The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-05 00:00:00

RIOTS, tic.

From a Correspondent Owing.. to the ex-
treme depression of the Lead Mining concern, the
town and neighbourhood 01 Alston Moor are lit
this time in a most deplorable At e ; some hun-
dreds of the Miners having been lately di,charged,
and being without any employment, are in a slate
of complete insubordination. They have for
some time past.assembled together in large bodies
every morning at the sound of a horn, :foe the
pt.rpose of poaching, the neighbourhood of Alston
abottroling with game, and have sallied out in all
directions upon the adjoining Manors. A Game-
keeper was lately fired at' and wounded in attempt-
ing to secure one of them; and two of the keepers
having reme day succeeded in tak ng a man who
was out.by himself, were carrying him off, when
they were pursued by the rest of the ging, and
obliged to take shelter in a house which Was pre-
bendy surrounded by the poachers, who threaten.
ed to shoot them immediately if they did not re--
lease the man ; and the muzzles of six guns were
presented at them through one window ; they
were therefore obliged to release their prisoner to
save their own lives."

Our Skipton Correspondent soy,—" About ten
o'clock on Friday night last, son►e ' villain or
villains fired a loaded gun or. pistol throug!► the
window of st public-house at Silsden, near Skip-
ton, the contents of whielt lodged in the thigh of
the Gamekeeper of Wu►. Bostick!, Esq. of which
wound he linge►ed till Monday-forenoon and then
expired ; Coroner's verdict, wilful murder. 'Just
before the goo was fired, three persons, well
known characters of the poaching tribe, were seen
lurking about the door. They were in dread of
being apprehended, and have taken this step, it
is supposed, to prevent their detec►ion, or from
revenge at being closely looked after. The tin..
fortunate matt has left a wife and three children to
lament his melancholy fate."
WHIM] A YEN, OCT. 29.—The seamen em•
played in the coal trade have at length agreed to
the reduced wages, and vessels are now sailing

daily. We lament that those misguided tueit
-should have stoml out .so long ; but, to their
credit, they have not committed the least outrage
during the whole time. Near 100 sail of vessels
have been laid up for three months in consequence
of the seamen refusing the wages.

It is supposed that the late turn out of tke
sailors, as it is called, at Whitehaven, has taken
upwards of ten thousand pounds out of circula-
tion in that part of the County.

CtlittOUS TRANSPOSITIONS ; or, Human erait
Purposes.—ln the foll Owing odd traiiiikei ion, a
person who should have been dead saved the life
of one who was lint to die, and the person who
was to live would have died but for the person
who was to have taken the life of the living per-
son who was to have been dead :

" Elizabeth fluldrun,a miserable woman, appre-
!tended for contravening sentence at banishment,
awl confined in n lock-up room, on the north side
of the jail, in Glasgow, on Monday afternoon at-
tempted to destroy herself by strangulation. She
tied a napkin round the st rancheon of her cell for
that purpose ; but fortunately being perceived
by Docherty, the young man recently rcspited
from sentence of death for robbery, an alarm was
given, wirenlha Hangman, who was at hand, cut
bar down, and assistance being speedily procured
the woman recovered."

Divwo Bets..---This machine WBy employed
last week iu Burnpool, Plymouth, to examine
the bottom, preparatory to sinking the Eden
sloop of war, with the view of wiring the dry
rot ; but it was considered unsafe front its inequa-
lity and the heavy ground- swell which sets in
with en easterly wind. Mr. SMITH, Clerk of the
%Yorks now carrying on in Plymouth yard, bus
suggested a plan for surveying and marking out
the ground, and also for keeping up a communi.
cation with people below and on the surface of
the water, which on a trial be carried into
plete,effect hr eight fathoms water. This plan
will be essentially useful in the future operations
of the diving bell.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT...46bn Skelton, of Skin-
burness, has been Ferryman between that place
and Annan Water Foot for thirty years
past. On his return from Aunan on Sunday
'evening last, about six o'clock, with two men
and a young woman in the boat besides him-
self, the evening being extremely dark, he mistook
the course, and ran down the Scotty instead of the
English chauneland got ashore upon the sands which
part the two channels, where be cast anchor and the
passengers took out their luggage, it is suppo•ed,
thinking they were• near Skinhurness. Having
wandered about in the dark bet Ween the two clan-
'ire!: nearly 7 hours, they could not find their boat
again, the title came up and they all perished ! The
bogie's of John Skelton and the two -men have
since been found upon the sands, and on TINs..
Clay last an Inquest was taken in view of theta
before Mr. R. MULLEINDEN, Coroner.--Verdict,
Accidentally drowned. The body of the young
woman has not yet been discovered. Skelton
was sixty-eight years of age ; he has left a
widow to lament his loss. The other persone
drowned ate,---Andrew Neavy, of Antian Water
Foot, labourer; he lota left a wife and five chit-
dreno---The name of the other man is unknown,
The young woman is about 20 yearssof age.

Sunday morning the body of a poor man whose
name is unknown, was found lying dead on a
brick-kiln in one at the 'slingTon fields, where
it is supposed the unfortunate man must have
laid down to sleep for warmth, and v, as suffo-
cated from the effluvia or the kiln. The body
was carried to the Queen's Heed, Lower•strett,
Islington. An Inquisition was taken last night
helare THOXAS STIRLING, m Coroner for Mid-
dloex, upon the body. Verdict---. Accidental
Death by burning.

In opening a vault in the middle able of Dews-
btlry Church, about a fortnight ago, several an-
cient British coins were found, together with p.
number of beads. Among the coins are the Pit.
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sitx' RpetlcicietAortro 11., n shilling
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