The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-17 00:00:00

BLACKBURN.

This town was yesterday visited by a large mob.
They met with a most elfective resistance by the
hands in the various mills and the military, who were
called out, and in consequence were obliged to quit
the town without effecting their unlawful purpose.
• . (PURTIIER PARTICULARS.)
I have just heard that the military were called out
last night, -arid fired on the mohl several of whom
were dangerously wounded, and it is-reported two are
dead since. This morning, at sixo7clock an immense
mob .asiembled • at Ewood, and .turned off the water
from the lodge of -Messrs. Turner's mill, which will
stop their works for at least a week to come., They
then • proceeded to the mill at LOWer Darwal, and
committed a similar outrage, which will have a like
effect. Large .parties are parading the Streets, and
great' alarm prevails.
• • (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.)
BLACKBURN, AUG. 16.--NO' doubt' many of your
readers will he glad to hear what is going on here.
Yekerday about eleven o'clock, A.M., the rioters, or,
rather I should say, the. non-workers--for they `dO no
damage if the people cease working,. and it. is
.only
when resistance- is•offered that they break the. win-
dows—came- down. upon us from the direction of
Hailingden. The first mill they attacked was Rodgett
and Brierley'S. While buSilY engaged in turning out
the spinners and weavers up came the military and
police, and cut off their retreat byinstantly• closing the
yard gates,' and enclosing five-and-twenty of, them,
who Are; now in custody.
Afterwards -they proceeded to Rodgett, Sparrow,
and Co.'s works, and there they succeeded in getting
out the workpeople. • They then pursued their
course to John Sharpley and Son's mill, and did the
like there. NENt in order came the mill of .Fielden
and Townley (Mr. Fielden is one of the Meinbers
for the borough), where they-soon...lnduced the
workers to join them. They then attacked Livesey
and Rodgett's mills with the same success ; Men
Williameeles and CO.'s!inill, and Hall and Bolton's,
and brought both of thetailo a stand. An attack
nws-nkt-i.ris- made on the mills of Robert Hop-
wood and §9n., but in
Whil6-4-irempting to bring-old ihe• hands employed
in J. Eccles's mill, they catl,,, in collision with the
military, when the latter very, unjustifiably (as most
of the inhabitants think) • fired a few shots, as they
say, at their feet, in order to make them desist from
breaking any more windows -a few of Mr. Joseph
Eccles's counting-house windows having suffered by
not giving up working. The consequence of this
firing has been one man dreadfully wounded; a ball
struck him in one of his eyes, and carried it and
lAisegtahotf;e
part of the forehead hone away ; he is not yet dead.
A poor Irish girl, returning from her work, was
balk, one about the bosom,
Caolic iest, is attending on her. ;
she still lit es, although latinhdae
trhicoeoul
eph Carr,
struckeprrbe3,iner
s
lan?royth.
is no chance of her recovery. While lam writing I
viz. -W. H. Hornby and Co.'s, and Robert am told by a gentleman just come out of the body of
betel
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‘ll:oeorde
the town that all the mills are now stopped but two,
and Son's, and that two troops of Dragoons are just
arrived from Burnley, drawn up in the Market-place,
ready to act at a moment's notice. From what I hear,
the non-workers have this afternoon come into the
town from the direction of Bolton. The shops and
offices and public houses are all'closed. • .

NOTICE
__ _ •

the statutes en4blin_.g
county of Lancaster,
gr." Magistrates, acting in and for
quence of a serious riot having already
onofdfeßrisaicklyttimon the e
us in this behalf,
(ti
nhoe,lpNh:i
neu:snuTe
pursuance
el
happened in the township of Blackburn, hereby order
and direct that all licensed keepers of inns, taverns,
and beershops, shall close their respective houses at
the hour of five o'clock in the afternoon, commencing
to close the same at the time aforesaid, on the day of
the date hereof, and continue to close at the same
hour until further orders. And that every person or
persons, who shall keep open his or their respective
house or houses, after the hour at which they are
hereby directed to close the same, will be guilty of an
offence against the tenour of the license granted to
sech person or persons respectively, and will be further
dealt with according to law.
Jost mt FIELDEN.
JOIIN FOWDEN HINDLE.
JOHN LISTER.
WILLIAM HENRY lIORNBY.
. Blackburn, Aug. 15, 1842.