The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-31 00:00:00

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We regret to have to state that the turn-out of colliers
and factory operatives at Wigan, in Lancashire, has
t loowithwthwwehhoci Cowhnasts: they
repyse laidtsceitdrinevtzehtoeeiu.
trdtsbefrom the Eagle.
brought on a breach of the peace of a-most alarming the house indiscriminately. The mgaa,nydeaornutdsebizaencldfnonngerbaffemolf-
character, the town having been for some hours on Fri-
go ; and
day night entirely in the hands of a lawless mob, ani- the police, which'
mated by a spirit of the bitterest hostility towards The mob, however, would nsoot Tea
police, they nearly all ran away at the first
were no more seen. Ultimately the man was rescued,
particular individuals on the part of some, and of wanton. when the special constables were senttoomaslculep,pnoortt
andt-tlhne.
and reckless mischief on the part of others, who destroyed
without hindrance whatever and wherever they thought attack,
and the mayor and magistrates, and police, finding their
proper. So completely did the lives and property of the
inhabitants lay at the disposal of a disorderly and dis- til they had been severely knocked about.
absolute inefficiency, retired to the police office,
eentented rabble, that a survey of the damage done ex- received some blows, and Alderman Marsden,Twtomsatoyol
cites surprise that it is not much greater, though at a by his side at the door of the Eagle, got a black eye
low estimate it cannot be less than 1,0001. As the from a blow with a stick, and a slight laceration of the
readers of The Sun know, the colliers of.Wigan, several scalp. It was then decided to send for the military from
weeks ago, made a demand upon their employers for an Preston, as there are none at Wigan, and the ma
made his way hastily to the North Union Railway ye. - "
advance of 2d. in each shilling of their wages, or about tion at the bottom of Wall-gate, and somewhere nearel
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161 per cent., which was refused ; and for seven weeks o'clock, he sent amessenger on a, special engine to Preston,
they have not been at work in consequence of that re- 161 'miles off, with instructions to go to the barracks
fusel. The factory operatives have also been out of
employment for nearly six weeks,, in consequence of the at Fulwood, three miles on the other side of Preston,
refusal of their employers to accede to demands theythe AtstBa.t2ioOn hienatestlee:
and demand atondptrheestaoidfoofr thde manilditatroy.
tele-
graphed
to have an enngineal with the steam up, and a train.
made for more wages, and at the present time, out of in readiness, to convey the soldiers without the delay of
35,000 souls in the town and its suburbs, there is an a moment. Meanwhile the mob continued their attack
unemployed population of 4,000 resident colliers and of upon the exterior of the inn, without any interruption ;
they broke all the lower windows in front,_ and those of
6,000 factory hands, nearly a third of the community, a glass screen to the vestibule or entrance, and a party
who have been for above a month without-any means of having gone to the back yard, up a side passage, con-
subsistence beyond the charitable contributions received ducted a series of similar operations there, breaking
from their fellow-townsmen. ' frames as well as glass, and destroying glass in the
lielefbed. by eight o'clock, anclil,t 'that time the; greatest
terror
rpkeeepepeceiraili hawshtimly,
At the corner of the Market-place there is a largo second floors, and in a long range of
_out-officeste—They 1
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117:4'-ie• class jri• Wigan as " the E. 1,10 " from the c'
,e. ee that the sign it bears is the Stanley cogni. they found that the police had deser'ted them. The
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-zance,---the eagle and child: It is also called "the crowd in the Market-place increased, and finally left for
war-office," because of the many times it has been the Mill-gate, where they broke every window in the
object -of popular fury at elections, and when the police-office, and in the residence of 'the keeper of the
tigoh ttsh,
e cheeringterroro
of
s
aweeffabelextin4 inhabitantsuiextinguished,
and
by
town has been distdrbed. It is one of the chief hos- ltohek-ups. adjacent. As they went along they put out
telries ,of the town, and, eon3equently, a place of adedinggasl theeall3e
resort for committees and the directors of public their yells. The night was very, dark and murky.
.movements. At this house the coal- masters of Most of the lamp shades they broke; :and in sdrne cases
the district have held their fortnightly meetings they tore away portions of the pipes' They then re-
turned through the Market-place ante - the Wall-gate,
since the diipute with their men, and there they breaking - -
a few windows in the Town-hall, and a much
assembled in' large numbers on Friday last, at four larger number in -the Moot-hall, and in • going down
o'clock, in the afternoon, to hold a regularly adjourned Wall-gate they seem to have .attacked indiscriminately
fortnightly meeting, Mr. Peace, the manager of the every public and private lamp.. Into, the shop window
extensive colliery workings of the Earl of Crawford and of Mr. Wall, the postniasteie a stone, waft hurled, which
passeid through the office,.through a,glass screen at the
Balcarras, at'Haigh, an out-township, occupied the chair, back,' and finally ,breke the' glass tin a bookcase still.
as he has done, we believe, at every previous meeting, further 'an having , been 'projected a' distance of five
and the deliberations were protracted. The men ap- yards. • 'l, A great many other stoneepassed through
pear to have indulged a hope that at the meeting the the office, nearly hitting the clerk. The Istrge and valuable
masters would agree either to give the 161 per cent. plate glasst windows of the Victoria andytarence Hotels
. were shivered to atoms leaving the fil%rerice wit' t
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or to offer •a, compromise of ld. 'in the is., or 8f per- sash ' d nine ;an by o'clock they had ›.:linguished every
cent., whiCh they (the men) were, prepared to accept, it lamp. upon their line of route, down tl '•' e ' ' ireeeo. the prin.
is believed ; and they assembled io the number of sortie cipaletreets, They then returned, .andt commenced a
hundreds in the Market-place, and around the steps of second , attack upon the Eagle. Thls time they broke
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'the Eagle, exhibiting great anxiety to learn the decision
the windows they had previously Missed, •an'd getting
the two front rooms and 0/ ' - ' ts 'l--' -'1
e vestrbule, ~ro.Le
of the meeting within. The deliberations of the mas- inside- • '
. down the screen, took down the curt:iinsia the ro n ‘
teas Were not concluded until five o'clock, and soon after, smashed the looking glasses over the 1 • ols,-
.9.4roney, pieces,
though no format announcement was made, it became dathaged the furniture, and tried to. set fire ,to the
. , . o cur-
known that they had decided to throw open the pits for tains). They then left again, rethiried down Wall-
a,
fortnight, for the men •to return to work at the old gate, breaking more windows and lnip-shatles, and on
rates if they chose, and to close them again at the end ii.,ettiTi to an opening leading to the-house of Mr. James
of that time if the opportunity of getting to work was o,a,Yrq v,c-optatlatnnesru,iniintil firm of There.. s: Tayllor. rand Bro-
ier,,, a cry was raised by spine girls,
not taken -by any number of the men. Of course the " Lacit'h go to I' - . ay tor s. ' They went up and broke the
resolution was not satisfactory to men who had deter- winlows to the front, and penetrating into the garden,
mined to have an advance, if it were but half what they brolup some there also. At this time the-mob appeared
at first asked, and they audibly expressed their feelings, to consist of lads and men, not many above.twetity years
Besides colliers, there were a good many factory people of ale, and some girls. When they had done' what they
in the market-place, as Friday is market day, and, more listed 'there, they returned into Wallkafe and Made an
over, that morning the autumn chartered fair, known as attack upon the shop of Mr. Esplen, jeweller, and were
"The Mayor's Fair," had been opened pro forma tearing down his shutters; and had broken same,of the
by his worship, and was then proceeding for the sale of glass in the ,windows, when a railway train from Preston
cattle; consequently, the -unemployed 'were drawn
lither in unusual numbers, and continued to stand
passed,along the' North Union line, which- is within a
few yards of the shop; and on hearing it approach a cry
out. in groups quietly until about half-past six o'clock.
was raised; "Here's the soldiers," the rioters pre-
! t that time the first acts of disorder were committed. cipitately, and Mr. Esplen was .feetueately saved from
What led to-them is not clear, as there are two accounts plunder. In the same excursion they broke the windows
current in the town. One is to the effect that Mr. of the offiCes of the board .of health; of the' board of
, .
Peace's son'i a youth about 19' years of age, who is guardians, and the overseers of the poor, in Queen'-street,
articled to a 'respectable solicitor in the town, in belove the North Union-railway bridge over theltreet,
walking' deWn the Wall-gate, a street leading from and 'also in the house of Mr. Wright,. a. surgeon, 'next
the market-place, with a friend or friends, was ob- door. - From Queen-street, they got into .Chapel-lane,
exacted by a, factory lad, whom he ordered. Out of arts attacked the residence 'of bar: W. Johnson; cotton
his way -in such a -tone of voice, that the lad spinner. - 'The house and the mill'ai6 enclosed, but. they
made-use of saucy language, on which Mr. Peace, jun., •
got inside the gates, broke the windows of the house,
seized him and threwhim down in putting him out of entered the lower rooms, broke a valuable finger organ
This roused the indignation of and pianoforte, destroyed the engravings, paintings, several young
Itrilieenws:,
lye; were standing eeaers, and ti, y bee-au eo hoot furniture of three rooms, and having collected some'
and kstle
,M. 1.,, _Peace aueobis,- frierels, :wee,
bee- au beiloming .nuibrellas and table linen, and portions of a sofa, they
alarmed took refuge in the shop of Mr. Charles Johnson, got burning coals and made a fire in the middle of a par-
a watchmaker. A stone, or piece of brick, was then lour, leaving the place in a blaze. Mr. Johnson and
thrown through the shop window, and more would have his family were in the house when the attack was made,
followed but for a cry of "Nay, don't ; Charley John- but they escaped before the mob broke in, and after
son's a decent fellow." Mr. Peace and the others then they left Mr. Johnson and some men had to exert them-
left the shop and gat into the Dog and Partridge public- selves to extinguish the fire. Damage to the extent of
house, which they subsequently left by a back way, the about 500/, was done. Before they finally retired, the
mob, now considerably augmented, remaining in front rioters broke some garden furniture, and hurled a heavy
hooting with much energy. Another account published log of wood upon a conservatory. Mr. Johnson is one
in a local paper, says that the youth was going through of the masters whose mills are closed, but he is neither
the market-place, and down Wall-gate towards the rail- one of the largest employers of labour nor one of the
most forward in the agitation. This was done about
way station, with two friends, coalmasters, and that the
half-past nine o'clock.
colliers recognising them, a few young men began to
hoot and jostle, and at last drove them into Mr. John- It may be asked, where were the police and the mili-
son's shop, subsequently following them to the Dog and tary ? The police were safe at the police-office, and
Partridge, where Mr. Peace pulled a small pistol from never showed themselves in force much after their first
his pocket and presented it at his assailants. Whether discomfiture. There was an unaccountable delay in the
these reports be true or false—and we give them as re- arrival of the military, which will have to be accounted
ports which have reached us, without vouching for their for elsewhere, no doubt. The message was telegraphed
exactness—it is certain that the first stone was thrown at Preston at twenty minutes past eight ; a train was
at Mr. Johnson's windows. The originators of the dis- got ready at Preston station, as was required ; and yet
turbance were mostly youths, and it is believed that it was ten minutes past eleven before the men got to the
they were factory hands and not colliers. The mob station, and twenty minutes to twelve before they
continued at the Dog and Partridge in a state of great reached Wigan. The mayor was all that time at the
excitement, waiting for the return of Mr. Peace, and the railway station, anxiously awaiting the assistance he
longer they waited the more angry they becasne. About had sent for, the shouts of the mob reaching him there
seven o'clock the chief constable of the borough, Mr. from time to time from the streets below, and as he was
Sims, with a portion of the police force, proceeded to absent from the scene of the disturbance the Riot Act
disperse the disorderly assemblage. was not read, nor was anything done from eight o'clock
And here it becomes necessary to digress in order to to half past eleven at all likely to stop the rioters. By
explain some circumstances which have an important that time they had worn themselves out, and when the
bearing upon the subsequent proceedings. Wigan is one soldiers arrived, all they had to do was to parade the
of those old-fashioned places in which comprehensive town for a short period, finding comparatively few
notions of municipal government and sanitary require- people in the streets, and then to retire to their quarters
ments have as yet made so little way that horse and in the Moot-hall and the Town-hall. They consisted of
THE COAL TRADE.—A large fleet of colliers, which cattle fairs are held in the main streets, and upon such oc- two companies, 140 rank and file, of the 34th Foot,
save been detained by long continued southerly winds, casions the chief thoroughfares are impassable on account under the command of Captain J. Wilt, with Lieutenant
,eft the Tyne, Wear, Seaham, Hartlepool, and the Tees, of horses that are showing their paces, or the ancle deep Westhead and Ensigns Byron and Lawrence.
on Saturday. Some people estimate the fleet at 900 accumulations of cow dung. In matters of police regu- The party which attacked Mr. Johnson's house went
sail. More than 300 vessels left the Tyne. They have lation the authorities' are even more behind their age, further on, to the house of Mr. Win. Tipping, cotton
a fine spanking westerly wind, and have the prospect displaying an almost criminal parsimony in respect to spinner, situated at about a mile from the centre of the
of a quick passage. Freights are about 10s. 6d. per their force. The borough, as we have said, contains town, and there did much damage to the front doors
ton to London, and 161. a keel to Hamburg. This is 35,000 people, ninny of them colliers—an ignorant and and windows, but did not succeed in forcing an entrance.
a very busy and prosperous " fall" for the shipowners, reckless class of men—to control whom is most difficult ; Another party got into Wigan-lane, about half a mile
and having got over the heavy averages caused by the and yet for this large population the police establishment from the town, and in an opposite direction, up Stand-
severe losses of last winter, in some clubs amounting maintained consists of but eleven men—one chief con- ish-gate, broke into the shop of Mr. Liptact, provision
to 25 per cent. on their capital, they are in " high stable, one serjeant, and nine constables, and one of the dealer, and sacked it. It is said that the proprietor had
feather," and, except amongst a few rabid Protectionists, latter is on the sick list at present, so that each consta- made himself obnoxious to the factory hands by li<ving
free trade is as popular in the coal-pits as in the Ex- ble is charged with the continual guardianship of nearly shut his door in the faces of some when they asked hint
change at Manchester. Shipping is a very precarious 3,200 persons. There has been ne addition to the force to contribute to their support. Between half-past nine
investment ; but the very large capital put into vessels since the strike commenced, though the magistrates and and ten o'clock a third attack was made upon the Eagle,
of heavy tonnage by north country owners during the town council knew full well the wild character of the and a third attempt to set it on fire, but it was clear
past 18 months, shows that they have the utmost con- colliers, and might have understood that the chances of that only boys were concerned. The result of the three
fidence in its permanent prosperity. The Shields ship- disturbance increased with every increase in the price of attacks was a roomful of broken furniture and fittings,
owners and their seamen seem to have got thoroughly provisions, so long as both masters and men were de- and the cost of repairs must be considerable. The shop
embroiled with regard to " manning clauses," and other termined to' continue the struggle. There is, moreover, of Isaac Wright, provision dealer, of Darlington-street,
regulations put in force by the Seamen's Union. The we believe, a jealousy of any interference on the part of was entered and sacked ; and an attack was made upon
owners are opening offices, and employing long-shore the county police, and, consequently, Captain Wood- the shop of Mr. Collison, of Standish-gate, pawnbroker,
men to engage non-union seamen ; and they have an ford's highly effective force is never asked to assist in but before they got in he compromised with his assail-
agent in Scotland to bring up Scotch sailors at 61. a
the borough, the services of the military being preferred ants for a sovereign. 'When he threw it out to them,
month. The Tyne men are threatening to strike, which, , to those of the civil force in any emergency. The ma- they coolly called for a light to see whether it was a
if they do, will bring the owners to a "dead lock," as gistrates did, indeed, meet on the 12th ult., and deter- good one or not. A mail-cart was detained for some
the north country seamen are in a union 10,000 strong,
SAVING LIFE AT SEA.—At a meeting of the corn- mined that summonses should be prepared for 300 time by the rioters. In Warrington-lane an attack was
sionrce of embarrass-
and the strike would be an infinite. .
mittee of the Shipwrecked Fishermen arid Mariners' special constables to be sworn in, and called on to act made upon the house of Mr. Wood, cotton spinner, who
meat just now. ,' - ... .. ~ e.. , ,
,i - ,c 6.... Ae,_e_,,•,..Doimeen half-past Royal Benevolent Society, on Friday last, at their in case of necessity. With remarkable shortsightedness, suffered severely ;in King-street the windows of Mr.
FATAL ACCIDEV IQ ;A, ls \ ~,„ _ •
.Hibernia Chambers, London-bridge—present however, they selected those men, not from among the
0061- irctlee eftergoonest Friday last, a offices, Ilib.• ,
three and four e' e f s
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with the Lord Haddo, Captain Sweney, Hon. Captain Maude, shop keepers and middle classes, who had something to
convict named John quishley, while employed ose yan ou rea a u rom e c ass o al leans, sue i
Ct • Berlow Smart, and Dixon R.N , Lieut C 1 1 b th Ibtf th I f •t• 1 For taking a share in this disturbance the police ap-
other convicts of the gang to which lie was attached at ap ems . prehended five lads on Friday night, with pockets
' d Rev. C. .
Dockyard, would persist in quhoun, R.N., an .B. ribble—a letter was as joiners, mechanics, stonemasons—who have been
groceries, tea, tobacco, sugar,•
Woolwich containing
, hadgot
from rice, and
tare saw-mills at
smooth iron travelling carriage for con- read from Capt. W. W. Chambers, of her Majesty's themselves contending for higher wages—with over-
on the
be cut steam frigate Desperate, commending in the highest lookers and some managers of mills, agents, labourers, biscuits, which they
ducting large pieces of timber when required to
three feet in diameter, although he terms the daring conduct of W aid, the boat- boatmen on the canals, and engine-drivers. The ma- s
factory lad • the others
by a circularrepeatedly saw
t. ned •st doing so,' and told by swain of that ship, who, at the imminent risk of his life, jority of those selected, in fact, were persons more one was a , belonged to different
trades.
was
sto caourioound
andagainnot over the moving car- jumped overboard, and successfully brought on board likely to sympathise with the turn-outs than to resist
the sawyers
g The disogbeyance of' the orders given to the con- (though both were in a most exhausted state) a seaman them, as was subsequently proved to the great annoy- The magistrates met on Saturday afternoon at three
ria-e.ultimately cost him his life, as when walking on the who had been thrown into the sea be the 4_____,,anee and disma, of the mor when he called for their o'clock, at their clerks' offices. There were present,--the
vict
travelling
carriage the iron rackets in his shoes caused sail-yard, topgallantmast and yard Jseins,ueuvt'et";-; beiXe aid. Fifty oar of the 300 were sworn in on Friday mayor, Mr. J. Acton, Mr. T. H. Eccles, Mr. W. Park,
ncle when near the saw, while it was making 380 in heavy weather. This being the' tenths man that afternoon to be ready, as the temper of the people,was Mr. Thomas Taylor, and Mr. Edward Evans. It was
him to s
minute, and in an instant one of his legs Mr. Ward had been the means of saving, it was re- evidently not good. determined that a notice should be posted upon the 11
revolutionfrs perbelow the knee, and a large piece of bone cut solved unanimously to present him with the society's ']Co return to the Dog and Partridge. Mr. Sims and of the town stating that, in consequence of the Was
was
cut
° other, besides other injuries to the hip, which silver medal. The sum of 31. was also awarded to two his little force of seven men issued from the police-office proceedings of the past night, the mayor and riotousag*
out of the pilots and a fisherman of the Firth of Forth, for saving in Millgate, and went down there in a body to disperse trates requested all parties after their email m-lc-
ve, n open. Dr. Browning was in imme-businesst.
was literally sawn
the convict was conveyed to the the lives, at considerable risk, of two lads upset in a small 1 the mob, but the blood of the latter having warmed, so was finished to leave the streets ; allparties
diate attendance, sad
convicts,where Dr. Burns, the surgeon, boat nearlnchkeith, N. 8., the sea at the time being very 1 far from displaying any fear or respect for this terrible ing together to lie deemed liable to congrega
apprehension as dis-
am ship for
the knee, but the other injuries stormy, with a strong westerly gale. The two lads had I exhibition of the Sims did the law, they began to hoot orderly. A notice was prepared
and sent to
amputated the leg above
sunk under them, and been upwards of an hour clinging to the boat's keel ; 1 them also. Mr. °in's "i" all he could to pacify by fair immediately. The five boys were brought up and re-
were so severe that the convict dto be torn b main streneth from his! words but with no success and th• •
four hours after the accident one of them ha y ~,. i , . , - --Inking that the pre- i mended to Monday. A letter to the Secrete of State
died the same evening abouthold, his limbs and hands apparently set in the death , sence of himself and men only exasperated them, he was prepared by the mayor, concisel • rYthe
y stating facts
took place. When brought ashore their clothes had to be cnt ! drew off and gave orders to
At the great fair of Ewell grip. . , T . return to tho police- we have narrated, and asking that the military should
V ILUE OF LEAN STOCK.-- •i- bodies so far gone were they, but by the usual ! office. he mob evidentl cons'
' larger supply of lean stock off thei ,
happily
•f • ain boldness,y idered this a triumph, and, Ibe allowed to remain in the town until the strike is over,
on Saturday last there was a
years, and, although many appliances they were restored. Timely role , increase hustled- Mr. Sims as he brought 'in consequence of the want of police.
thansal tookhas been known
s reocreded very considerably. The was afforded to twenty.three widows, orphans, and
and i 9 the rear of his men, trying to "leg" or throw him The town was perfectly quiet on Saturday, but large
prices
fiseteore beasts were sold at from 1/. to parents, and
amountforty-seven ship-wrecked fishermen t
reacheddown,and pelting them with oyster-shells. When they 1 numbers of persons were in the streets. There was an
besetsdescrilVocne's
21. per headp less than at any preceding fairs during the mariners, to the
fellow,
of eshee. les. 3d.,h and amongts 1
Enkr 1 the office Mr. Sims instantly sent for Mr. N. I apprehended cause of disturbance in the fact that Mr.
month of October. Young cattle, also, from one to the labtternotnweiupooovir
reukoewd,siwne o had the
lt
ste,
e misfortune
awarded° I s
atcebsedey, the mayor, who attended at once, and de- Peace on Thursday brought 150 colliers from Wales by
threeyears old, experienced a slow demand at a con- have ee
1 1-1. e kof Ith 174 des- 1 'Ph . messengers to request the attendance of Mr. the North Union line, arid having shunted them upon
t off 3/. to help to rep ace is sea stoe c o es. omas Cooke, a linendraper, residing in the Market- the New S *coal b • h
prings ranch, which goes up o t his col-
siderable reduction in prices. Sheep also wen
shipwrecked persons were also forwarded to their place, and Mr. Thomas - lieries, he took them thither, and lodged them, pa. somtes
wethers at a decline of from 3s. to 45. per head, titute
tnumerous of the societ scatt d I
slowlyether lambs 2s. to 39. ditto. Ewes were in good de- homes by le n
ts. The late disastro y l ere p ace, two of the borough magistrates. The whole of (donelarge manufactory for waggons- this
they
,
w d • nevertheless prices receded from Sc. to 6s. per all round the coas
1 .1 the funds onfetiga.es are , the regular police force were then summoned, and it secretly, but the colliers got wind of it, and as leey.
man
' lot being sold at 235. each, the very top thus drawing very
.leavay upon se institre I was found that in consequence of the heavy night duty I regard Mr. Peace as the chief obstacle to an arcratngas
h th
head, many
Ewe lambs, 15s. to 20s. each. Mulch and
tion, but the committee have every opheholait abe stye- , cast upon them by the strike, only six were available ; meat between the masters and themselves, this i,,r.esh
of
lots at 30s.
and heifers kept up both in prices and de- I lent public will not suffer them to wit t their relief I the special constables were hastily summoned, and thirt I rendered them still more bitter against
but
in calf-cows
from the objects of its care for the want of the neces- I out of the fifty responded. The mayor then su red " Let's P ' " were heard on Friday might,
ggel go to Peace's," s, .
mend, and were nearly all sold. The horse fair was two miles from town, and
1 sary means. that himself and the two magistrates named, being un-! his house stands at Haigh'
dull, except for cart colts, which went off freely at 181.
—The Rey. Dr. Goodford is mak'
superior cart horses made 60 ETON COLLEGE. . tug : connected with the strike of colliers, should go therefore escaped. • were lost in this affair, nor
each • some very
up to 351. ea , .e_. .
alterations at Eton College ;in two years, we ! deavour to pacify the people, and they accordingly pro- ; It is fortunate that no lives . ,
guineas each. Welsh ponies, 71. to 81. each. The pig , various A question has arisen as to
dull. at declining prices. The sudden fall in ! believe "The Dames" are to be defunct, and in future ' seeded to Mr. Sims's, and the augmented force towards ' any one injured seriously
E: cost of the outbreak, and it is
tradesi. wascattle and sheep is attributed by some to the re- the scholars' rooms are to be fibir • hfdr by the masters the Wall-gate, by way of the Eagle. They met the who will have to beari ti
1 R lot Act was not read there has not
eduction of • • the fat stock markets, but some of instead of the students. Theo arge o boarard is also to people coming up, and hearing them call out " Let's said that because
rioting which entitles a sufferer to
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the principal graziers consider
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Second Edition. Now ready, price Is. Gd.
TNDIA.N MISGOVERNMENT and. LORD
1 DALHOUSIE. By Lieut.-General Sir CHARLES NAPIER,
Edited by his Brother Lieut.-General Sir Wm. Napier,
K.C.B

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 29.
By the royal mail steam-ship Arabia, Judkins,
commander, we have advices from New York to
the 19th inst. She has brought 94 passengers and
$1,216,000 in specie on freight.
The United States' steamer Atlantic arrived at
New York from this port on the 16th inst.
There is very little general news by this arrival.
Messrs. Dimond and Co., of Bristol, Rhode
Island, sugar merchants, &c., had suspended pay-
ment. Their liabilities were said to be large. The
rumours of failures among the dry goods jobbers
were confirmed. The failure of Messrs. Winston
and Seaman jobbers, Pine-street, had also been
announced.
The yellow fever was raging fearfully at various
points on the Mississippi river and in the interior.
The latest accounts from Washington state that
the China mission had not been filled.
A private meeting of some exiles of different
countries is reported to have taken place at New
York, by whose unanimous decision Major L.
Terzucanowski, formerly aide-de-camp of General
Muralowski, and afterwards commander-in-chief of
the French Legion in Sicily, had been appointed to
form a volunteer legion in the United States, in-
tended to sail for Constantinople.
Captain Mumford, of the packet-ship Havre,
which. had arrived at New York, reports the fol-
lowing :-
" On the 9th inst., in lat. 41 deg. 42 min., long. 58
deg. 30 min., he was boarded by a boat from the ship
Sagadahocr. of Bath,-Maine, Captain Sister( 53 days,
from Gottenburg, forißeston. The Sagadalibiad 'mi,
during the passage 5S passengers from cholera'; the
captain's wife was very sick, a,nd 14 passengers-were -in
a very low state from sickness. Captain Mumford
supplied the vessel with small stores and other neces-
saries."
Halifax-papers of the 12th instant state that the
steamer Vulcan had arrived there, on the 9th, with,
350 troops. A part of the troops Were intended for
Bermuda, but, as the yellow fever was still raging'
there, they were-brought to Halifax.
Letters from Santa Fe* announce that an ex-
ploring party, under the command of Mr. F. X.
Aubrey and party, reached there on the 14th ult.
He crossed the Sierra Nevada at , Tegon ' Pass on
the 12th of July. He found„:gold at the crossing
of the Colorado, and other places,' and silver and
copper ore in great abundance.
.The Indians were
very numerous and hostile, and had fought their
party for 30 days, • wounding nearl', all of them.
In the New York Herald, it is stated] that Aubrey
and party met a tribe of Indian's 200 miles west of
Senne, who used gold bullets for their guns. ' "
There had been a' marked improvenient in the
New York stock-market. Erie 'Railroad shares
opened at 87i, an advance of 11 pet cent.' on pre-
vious sales. Hudson River Railroad advanced 1i ;,
Cumberland Coal,Company, Ig,; Stonington Rail-
road, 1 ; New York Central, I. Reading Rail-
load advanced from 73 to 76. : Broadway Bank
sold at 116 ' • Bank of Commerce, 101 ; Bank State
New York, 1.08 ; AmeriCan Exchano-e Bank, 118=5-;
4etropolitan Bank, 102. Some of these pay 10 per
cent. dividend annually, and they are all equal to
at least a 9 per cent. stock. Their surplus funds
are also known to be large ; the Broadway Bank
showing 22 per cent., and the Band of the State
Si per cent. undividd profits. United States and
State loans are firm, the purchases of the Goiern-
ment absorbing all of the former that appear ;1
and of the latter the amount offered for sale con-
tinues very limited. The Secretary of the Trea-
sury has issued a note increasing the bids for
the different loans to $7,000,000, in addition to
the purchase made prior to the Bth inst. Several
of the States are also, from time to time, purchasers
of considerable amounts of their own debts, as in-
vestments of the sinking funds provided fortheir
redemption. The scarcity of money is felt princi-
pally in the large commercial' cities. In, .the inte-
rior the supply is ample, and the payments to the
seaboard are made with great promptness and re-
gularity. The agricultural interests are very pros-
perous, and, while this is the case, there is no
reason to apprehend any serious crisis in the busi-
n6'S of the country generally. The rato of dis,
count for first-class paper is 12 per cent. Loans
on call on desirable securities can be obtained at
7 per cent. There is less firmness in the market
for foreign exchanges_. The demand is not ligKe.,
while-the supply of bills is rather ificreasing."
changes on London, 1091 to 110 • Paris, 5131 to
5141 ; Amsterdam, 411 to 411 ; Hamburg, 361 to
361 ; :Bremen, 801 to 801 ; Frankfort, 411 to 41i ;
Antwerp, 512 to 515.
The cotton market, after receipt of the Atlantic's
news from Liverpool, was much depressed, and
prices declined fully - cent per pound. The light
receipts at the ports and light exports, combined
with the moderate views entertained as to the ex-
tent of the incoming crop, would, under other cir-
cumstances, have induced speculation at the highest
currency of the season, but fear of a general war in
Europe overrules all other considerations, leaving
holders, in the absence of demand, the alternative
only of forcing sales to make a market, or, as the
majority are doing, of holding in hopes of receiving
more satisfactory advices.
The market was heavy and unsettled for both
flour and wheat, at prices not materially different
from those last quoted. The following were the
quotations for flour and wheat :-Flour.--Sour,
$6 to $6 25c. ; superfine, No. 2, $6 50c. to $6
6*. ; ordinary to favourite State, $6 871 c. to
$7 50c. ; common to good Ohio, $6 871 c. to $7
25c. ; fancy to extra Ohio and Genessee, $7 to $7
50c.: Canadian in bond, $7 to $7 121 c. ; Balti-
more mixed and Georgetown, $7 to $7 25c. ; fancy
and extra ditto, $7 121 c. to $7 50c. ; Ricmond
City, Haxall, and Gallego, $9 75c. to $lO ; rye
flour $4 50c. to $4 621 c. ; corn meal, $4 25c. to
$4 50c. Wheat.-Ohio red and mixed wheat,
140 c. to 150 c. ; Ohio white ditto, 151 c. to 152 c. ;
Michigan white ditto, 153 c. to 156 c. ; Genessee
white ditto, 158 c. to 160 c. ; Canadian in bond,
150 c. to 154 c. ; Southern white, 149 c. to 151 c. ;
rye, per 56 barrels, 91c. to 92c. ; oats, State and
Western, 49c. to 51c. ; Indian corn, Western
mixed, 82c. to 84c. ; dtto, Southern white and
yellow, 85c. to 87c. ; ditto, Northern round, 85c.
to 86c. 150 tons of Scotch pig iron had been sold
at $35 to $36 per ton, usual credit. Freights to
Liverpool :-Cotton, square bales, id. per lb. ;
flour, 4s. per barrel ; rosin, 45. ; heavy goods,
495. per ton ; grain in bulk, 14s. per bushel. To
London.-Tobacco, 50s. to 60s. per hhd. ; flour,
4s. 9d. to ss. per barrel ; turpentine ss. to 6s. per
2801 b. ; measurement goods, 30s. to 355. per ton ;
heavy goods, oil, &c., 50s. to 60s. ; beef, 6s. Gd.
per tierce ; oilcake, ss. Gd. per barrel ; grain, is.
4d. to is. Gd. per bushel. To Havre.-Cotton,
square bales, ic. per lb. ; ashes, $9 to $lO per ton ;
rice, $lO ; measurement goods, $8 to $lO ; whale-
bone, lc. per lb. • flour, 85c. per barrel ; grain,
23c. to 24c. per bushel.