The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-10 00:00:00

LATEST ACCOUNTS FROM LLANIDLOES.

We learn from the Salopian Journal of Wednesday, that
after several days of excitement and alarm occasioned by the
riotous demonstrations of the chartists, confidence and tran-
quillity were on Friday restored by the appearance of a de-
tachment of infantry and the Montgomeryshire yeomanry,
dispatched to Llanidloes, under Colonel Lord Clive, by
special command of the government. The delinquents, from
the first view which they caught of this force, were terror
struck, and did not again shew themselves.
At nine o'clock on Monday morning, the yeomanry and
the infantry were so scattered around the outskirts of the
town, that not a person could escape. The special constables
and the police (the three London police officers having again
arrived,) divided into parties, and a pretty general search of
the houses of suspected persons took place. Not one of the
guilty individuals was to be found : all had fled. The object
of search was to discover fire-arms and other weapons : but
very few of these, however, were found, they having been se-
creted. A quantity of lead with the requisite apparatus for
making bullets were discovered : and in the course of the
search made in and around the town, sixteen persons were
apprehended, and marched under an escort of infantry to the
Town-hall.
Four of the prisoters underwent an examination before
Wvthen Jones, Esq., and David Evans, Esq.
Thomas Hanmer was sworn to by Miss Elizabeth Evans, as
having been in the Trewythen Arms during the riot.
James Morris was sworn to by E. Marsh, Esq., a resident
magistrate, who saw him during the riot, stab a special con-
stable in the right shoulder with a pike, the blade of which
was from 12 to 15 inches long. [This prisoner was discovered
in a farm building about two miles from the town, by one of
the London police, and had covered himself completely in
the straw.]
John Breeze was held to bail, and John Thomas was dis-
charged.—The other twelve were discharged to appear next
morning, if required.
Hanmer and Morris were immediately sent to Montgomery
gaol.
After the houses had been searched, the cavalry were
formed into parties (a number of the infantry being added to
each of such parties,) who, with special constables, went in
different directions round the country in search of the offen-
ders. Only three were found by such means, but one of
them was a ring-leader.
Information having been giien that a number of the missing
chartists were secreted in a hilly plantation called Pen'rallt,
near the town, arrangements were made for surrounding and
scouring it. When surrounded (it formed an area of several
square miles,) fifty of the infantry were sent through it in a
scattered manner, and a similar number of special consta-
bles. Several fellows were found and started, but they knew

this extensive covert better than their pursuers, and although
chase was given they succeeded in making their escape.
The yeomanry were on their horses all day, going to and
fro in every required direction, and evincing a desire by every
means to make themselves useful.

Two persons, Price Jones and William Evans were appre-
hended on Tuesday afternoon. When the police searched
the house a woman ran up stairs and from a dark room threw
out a pike. A party fishing in the Severn have fished up two
of the palisades from the Trewythen Arms, and we believe
the river will be searched. _ _ _ _ _

Nothing can exceed the conduct of the men of the 14th
foot ; nor should the meed of praise be withheld from Gar-
rett, of the A division of the London police, and assoeiates.

NEWTOWN.

At this place, as at Llanidloes, a political union has long
been formed, and the doctrines of a right to an equalization
of station and property, &c. since promulgated by certain of
the chartist writers and leaders, have been, as a matter of
course, amalgamated pretty generally with the ultra-radical-
ism of the !political unions. The drilling of the associated
parties had been carried on here on a large scale. Assem-
blages amounting to numbers estimated variously at from
500 to 700, took place for this purpose in the evening, after
the hours of labour, and a man named Ingram, a discharged
old soldier, and, we believe, a pensioner, regularly drilled
them in military evolutions—sometimes marching them, at
the conclusion of their drill, into the town, in military or-
der; and it is believed that among the body were more than
300 muskets or other guns, besides smaller arms and pikes,
of which latter a large quantity had been manufactured by a
man resident in the town. _ _

As a matter of precaution, the military were also marched
into this place as well as Llanidloes. On their approach to
Newtown, a party of chartists were stationed on each side of
the road counting the numbers of the troops, and on enter-
ing the town a mob of the chartists followed them, hooting
" You will never, come back alive." " The chartists of
Llanidloes are stout as steel, and have something that will
settle your business." In obedience to the order given by
their colonel, the yeomanry did not even notice friends.
Adjutant Cart was pelted by the mob, his helmet knocked
off, and he did not escape without several severe bruises.
The troop in the rear (Captain Corrie's) was assailed with
vollies of stones. The captain seeing this, ordered his
troop to " right about, sling carbines, and load." On this
being done, the vagabonds scampered off to the Aberhafesp
road, which is parallel to the Llanidloes road, shouting and
yelling hideously for about two miles. . A messenger (a
mounted trooper) sent by Lord Clive that night to Llanid-
loes, was, when near Penstrowed, about three miles from
Newtown, pelted with stones and injured so severely, that it
was with difficulty he was able to escape his assailants and
pursue his journey.
By the vigilance of the constabulary and police officers,
several have been arrested, and three committed upon the
clearest evidence. Three others have been held to bail.
" The Captain " of the gang, a journeyman shoemaker,
named Richard Jones, has been fully committed to take his
trial, together with two other men named George Rushton
and Richard Evans. " The Colonel," Ingram, before men-
tioned as the person who drilled the chartists, has had the
sagacity hitherto to evade the arm of the law, although he
has had a narrow escape by jumping into and getting over
the river Severn, yet there's no doubt, from the vigilance
observed, and the persevering efforts of the police, he will
soon be taken. The three persons who had been committed
for trial were sent off yesterday, under an escort of the South
Salopian Cavalry, commanded by Adjutant Turner, to Mont-
gomery gaol.
A humerous and novel sort of steeple chase took place in
the neighbourhood of Newtown, on Monday last, in which
Lord Forester was conspicicuously prominent. A party of
the South Salopian were ordered out in pursuit of some of
the rioters, against whom warrants had been issued ; the
soldiers having obtained information of where the suspected
persons lay in ambush, proceeded straight over the country,
and soon got a view;" at it they went, over hedge and
ditch, his lordship taking the lead, closely followed in fine
style by the Corporal-Major Swindley, of the Royal Horse
Guards, and after a sharp chase succeeded in capturing the
object of their pursuit in gallant style.