The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-29 00:00:00

MILITARY RIOT AT
FAIR. WINDSOR
WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—Yesterday evening,
hetween nine and ten o'clock, a serious disturbance was
created in the High-street, opposite to the parish church,
by a large body of privates in the Ist Regiment of Life
Guards, in consequence, as it vies stated, of a man
named Chippenfield, the proprietor of one of the booths
containing wonderful pigs, boa constrictors, crocodiles,
&c., having " insulted" one of their comrades in the
afternoon, by telling him, when he had paid his two-
pence for admission, that he would have to go without
" bacco" for a week. In the early part of the evening
the showman was threatened by several of the Life
Guards to be " paid out" before night. Accordingly,
shortly after nine o'clock, a large party of the soldiers
came into the fair (between one and two hundred),
although not more than about twenty were engaged in
the riet, the rest merely looking on. They commenced
by dragging away the flight of wooden steps leading
into the booth, which they entirely demolished. The
toldiers next dragged away the whole of the platform in
front of the booth; in doing which the wife of the pro-
prietor, Mrs. Chippenfield, fell through upon the stones
leanest') and was considerably injured. Air. Obippen-
fi,ld addressed the soldiers from a projecting piece
remaining of the platform, begging them to desist, as he
had a wife and large family dependent upon him for
support, and humbly apol'gising for anytli-Ig he might
have said to have given them offence in the early part
of the day. The work of destruction, however, still
proceeded ; the large canvass painting en the outside
being torn, after an attempt had been made to upset the
van, but fortunately ineffectually. We understand that
the learned pig got loose, and that the crocodile had a
very narrow escape during the melee, which lasted for
nearly half an hour. Many persons, some of whom
were females, who were standing in the nigh-street at
the time, got knocked about and severely injured. The
proprietor of the exhibition had his hands severely
scalded by the upsetting of the boiling oil, which was
burning in jars on the platform at the time of the attack.
Mr. Blunt, one of the borough magistrates, was in
the High-street during a great, part of the riot ;
but from the large body of Life Guards who
were present, it was judged inexpedient for
the police to interfere, who would assuredly have
been overpowered. It is a question,. however, amongst
the inhabitants of the neighbourhood (who closed their
shutters when they found how serious was the nature of
the affray), whether some steps ought not to have been
taken by the local authorities to put a stop to the dis-
turbance at the onset. A picket arrived from the cavalry
barracks a little before ten o'clock; but not until the
affair was at an end, and the ringleaders had dispersed.
As soon as the work of demolition had been completed,
the proprietor of the booth, addressing the soldiers, said,
" Now, I hope, gentlemen, you are all satisfied." To
which the leader of the emeute replied, " Oh, yes, we are
quite satisfied ; you shan't have any more tupp-ncies to-
night, that we have taken d--d good ci.re of. So
good night, old fellow." The mob then left, and the ex-
hibition closed.

CHESTER AND HOLYHLAD RAIL-

WAY.-DAMAGE TO THE SEA WALL.

During the last week the succession of heavy gales
which occurred without intermission for some days
much retarded the operations on this line ; and on the
night of Thursday an extensive breach was made by
the sea in the solid wall now in the course of construc-
tion under the Peumean Mawar mountain. The waves
ran very high, and completely washed over the erection
during its whole course, effecting large openings. This
portion of the works is much exposed to the a,saults of
the sea, and peculiarly liable to injury. Mr. Robert
Stephenson, the celebrated engineer, and several other
gentlemen, inspected the damage on the following day,
and directed measures for the repair to be taken.
The works on the railway between Conway and the
Menai Bridge will, when completed, embrace a greater
number of difficult and formidable obstacles than can be
found, fora similar distance, on any other line. They com-
prise the following—namely, proposed bridge of iron,
400 feet in length, on Mr. Stephen's novel plan, across
the river Conway; a tunnel at Llandegai, 440 yards in
length; and another tunnel at the Ffiddoedd of half a
mile; also one under the mountain at Bsngor, of 900
yards; in addition to which there is a large amount of
cutting and earth-work. To these must be added the
new bridge over the Menai of 1,400 feet; and the whole
presents as massive and expensive an undertaking as can
well be imagined for uny eighteen or twenty miles of
road.

The whole is progressing rapidly, the tunnels being
in a forward state. Upwards of 3,000,060 cubic yards
of earth-work have been removed out of 4,420,000; and,
as nearly 13,000 men are employed, no doubt is enter-
tained that the contracts will be executed within the spe-
cified time.

The proposed nev bridges at Conway and the Menai
are being rapidly pushed forward. The one over the
Menai is to be called the Britannia—taking its name
from the rock on which its centre pier is supported.
This undertaking will be three years before completion,
and is carried on under the personal superintendence
of Mr. Clarke, civil engineer. It will be sustained on
four piers, the distance between the central ones being
450 feet. Two tubes are to be made, one for the down
and the other for the up trains, and the weight of metal
employed in their construction is estimated at 1,200 tons,
which will all be of wrought iron ; this immense mass is
calculated to hold 2.200 tons, four times the burden
it will ever be required to support. The rails are to be
laid on prepared or vulcanised India rubb,r, in order to
avoid the injurious effects of vibration.
The tubes will be elevated to the piers in compart-
ments, to be finally riveted together vilb•ri properly
fitted ; these will be lifted from pontoons, at the top of
high water, by means of great hydraulic power ; and it
is anticipated 1114 t, when the first compartment has been
successfully placed upon the pier, the remainder of the
undertaking will be comparatively easy.

OSTEND, OCT. 26.—Major-General Sir Jacob
Dickson, Lady Dickson, and family, arrived fr... ve-
tcrdiy, in the General Steam Navigation A._ oropfin) 's
steam-ship Soho from London.

SHOCKING AFFAIR AT PENRITH—SIINDAT EVEN-
ING.—After dusk, this evening, the town of I'enrith was
thrown into a state of great excitement, by constables
tiking James Donahow, an Irishman, who died before
he was got to prison. When opposite the 01:i Brewery,
he became faint, and was taken into Winskill's lodging
house, close at hand, and, on examination, it was found
that blood was gushing out of his shoes. D.:nfiliow be-
came worse and died within ten minutes. Dr. Morrison
declared that he had died from excitement an,' the loss
of blood. It appeared that deceased had a bad leg pre-
viously, and in struggling with the constables the old
wound broke out. In the early part of the day he had
been intoxicated, and quarrelled with his wife, and his
passion was so great that he actually burned his hens
and chickens in the fire in his own house, hackt:d the
clock•case, chairs, and other furniture to pi. ee,,, after-
wards burning them, and was in the act of heating
water to scald a fat pig alive.
The Epoque, in announcing the death of M. Ouv-
rard, says :—" Julien Ouvrard was a groc r at Nantes,
when the revolution of 1789 broke out. Being a good
calculator, and very bold in his speculations, he suc-
ceeded in less than 15 years in placing himself at the
summit of fortune. He was successively fournisseur in
chef of the French armies, a secret negotiator in Eng-
land, the intimate friend of Foul* a pri,,oner of state
under the empire, mutionnair 'al of the, foreign ar-
mies of the invasion, and of the French army in Spain,
in 1823, and prisoner for debt at Ste-r4lagie. He has
died, after having written a work on finaneks and voles'
ruinous memoirs."

RICK BURNING IN HAMPSHIRE.—SOUTHAMPTON,
TUESDAY.—At an early hour this mornit,g, messengers
arrived here bearing the intelligence that „n incendiary
fire, threatening destruction to an immecse amount of
property, was raging at Fisher's-pond, about eight
miles from this town, and about six from Winchester.
The farm was in the occupation of Lanhaws,
a butcher, in an extensive way of busiacss in South-
ampton. On arriving at the scene of devastation, the
reporter found that two ricks of hay, of about fifty tons
each, which had been fired, were nearly consumed, and
two others, to which the fire had been communicated,
were in a state of rapid combustion. Strenuous exer-
tions were made to save five other equally valuable
ricks, which were in dangerous proximity with the fire,
the more so as they would in all probability have been
the means of communicating the flames to the adjacent
cattle. sheds, containing much stock, and thence to the
farm dwellings. Notwithstanding the prompt and
vigorous efforts which were afforded by nearly all pre-
sent, the flames suddenly burst from a fifth stack, far
removed from the great body of fire, indicating (were
other proof wanting) the cause of the calamity. This,
as well as the other four stacks, were entirely consumed.
The other property was saved. The damage sustained
by the fire is understood to be upwards of 1,0001, and
Mr. Lanhaws is either wholly uninsured, or insured for $
very trifling sum.
THE POOR IN ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE.—On
Tuesday a special and very numerously attended meet-
ing of the directors and guardians of the poor of the
parish of St. Pancras, took place in the Board-roomon
the WOrkhouse, King's-road, for the purpose of receiving
asg
the official report from the Poor-law Coiim
'Of that to the recent charges against the authorities
treatment ot the poor
now
es-
tablishment, as well as the general
arth occupied the
e of routine business, Mr.
chair ;and after thet disposal
tie board, read the report from
therein. Mr. Churchwarden
Al' ahey, the clerk
After reviewing the circumstances
the Commissioners :
MI Jones, which have been de-
tailedof the case of Mary A
time to time, the Commissioners state, that
from
some
better classification should be adopted in the re-
fractory Ward. They approve of the diet adopted for
refractory paupers, and recommend that all punishments
ought to be inflicted only for offences committed in the
workhouse, and that the master ought to report all such
punishments to the guardians in writing. The Commis-
sioners are of opinion, that the principles above adverted
to have not been sufficiently attended to in the St. Pan- •
eras Workhouse, and they propose to issue regulations
with reference to the management of the workhouse,
which may contain such directions on this sited as ap-
pear to the Commissioners to be necessary.
PORT 01 SOUTHAMPTON.—The following is an
account (from an official and authentic source) of the
imports of thrown and raw silk, drugs, and dyes, into
this port during the week ending the 16th of October
instant, and will he interesting, as showing the extent to
which such arrivals take place there, in contradistinc-
tion with the more extensive importations into this port
(London) :—Silk, raw, &c., 177 cases and 55 bales from
Constantinople ; one case and two bales from the Dar-
danelles ; seven bales from Smyrna; six bales from
Malta, and six boxesfromßombay. Opium-25 cases from
Smyrna and 15 cases from Constantinople. Berries (yel-
low).-46 casks and 97 bags from Constantinople. Otto
of roses—Three boxes from Constantinople and one box
(valonia) from Smyrna and Scammony, eight drums,
Live cases, and eight boxes, from the test mentioned
port.