The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-11 00:00:00

TRIAL OF THE OLDHAM RIOTERS.

The trial of the parties charged with participation
iri the late outrages at Oldham, came on at the Sal-
ford Sessions, on Monday last, before Norris, Esq.,
chairman, and a more than usually full bench of ma-
gistrates.
Joseph Greenwood, Robert Bridge, Thomas Kirk-
ham, Jos. Clegg, Thomas Jackson, Benjamin Travis,
Robert Brierley, Henry Taylor, Richard Walker,
Matthew Ainsworth, Robert Buckley, William Rad-
cliffe, and John Kirkham, were placed at the bar
on an indictment which charged them with having, in
company with a number of other persons at present
unknown, riotously and unlawfully assembled, on the
15th of April, at Oldham, and by violence to the per-
sons of certain workmen of Mr. Richard Thompson,
endeavoured to force them to leave his employ. In a
second count, the defendants were charged with a ge-
neral riot ; and there was a third count, charging them
-with riot and assault in pursuance of a conspiracy to
raise the rate of wages.
The evidence, as affects the several prisoners, was
then gone into at great length ; and, after a " summing
up" which occupied considerable time, the jury retired 11
for three-quarters of an hour, when they returned a
verdict of Acquittal, with respect to Clegg, Taylor,
`Walker, and Ainsworth ; and a verdict of Guilty
against all the rest.
The chairman then proceeded to pass the following
sentences : Benjamin Travis and Robert Brierley, to
be imprisoned eighteen months in Lancaster Castle;
Joseph Greenwood, Thomas Jackson, and Thomas
Kirkham, to be imprisoned twelve months in Lan-
caster Castle; and Robert Bridge, Robert Buckley,
William Radcliffe, and John Kirkham, to be impri-
soned six months in Salford House of Correction.

The trial occupied the court for thirteen hours,
and terminated a few minutes before one o'clock in
the morning of Tuesday.—Liverpool Paper.

REMARKABLELONGEVITY.—Diedin Cool-
carney, near this town, on Wednesday last, Walter
Reape, aged 115 years. He was born in the reign of
King George the First, in the townland of Carrow-
reagh, where he ended his existence. His health and
memory were remarkably good. He was known to
have frequently said that he had a perfect recollection
of the commencement and ending of five leases in
succession, of twenty-one years each, of the townland
whereon he was so long an inhabitant.—Ballina Im-
partial.
We are requested to state that Mr. Beck-
ford's new work " Italy," with Sketches of Spain and
Portugal, in two vols. Bvo., will be published by Mr.
Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street, on Saturday next,
the 14th instant. Orders are received for this work
by all respectable booksellers in the United Kingdom.
Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute,
Edinburgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin.
LEIPSIC, MAY 25.—The number of mer-
chants who usually come to Leipsic fair to sell their
goods is about 40,000; the number of purchasers when
the fair is a good one is not smaller. The quantity of
goods brought hither for the fair only may be about
400,000 cwt., and of the value of 60,000,000 dollars,
exclusive of the sum of 5,000,000 dollars proceeding
from the book trade alone.

REVENGE OF MAN AND WOMAN.—Re-
venge, when opportunity permits the full indulgence of
its energiezi, in man becomes ferocity, in woman malig-
nity. The former courage may overcome, patience
support, or submission subdue ; but death only can re-
lieve us from the virulence of the latter. Relieve us,
did I say ? No, the breath of that baneful passion
settles like a black mist upon the grave of its victim,
and blasts the few flowers that may attempt to flourish
around it. That person is brave who can conscien-
tiously say that he fears the resentment of no man, but
he is a fool who dares that of a woman. I know only
of three cases in which it may be anything short of
madness to tempt. a lady's vengeance : when you find
yourself in the last stage of a consumption • after you
have been condemned to death; or are about to be
atriated at your own or your country's expense.—
MMtropolitan Magazine.
FATAL ACCIDENT,--On Friday Mr. Coup-
land, jun., joiner, of Louth, went into his father's
stable to give a horse a drink, and it is supposed he
rneived a kick from the animal on the chest, as he
;vas sound dead a few minutes afterwards. He has
lei: a wife and six children. An inquest was held the
text Jay, when the following verdict was returned—
." Found dead in a stable, by the side of a horse."—
Boston Herald.
Su iclDg.--Friday morning, about eight
o'clock, the family of Captain John Gage Davis, of
Gardiner's-row, Booterstown, was alarmed by the re-
port of a pistol in the Captain's bedchamber. His
sister and servant maid, who hurried to the chamber,
were horrified, on entering it, with the dreadful spec •
tacle of his body lying prostrate on the floor and his
d literally shattered to pieces. The result of their
examination was the conviction to their minds that the
unfortunate deceased had discharged the contents of a
pistol, which he still grasped in his hand, into his
mouth, and that his death was instantaneously conse-
quent upon the dreadful act. Captain Davis was a
man far advanced in life, being at least sixty years of
age. He has been a widower for many years and had
no children. The only relative living with him was
his sister, and no change bad recently taken place re-
garding his pecuniary circumstances, which, it is
said, were rather affluent. He was a great admirer
of pictures and curiosities, and had collected property
of this description to a considerable amount. For several
weeks back his spirits were very low, and his manner
desponding and melancholy, but not to such a degree as
to excite any alarm in his family. In the evening the
county coroner 'held an inquest on view of his body,
and the jury returned a verdict that the deceased ter-
minated his existence in a moment of temporary insa-
pit7 Freeman's Journal.