The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-07 00:00:00

RIOTS AT BURY-A MAN SHOT.

A riot took place in Bury, on Tuesday afternoon, which at
one period threatened very serious consequences. It appears
that on the evening of Friday, ten men of, the A division of the
metropolitan police force, under the command of Sergeant
Woodhouse, arrived in Bury, to assist in preserving the peace.
They took up their residence in a house adjoining the Red Lion
Inn, near the Old Church. On Tuesday night, before eight
o'clock, three of the policemen, who had been taking a walk
round the town, were attacked as they passed through the
crowd on their return, by the mob, some of whom pushed
from behind, and the others in front kicked them, The po-
licemen endeavoured to persuade them to be quiet, when one
of them kicked policeman Jonathan Ravenscroft, and the
mob surrounded them all. The three policemen then took
not their staves, and endeavoured to make their way through,
and took one man prisoner but he was immeiiateiy rescued.
In the mean time, the other policemen, who were in the
house, seeing the disturbance, ran out to rescue their com-
panions. They succeeded in reaching Ravenscroft and Charles
Milson, but the other, John Carman. was obliged to take
shelter in the shop of Mr. Sutcliffe, chemist and druggist,
whence he made his escape two hours afterwards, during all
which time his companions were apprehensive that he was
killed. The mob collected and closed round them, and the
police, with their staves, drove them off three or four times,
and took two yrisoners, who were conveyed into the house in
which the police were themselves eventually obliged to to take
shelter. The mob used stones, which were thrown about
very thickly, and several of the policemen were severely, but
we are happy to say, not dangerously hurt. When the police
got into the the house, they fastened the door, but a number
of men tried to push it open, and finding they could not suc-
ceed in that attempt, they threw stones at it, some of them
of great size and weight, and nearly gained admittance.
Four of the policemen stationed themselves at the door,
and each fired a pistol over the heads of the people, which ag-
peared to produce no effect whatever in checking the rioters.
They then went up stairs, being apprehensive that the door
would be forced in. Six of them fired again over the heads of
the people, but still no effect was produced, and the stones
came if ;possible, faster than ever. The police then fired
amongst the people, and a cry was raised that a young man
was shot ; upon which the assembly began to disperse, and
shortly afterwards nearly all had left the ground. The young
man who is wounded, Adam Wrials, is a mechanic in the
employ of Messrs. Richard Walker, M.P. and Brother, iron
founders, engineers, &c. Rochdale road, Bury, he is about 20
years of age. The ball passed clear through the calf of his
leg, entering at one side, and coming out at the other. He
walked to Mr. Banks, the surgeon, who lives near the place,
and who dressed the wound. His own account of himself is,
that he was not present at the beginning of the affray, and
had been there only about five minutes, and was looking on,
when he was shot. The top windows of the house in which
the policemen live are nearly all shattered to pieces, and
there are heaps of stones about it.
The magistrates sent for the military to Manchester, and,
about 3 o'clock on Wednesday, a large party of the Carbineers
left the barracks in Hulme. On their arrival they found all
quiet.
_Two men, named Thomas Bukitt and Thomas Brierely,

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who were apprehended, were examined before the magistrates
this morning, and committed for trial,

WHIG PICKINGS.

(From the Chester Gazette)

For the present we must defer examining the measures
adopted by the whigs since they have been in power; but we
cannot forego publishing to the world the following list of
whig-created commissioners, which shows at once their con-
sistency and love of real retrenchment t

COMMISSIONS.

1831—Courts of Law, and real Property,
___ _ Judicial inquiry—lreland

29,000
.... 3,784- 32,784
....15,000
....19,500
.... 10,000- 44,500
.... 7,097
....13,150

1832—Law

Charities
Records
1833—Law.
Charities
Corporations
1834—Law

. 15;300-- 35,447
. 800
. 22,500
. 24,900- 48,200
. 10,200
. 2,700
. 42,841

Revising Barristers ..
Corporations
1835—Digesting Statutes
County Rates
Poor Law
Records, and to defray expenses in-
curred by the direction of the Re-
cords' Commissioners lO,OOO
Charities 4,875
Excise Revenue 6,000
Revising Barristers 22,500— 99,116
1836—Digesting Statutes
County Rates 753
Charities 30,000
Religious Instruction, to inqure into
the state of, in Ireland 36,800
Ditto, Scotland 10,090
Poor Law
Inspectors of Prisons
Revising Barristers
Records, and to defray expenses in-
curred by the Records' Commission 34,000-211,023
1837—Digesting Statutes .
Religious Instruction. to inquire into
the state of, in Scotland 6,335
Ecclesiastical 2,500
Poor Law 52,129
Revising Barristers
Railways, Ireland
1838—Digesting Statutes
Religious Instruction, to inquire into
the state of, in Scotland
Handloom Weavers..
Ecclesiastical
Inspectors of Prisons
Poor Law
Railways, Ireland..

. 4,000
. 4,010
. 2,500
. 6,000
. 54,252
. 12,700- 88,562

654,696

Here are fine pickings for whig rulers to dole out to their
underlings ; but their doom is fixed—their fate is sealed—
and, ere long, they must quit Downing-street—to which they
have so tenaciously clung—from the dire impossibility of
being any longer enabled to carry on the government of this
great empire !