The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-12 00:00:00

RIOT AT WAINFLEET.

A riot of an alarming character, and which had
nearly been attended with loss of life, occurred at
Wainfleet on Saturday evening last. About 300
bankers, or navigators, are employed on a new na-
vigation near Burgh, who have committed nume-
rous depredations upon the property of the farmers
in the neighbourhood; but their lawless and out-
rageous attack upon the persons and property of
the peaceable inhabitants of Wainfleet is so flagrant
and unprovoked, that the inhabitants, who are in
danger of their lives, ought instantly to petition
the Home Secretary to remove the soldiers from
their useless position at Boston, to Wainfleet, Burgh,
and the neighbourhood, where they may be of real
service. Early in the day about seventy of these
semi-savages arrived at Wainfleet, where they re-
mained " randying," as they term drinking, mak-
ing no secret of their intentions. They were joined
in the afternoon by about thirty more. They com-
menced operations about seven o'clock, by driving
all the market people and others out of the Angel
Inn, using the most horrid language, and threatening
to murder all who opposed them. Nor was this a
mere threat, for Mr. Manlkinson, the landlord of
the Angel, was knocked down, and very seriously in-
jured by one of them, who used either a plank-hook
or tool. They then rushed out into the street, hold-
ing up their tools and cheering, and threatening to
knock down all before them. Of course the inhabi-
tants were struck with consternation at the appearance
of 100 athletic men, brandishing their formidable and
deadly weapons,which were all brighr,while they rent
the air with the most horrid imprecations, and most
beastly and murderous threats. About twenty rushed
into the shop of • Mr. Webster, butcher, whom
they struck, but did not materially injure. They
then paid a visit to Mr. Hubbert, a draper,
before whose shop they gave three cheers, crying,
" Now for it." One of them, however, exclaimed,
" We've done enough," and they then went away
without committing any depredations. They shortly
returned again, but were again prevented by one of
the mob, who said, " I know Hubbert's a real good
fellow." The constable, aided by the principal in-
habitants, in the mean time were not inactive; they
resisted them, using forks and such other weapons as
they could procure, and about ten o'clock they had
succeeded in dispersing and driving them from the
town. A party of about twenty inhabitants then took
horse and went in pursuit of the fugitives, who
were in full retreat in all directions. Just outside
the town three bankers were captured, having in
their possession three geese they had just killed,
and which have been identified. Proceeding to
Burgh, they apprehended eight more, and in all
about 40 were made prisoners. The Rev. T. H.
Rawnsley, who had been sent for from Spilsby,
promptly attended, and that night 21 in a waggon,
and five in a cart, were escorted to Spilsby, where
they were safely lodged in the gaol. Eleven or
twelve more were next day sent to join them. The
cowardice of these men is only equalled by their
brutality—an old man actually kept the whole
party at bay some time by presenting a fork which
he held in his hand.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.

On Monday the Academy of Sciences in
Paris held its first sitting this year, when a letter was
read from M. VALZ, Director of the Observatory of Nis•
mes, informing the Academy that on the 25th of last
December he obtained a good observation of Biela's
comvt, whose revolution of six years and thr.e quarters
has suffered a trifling diminution from a perturbation occa-
sioned by the planet Venus. The cornet, the light of
which was then so vsry faint as to be scarc,ly perceptible,
has notfiten seen since.

A British officer, writing to a friend, thus
speaks of the island of Ceylon, which it has been the
fashion to cry up as a paradise :—" I am dying with im-
patience to return to the only country I am fully persuaded
is worth living in. The beat of this climate is insuffer-
able : it positively annihilates a man. It is true we have
a magnificent country, richly wooded and watered ; ena-
melled with a thousand flowers, abounding in all the ne-
cessaries of life—a brilliant sun, a sweet moon (as a lady
said to me the other night); but then we have elephants,
tigers, serpents, scorplons, alligators, leeches, tarantulas—
and the heat ! my dear nothing out of the infernal re-
gions can equ,il it ; and yet there are people here, and
elsewhere, who talk in raptures of Ceylon, and who would
nut return to England on any account. The only wish I
have here is to be iced, and to have every tooth in my head
loosened by a sow wester. Sometimes, by the by, I have
a longing for a mouthful of London fog, and to be up to
my neck in the Thames. I would give sun, moon, the
seven stars, and the southern crop to boot, for a beef ste,k
and oyster sauce in place. After all, what the devil
is there in a tropical climate so very attractive ? Brilliant
nights! I have not dept for hours together since I have
been in Ceylon, from the annoyance of heat and musqui.
toes.—Sherborne Journal.

ELECTION ANECDOTE.—The following
anecdote is too good to be lost at any, but more especially
the present, moment; and it will, I hope, be a beacon by
which all country gentlemen who for the future may be
aspirants to the honours of " Knights of the Shire" will
steer their course :—Seven Wiltshire Yeomen were met
the other day by a friend of mine on the road to the poll,
and after some mutual discussion about the last week's
sport, &c., the very natural question arose of " Who are
ye going to vote for?"—" Why, So-and-so," was the
answer.—" Surely that can never be," replied my friend ;
" ye are all of ye opposed point blank to his politics."---
" Ay, Sir, and we be only going to support him because
he preserves foxes!"—Sporting Magazine.
THE MURDER AT SUTTON, NEAR RET-
FORD —On Monday last the Coroner's inquest again as-
sembled pursuant to adjournment, and during the day two
or three individuals who had been apprehended on sus-
picion were examined at considerable length, but we are
sorry to say without effect, and the whole of them were
liberated. A reward of 2001. has'been offered, one-half
by the friends of the deceased, and the other by Govern-
ment, with a promise of his MAJESTY'S pardon to any ac-
complice not having been an actual perpetrator of the mur
der. Cheat hopes are still entertained that some clue will
be obtained whereby the murderers may be brought to
justice. The inquest again adjourned until Monday next.