and recognises that all
the subsequent correspondence is annulled or annihilated
by that disavowal, and is to be considered as if it had
never existed.

The main point-at lane is the annihilation of Mr.
Scarlett's proposal, and of the notes pro and con, founded
thereupon, with the view that neither the one nor the
other can ever be hereafter cited; and according to the
Duke of Casigliano's present communication, not only is
this point obtained, but a principle directly the reverse
of that suggested by Mr. Scarlett, and laid down in re-
ply by the Duke of Casigliano, is clearly and solemnly
recognised.
Wi, h respect, however, to the especial form of with-
drawing the notes in question, the Grand Duke has a
personal and very strong objection. He considers it is
a degradation which he has not merited, and an acknow-
ledgment that he intended to inflict an insult which he
never did intend to inflict.

The Duke of Casigliano's note, written by his autioo_,
rity, was not a note that he volunteered—it was a note
elicited from him by a proposal from her Majesty',
chargé d'affaires; the answer was in the spirit of the
proposal it replied to. An act of liberality was asked
astendchfoirs.
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ere a very long time disputes similar to that concerning Mr. Mather, future
as change, as a matter of course, well
elapsed, the peculiar nature of the foreign force ate,l2,,as
Pre-
sent employed in this country, I have considered that
Strat-
Likt-hue it
would be injudicious to refuse to receive the
Casigliano's note, and to break off a negotiation sced.7.'
ficulr, and which is so successful in every other
cular, on so comparatively small an issue.
I should add that the Duke of Casigliano has begged
me to intercede with her Majesty's Government
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with
respect to this matter; and I myself deem it not unwise
to the or unfair to show some consideration for the (Grand
Duke's feelings on a mere matter of form which is
of no
to be
practical value, the more especially as it is always
wasrem eamhbaerrge
bargain
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made howeverwit
with
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ford, and those gentlemen are now free in censer,
--anence
thereof, their liberation being, under any circumstances,
an act of grace on the part of the Grand Duke, consented
to under the idea that it would be agreeable
Bri-
tish Government.
At all events the question is still left for your Lord..
ship to decide. I have, 860.;
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(Signed) H. L. BuLwEn.

No. 4.
SIR HENRY BULWER TO THE EARL OF NALMESBURY.
(Received Juno 25.)
Florence, June 19,1852.
My Lord,—ln order to place beyond all doubt the
real meaning of the Duke of Casigliano's reply ef the
16th to my note of the 11th, I acknowledged it by the
enclosed communication. I have, PLC.,
(Signed) a L. BULWER.

(Inclosure in No. 4.)
SIR HENRY DULWER TO TELE DUKE OF CASIGLIANO.
addressing
of the
tlo6tyh
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n reply
the Florence, June 17, 1852.
Sir,—l have received your Excellency's communica-
tion
11tht instant. e °fi eihad the honour of
I understand by that communication:—
1. That the Tuscan Government, whilst painfully sur-
prised at my communication to the effect that Mr. Sear-
arrangoment was disavowed, appreciates the rea-
sons for that act which I developed.
2. That the Government of his Imperial and Royal
Ilighnass recognizes tilKI as the IMO of :Zr,l 0041.00 of

1 the 6th May is disavowed, it is in fact annulled, and that
consequently all the correspondence which followed that
note, including your Excellency's of the 10th of May,
and Mr. Saarlett's reply thereto, is annulled also, and is
to be considered as if it had never been written.
3. That the Tuscan Government expresses its pro-
found regret at the violence inflicted on Mr. Mather, end
repels all ides of that unhappy event being considered as
in any wise testifying disrespect towards her Majesty or
the English nation; and
4. The Government of Tuscany recognises in its ful-
lest sense the duty of protecting British subjects by the
ordinary tribunals as a general rule, and by the
executive authority -in all those cases in which the
ordinary tribunals cannot be applied to, including such
as may arise during the present arrangement with Aus-
tria respecting the auxilliary troops of that Government
stationed in the Tuscan territory; and that his Imperial
and Royal Highness accepts the full responsibility at-
tached to the duty of the aforesaid protection.
With the understanding that I have thus repeated the
sense of that note which I have just had the honour to
receive, I beg to aeknowlenge the same, and to state that
I shall instantly forward the correspondence which has
passed between us to her Majesty's Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, who, I have no doubt whilst at-
tentively considering that correspondence, will set a due
value on the expressions by which your Excellency so
unequivocally denotes the desire to maintain the most
friendly relations between our two Governments; and
will also duly appreciate those which as strongly testify
the determination of the Tuscan Government to main-
tain the independent position of the Grand Duchy cf
Tuscany.
It only remains for me to thank your Excellency for
your courteous mention of the efforts which I have
naturally made with the view of terminating so painful.
a question as that of which wo have had to treat, in a
manner honourable to all parties, and to assure you that
I likewise set a proper value on the friendly desire
which you have manifested throughout our negotiation,
to satisfy the just expectation of my Government whilst
upholding the honour of your own. I have, &c.,
(Signed) H. L. BIILWER.

No. 5.
THE EARL Or BIALDIESIMTRY TO SIR HENRY BULWER,

Foreign Office, June 26, 1852.
Sir,—lt is with great satisfaction that her Majesty's Go-
vernment have received your dispatches of the 18th and
19 Lh instant, which announce the result of your negotia-
tion with the Court of Tuscany on the subject of the as-
sault on Mr. Mather.
Her Majesty's Government entirely approve of the
able and judicious manner in which you have brought
this intricate affair to a conclusion, which, while affir w-
ing the important principle which they asserted as due
to the British nation, equally tends to maintain the
dignity and independenne of Tuscany herself.
You will inform the Duke of Casigliano that her Ma-
jesty's Government have received with unfeigned satis-
faction the expressions of regret which his Excellency
bas offered at those unfortunate occurrences which have
lately caused an estrangement between two Courts
which ancient associations and mutual interests should
always unite in the most friendly alliance. You will
also assure his Excellency, that in urgently contending
for that recognition of responsibility from Tuscany
which Mr. Scarlett so inconsiderately waived, her Ma-
jesty's Government felt assured that they were consult-
ing not less the honour and independence of the Tuscan
Government than the protection due to British subjects.
Until lately these havealways found hospitality and pro-
tection in the Grand Ducal territory; and her Majesty's
Government earnestly hope that the exceptional posi-
tion in which the Tuscan Government is now placed by
the apparently necessary presence of a foreign auxi-
liary army will induce the Tuscan Government to be
even more jealous than ever to assert its independence
by a ready and attentive recognition of international law.
Her Majesty's Government consent to cede the point
urged by the Duke of Casigliano, and agree to con-
sider the two notes of the 10th and 11th of May as
cancelled.

You will read this dispatch to his Excellency, and
assure him of the sincere desire of her Majesty's Go-
vernment to maintain with the Court of Tuscany the
most friendly relations.—l am, &e.,
(Signed) MALMESBURY.

No. 6.
SIR HENRY BULWER TO THE EARL OF NALMESBURy.
(Received June 28.)
Florence, June 21, 1852.
My Lord,—l think it right to make known to your
Lordship that I have heard a fact, upon good authority,
which may in some degree account for, though it can in
no wise excuse, the conduct of the Austrian officer to-
wards Mr. Erskine Mather on the 29th of December.
This fact is, that two days previous, when some Aus-
trian troops were marching through the streets of
Florence, in somewhat the same manner as on the day
in question, a sergeant was struck with a knife by some
person in the crowd jostling against him; a circumstance
which tended to make the officers more than usually
scrupulous as to persons who appeared to be Italians
following and coming too near to their ranks.
am not aware whether this incident has ever before
been brought to your Lordship's notice, but as it bears
upon the case, and has been communicated to me by a
person likely to be well informed, and on whose veraeity
I can rely, I have deemed it fair to state it to your
Lordship.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) 11. L. BIILWER.

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—Fier Majesty's ysoht©
Victoria and Albe“, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzcla-
rence, G.C.H. ; Fairy, Mr. Welch, Master, R.N.; and
Elfin, Mr. Balliston, Acting Master, R.N., were taken
out for a trial cruise to-day by Commander Crispin,
second in command of the royal steam squadron, to test
their readiness for her Majesty's service, as the Queen
and Court are expected to require them in their transit
from Gosport to Osborne on Friday next.
The Inflexible steam-sloop, Commander P. H. D ke;
eirt
remains at Spithead. She will be inspected to-mo 9w:
by Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., the ,
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mander-in-Chief, after which she will coma into harbour.
SHEERNESS, WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty's screw
steam-troopship Msgwra, 6, Mr. J. C. Barlow, Master,
commanding, arrived here from Woolwich on Tues-
day, at 115 P.M. We are informed she is' to be paid
off forthwith.

Her Majesty's cutter Gossamer, Mr. Charles H. Dil-
lon, Master, commanding, sailed on the 27th instant,
at ten A.M., for service in tho North Sea during the sum-
mer months.

Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Wildfire,
Mr. Brockman, Second Master, commanding, having
completed her internal fittings, was warped out of the
discharging basin on Tuesday, and having got up her
steam to try her engines and machinery, took up her
moorings in the harbour.
Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Amphion, 34, we
hear, will shortly be commissioned by Captain Elliott,
who commanded the Spartan when on the Mediterranean
station.

Her Majesty's cutter Hart, tender to the Waterloo,
has completed her fittings, and is ready to resume her
usual duties.
The drills of the Royal Dockyard Brigade, commanded
by Colonel Reed, are now regularly continued four times
weekly at the parade-ground in the dockyard.
WOOLWICH, JUNE 30.
PROMOTION.
George B. Jeffreys (flag lieutenant to Admiral Dixon),
to be commander.

PPOINTMENTS.
Master Thomas J. Whillier (1846), to the ,Leander,
50, at Devonport.
Clerks—Cornelius W. M`Dermott (1850), recently
serving in the Driver steam-sloop, to the Leander ;
Ralph Roberts, to the Imaum, 72, receiving-ship at
Jamaica.

Lieutenant--E. C. Maunseil, Royal Naval College.
Acting-Master—Thomas J. Whither, to the Leander.
Naval Cadet—Evelyn Wood, to the Queen.
Admiral Sir Francis William Austen, &CAI Was
present at the Admiralty to-day at the reception given
by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland to flag_
officers.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
N JUNE 30,
Loss or THE FRENCH BRIG PAUCLOINE,EOSI:GRANVILLE.
—The English brig Crusader, Hacquoil master, arrived
at this port this morning, in thirty-four days from St.
Jago de Cuba, with coffee. for orders, by which we
learn the loss of the French brig Pauline, of Gran-
ville, Captain Le Chevalier, on the 17th instant, in lat.
44 30 N., and long. 40 10 W. of Paris, having been
struck by a whale, and in twenty minutes afterwards
foundered. The master and crew, together with a pas-
senger (in all eleven persons), took to their boat, and
for three days were at the mercy of the winds and seas,
when they were fallen in with by
the Crusader, and
brought to this port. The Pauline w4s laden with sugar,
and bound from Porto Rico to Euidfre.
The unfortunate crew of the Pauline, on their arrival
at Cowes, presented themselves to the French consular
agent, Mr. William S. Day, through whom they have
been provided with clothing, &c., and will be forwarded
to France, as soon as Captain Chevalier has made his
report and protest.

THE MrNISTERIAL FISH DlNNEE—Yesterday her
Majesty's Ministers had their annual white-bait dinner at
the Crown and Sceptre, Greenwich. There were present—
the Earl of Derby, Lord St. Leonards, Earl Lon,sdale, Mar-
quis of Salisbury, Earl Malmesbury, Earl Desart, Duke of
Northumberland, Lord Colchester, Earl aardwielre, Lord
Colville, Duke of Montrose, Marquis of Exeter, Earl Jersey,
Lerd Crofton. Earl Sandwich, Earl Talbot, Earl Roslyn,
Right Hon. G. Bankes, Right Hon. W. Beresford, Right
Hon. R. A. Christopher, Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Captain
the Hon. A. Duncombe, • Right Hon. Colonel Forester, Vis-
count Galway, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Lord C. Hamilton,
Right Hon. J. C. Herries, Right Hon. J- W. Henley, Sir W.
Jolliffe, Sir Eitzroy Kelly, Hon. W. S. Knox, Lord Henry
Lennox, Viscount Mandeville, Lord John Manners, Mr. W.
Forbes Mackenzie, Viscount Newport, Sir John Pakington,
Mr. Augustus Stafford, Lord Stanley, Sir F. Thesiger, Sir J.
Trollope, Sir J. E. Tennent, and the Right lion. S. H,
Walpole. The party went from Hungerford to the tavern by
the Waterman steamer No. 2, in twenty-five minutes.
NATIVOO.—This city of the Mormons once held
20,000 inhabitants ; they are now about 2,000. One-half of
the houses the Mormons left have been removed or pulled
down, and the other half are tenantless. Each lot contains
an acre. The mansion of Joe Smith is kept by his wife—
once his widow, but now again a wife of another and a live
man—ae a tavern. The front wall, and the one next to it,
which formed the vestibule, are all that is left standing of
the achievement of fanaticism called "The Temple," which,
as the inscription on a large stone, worked in the inner wall,
informs the visitor is, "The House of the Lord, built by the
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. Com-
menced April 6, 1841." A company of French Socialists
have purchased a portion of the property, the site and the
ruins of the temple included. They number about 400.
Aradion Courier.

FATAL. RIOT IN STOCKPORT.

ONE MAN KILLED AND SIXTY WOUNDED.
THE MILITARY CALLED OUT.
We have received a more full and detailed account of
the riot at Stockpoh of which we, yesterday, gave a
brief outline. Our correspondent prefaces his notice
with a semi-official account from the third edition of
yesterday's Manchester Guardian, which is as follows:
"For some time past there has been in Stockport a
bad feeling between the two classes indicated, partly on
trade quarrels, partly on national grounds, but chiefly
the result of religious differences between-ignorant Irish
Catholics on the one hand, and as ignorant English Pro-
testants on the other. Collisions have frequently oc-
curred, which have come before the magistrates—
charges and counter-charges have been made—the
English have been attacked by the Irish; the Irish have
been •
assml ed by the English; and it has been obvious for
50nle time past that there only needed the spark to fire
the train and explode those inflammable materials into
some extensive and bloody tray. That occasion has arisen
under the following circumstances:--Sunday lost was
the anniversary of the usual procession of all the
Roman Catholic scholars connect,d with the three
chapels in Stockport. The recent Royal proclamation
sealnet Roman -, pr0C13,10:15 ws much discussed,
and the Irish Orangemen and other Protestants, Englath
and 1:1 11, c,,ntened that the procession ought no: to be
allowed Various respectable residents of Stockport,
apprehensive that if the procession took place it would
lead to some serious breach of the peace, applied to Mr.
Sadler, Chief constable of the borough, to know whether
the authorities meant to prohibit it, under the powers of
the proclamation. The subject, we believe, was also
brought under the notice of the mayor and the borough
magistrates; but, from whatever cause, no orders were
given to forbid the procession, and it took place. Pre-
viously, however, the Rev. Randolph Frith, of the Ca-
tholic ciecnele Edgeley, who, we believe, is the senior
priest in Stockport, waited on Mr. Sadler, and gave the
most solemn assurance that no symbol or garb should
appear in the
proccssion beyond what had been usual on
former anniversaries;
or anything that could be deemed
a defiance of the proclamation. When it became
known that the procession would not be prevented,
feeithgoastui ampngst the
lower classes ran high, the
party
Catholics b
Catho -.ey would not be stopped
and the Protestants declaring that their procession
ought to be put tinw,n. The procession, however, did
take place on &Imlay afternoon, and, on the whole,
passed off quieey-
started about two o'clock from the
Catholic chapel at hdgeleY, which is a suburb of the
town near the railinly station, and proceeded down Ed-
ward-street, across the Waterloo-road, down Church-
gate and Park-streenthrotigh Warren-street, up Heaton-
lan©, up the
Wellington-road
Catholic Soutb, and so returning
again to the Bowan Chapel, Edgeley. The
procession
was headed by the priests, and a number of
a breast ; then came the
.ec
Irish labourers walking 81
numerous boys and girli in the Sunday and day schools.
There were no boners in the procession ; the priests
did not wear canonical vestments, but appeared in or-
dinary attire ;eves
the girls' handkerchiefs or vests,
which they usually wore on these occasions,
were laid
they
aside ; and only wore white frocks, and
little crosses suspended round the neck by ribbons.
The only badges or symbols that might be supposed
to contravene the proclamation were a ball and cross,
and a gilt dove. As we have said, the procession passed
along its course, without the slightest disturbance,
beyond occasional
groans and hisses from zealous Pro-
testants, and they finally dispersed without any breach
of the peace of which we have heard. Even Sunday
evening, which is often disturbed in Stockport by noisy
brawls, amongst the
boron population (who are said to
gh), passed over with more
exceed 14,0 din the
than usual tranquillity, not one individual having been
apprehended by the,P,?lice, directly or indirectly con-
cerned in any row. .
On Monday afternoon information reached the police-
office that an Englishman and an Irishman, both of them
in liquor, had been fighting in the liquor vaults of the
Bishop Blaize public-house, and that expressions had
been used, having relation to the procession of the pre-
vious day, and toe Popery and Protestantism ; but it
seems that the combatants were separated, and went their
ways, neither being
apprehended. In the course of Mon-
day evening ono of the police officers reported at the police-
office that a number of English and Irish were fighting;
bat as this was by Demeans an unusual occurrence in Stock-
port it was regarded as a mere drunken row, and by no
means supposed to be of a more serious or riotous charac-
ter. The numbers, however, of the combatants rapidly
increased, and this affair taking place in the Hillgate,
one of the principal thoroughfares, informatioa of its
continuance and increase was dispatched to the police-
office, and Mr. Sadler, who had previously sent two or
three officers. proceeded to the spot himself at the head
of a body of firemen; but on their reaching the place
they found the mob dispersed and everything apparently
quiet. During the remainder of the evening, and
throughout the eight, all continued tranquil; there was
no renewal of the disturbance in any part of the borough.
On Tuesday morning, however, there were rumours
of much ill-blood amongst the Roman Catholics, in con-
sequence, it is said, of their regarding the English as the
aggressors in the first brawl in the Bishop Blaize vaults;
and Mr. Sadler resolved to take measures to put down
any fights that might arise, not having any reason at
that time to apprehend that anything more serious than
an Irish row would occur. During the whole of Tues-
day everything remained tranquil; but the Rev.
Mr. Forster, priest of St. Michael's Roman Ca-
tholic Chapel, in the Park, called on Mr. Sadler,
and stated that there appeared to be considerable
angry feeling on the part of the Irish Catholics, and
that he was apprehensive that they would assemble in
the evening in considerable numbers in the locality com-
monly known in Stockport as Bomber's Brow (or Gar-
nett-street), and observing that Mr. Sadler was popular
amongst them, proposed to meet him at eight o'clock,
and that they should go together to the spot, as be was
sure. that they could in this way prevent any disturb-
-lace. Mr. Sadler agreed to meet him; but about half-
-past seven o'clock in the evening Mar Forster sent to Mr.
ergadler, to say that he had au evening service at his
,"chapel, and would be unable to keep his appointment.
Under these circumstances Mr. Sadler proceeded to
take such precautions as he thought advisable. The
police force of the borough is obviously too small for
such a Population, consisting only of Mr. Sadler him-
self and ten constables, with two or three assistants,
or at most half a dozen, for duty on Saturday nights
and Sundays, the seasons when there is most die.
order and brawling in Stockport. Mr. Sadler sent
three or four of his officers into the Hillgate, to ob-
serve whether there were any signs of assembling;
and about a quarter before eight o'clock on Tues-
tay evening, one of these officers, named John Leigh,
ent a verbal message to the police-office, by Mr. Charles
Brown, agent, &c,, to the effect that all was perfectly
quiet, and that there were no indications of any unusual
assembling. Mr. Sadler contented himself with sending
a few more officers to the locality, and within a quarter
of an hour after receiving the former message he re-
ceived information at the police-office (which is within
the Court-house, Vernon-street) that very suddenly con-
siderable numbers of English and Irish had simultane-
ously made their appearance in Hillgate, and had com-
menced fighting with sticks and other weapons. Which
party commenced the fray Mr. Sadler was unable, either
then or subsequently, to ascertain. He immediately got
together soma assistant constables, and was proceeding
with them to the spot, when information reached him
that the rioters had been driven back by the police and
others from Hillgate, and that a considerable number
of Irish had gone in the direction of High-street,
which leads to a neighbourhood principally inhabited
by them, and known as Rock-row, Petty Carr, Carr
Green, &c. On learning this, Mr. Sadler, at the
head of his small staff of assistant constables, proceeded
along Underbank, down Chestergate, and so to Rock-
row, which he entered from the bottom, and saw a num-
ber of people collected at the upper end of the row
(which, with only one or two exceptions, is inhabited
wholly by Irish), and extending into a field adjoining
St. Peter's Church. They appeared to be in conflict, and
as he was proceeding towards them with his men they
were met by a considerable body of Irish, who assailed
the police with stones, brickbats, and other missiles,
while various sorts of projectiles were cast from the
houses, and even women were seen upon the roofs of the
cottages hurling slates, bricks, &o, on the police. How-
ever, the small force under Mr. Sadler's command suc-
ceeded in driving back and dispersing their assailants,
many of whom rushed into the houses; some of them
being captured and conveyed to the police-office; and
ultimately comparative quiet and peace being restored,
Mr. Sadler left a number of officers, with some special
constacles, in that locality, and returned to the Court-
house, whence he immediately dispatched tt
messenger for the Mayor, Mr. John Boothroyst
attorney, who resides at Shaw Heath, distanton
about a mile from the Court-house. The MayorLk.
arrived, as did Messrs. P. E. Marsland, Th"ne:gof th
waa_ti_ns_taatlye
rigge, and Sir Ralph Pendlebury, all magistra
borough. From them a communication
made to Major Kennedy and Captain Hort, cool_ manning
detachments of the 4th Regiment of Infantry; nowt lying
in the barracks, Hall-street,,Stookport, requesting them to
send a detachment of troops to assist the Tvil force in
h
maintaining the peace of the boroug-- Both officers,
and several others, soon arrived at the Court-house, with
a detachment of about 60 rank and le., Meanwhile, the
di-
form of declaration, the readingwas copied out in read
watch is usually
called "reading the Riot Act,"
ness—[printed copies of this ought t always to be in
atrea-
diness in populous towns]-eandtt.nione Mayor and the ma-
gistrates named, with the oof Mr. Turner, we
believe, with the police, and a number of special con-
stables (just before sworn in for the occasion by the
magistrates), and the, troops, proceeded down Chester-
gate to Rock-row and Petty Carr. There they found a
considerable assemblage, and the Riot Act was im-
mediately read; on which, aided by the efforts of the
police and special constables, the mob speedily dis-
persed. The civil and military authorities and
force then proceeded by St. Peter's-square, through
'High-street and llillgate, up Edward-street, and
through Greek-street, to Edgeley, where they
found the large Catholic chapel completely sacked and
gutted, and the priest's house pretty nearly in the same
condition. The rioters here had brought the furniture,
&c., out of the chapel and the residence, and piled it it!
the road and set fire to it. The mob bad dispersed
before their arrival, and they only found groups of
persons standing quietly by the-heaps of blazinge nger
ma-
terials. While the authorities were there, a
arrived with information that the mob had 6
fa (near
rk
proceeded to
ss, Michael's Roman Catholic chapel, in the Park
were the Court-house), had broked the windows,
military au-
s,
de-
stroying the furniture, &e. The civil and
thorities and forces proceeded thither with all speed, and
and that dragged
out, their arrival found that the furnituret
.ad been
out, broken up, and some of it sot Sr:
oop'en a largeSi
me
of the rioters had attempted toro.n
safe, supposed to contain various articles of usedsilverrin
the service of the chapel. The police removed this safe
rioters)
(the lock of which had resisted the efforts of the

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to the police-office, for safe keeping. Some portions of
a paters, a pyx cover, &0., all of silver, were picked up
inside :the chapel, and Mr. Sadler took possession of
them, as well as of various books of prayers which were
lying strewed about. These were lodged in safety at
the police-office. ,The police arrived in time to appre-
hend several men 'in the very act of breaking and de-
stroying furniture in the chapel, and these were appre-
' hended and lodged in the lock-ups. With the aid of the
police, quiet was speedily restored, and a Considerable
number of men and youths, who were knownto have
taken part in some of these riotous proesedi°V, were
apprehended and conveyed to the Court house. many
of these were severely wounded, and from four o'clock
in the morning till noon, four medical men were more or
less engaged in dressing their wounds and hurts. These
were Dr. Rayner, M.D.; Mr. Walters, surgeon; Mr.
Rigby, house surgeon at the Stockport Infirmary; and
Mr. Brooks, surgeon.
Thus far we have given a semi-official account of the
riotous proceedings of the night, from information
which was mast readily communicated to us by Mr.
Sadler and some of the officers under his control. But
as the police force was generally too late to come up
with the rioters while their reckless acts of destruction
were lieng committed, we have endeavoursed to ascer-
tain from other sources how the proceedings arose.
Great confusion prevails, both as to the order of events,
and the time of my particular attack; but we believe
the following to have been the order in which the events
occurred. After the police had dispersed the mob in
the Hillgate, the Irish, in a tolerably compact body, re-
treated towards Rock•row, t7,e lower end of •vhich opens
upon St. Peter's-square. At the corner of Rock-row
and the square stands a large house, the residence of
Mr. Graham, surgeon, who, we believe, has in some way
incurred the hatred of the Roman Catholics. They
assailed this house with volleys of stones and brick-
bats, smashed most of the lower windows, and the ser-
vant man received a severe wound in the forehead from
a stone. In this attack, the next house, belonging to
Mr. White's factory, &so suffered considerable injury in
the lower windows. The mob then turned their attack
upon the Sunday-school connected with St. James's
Church, which stands opposite to Mr. Graham's house,
on the other side of the square, and they had broken
some of the windows in the building, when they were
overtaken by the English, who attacked and drove them
up Rock-row, and then seem to have proceeded in reta-
liation to Edgeley, gutted the Roman Catholic chapel
and priest's house there, and thence to St. Mi-
chael's Catholic chapel in the Park, which they
also sacked, as already stated. Here the more serious
outrages to property seem to have been stayed; but
fights between small bodies of both factions continued
for some hours afterwards. In these fights one life
has been taken, and it is not improbable that other
very severe injuries may terminate fatally. Between
11 and 12 o'clock a party of police succeeded in cap-
turing a stout athletic young Irishman, whose name is
said to be Darby Spark, about 24 or 25 years of age,
who was said to have wounded three or four men with
a pitchfork. When apprehended, however, he had re-
ceived a severe fracture of the skull and other injuries,
and as he was evidently dying he was removed from the
()ik wthhiesre
cy
osce,
bother prisoners and placed in a room below the Court-
(Wheedneesxdpai r e) dm
oa
rbnoiun tg a . quarter before two
It was alter midnight before the disturbance was
The following is one of the sad casualties reported to
US as having occurred during the evening •
A man named Jas. Ogden, a block printer, was charged
by Mr. Sadler to assist the constables in preserving the
peace, and was for some time on duty with others pro-
tecting the Mersey Inn from a riotous attack. Returning
thence, he heard a great noise down an entry in Mrs.
Walker's Square, Back Brook-street. lie ran down
the entry, and found a number of Irish and others fight-
ing in a low cellar. He entered it, but was immediately
assailed with stones, kicks, &c. Finding himself in
danger, he attempted to escape, and laying hold of the
door for that purpose, some one behind struckat his
hand with a sickle or reaping-hook, and completely
severed from his right hand the whole of the fore finger.
The poor man went direct to the Stockport Infirmary,
where his hand was dressed, and he then returned to the
cellar, which he found deserted, and, looking about, he
picked up his finger, where it had fallen behind the door.
He is in great distress, as he told us it was the very
finger he most required in his trade, and he was afraid he
could work no more. To add to his sufferings, he is a
married man, with a family of six children, and his wife
will shortly again be confined; and so much was he
afraid of the effect upon her, that at first he dared not
acquaint her with what had befallen him. We trust
this case will have the benevolent consideration of all
the well-disposed.

THE COURT-HOUSE, YESTERDAY.
The Stockport Court-house presented an extraordi-
nary scene yesterday morning. During the night it had
been converted into a prison hospital, and at one end
were penned up about 108 ruffianly looking fellows, up-
wards of 60 of whom were suffering from wounds re-
ceived in the riot or in their encounters with the police
when taken into custody. One with a dislocated shoulder
was yelling under the manipulation of a surgeon, and
another was shrieking under the pain of handling a dis-
located ankle; others were writhing, moaning, and bleed-
ing; and as the surgeons moved to and fro amongst them
dressing their wounds, the place presented a singular
picture. The man who had been killed was in the cellar
underneath the Court-house; his name was Darby Searle,
aged 24, and his wounds were a fractured skull and a cut
on the head 4 inches long.
The following is a list of the wounded prisoners:—
James Paton, 29, fish dealer, 17, Back-ro R., cut be-
tween eyes. _ . . .

Owen-Doyle, 54, labourer, High Bankside, two cuts
on head.

William Donovan, 30, Carr-green, a cut on head.
Darby Mulkeeny, 40, Walker's-yard, three cuts on
head, and fracture of shoulder blade.
James Davies, 17, Swan's-street, bruise on head.
Martin Mulligan, 18, Daw-bank, two cuts on head.
William Riley, 40, Rock-row, two cuts on head.
Michael Morris, 14, Carr-green, a bruise on head.
John Bloyd, 38, two cuts.
William Shepherd, 45, one cut on head.
Patrick Stanton, 46, stranger, three cuts on head.
Patrick Naughton, 18, Shepherd's-buildings, a cut on
head.
John Cuddy, 28, Rock-row, one cut on head.
Patrick Curly, 45, stranger, two cuts on head.
James M`Donald, 23, stranger, four outs on bead.
Patrick Flaherty, 23, stranger, one cut on head, ankle
injured.
Walter Welch, 23, Rock-row, one cut on head.
John M`Owen, 22, Rock-row, one cut on head.
John Brennan, 20, stranger, one cut on head.
Michael Quin, 21, stranger, one do.
Patrick Quin, 24, do., do.
John Griffin, 22, Rock-row, three de*
d
Michael Gallagher, 40, High-street, one do.
Michael Garvin, 16, Carr-green, one
Patrick Tester, 40, Rock-row, one d
.e
Patrick Crocan, ,20, Brown-street, oone do., and nose
injured.
Patrick Riley, 20, Kay-street West, on do.
Patrick Reynolds, 50, Rock-row, one do.
John Kennedy, 24„Carr-green, one de- _
Michael Shaughnessy, 30, Rock-row, one do.
John Donnelley, 50, jackson's-alley, one do.
Barney Kelly, 30, Carr-green, one do.
James Foot, 27, Rock-row, two do.
Thomas Fearock, 21, Jackson's-alley, one do.
Michael Doran, 17, High-street, two do.
James Cain, 17, Millgate, a cut on face.
John Finnigan, 22, Rock-row, a cut on head.
Patrick Brett, 23, stranger, three cuts on head.
John Oban, 23, one ditto.
Wm. Burns, 29, Carr-green, two cuts on head, one
on lip
Patrick Welch, 26, High-street, two cuts on head.
John Fearock, 15, Rock-row, one ditto.
gate, one ditto.
Thomas Murphy, 30, St. Peter's gate,
Ryder, 18, St. Peter's.gate, one ditto.
John Luddon,lB, Adlington-square cut on forehead.
Piccadilly, Thomas Owens, 21, cut on head.
Michael M'Nally, 71, Lower Bank Side,.
cut on leg.
Lackey Tally, 21, Rock-row, cut on head
strange!, two cuts on face.
Rock-row, three cuts on head,
EMdicwhaaredl
D Hart,
b2y6a;
28
one on leg.
27, Bomber's-brow, cat on eye and
hand.
Canna,
John Quin, 35) Shepherd's-bridge,cut on head.
John Thurles, 53, R oc,k -row, ditto.
John Pat Patrick cml t Regan,Nai
ly:
19 ,
23, Chestergate, cut on nose.
Shepherd's-bridge, cut on head,
shoulder bruised.
Patrick Flannigan, 27, Rock-row, cut on head.
_Michael Bark, 54, Rock-row, two ditto.
Patrick O'Hara, 30, Chestergate, cut on head, and
sabre cut on hand.
Roger M‘Dermott, 50, Low Bank-side, two cuts on
the head, and one on the nose.
Francis Tally, 19, Rock .row, cut on head.
Patrick Kelly, 45, Chestergate, cut on head, on leg,
and on buttock.
Michael Connor, 19, Carr-green, one on head.
Wm. Lawless, 10, Grape-street, cut on head.
Darb
y Kelly, Rook-row, five cats on head, one
shoulder. to oa head, and
Thomas Griffiths, Carr-green, eight oats
one on lip.
to commence befor
• eeveral hours in
Our correspondent was kept waiting
the Court-house for the proceeding
unlit nearly half-paste
the magistrates; and it was Dont that they came
two o'clock yesterday r_ c.'''
s g
Enenn:ootlhirarosi d upon
_ Moreland,
Y , Esq,, pre-
sided; were P. E.
the bench. The May;els,
sided; and the other 01
ThhaveiTnfolitnotbigye, taken ,
Rai., Ed. Marslaud, pq.ae has and'
Esq,,
-
wing prisoners were called up, and identified
Tattoo, Esq., Alderman EsHoward, Dr. Turner,
and S. R. Carrington, cl•
part in the disturbance :-Thomas
as
Walter Welsh,
Roger Macder
Briany,
FinniganMichael Shottery, James Hag-
James Welsh, Owen Doyle,
mot, Michael Cunyan, Tho-
masjgeorbtay,inyth,
Michael M'Dermot, Thomas Garvar, James
Finney, James Herretty, Patrick O'Hara, Patrick
Curley,
Flynn, Patrick Locherty, Thomas Morris, Richard
Rhodes, Thomas Rider, James Finn, Matthew Malle,gan,
James Paton, John Brennan, Thomas Owen, John
m.Nally, Patrick Kelly, Michael Flynn, George Bell,
Samuel Boyle, Michuel Burke, and James Foley-
-33 in all.

The following were bound over on their own recog-
nizance of 51. each, to keep the peace and appear when
called Upon :—Jehn Griffin, Lacky Tully, John Cuddy,
James Gannan, Win. Crofton, Jos. Foster, Michael Free-
man. Thos. Sumner, Michael Connor, John Quin, Mar-
tin Finnigan, Thomas Finn, James Smith, Wm. Law-
less, Wm. Nixon, of Runcorn; Michael Gallagher,
Darby Mulchieny, Michael M'Nally, Patrick Flaherty,
Patrick Stanton, of Prescott, near Liverpool; Joseph
Cochlin, Patrick O'Connor, Michael Dowar, John Dut-
ton, Patrick Mangle, John M‘Owen, James Cade,
Patrick O'Brien, Patrick Goghan, James Connoly, Pa-
trick Lowany, Michael Gregan, Thomas Fearaeb,

Michael Kelly, Thomas M‘Dermot John Coob, John
Feargus, Patrick Welsh, Francis iulloy, Patrick Rey-
ames Davis, Peter Shanley, Wm. Sandford, Jas.
M'Daniel, Barney Kelly, Edward Herretty, Patrick
Brett, Walter Ford, John Thurn Patrick Riley, Michael
Gavin, Patrick Flannagan, domes Clossick, Michael
Clossick, -John Gallagher, John Peach, Thomas Jen-
nings, Michael Quin, Patrick Quin, William Riley,
Michael Hart, John Gallagher, Thomas Finnigan, Te-
rence Mohan, John Hopin, John Donnelly, William
Donovan, John Kennedy, William Burns, Thomas
Collins, John Reynolds, James Ford, and Owen
Bradley.

The following were in custody bat could not be iden-
tified, and were consequently discharged:—John Gal-
lagher, Thomas Riley, James Heretty, Thomas Murphy,
Patrick Kelly.
John Sherlock was absent undergoing a surgical exa-
mination.
It will be aeon from these lists that the total number
of persons apprehended was 114.
alc• Gibson, the town-clerk of Salford, appeared on
behalf of Mr. Frith, the Catholic priest, whose house
W 93 sacked, and several of the prisoners.
The whole of those wlv, were identified were re-
manded till Frici33-.
STOCKPORT, Vv EDNESDA.Y, MIDNIGHT.—Thee streetshave been crowded, end great excitement has prevailed
Bodies of cavalry and infantry are under arms.
The magistrates
agaveha just finished swearing in 500
yet been attempted. Bodie., of ruf-
spncial constables, a retaliation by the Irish wasex-
llsinia°gone about attacking the houses of the
broken down their doors and.
t,:cntsedh,a
vbeu tahg
poor ,
T-i h• and, hivicg
nighta in Crookley Wood, in
Bdermt destroyed
encampedtdonth.eir furniture,
the
s o eof the houseless Catho-
lics