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A meeting of the Relief Committee was held at
Stalybridge this morning, and in consequence of
their adhering to their resolution not to give relief
in money but by tickets, all the operatives but eight
refused to receive them. Many of them, however,
it is thought, have been frightened into refusal by
the general body. The greater part of the applicants
went in procession to Ashton, as stated above, and
to Dukinfield. The town, however, is in an excited
state, and fresh outbreaks are feared to-night.
There are two troops of Hussars Under arms and
one company of the 49th Infantry. It was reported
this morning that a large number of men and women
left here to go to Oldham and llyee, in addition to
the mob that proceeded to Ashton.

PRICE..... —..4d.
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Railway, widening, proposed by the London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway Company. Length, 60 chains.—Com-
peting schemes.
I %7. No. 1 of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail-
way (extension and alteration). Length 2 miles 40 chains.
Capital £300,000. No. 3of the London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway (extension and alteration). Length
77 chains. (Brixtoi to Denmark-hill).
S. North London Railway, branch to Imperial Gasworks.
Length 48 chains. Capital not stated.
9. Tottenham and Hamptcad Junction Railway
(branches). Length 65 chains. Capital £50,000.
10. Hammersmith and City Railway (Junction with the
Great Western ltailway). Length 45 Chains. Capital,
£60,000.
LINES PROPOSED TO ACCOMMODATE TRAFFIC IN THE

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Up to this 6111,3 there has beeu uutbleak of
momenta Most of the shops have been closed all
day, but the smaller provision shops opened in
the morning, and the consequence was that their
owners, in many cases, were frightened into the
distribution of food to the mob. In the same way
the keepers of beerbouses and publichouses have been
induced, more by fear than violence, to distribute
beer to the people. At this moment there are 15,000
to 20,000 people in the streets.
An outbreak is feared, though the object of the
people seems to be rather to distract and harass the
authorities by gatherings in various places simul-
taneously than by a general riot. Stones have been
thrown at the police, and several men are in ens-
' tody. The mob that proceeded to Hyde frightened
the shopkeepers into giving them food, much in the
same way as that at Ashton.
There is a rumour of an intention to destroy the
gasworks and firs some of the mills ; and as there
are many drunken people in the streets, there is no
saying what excesses may result. The magistrates
are gathered at the Town-ball of this place and of
Ashton, and as the people rush about with great
clamour, a very excited and uneasy feeling exists.
Five men who had broken into a grocer's shop were
locked in by a policeman and captured. They were
brought before the magistrates this evening and
committed to the assizes, and they will be taken to
Chester early in the morning.
At Oldham there has been no disturbance, but the
mayor and magistrates met in the Town-hall to-
night. 500 special constables have been sworn in in
anticipation of a visit from the mob to-morrow.

SUBURBAN DISTRICTS.
NORTH OF THE THAMES.

Part of the Great Eastern scheme, referred to above, from
Edmonton to the Junction with the North London Rail-
way. Length, 2 miles 63 chains. Capital £240,000.
11. North London and Edmonton. No Bill lodged.
12. Hammersmith, Kew, and Richmond. Length, 6
miles 42 chains. Capital £240,000.
13. Fulham and Hammersmith. Length 3 miles 34
chains. Capital, 120,000. _ _

14. Barnes, Hammersmith, and Kensington. Length,s
miles 43 chains. Capital, £340,000.

SOUTH OF THE THAMES.

15. Wimbledon and Streatham. Length, 3 miles 19
chains. Capital, £50,000.
16, Putney, Balham, and. City Junction. Length, 5 miles
7 chains. Capital, £lBO,OOO.
17. London, Chatham, and Dover Bill (No. 2) to Epsom
and Sutton. Length, 14 miles 16 chains. Capital £400,000.
18. London, Brighton, and South Coast, South London,
Tooting and Sutton Junction. Length, 16 miles 45 chains.
Capital, £186,600.—Competing schemes.
19. The Greenwich and Woolwich. Length, 2 miles 61
chains. Capital £200,000. 20. The South London, Green-
wich, and Woolwich Railway. Length, 6 miles 62 chains.
Capital, £420,000. 21. Nos. 1,2, 3of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway, No. 1. Length, 7 miles 25 chains.
Capital, £1,400,000.—Competing schemes.
No. 9 of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, No.
1, Length, 2 miles 71 chains, (Crystal Palace communi-
cation,

LINES PROPOSED TO ENTER OR CROSS THE METROPOLIS

OR WHICH LIE IMMEDIATELY OUTSIDE OF IT.

22. Metropolitan, Tottenham, and Hampstead. Length,
7 miles 8 chains. Capital, £400,000.
23. Northern and Southern. Length, 85 chains.
24. Regent-circus. Length, 1 mile, 57 chains. Capital,
£1,000,000.
25. Albert Station and Mid-London. Length, 4 miles
51 chains. Capital, £740,000. 26. Leicester-square, Ham-
mersmith, Kew, and Richmond. Length, 13 miles 6
chains. Capital, £99o,ooo.—Competing schemes.
27, Kensington, Knightsbridge, and Metropolitan.
Length, 2 miles 40 chains. Capital, £600,000. 28. Pim-
lico and Paddington. Length, 3 miles 13 chains. Capital,
£850,000. 29. London Railway (Victoria Station). Length,
2 miles, 77 chains. Capital, £7oo,ooo.—Competing schemes.
30. East London and Rotherhithe. Length, 1 mile 32
chains. Capital, £300,000. 31. Rotherhithe Railway.
Length, 2 miles 62 chains. Capital, £lOO,OOO. 32. Grand
Surrey and Commercial Docks Railway Bill. Length, 3
miles 76 chains. Capital, £260,000. 33. No. 4of the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover. No. 1, Thames Branch. Length,
1 mile 46 chains.—Competing schemes.

RIOT AT ASiITON.

ASHTON, MONDAY 3 p.m.

At half-past nine o'clock this morning a police-
constable who had been sent to Staleybridge by Mr.
Dalglish, the chief constable, to watch the progress
of events in that borough, arrived at the Town-hall,
Ashton, with the intelligence that a considerable
mob of persons, having gathered there, had marched
in procession thence, for the purpose of rioting at
Ashton. Mr. Dalglish immediately called in all the
available police force, and soon afterwards Mr. Hugh
Mason, a magistrate, arrived, and, with Mr.Dalglish
decided upon calling out as soon as possible a troop
of the 14th Hussars, stationed at the Ashton Barracks.
In the meantime a number of special constables
were sworn in, and, with the police,were placed under
the command of the chief constable. With Mr.
Mason at their head, this body proceeded to the
Staleybridge-road, with a view of preventing the
mob from entering the town. They were too late,
however, for that purpose, for before this could be
done the mob had arrived, attacked the bread shop
of Mr. Handforth, baker, Old-street, and the inmates,
through fear, had thrown out loaves of bread, which
led to a scramble and much excitement. From this
shop they proceeded to that of Joshua Taylor, a
corn dealer and cheese factor, and here also both
bread and cheese were thrown to them. From here
they went in considerable disorder to the shop of
Joseph Wood, a large provision dealer, in Market-
street-avenue, and broke into it and carried off'
some cheese. From this place they proceeded with
great noise down Stamford-street as far as the shop
of Mr. Corry, grocer and provision dealer, where
bread was also thrown out to them by the alarmed
inmates. With the bread a box of biscuits was also
given to them. From Stamford-street the mob pro-
ceeded to Henry-square, to the shop of Mr. Far-
rand, provision dealer. Mr. Mason, accompanied
as before described by the police, and also by the
military, here came up with the rioters, but the
shop bad been already forced open, and bread was
being thrown out. Mr. Mason immediately pro-
ceeded to address them, and was received with
h eurlsd andrst
of
theiry hatse
hooting.eserto listen He was lifted upon the
halniesnte and many of the crowd
tookoe off eh
n to him. He addrecaed
cheers
them to the effect that they would do much better by
peaceable than by riotous conduct, and advised them
to go home without committing further depredations.
What they had done already, he told them, consti-
tuted a riot. (Cries of "No, no !" "No riot !")
He said that it was a riot, and so long as he was a
magistrate he would not permit riotous conduct to
go on in Ashton unchecked. If they had any rea-
sonable grievance to complain of they should, if
application were made to the proper quarter, be
beard and judged impartially. But if they took, as
he was sorry to say they had done, the law into
their own hands they would earn for themselves
well-merited disgrace, and would lose all the etym.
pathy which had been so generally expriassed
' for them. In Ashton shop-breaking would neither
be allowed nor tolerated for a moment, and with
the view of effectually and at once putting a stop to
such disgraceful conduct, he should proceed to read
the Riot Act, and then call upon them to disperse.
Mr. Mason proceeded to read the Riot Act amid
cheers, hootings, and cries of "We want bread,
we've got no money." The mob was then told to
disperse, and they proceeded along Portland-street
and Catherine-street to a baker's shop in Caven-
dish-street, into which a portion of them broke, and
seized a number of loaves that Were on the counter
and threw them out at the door. As they were
leaving this shop the police came up, and Mr. Dal-
glish seeing one of the mob carrying away a loaf
apprehended him. The mob from this place went
towards the gasworks, whether they were followed
by the police, and soon afterwards the police, taping
another route through Oldham-street, were anailed
by a shower of stones. One of the missiles struck
Mr. Mason, but did not hurt him. The moment
the stones were thrown the police faced about and
confronted the mob, now consisting of at least 3,00 D
people, The Hussars, which had been stationed im
Henry-square, now Came up and charged the mob
with drawn swords, but rode through them with-
out inflicting injury, The mob were broken and
dispersed for the time, but a considerable number
again collected and proceeded towards Dakinfleld,
sacking several shops on their way. At Dukinfield
they were received by a body of the county eon..
stabulary, under Captain Elgee, Who, with the
assistance of the military, dispersed and drove tb.em
back to Staleybridge.

With regard to the proposed Metropolitan sta-
tion of the Great Eastern Company, Col. Yolland
remarked that the Finsbury-circus was designed
for the site of the terminal station, as the whole
area is included within the limits of deviation shown
on the plans. It was only a very short distance
from the terminal station of the North London Rail-
way at Liverpool street, but in his opinion the con-
struction of another terminal station for the Great
Eastern Railway further to the west was desirable.
The line from Edmonton, in additisn to providing
facilities for the suburban traffic, would, by
means of the short connecting railway, shorten
the Cambridge route by some miles, and the diver-
sion of the Cambridge traffic would much relieve
the overcrowded main line bet wean Shoreditch and
Stratford. It was most important that in the con-
struction of a line from Dalston to the city the de-
sirability of effecting a junction with the metropo-
litan Railway should not be lost sight of. If Parlia-
ment was satisfied with the necessity of the lines
from Edmonton to the North London at West Hack-
ney, that portion of the scheme might be separated
t.om the southern portions, which required further
revision.

The Midland Extension to London was 49 miles
5 chains long, commenced at Belford, entered Lon-
don on the east side of the Edgware-road, crossed
over the Hampstead Junction Railway and the
Finchley-road, then tunnels for 1,484 yards under
Hampstead-hill and the Hampstead-road, passed
under the Hampstead Junction Railway and the
Kentish-town-road at the point of junction with the
Highgate-road, through Camden-town, under the
North London Railway, over the Regent's Canal,
across a mass of small streets to the Metropolitan
Railway in the New-road, which it joined by a short
branch, 31 chains long, at the King's-cross station
of the Metropolitan Railway. The ruling gradient
was lin 129. He doubted the propriety of sanc-
tioning the junction of the proposed line with the
Metropolitan Railway in its present form.
With regard to the Ludgate Station and Junc-
tion Railway, the bridge over Ludgate-hill was 40
feet span and 10 feet in height. The line descended
from Ludgate-hill to Skinner-street by a steep in-
cline of 1 in 40. No open space was interfered with,
except a small portion of Smithfield. The space
marked on the plans as:property which mightabe
taken for station purposes was very extensive along
the whole route on the east side of Farringdon-
street. Provision should probably be made for a
bridge of such dimensions as would provide for any
future widening of the main thoroughfare along
Ludgate-hill, and the nature of the bridge, in an
architectural point:of view, should be subject to the
approval of some public board.
As to the proposed widening of the Victoria Sta-
tion and Pimlico Railway, the report stated that
there was an urgent necessity for additional means
of entering that station at Pimlico.
The London, Chatham, and Dover scheme pro-
posed to build a new bridge across the Thames
adjacent to the Victoria-bridge. It would be de-
serving of consideration whether the widening of
the existing bridge, or the placing of a new one
close to the Victoria-bridge would not be less ob-
jectionable to the navigation than the construction
of a separate bridge at a distance from the former.

The following bills had been withdrawn, or were
no longer before Parliament :—North London
(Branch to the Imperial Gasworks) ; the North
London and Edmonton ; the Hammersmith, Kew,
and Richmond ; the Wimbledon and Streatham ;
the Putney, Balham, and City Junction; the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, No. 2; the Greenwich
and Woolwich ; the South London, Greenwich,
and Woolwich ; the Northern and Southern (City
Junction) ; the Albert Station and Mid-London ;
the Leicester-square, Hammersmith, Kew, and
Richmond ; the Kensington, Knightsbridge, and
Metropolitan ; the Pimlico and Paddington, and
the Regent-circus. The latter project for a line
from King's-cross station to Great Windmill-street
was thrown out on the second reading, but Colonel
Yolland had no doubt that a line connecting the
Great Northern Railway with Charing-cross or
Regent-circus would be found useful to.the public.
After describing the routes and particulars of the
other projects, he concluded by stating that he had
not in his possession the information that would
enable him to express an opinion upon the railway
schemes which affected the purely suburban dis-
tricts ; and he regretted that his observations in the
report were not more complete.

Up to this time Ashton remains in an excited
state, but none of the people of this place took any
t par ,
so far as is known, in the disgraceful proceed-
ings of the mob. Captain Elgee has ordered 60 of
the county constabulary to be sent to Ashton, and.
50 to Staleybridge.

MANCHESTER, 5 o'clock.
A telegram from the authorities at Ashton was
received in Manchester about 4 o'clock saying
" All is quiet. The rioters have returned taoSto.ley
bridge. The military remain with us, and have
done good service."

A letter from Vienna states that the Emperor
Francis Joseph has decided upon a very early meeting of
the Hungarian Diet. It also says that new reforms are to
be octroyed in Hungary.

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