The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-14 00:00:00

THE ASHTON RIOTS.

A number of the rioters were brought before the magis-
trates on Wednesday at Ashton, the bench being occupied
with the examination of prisoners the whole day. Eight
Irishmen were first brought up, including Flynn, the
lender. One was discharged, and seven were committed
to the sessions for trial. Their cases concluded, fifteen
Englishmen were charged with attacklisg St. Ann's
Chapel. Although the court sat until two o'clock, a
decision had not been arrived at.

At Stalyhridge seven men were charged with rioting, os
whom two were discharged and five committed for trial.
An inquest has been held on Mary Bradbury. No wounds
or bruises were found upon her, and a verdict of " Died
from fright" was returned. Ibbetson, who was injured, is
progressing favourably, and so also is Sergeant Woodley,
of the Volunteer corns. who was shot.

Two volumes of memoirs of Lord Byron, by the
Marchioness de Boissy, have appeared in Paris.

The wheat crop in the South of England is look-
ing very promising. It is estimated that it, will yield three
sacks an acre more than last year's crop.

A serious disturbance has taken place at Heeley.
The English and French navvies employed on the railway
works there, while assisting to empty an eighteen-gallon
cask of beer to which they had been treated by an old
comrade, came into collision, and several on both sides
were considerably injured. Four of the combatants are
in custody. •

The men on strike in the South Staffordshire
iron trade are reluctant to accept the defeat which but too
certainly awaits them. Their cause from the first has
been a hopeless one. They entered upon the contest when
trade was unusually dull ; they bad no funds, and public
opinion was strongly opposed to such a step. Secessions
from their ranks are of daily occurrence, and men are fast
resuming work at the " drop."

At a meeting of the Liverpool Town Council
it was stated that the surplus income would amount to
upwards of £6,000, and out of that amount it was resolved
to pay is. a week towards the keep of each boy committed
by the borough magistrates to the refuge and night asylum
for homeless and destitute boys, one of the most useful
and well-managed local charities.

men engaged in the pit
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except four, who were overcome
with the afterdamp. The dead body of one of these
has been recovered, but the other three men remain in the
pit,andnohoppe
aisi/yentertained
of
their being rescued
alive.—Cambria

with nineteen accom-
plices, brigand chief Manzi, who captured our
countryman, Mr. Moens, and a Swiss gentleman, Mr.
WtheenbnaerrO t o
plices, all of whom are to be tried on eighteen counts. For
the defence some of the best advocates in Naples have
been secured, and the victims of their outrages have the
ne x
Saturday
rndgay from
last, the
together tw0330,000f., was placed at
mortification of knowing that they themselves have sup-
plied these fellows with the means of defence.
The following essay, from the pen of a negro boy
10 years old, was sent from Barbadoes to the editor of
Aunt Judy's Magazine. It is worthy of reproduction :
" The Life of Pr:nee Albert.—Prince Albert was born in
Gernainney in Europe and was the Concert of Queen
Victoria and a Cage E. He was Cellebrated as a Father
and errected a Mossoleeum at Kenzington London for the
grate Mr. Coal, ware you may Learn art and sighence and
Buy ginger Beer and bath Buns which is a grate Blessing
to the subjex of Her grashions Madjisty. He left a
newmerous proginney 'which are Praid for in the Stab-
lished Church and are all Princes and princesses.
Monuments are errected everyware to this lb-inimitable
prince and his Biogriffey was written by the loyal Queen
of England."

BARBARITY IN THE WORKSHOP.--The Antwerp
journals mention an act of barbarous cruelty committed in
. workshop of that city. One of the men lately engaged
was Stokketsel, aged 18, and his companions demanded from
him to stand treat, as is usual on such occasions. He either
could not or would ne,t comply, and they proceeded to grossly
maltreat him. " Let us crucify him," said one; and thereupon
the unfortunate young man was bound hand and foot to
an iron cross, and subjected to extreme ill-usage. He went
home to dinner, and although he did not wish to return to
his work, the entreaties of his mother induced him to do
so. In the evening he was obliged to go to bed in great
suffering, and he has since died in the hospital. The other
workmen have been arrested.

FORGED ANTIQUITIES.—TIIO surreptitious trade
introduced by the man known as Jack " Flint," it appears,
is being carried on on the Yorkshire `Molds by nal:norms
imitators. Last week Mr. Charles Hartley, cf Mahon,
succeeded in tracing and exposing a wholesale vendor of
spurious arrow-heads of flint, who had various connections
along the line of railway across the Weld. The forged
flints are sold to farm servants, and by them disposed of
to unwary collectors. News is also to hand that " Flint
Jack" himself (who hati just been released after a year's
imprisonment in Bedford gaol) is also at work at his old
trade of deception, and has been driving a lucrative trade
at Northampton, so much eo that one of the local papers
ands it requisite to give a caution against the purchase of
all "flint arrows and stone celts."

A Maidstone paper takes the trouble to announce that
" there is no foundation whatever" for the rumour that
Mr. Charles Stewart gardy would ecoatest the second seat
for East Kent at the general election. The rumour in
question must have been confined to Maidstone, for no one
outside that borough had heard anything about it. Mr.
Hardy has been mentioned as a Conservative candidate
for Greenwich, but certainly not for East Kent. The
gentleman in question is a son of the Home Secretary.
An active movement against Mr. Gladstone is going on
in South Lancashire. Circulars soliciting subscriptions
for contesting the right hon. gentleman's seat have, ac-
cording to the Daily .KetcB, been issued, bearing the signa-
ture of a near relatiVe of the Earl of Derby. Our
contemporary, so far from believing Mr. Gladstone's seat
to be in danger, sounds a call to arms, and advises corm-
of the Liberal party, not
merely
e purposes. It suggests
g
thPantdafor n
suitableex(leerfteilno.sni insvecornablut colleague oeal lgepgaargerust es i vs
should be selected, with
whom Mr. Gladstone might be enabled to fight the coming
battle.

The Daily News takes up the question which the Times
has been askingu for Past, namely, as to when
a dissolution under the new registers. The
former points out that unless the general election could
col
take place in the early days of October, it would be scarcely
worth while for Parliament to alter the provision in
year's
lastd t
aice severalplae
Place
daysun
Reform Act creating the new constituencies
from the Ist January next.
Supposing the election to
come off in November, there could not be time for a busi-
ness session before Christmas. Consequently, the present
Government would meet the new Parliament for the first
time in February, just the same as if the elections were
actually in January. Not till then could the Liberal party,
assuming them to be in a majority, take action to regain
the Treasury benches, and supposing them to be successful,
there would necessarily follow all the delay consequent on
forming a new Government. This would make it impos-
sible for Mr. Gladstone to prepare and bring forward any
new measures with a chance of passing them during the
session of 1869. Thus not only the present, but next year,
would be wholly wasted. Besides, a general election in
October would be far preferable to one in the short days
and amid the snowstorms of November and January.

EXETER-HALL.--"Judas Meccabins" will be per-
formed for the last time this season on Wednesday next,
by the National Choral Society, under the direction of Mr.
G. W. Martin. The band and chorus will number 700
performers.
MISSING SHIPS.—The Kelvin, which sailed from
Alexandria for the United Kingdom on thelsth of Novem-
ber ; the Muscatel, from Montreal for Glasgow on the 17th
of November; the Orion, from Cardiff for Malta on the 9th
of December; and the Belle of the Mersey, from Lagos,
Africa, for Liverpool, on the 17th of November, have not
incoQ been hoard cf.