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CLERICAL, MEDICAL, & GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE OFFICE,
78, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury.
Notice is hereby given that a DIVIDEND of Five per Cent.
on the SHARES of the SOCIF.TY will he PAYABLE at this
Office on and after SATURDAY, the 20th of August instant.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Aug. 17. GEO. PPICKARD, Actuary.

ALARMING STATE OF

JCIIIARING-MOSS HOSPITAL MEDICAL
COLLEGE. LoNpoN.

THE COUNTRY.

WINTER SESSION. 1842.

October the Ist to the encl.& April.
INTRODUCTORY ADDREW(Oet. )—Dr. Shearman
CHEMISTRY—Mr. Manes-
MATERIA MEDICA".I.:Dr. Stegga,Thand Dr. Wilshire
DESCRIPTIVE and SViIIVIRAt4NATOMI—Mr. Hird
DEMONSTRATIONg.I4I4-11ittiwt Mr. E. Canton.
HOSI/T AL- 3,, it uppE..
mwt FERY,
ANATOMY and 141'4 'CIGY4 40. Jones, F. R. S.
MEDICINE—Dr. Sheafritan and 00'.*TY:R. Bennett

LATEST PARTICULARS.
MANCHESTER.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,

FOR, nRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.

-
No. 26, CORNHILL.
Capital .E 500,000. •
Empowered by Special Act of-Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotson. M: h., F. R. S. I John Fcawsoo, E,(l.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. John t_liddle Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. I Clement Tabor, Esq,
George Lungiey, Esq. I Joseph Thompson, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F. R.S. I ProfesSor Graves, A.M.F.R. S.
ACTUA RY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S.
PHYSICIAN—.I. Elliotson, M.D., F. R. S.
SURGEON—E. S. Synies, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Bwers,and Ommanney.

BANKERS—Messrs. Glyr., Halifax, Mills, and Co. ,
The most rational motives to Lzfe Agsurance are found in
the plan adopted by this Society ; pia. joined to a secure
provision at death for inheritors of the Ass-wed, the Society
affords succour to the Assured himself {proportioned to pre-
vious payments) in the event of unforeseen reverses.
Annual Division of Profits.

CASIRDUX, Setretary.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London:
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG" THE ASSURED.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords
the most perfect security in an ample paid-up Capita), and in
the gre--• tuccess whiqi_lles attended t-msbilip4...tftwee-•
rifent in 1834..
In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Share-
holders of one-half of their Stock, and also added 2/. per
Cent. per Annum, from the date of the policies to those par-
ties who had insured with Profits.
The Premiums nevertheless are on the most moderate scale,
and only a moiety need be paid for the first five years, where the
Insurance is for life. .
. The amount of bonus added to policies since the commence-
ment of the Company in March 1834, to the 31st December
1840, is as follows: ;
Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sums added to Policy.
£l,OOO 6 Years 10 Month's £136 13 4
1,000 4 Years BO 0 0
1,000 '3 Years . 6O 0 0
1,000 1 Year
Every information will be aff.rded on application to the
Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd,
Esq., of No. 8, Waterloo- place, Pall-mall, London.
Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., Surgeon, 48, Berners-street,
attends at the Office daily, about Half-past Two o'clock.

NVESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Offi,e-49, Parliament-street, Weqminster.
Capital 500,0001; 10,000 Shares, 501. each.
Deposit Si. each Share.
This Society is established for the Assurance of Lives, upon
principles combining economy with perfect security.
DIRECTORS.
H. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq., 28, Upper Bedford-place.
William Cabell, Esq., Newington-place, Surrey.
Thomas Somers Cocks, jun., -Esq.., Charing Cross.
George Henry Drew, Esq., Bermondsey.
William Evans, Esq., Milbank.
William Freeman, Esq., Millbank-strpet.
Francis Fuller, Esq., Poultry, London an I Croydon.
James Hunt, Esq., Whitehall.
John Arscott Lethbridge Esq., Greenwich Hospital.
Edmund Lucas, Esq., Millhank-street.
George Kennet Pollock, Esq., Great George-street, West-
minster.
James Lys Seeger, Esq., Millbank.
John Bazley White, Esq., Millbank-atreet, and Swanscombe.
Joseph Carter Wood, Esq., Artillery Place, Westminster,
Henry Wrench, Esq., King William-street, Londen Bridge.
TRUSTERS.
William Whatcley, Esq. I L. C. Humfrey, Esq.
George Drew, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Ormus Biddulph, Esq. I John Freeman, Esq.
John Bazley White, jun.. Esq.
CONSULTING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Page Wood, Esq.
CONVEYANCING COUNSEL—SamueI Jay, Esq.
PHYSICIAN—WiIIiam Richard Basham, Esq., M.D., 17,
Chester-street, Grosvenor-place.
&newtons—Alfred Leggett, Esq.; George D. Pollock, Esq.
Be lamas —Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. J. L. Bicknell and J. C. Lethbridge,
25, Abingdon-street, Westminster.
TABLE OF FREMIUMS TO ASSURE £lOO FOR THE WHOLE
TERM OF Lirrik.

.... _
SURGERY—Mr. liancak 1. •-•:,:•,,
PATHOLOGICAL ANVONTYOi,Mr. Hancock
it NATURAL PHILO:Ii)I_SaY-7...A ;Henry Watts,
General Ire for ullibi ~,ltejilki• tred by the College of
Al
Surgeons and Societrot A Mb' . ls:ty Guiaeas.
Medical Practice .'1"..1:°!ti115.44-.. ... £lO 10
0 .-Vri-oil r iiirel ... 15 15
Surgical Practice Bl.. Moliths—''... ... 10 10
Full period required ... 15 15
Full Period, to both 'Medical and Surgical Practice, Twenty-
five Guineas.

PHYSICIANS-Dr. Shearman, Dr. Golding, Dr. Chowne.
SURGEONS-Mr. Hancock, Mr. Avery.
Certificates of attendance at this Hospital and College qua-
lify for Examination on the respective Subjects at the Univer-
sity of London, Royal College of Surgeons, and Society of
Apothecaries.

Age. Annual Prem. Age. Annual Penr. Age. Ann.Prem.
20 £1 14 2 35 £2 11 0 50 £4 3 3
25 11S 11 40 219 6; 55 5 5 4
30 2 4 8 45 3 9 1 . 60 615 3

The object of this Society is to afford to the Assured all the
benefits of Life-Assurance, at a great reduction in the rates
of Premium.

FOR EXAMPLE.
A person aged 30, may with this Society assure his life for
500/., by the annual payment of 111.35. 4d., which in a Society
where the Bonus is held out as a main inducement, would cost
him 131. 7s. 4d., or, in other words, fer the same annual pre-
mium he could at this Office assure very nearly 600/., whereby
he derives AN IMMEDIATE AND CERTAIN BONUS
OF 1001.
All particulars as to Shares, Loans, Assurances, &c. may be
obtained on application to the Secretary ; and, if required,
forwarded to the country.
Parties in the country eligible for undertaking Agencies are
requested to apply.
A very liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents.
EDW. T. RICHARDSON, Actuary and Sec.

ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
39, THROGMORTON-STREET. BANK.
EMPOWERED by SPECIAL ACT if PARLIAMENT
THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—Professor Hall, of King's College.

Low Rates of Premium.

In addition to the subscribed Capital of £300,000, the As-
sured have the security of the Company's income of upwards
of £50,000 per annum, yearly increasing, and an accumulating
Assurance Fund invested in Government and other available
securities, of considerably larger amount than the estimated
liabilities of the Company.
The rates of premium are reduced to the lowest scale com-
patible with the security of the Assured, and the stability of
the Company, thereby, in effect, giving to every Policy Holder
an immediate and certain Bonus without risk, in lieu of the
deferred and frequently delusive prospect of a periodical division
of Profits.

ANNUAL. PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO.

Age. IFor Five Years. For seven Years. Term of Life
--- ----. --- .
25 £1 0 3 £1 0 7 Et 15 1
30 1 110 1 2 1 1 19 10
45 1 9 7 1 10 9 3 4 7
50 1 16 11 1 19 0 3 19 3
60 310 5 t 315 5 6 010

;10g.N ROBERTSON, Hon. See.

GREAT W'EST'ERN RAILWAY.W'EST'ERN
Notice is hereby given that the next HALF-YEARLY
GENERAL %ME! ING of the PROPRIETORS of this
COMPANY will be held, pursuant to the Act of Parliament,
in Bristol, at the Bristol Station, To-Moaaow, THURSDAY,
August 18, at Twelve o'Clock, for the General Purposes of
Business.

The Chair will be taken at. One o'Clnnk precisely.
CHARLES RUSSELL. Chairman.

ROBERT BRIGHT, Deputy Chairman.
The Transfer-books closed vn the Sth of August, and
Avhtt -Mt be opened until after the said Half-yearly General
Meeting, on the 18th. Clause 123 provides that no person shall
be entitled to vote as a proxy unless the instrument appointing
him shall have been transmitted to one of the Secretaries of
the Company at least live days before the meeting.
By order, CHARLES A. SAUNDERS)}
oecretaries.
THOMAS OSLER,
Railway Offices-2 Princes'.-street, Bank, London. Rail-
way Station, Bristol.

MONDAY EVENING, SEVEN O'CLOCK.—The latest
intelligence announces that the millowners and ma-
nufacturers have resolved not to open their factories
or resume business until a general and simultaneous
plan can be adopted. For this purpose the Mayor is
in constant correspondence. with the Home-office ;
but before it can be followed it will be necessary to
have another reinforcement of troops, as many of
those who are now in town will be required for the
surrounding 'districts. As soon as an alequate pro.-
tection shall be insured, a day will be fixed, and duly
announced, when all the factories will be opened
simultaneously in spite of the threats orthe turn-outs,
so that those who have an inclination, will have an
opportunity of returning to their employment, and
be protected in it.
It is stated that at a meeting of the millowners and
others, it was resolved that no employment should be
offered to the people unless they accepted the terms of
their employers.
At three o'clock this afternoon, in consequence of
information received that an open air meeting was to
be held in the Granby-row-fields, there was an im-
posing array of military force collected opposite St.
Peter s Church. It consisted of two troops of Dra-
goons, a company of the Coldstream Guards, and
-large detachment of Rifles and the 58th Regiment.
They Arent through the,:distukb*? districts and made
an efficacious display ; but there was no attempt at a
meeting.
• It belly, feared that another attempt would be made,
at four o'clock a much more imposing force, consist-
in addition to the above, of four hundred police
and special constables; went down to Granby-row-
fields; but there being no opposition they marched on-
wards through Ancoats, back through Oldham-street,
to their destination.
• Some factories in Poland-street, Ancoats, have been
taken as barracks, of which a large party of Fusilier
Guards have taken possession.
A large detachment of the 12th Lancers arrived
this morning from Liverpool by special trains, having
just come to that port from Dublin.
In defiance of the proclamation issued to-day many
meetings have been held in different parts of the town,
but in private places and rooms. There has been no-
thing which otherwise could come within the cogni-
zance of the civil power.
Placards, of which the following is a copy, were
extensively distributed this day round the walls of
the town :

"RUN FOR GOLD ! ! !I
Labour is suspended! Public credit is shaken ! !
,abour is worthless ! !!
" Run for gold ! Every sovereign is now worth
thirty shillings. Paper cannot be cashed. Run,
middle-class-men, trades, odd-fellows, sick-clubs, and
money-clubs to the saving banks, and all banks, for
gold ! gold!! gold ! ! ! "
At the meeting of the delegates, held at the Town-
hall this morning, much inflammatory language was
used. A resolution was passed not to return to work
until the Charter had become the law of the land.
The inquest on the unfortunate man at Preston
will be held to-morrow. At Wigan there was a turn-
out to-day, a mob of some thousand persons having
entered the town, who caused upwards of 3,000 to
leave their employMent. The respected curate of
Wigan, in his attempt to stop the outrage, was vio-
lently assaulted, but no fears are entertained for the
safety of the town, as there is a strong force of the
72d Highlanders.
The town remains quiet, although great appre-
hensions are entertained for to-morrow.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.

In Assurances for Advances of Nloney, as security for ebts
or as a provision for a family, when the least present outlay
is desirable, the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus
Office will be found particularly favourable to the Assured.
A Board of Directors, with the Medical Officers, attend
daily. E. BATES, Resident Directok.
A liberal commission to Solicitors and Ag

• _
MANCIIESTER, 'MONDAI.—The town has been
peaceable throughout the night, and the meeting at
four o'clock went off quietly. It appears that its ob-
jects were to decide upon what steps should be taken
to-day in different parts of the town, but the only re-
solution of which knowledge has been obtained, is the
strong recommendation of the different trades to ad-
here to their determination not to work under the
standard wages of 1840. A t five o'clock two depu-
tations waited on Captain Sleigh, the Assistant Com-
missioner of Police, with a request to be allowed to
hold two meetings, •at Campfield and Carpenters'
Hall. He referred them to the Queen's proclamation
just issued, informing them that if they did so it
would be at their peril. No official accounts were
received at the Town-hall during the night, but
rumours were heard in all directions that Manchester
was to be made the scene of a grand demOnstration.
The bustle at the Town-hall, from a very early hour
was equal to that of any portion of the most trouble-
some times of last week. The meeting at Stockport
yesterday eveningyent off quietly, though it was
found necessary to send here for a stronger military
force, when a company of the 72d Highlanders was
despatched by railway.
At the meeting of the Magistrates yesterday at the
Town-hall, which lasted some hours, it was agreed to
issue a proclamation, Of which the following is a copy :
"Whereas, the present disturbed state of this town
and district calls for the adoption of the strongest
measures for the restoration of peace and order. We,
the undersigned, respectively Magistrates of the
County Palatine of Lancaster and the borough of
Manchester, deem it our duty publicly to make known,
that all assemblages of persons in considerable num-
bers, having undr present circumstances a manifest
tendency to endanger the public peace, and to excite
the fears of her Majesty's peaceable subjects, are
illegal—whatever may be their avowed object, and
wherever held, and notwithstanding they may not at
the time time be attended with acts of open violence.
And we hereby declare our full determination to use
all the means in our power to prevent and repress,
and, if necessary, forcibly to put down the same.
And we further caution ail well-disposed persons from
joining in, or being present at, any meetings or pro-
cessions of this character, as they will thereby bring
themselves into peril, and incur the consequences of
the measures which may be adopted for the preserva-

tion of the public peace.
" County Magistrates acting within the Division of
Manchester :—J. Frederick Foster, J. Bentley, Wil-
liam Garnett, R. J. J. Norreys, S. Phillips, G. W.
Wood, S. Fletcher, D. Maude, P. M. James, J.
Leese, J. IL Wanklyn, J. Bradshaw, G. Clarke,
E. Chadwick, R. Gardner.
"Magistrates for the Borough of Manchester :—W.
Neild, Mayor, T. Potter, A. Watkin, W. R. Callen-
der, J. Kershaw, D. Lee, J. Brooks, R. Stuart,
J. Burt, R. Roberts, C. J. S. Walker, J. Leeming,
D. Frice, G.F.Smith, E. Armitage, A. Bannerman,

H. Tootal, T. Cooke.
" Town-hall, Manchester, Sunday, Aug. 14, 1842."
Some thousand copies of her Majesty's procla-
mation have been printed and posted in all the ap-
proaches to 'the town to the distance of many miles,
and smaller ones are also being printed to give to
every person coming into town. 'None of the mills
are at work, and it is feared that business will be at
a complete stand to-day.
The police arrangements of the town for the day
are very good. Detachments of twenty men are
placed at a convenient spot on every turnpike-road at
eighteen different stations, so that no one can enter
the town unobserved, and these stations are so arranged
that if overpowered they can easily fall back upon
each other, or receive reinforcements. With each of
these stations a constant communication is held with
the military stations, and communications from one
to another are kept up through the medium of the
horse police.
A large meeting was held on Saturday afternoon at
Stayley-bridge, and another one yesterday afternoon
at Ashton, at each of which resolutions were passed
that the people should not resume work until they had
obtained the Charter. A great Chartist meeting was
also being held at Eccles this morning at ten o'clock.
Some of the prisoners will be examined at the New
Dailey to-morrow. To-day may pass quietly over,
butgreat apprehensions are entertained for to-morrow,
being the anniversary of the affair at Peterloo.
HALF-PAST ELEVEN OICLOCK.—At this date the
town is quiet, and there are few persons in the streets.

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, NOO7I, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

they came to was Messrs. Catteral and Co.'s, whose
hands they turned out, and then proceeded to Mr. F.
Sleddon's, where preparations had been made for
resisting the mob. A stout resistance was made, Mr.
Sleddon himself being on the spot ; but they were
overpowered by the immense numbers after some hard
blows had been dealt out. Mr. Sleddon was slightly
hurt in the affray, and a large number of squares in
the factory windows were smashed. The mob then
went to the factories at the west end of the town, and
such as were at work were compelled to relinquish it.
At Mr. Dawson's factory a few squares of glass were
broken. By this time the mob had increased most
wonderfully, and included a very large proportion of
women and children ; but its general appearance had
a more threatening aspect than at any time during
yesterday. When these proceedings were going on,
the' Mayor and Magistrates assembled at the Bull
Inn, where the Town-clerk joined them, and it
was determined to proceed to meet the rioters. This
was at eight o'clock, and the public functionaries, ac-
companied by the detachment of the 72d, went down
FiAhergate, and met the mob near Lune-street. The
rioters opened two divisions fir the purpose of the
military passing through ; but the orders were.to let
no one pass. The mob then proceeded down Lune-
street, followed by the military, and when near the
Corn Exchange, halted. The Biot Act was tben read,
and Chief-constable Woodford, and Mr. Banister,
Superintendent of Police, endeavoured to persuade
the mob to retire for fear of consequences ; and while
so engaged one of the rioters aimed a stone so surely
at Captain Woodford that it felled him to the ground,
and while there had the brutality to kick him. Im-
menise.beidies-nf StOties were now thrown at the police
and soldiers, many of the former being much hurt,
and part of the mob having gone up Fox-street they
then had the advantage of stoning the military from
both sides. 'Under these circumstances orders were
given to fire ; the military immediately obeyed, and
several of the mob fell. This did not appear to have
much effect, for one fellow named Lancaster, who,
I believe came from Blackburn, came out in front
Of the mob, and when in the act of lifting his
hand to throw a stone was singled out by one of the
72d, who fired, and he fell. This appeared to put a
damper on the proceedings of the mob, and they,
began to separate, the Mayor, military, and Magis-
trates cominc, up the street. It is scarcely known
how - many have been wounded, but it is supposed
from 12 to 15, some of them mortally. Five
have been taken to the House of Recovery, and in
course of the morning one of the five had his leg
amputated above the knee, the leg being completely
splintered by the ball. A lad was shot through the
wrist, the ball grazing his side. It is believed his
hand must be amputated. One man was shot in the
back, where the ball still remains in the bone, and it
cannot be extracted. Two are shot through the
chest,. and one is in an exceedingly dangerous state.
There is also one man shot through the wels, which
protrude in a shocking manner, and he is in a most
precarious state. The medical gentleman who has
been engaged to attend the sufferers states that he
thinks four of the wounded will not recover. As may
be expected, very considerable excitement prevails.
Large posting-bills.have been stuck up to announce
that the Riot Act has been read, and that people are
forbidden to be seen about the streets in groups. A
proclamation has also been issued, and indeed the
authorities are using every exertion to prevent any
more assemblages.
• The folloWing are the names of the individuals in
the House of recovery :
William Petting, 21, steam-loom weaver, in the
employ of Messrs. Dawson. He was shot through
the knee, and has had his leg amputated.
William Lancaster, 23, one of the ringleaders, was
'shot through the body, and lingers without hope of
recovery.
James Roberts, 20, steam loom weaver, in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Gardner, is shot thrc ugh the wrist.
John Mercer, 27, is shot through the body, and is
noe likely to recover.

Adam Hodgson was shot through the back.
John M‘Namara was shot through the bowels ; no
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
William Moore is shot in ti.e chest, and is in a very
precarious state. He worked with Mr. Paley as a
cotton-spinner.
The people are assembling in different parts of the
town, threatening to revenge the proceedings of the
morning. 150 of the 60th Rifles have arrived from
Manchester.

The Liverpool Albion of yesterday says at eleven
on Saturday night the streets of Preston were per-
fectly quiet, and the morning of the Sabbath presented
nothing unusual, except that the Mayor was accom-
p#Ueeto church by a much larger number of atten-
dants than usual. The scene of the commotion was
visited throughout the day by many hundreds of the
curious It was found that about a dozen balls had
struck the premises of Mr. Coup, of the Corporation
Arms, two of them perforating the wooden gateway
leading to the stable, and striking a stone post at a
considerable distance, against which a man was lean-
ing. Mr. Coup's son was leading a horse into the
stable close by at the time, and both these individuals
has a narrow escape, 'though not cognisant at the
time of what was going on outside. A ball also struck
the stone top of the front door of the inn, at which
the landlord's daughter was standing, and broke off a
portion of the stone close to her feet. A window of
the Angel Inn, on the opposite side of Lune-street,
was also broken and perforated in some of the panes
by small shot or pieces of broken ball, which, it ap-
peared, had first struck the lamp-post opposite.
On our reporter leaving Preston, at four o'clock
yesterday afternoon, the town was in a state of perfect
quiescence, without the slightest indication of any
further disturbance being likely to arise.

Some Rifles had come into the town on Saturday,
and a detachment of the rural police from Bootle
(thirty in number), under Mr. Superintendent
Ste wart, left this town yesterday morning, so that all
was quiet. It was expected that the mill hands would
turn into work this morning.

RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS AT
WIGAN.

than any other in this district, no futile , injury. was
hop se of
done them. The mob then proceeded to
a poor-rate collector, who is very unpopula • witi ► the
working classes, broke every pane of bs ss it I his
house, demanded his books and papers„ which uvere
soon committed in fragments to the wi ads, strew, ing
the streets in all directions. From thence they wi 'at
to the Court of Requests, destroyed the. books the, re
also, and cut the head of the clerk, a gentleman mue
respected by all parties. Proceeding to Stoke Police,
office, the books there shared the same fate, de furni—
ture was broken, brought out and burnt in flit: street_
Here the military (a company of the 12th), with
Bailey Rose, Esq., a stipendiary Magistrate at their
head, ,were announced ; the mob divided, oae part
going the Lane End-road to decd the soldiers, while
the other parted by few and few, aud met at the 'man-
sion of Thomas Allen, Esq., at Fei:ton, where they
demolished the furniture and searched for arms (it
being reported there-were 500 stand of the old volun-
teers}, but few vs ere to be found. They then wen t
to the house of Bailey Rose. Esq., who was leading •
the troops in another direction, being completely out—
manceuvred by the mob. He arrived at his house in
about five minutes after it had been completely gutted.„
his furniture, books, &c., destroyed; in fact, it was a;
complete wreck, done by the verb party of whom
was in quest. It is further stated, that'. Stomer, an
unpopular policeman, has had his am broken. I
have just heard that the Fenton Police-Oilice'lvindows
are all destroyed. .Everything that could iv burnt
was piled up in two heaps and set on fire, to the great
hazard of burning the houses, on which the
tants were forced to throw great quantities of wat ~r.
At Lane-end Market-hall (a pol ice station) the bo, iks
were destroyed. Every article was brought out mud
burnt ; they afterwards set fire to the Market- hall,
which was extinguished'after the mob left the to.vn-
A troop of Dragoons has just entered.

WIGAN, MONDAY EVENING, 7 o'cLocK.—A riot-
ous and strange mob, amounting in number to some
thousands, entered this town to-day, armed with
bludgeons. They immediately proceeded to the
varioua mills, collieries, and factories, stopped the en-
gines, and turned upwards of 3,000 persons out of
employment. Having;, effected rthis outrage, they
marched out of the town with savage yells of ex-
ultation towards the seat of the Earl of Balcarres,
at Hay, in which neighbourhood there are a great
numb;r of collieries. On their passage through the
town, they committed no other violence to property
than demanding provisions from the shopkeepers,
which were of course given them. One of the curates of
Wigan (Rev. Mr. Bessell) on endeavouring to remora
strate with them was struck by a ruffian on the head; but
he suffered no material injury. The principal streets
are crowded with peaceable operatives, and no fears
are entertained for the safety of the town, unless the
disorderly mob returns at midnight, which is much to
be apprehended, A company of the 72d Highlanders,
under the command of Captain Balfour, is stationed
in the town, ready to act promply, when required. A
disturbance is reported to have taken place at Hind-
ley, four miles from this place, and Captain Balfour
has despatched thirty soldiers there, at the request
of the County Magistrates. Hindley contains many
cotton-mills, and all the hands have this day been
turned out.

- Every inhabitant of Wigan and the surrounding
townships have closed their shops, warehouses, &c.,
and business is totally suspended. Upon the shutters
of several of the closed shops the Chartists have posted
copies of resolutions entered into at the Sherwood
Inn, Manchester, to the effect that the workmen there
had resolved not again to resume work until the
People's Charter became the law of the land. The
bludgeons with which the mob were armed were very
formidable and destructive weapons, about half a yard
in length, and about the thickness of a constable's
staff. There was a great uniformity in their appear-
ance, and they seemed as if they were all from the
same manufactory. After turning out the workmen,
the mob staved for some time near to the Wigan
station of tie North Union Railway, watching the
arrival and departure of the several trains, the passen-
gers in which were alarmed at their vociferous shouts,
and the terrific manner in which they brandished the
bludgeons over their heads in demoniac triumph.

HANLEY.
• FROM A PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.)
AuG. 15.-1 write in haste to acquaint you with
the state of this district, that is what has taken place
within a few hours. A great meeting of colliers and
potters took place in Hanley Market-place this morn-
ing at nine o'clock : a body of colliers proceeded from
thence to a coal-work where some men were em-
ployed, returned to the town, set at liberty some pri-
soners for light offences, stripped the Police-office of
the books, papers, &c., which were torn to atoms and
strewed about the streets. One policeman was
slightly injured; but as our police are more respected