The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-08 00:00:00

SCOT 1, A.N D'S GR..EE I G

(IN THE MANNER. OF COWLEY.)

Scotia ad Angliam, suam sororem.

Down from its glittering nail
QUeen and bright sister, I my harp have taken,
And all its golden,chordedistrings- awaken,
To hail thy coming, and thy passage through
Our land of lochs and mountains hid in blue—
Homes of thy warrior-clansmen, brave and true.
yet neither chaunt nor song, I know,
Amply grand or fully sweet,
Thy serene approach to greet,
Or rich embroidered verse to fitly throw,
As carpet for thy feet.
Nevertheles3 the song,
Shall, opening, pour along,
And tell thy graces, which, if fit extolled,
'Mid the rich music-stream,
Would shine about and beam
Like gold and rubies in a river rolled.
Soon as the Hesper star,
Leapt to his matin car,
And with his diamond-glancing eyes
Lightened up the Eastern skies,
Then silken winds and every tuneful gale,
Swelled the full snow-white sail;
While Neptune's golden horses drew
Her bounding vessel thro' the blue ;
Till pressed her queenly foot the strand,
Of Scotland's rock-enthroned land.
Lovely the white young Moons,
On high Ben Lomond's summits shine,
When the transparent clouds
With gold and interlucent gems,
Weave glistening bands and diadems
Round their sweet brows divine ;
But to her people's eyes,
No moon was ever seen,
On the high hills or in the skies,
Or at its full, or at its rise,
So fair as their own Queen.

Fair as our light-crowned fountains,
Our purple-shaded lakes, and spiry mountains :
Bright as a thousand other things—
As jaspers of our silver Lowland springs—
Or morning exhalations, seen
jln splendid dimness veiling every scene !
Beauteous thy blue uprising, morn in heaven,
With sunbeams wreathed around thy hair serene,
But lovelier never dawned upon Lochleven,
Than dawns our Queen.

Brief was the song of homage sang,
But loud and loyally it rang,
From cotter-huts, and mines, and looms, •
From golden-ceiling'd halls and rooms,
•
Throughout the Scottish land :
While lordly revel held the night,
And street and city swelled with light ;
And thousands clad in tartan pride
Roll'd their full joy on every side ;
Amid the pomp and bonfire's blaze,
All Scotland poured abroad to gaze :
The Eagles heard them in their nest—
Then spread their plumes, and fired their crest
And screamed in anthem grand ;
While as the people's mighty shout,
Prom tower, and town, and wall rang out,
The hills and caverns sounded back
A glorious-echoing coronach.

Alone to grace the festal time
One voice was needed—one sublime !
Of him who ne'er may be forgot—
Deep-reverenced bard—immortal Scott!
Dead King of Melody—though long
Thy harp bath hushed, and flown thy song—
Tho' long thy shade from earth bath faded—
Long the damp yew thy grave-house shaded—
Yet daily glorious—more intense—
Thy memory kindles to the sense,
And gains a new omnipotence !
Ah ! only Scotland well can guess
What verse of lofty gloriousness
Had strung thy harp, and nerv'd thy hand,
To hail thy Queen to Scottish land.

TRIAL of the CLIFTON RIOTERS.

SALFORD SESSIONS-MONDAY.

This morning the Chairman (Mr. Foster) took his
seat at nine o'clock for the purpose of trying the
above-named case. He was supported on his right
and left by several county Magistrates, amongst
whom were Mr. G. W. Wood, M.P., Mr. W. F.
Halton, and the Rev. Mr. Mills, of Oldham.
Several of the prisoners were out on bail. Those
in the gaol were placed at the bar, and the rest
answered to their names as follows :—George Bes-
*wick, John Bramall, John Holland, William Wil-
son, Hugh Farren, William Roberts, Thomas Chad-
derton, Thomas Newton, John Lane, William Town-
send, Joseph Brierley, Thomas Edge, James Taylor,
S. Stores, James Entwistle, Thomas Chadwick, John
Lightbourne, Benjamin Hawksworth, John Stafford,
Richard Rogers, Joseph Dunkerley, David Nightin-
gale, John Cooper, Thomas Orme, John Tipton,
Joseph Salmon, John Simpson, Thomas Hanley,
John Jenks, George Hankers, John Fielding,
Peter Singleton, John Wood, Thomas Sut-
cliffe, Thomas Charleston, William Hoffton,
George Hay, Ralph Taylor, John Hargreaves,
John Marshall, Thomas Wood, Joseph Bowring,
4. Holt, Joseph Taylor, John Wolfenden, Samuel
Scholefield, William Burgess, George Rose, John
Hanley, T. Evans, and William Brooks. The indict-
ment charged them with a riot at Clifton, in the
with having of Eccles, on Saturday, the 20th of August,
riotously and tumultuously assembled
together to the number of 300 and upwards, and that
whilst so assembled they turned out the colliers at
Mr. Knowles's, and at other coal-pits. They were
also charged in another count, simply with a riot.
All the prisoners pleaded not guilty, and did not avail
themselves of their right to traverse.
Mr. Brandt and Mr. Hulton appeared for the pro-
steution. Eleven of the prisoners were defended by
Xi% Green, twelve of them by Mr. Whigham, and the
rest were undefended.
Mr. Brandt having stated the case for the prosecu-
tion, n,called a great number of witnesses, but with
exception of the first three or four, their evidence
'as merely to the effect of identifying the parties who
were present at the riot. It appeared that on the
morning mentioned a large meeting, composed chiefly
of colliers, many of them from a distance, was held on
Kersall Moor, about three miles from 'Manchester.
From this meeting the parties went in a body to
several of the collieries near the road leading from
Manchester to Bolton, where they turned out the
hands. The plan of operation was this :—When at
4 short distance from the works the general body
halted, and six or seven went to the place and en-
tered into conversation with those who happened to
on the spot. They then demanded in a menacing
°lla why they were at work, and immediately the
Whole mob made its appearance in such formidable
dlnnbers as to cause considerable alarm, and imme-
iately the hands left work. Intimation of their pro-
ceedings having been given to the authorities, a
large body of county police in several omnibuses
followed them, as did also a troop of the Ist Royal
dragoons, several Magistrates, and General Warre
With his staff. The military and police came up
with the mob when the were leaving the colliery
°f Mr. Knowles, at Clifton Moss where they had i
turned out all the hands, pulled out the plug of
the engine boiler and cut down the banks of
• the reservoir, which would have the effect of
;Stopping the works effectually for some time. No
!•3ooner did they perceive the advanced guard of the
ItVals, which consisted of about half a dozen of the
‘`'°lllPany, than the mob, which then were about 300
In number, and armed with sticks and bludgeons,
scampered off in all directions. They were pursued
'by the police and dragoons, and nearly sixty of them
captured, about half a dozen of whom were taken out
of a tunnel not more than a yard in diameter, where
they had concealed themselves. Most of them it
turned
out were entire strangers to that neighbour-
hood, being residents of Oldham or its immediate
N.'einity, a distance of at least twelve miles from the
110 f. The bludgeons taken from several of the pri-
soners were produced in Court, and were of a very
formidable_ description, and a cane was found upon
ohn Bramall with a large round iron head to it.
Many of the defendants were apprehended in the im-
mediate neighbourhood of the place were the mob
first dispersed on seeing the military ; others were
ursued across the fields, and taken eithor by the mi-
itary or police, and several were apprehended about
an hour and a-half, or two hours, after the riot.
The case for the prosecution having closed.
Mr. Green proceeded to address the jury for the
defence.
Mr. Whigham also addressed the jury on behalf of
ills clients at considerable length.
The Learned CHAIRMAN summed up the case with
great minuteness.
The jury retired, and were out of Court half an
flour, when they returned, and pronounced a verdict
of Guilty 'against John Braman, John Fielding, John
Holland, John Lane, Thomas Orme, and Ralph
Tt
tylor, and acquitted all the rest.
Mr. Hulton said, before the Chairman passed