The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-13 00:00:00

RIOT BETWEEN THE ENGLISH

AND WELSH.
ABERDARE, FRIDAY NIGHT.—This district has
been the scene of one of the most alarming riots that
have occurred for some time past. Men, women, and
children have been severely, and, in one or two in-
stances, it is feared, fatally injured. The houses
occupied by a number of English have been partly razed
to the ground, the shutters and doors being either
carried away or thrown through the windows amongst
the alarmed inmates. In order that the public may
rightly understand the cause of such a shameful pro-
ceeding, it is necessary to state that some time since
the colliers in the Aberdare works struck, and about

150 men were procured from the Forest of Dean to
supply their places. These men proved to be mostly
English, which gave rise to unpleasant feelings, the
Welsh declaring that unless the English turned out
they would be made to pay for it. A few weeks
since a stocking, filled with gunpowder, was thrown
into the bedroom of one of the workmen, which ex-
ploded, and the man lost his life. A verdict of " Wil-
ful murder" was then returned against some persons
unknown. The guilty parties have as yet escaped.
Ever since the inquest the same unfriendly feeling
has been evinced against the English, and on Monday
last some two hundred Welshmen proceeded to
a wood, where they cut sticks, and meeting ,some of
the English on the bridge they made a fearful attack
upon them, cutting their heads open, and covering
them with blood. The mob, then, according to the
evidence given yesterday before the magistrates by a
policeman who apprehended ten of the rioters,
marched to the houses occupied by the Nngliab, where
they broke open the windows, and knocked out the
sashes. They then took the shutters, and threw them
sideways through the windows. The rioters then got
in at the windows, and the officer saw a girl fall from
the window, and four or five Welshmen fell on her.
He heard cries of " Murder" proceeding from many
of the houses. After they had partially destroyed
five or six houses at one end of the street, they went
to another part, and served a similar number m the
same way. A great many persons spoke as to the
dreadful treatment they had received. A boy, aged
13, had some of his teeth knocked down his throat.
A woman named Meredith had her head cut open,
and was in such a dangerous state that little hopes
were entertained of her recovery. A great number
of persons are so badly injured as to be obliged to
keep to their beds. Ten of the more formidable
rioters apprehended by the police were fully corn-
' mitted to take their trials, and there is no doubt but
that, in the course of a few days, a number of others
will be taken, as they are well known to the police.

REVENGE.—A fearful act has just been perpetrated
in the French island of Guadeloupe. A man having dis-
covered that his wife was unfaithful to him, watched his op-
portunity, and, upon a Sunday night, when the wife and her
paramour were in bed together, he barricaded the hut, and
then set fire to it, with the hope of consuming the guilty
pair, but the soldiers of the garrison arriving sooner than he
expected, they were liberated almost unhurt. The fire de-
stroyed a number of negro habitations.
GRATITUDE AMONGST PAUPERS.—During the past
week a somewhat novel occurrence took place in the Taun-
ton Union. Mr. Welsh, who, some time since, tendered his
resignation to the board of guardians, when about to leave
the union, was presented by the paupers with a handsome
silver spoon, which had been purchased by subscriptions
raised amongst them, many of them giving their little all for
that purpose, as a small testimony for the great kindness, con-
sistent with the duty of the house, which he had ever ob-
served towards them.
The officers of the 2d Regiment ofLifeGuards
gave a grand dinner to the Marquis of
Londonderry, and Lady Adelaide Vane,
at the barracks in the Regent's Park. an9nd Marchioness
Friday evening,
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GREEPJAND FISHERY.—By the Hamilton Ross,
Captain Burnett, which arrived at Peterhead on the 3d inst.,
letters lae been received in this town from some of the
commanders of fishing vessels at Greenland belonging to this
port. The Eliza had 3,000 to 4,000 seals, and the Flamingo
186 on the 24th of April. The Swan and the St. George were
on the fishing-grounds. The Rose, Hebe, Argo, and Rufus,
were, so far as known, clean. The report which has ap-
peared in a shipping paper as to the success or non-success
of the Abram, Lord Gambier, Truelove, and Ann, is quite
premature and erroneous, as their destination was Davis's
Straits, and not Greenland. They would, in all probability
be on fishing-grounds 1000 miles distant from any vessels
that the Hamilton Ross would fall in with. The success of
the Peterhead vessels is, upon the whole, very encou-
raging. The Hamilton Ross is quite fall, having upwards
of 150 tons of blubber, or 10,000 seals, most of them of an
unusually large size. The voyage altogether has been made
in two months and three days. The passage home occupied
eight days. The following is Mr. Burnett's report British
Ships—Of Peterhead—The Commerce, 5,000 seals; Dublin,
10,000 ; Eclipse, 600 ; Enterprise, 11,000 ; Hamilton Ross,
10,000 ; North of Scotland, clean ; Union, clean ; Resolution,
full; Traveller, clean ; Victor, not known ; Joseph Green.
Foreign—The Greenland, 11,000 seals; Joan Augusta, 9,000;
Te zchelt, 8,000; Dirk Adam, 7,000; Flora (ship), 7,000;
Alty ona, 6,000; Fryen, 5,000 ; Clyne Henry, 5,5,00 ; Augusta,
6,000; Hanover, 5,500; Polar Star, 7,000; Flora, 4,500;
Hoffnung, 3,500; and Jonge Martin, 3,500. Most pf the
other foreiGhers Ilan Got A fow,nilua ,advertiser.