The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-18 00:00:00

NOTICE.

We, the undersignedii.L2giStrates, acting in and for
hundred of Blackburn, in the county of Lancaster,
in
_pursuance of the statutes enabling us in this behalf,
do, in consequence of a serious riot having already
ban ,ened in the town3l-dp of Blackburn, hereby order
an,l direct that all licensed keepers of inns, taverns,
arid .beershops, shall close their respective houses at
the ihttir of five o'clock in the afternoon, commencing
to c. ;e the same at the time aforesaid, on the day of
the d Lte hereof, and continue to close at the .same
hour . ultil further orders. And that every person or
person s, who shall keep open his or their respective
house • houses, after the hour at which they are
hereby Cirected to close the same, will be guilty of an
()ileac*, kaninst the tenour of the license granted to
sneh pe: !sou or persons respectively, and will be further
(Emit with according to law.

- JOSEPH FIELDEN.
JOHN FOWDEN HINDLE.
.JOHN LISTER.
WILLIAM HENRY HORNBY.
Blackburn; AI 15, 1.842.

PRESTON.
mf• town is this morning, and was yesterday, in
neari.:., its usual stv.te. All the mills were at work
k e.,te!•day, and have begun this morning, with the
ition of Mr. Aipsworth's, whose hands are still
One of the rioteVs died on Sunday evening, at
:House of Recovery, and another died last night
at Lis own house. Two others are not expected to
rco wen About 150 of the Rifle Brigade are. sta-
tion ea at various places in the town, and the yeomanry
aro id so there.

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WARRINGTON.
At; three o'clock this morning, Captain Sleigh was
rouse d from his bed by a messenger from Warrington,
who o.ated that the town was completely at the mercy
111. th mob, and requesting military assistance. In
(.071seq iLlence, two companies of the 60th Rifles were
dc ,pat lied by a special train, which left here at half.
t tot t,'.

ECCLES.

This g.t nerally peacefill village is in a state of great
-exeitemi Int. and alarm, owing to immense bodies of
nun, am oun Ling to about 5,000, assembling each day,
and proceedir, g in procession to the residences of the
respectable po, rtion of the community to beg. The
\N hole body are generally armed, and of 'course the
;Appearance of s, -) formidable a gang has the effect of
...:Ktorting subset 'iptions which would otherwise be
Nvithlield. It mal v not he amiss to notice-a fait which
has caused some S, .trprise in Manchester to-day. An
extraordir ary edit-I'9n of one. of the Manchester pa-
in tl confiden of the chartists, gives a list of
na,nes of respectable parties who have subscribed to
itinat it c ails "a subscription set on foot for the main-
t nanee, 'f the operativ, Is during the turn-out," when,
it a fact, Ole money has
), been given by the party from
ti ,tr .of th consequenee,ohich might follow a refusal.
Applicat &on has been in 's by several of the influen-
tial inhaiitants to head: quarters' at 'Manchester for a
three% either/f militaiy or police, but*theanswer re-
-tame d Wa.SV, that "none could I, c spared" to go to Ec-
cles, ard. in corlsegnerice this place' and the neighbour-
hooa, i, ahnost end- unprotected, there being
only . a few speci constables irr the village.
This ntot 'ping demands were made on' the .respect-
able i nixtbitants by a. body consisting of about
5,00 mr: %Du. The plan of operation is this:--
The m )13 in a body proceed to the gate of some gen-
tler nun 'in / village, where they halt; two of them
prele nt the. ,mseives at the door, one dressed in black
the otitis ?„r in -white.; . for what purpose this kind et