The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-01 00:00:00

Norris, Brierly, and Foster, proceeded about men o'clock
towards Great Ancoat's-street, where in half an hour afterwards
the Riot Act was read by Mr. Brierly, antr a large placard,
stating that it had been read, exhibited. The cavalry then scoured
the streets, and the police made prisoners of those to the number
of 24, whom they met with, and hail reason to think had been con-
cerned in'the robberies which had taken place. After this the
crowds did not attempt to re-assemble ; but up to a late hour, in-
deed until past midnight, every thing remained perfectly tranquil.
As a measure of precaution, however, pipets of the Queen's Bays
were ordered to patrol the streets'iluring the night.
A company of the Rocket Brigade readted this town:yesterday
terday forenoon, and the Cheshire Yeomanry, 200 strang;arrived
about half-past two in the afternoon. The former, We ;:,re sorry
to say, were severely pelted with stones in the neighbourhood of
he New' Crosi, The police went up to that place abort the B,Mie
time, for the purpoSe of attempting to take into custody some of
the fellows who were levying contributions, but having no miliL
tory with him, Mr. Lavender, who had Only six aMiatalit,,,' found
it impossible to interfere.

(Pio ,s the Leeds Mercury.)
" Leeds .114.e..eztry Office, Friday night, ten o'clock.
Conceiving it to be our duty to present the public with as
faithful an account as possible of the alarming events which have
occurred in the county of Lancaster, dusi ig the present week,
we despatched two messengers into the disturbed districts, and
the following is thu 're7ult of the information collected on the
spot:---

On Wednesday the excesses were renewed with increased des-,
peration, and all the power-loom manufactories between Black-
burn and Bury were visited by the mob. About eight of them
had all the power-looms in the mills destroyed. The attack upon
the mill of Messrs. Aikin, at Chadderton, brought the mob and
the rifle-corps into conflict, when 'nine of the former, (including
one woman), were killed ; three of the sufferers having crept into.
an adjoining wood, died of their wounds in that place, and were
not found till the next' day. How many were wounded, 'it is itri
possible to say : but it is feared that the number must be very
considerable. Several of the soldiery were severely hurt by stones,
but not dangerously. Akoit 20 prisoners Were made, and on
Thursday they were. examined before • the Magistrates in Bury.
The firmness displayed by the rioters was very extraordinary :
for some time they received the shots of the military without dis-
may, and it was not • till they beheld their companions falling
around them, that they could be driven from their purpose of de,
stroying the looms. A variety of opinions exist as to the con-
tinuance or the immediate termination of these shocking scenes of
outrage and blood, but the prevailing belief amongst the best in-
formed is, that they are by no means at an end.
In a third edition of the Blackburn Mail, it is said thret pro-
ceedings similar to those which have taken place in the Hundred
of Blackburn, have broken out in Salford Hundred: that at As-
ton-under-Line and Oldham the people have risen in large num-
bers, and that in an attack made upon one of the factories in the
former place, 35 lives were lost. Our accounts iiom Manches-
ter, brought up to yesterday (Friday) afternoon, make no men-
tion of this appalling fact, and we believe it either to be wholly
unfounded or greatly exaggerated.