Star.
London, England, 1826-05-01 00:00:00

IRON TU MANCHESTIIR GAZIETTR Or SATURDAY.

About ten o'clock on Thursday a party of the laneen's
Bays arrived, headed by our Police Magistrate, J. F.
Foster, E q. Major Eckersly, the Captain of the Troop,
Mr. Wanksyn, and accompanied by two coaches, in
which were Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Brierly, and other Ma-
gistrates and Gentlemen. The Riot Act was then read,
and placards, stating that fact, were posted in various
directions. The Bays patrolled the neighbourhood, but
met with no insult or opposition, and by twelve o'clock,
peace and quietness were completely restored. Amongst
the factories that had windows broken, was that of Mr.
Hat bottle, which the mob erroneously supposed to con-
tain power looms.
To the prudent plan adopted by several owners of
factories, of having armed men stationed at the win-
dows, may be attributed the comparatively trifling
damage which these establishments sustained. The
plan, we are inf.( rased, will now be adopted in every
factory; and for this purpose, in addition to a large ac-
cession of military strength, there arrived in this town
yesterday from Chester Castle, an ample supply of am-
, munition, which is to be distributed to the several
owners of factories, in order that they may defend
themselves from any Future att tck ; thus each of these
large cstablishments will become well provided garrisons.
The objects to which the fury of the lower orders
appears to be principally directed are power-looms,
and persons who work at a reduced rate of wages—
whom they term knohsticks. An instance of their hatred.
to the latter occurred on Wednesday night. As soon as
the people employed in the factory of Mr. James Ken-
nedy, in Ancoat's•lane, had left off work. they ware
attacked by a mob of several thousand individuals. One
man they beat in a dreadful manner, and then thrust
him into the canal, but front its being fortunately not.
deep enough to take him over head, he contrived, by
the assistance of some humane persons on the opposite
bank to get out. Two other men were also beaten and
thrown into the water.
Two or three police officers were witnesses of this transaction,
but the mob was so great, and the spirit which it numifested so sa-
vage and daring. that the least attempt to interfere would have been
at the hazard of their lives.
71t0h1 TUE LIMOS httillCUßY.

Wednesday, about five o'clock in the afternoon, a
mob, consisting of from four. to five hundred peop:e.
entered the village of Addingham, armed with pistols,
bludgeons, axes, and other offensive weapons, and pro-
ceeded in regular order to the premises of Mr. Jere-
miah llorsfall, of the Low Mills, and demanded adinit-
tance. Mr. Lawson, superintendent of the mill, stated
that he could not accede to this request, but that he was
willing to give them a sum of money (or their.relief,
adding, that the wmk•people were welLarmed, and
determined to defend Ore mill. The assailants, upon
rewiring this answer, immediately commenced their
attack (a pistol having been fired AS a signal) by dis
charging a volley of.large stones through the windows,l
which was retrained by a discharge of the same missiles
from within ; but the bes eged finding this 'mode of
'defence ihefficignr, resorted to their.fi warms, firing, in

the first instance, purpmely over the heads of the
assailants, but the attack being persisted in. -the nest
discharge was•levelled at the rioters. The tirilw from
the mill, and the discharge,of stones from the assailants,
continued fora a considerable time.

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The rioters meeting with so formidable a resistance,
soon rel4xed in they attack, and when E. C. Lister, Esq.
of Manningham, who had been sent for as the nearest
Magistrate, arrived, the most active of the rioters had
dispersed. Mr. Lister, upon his arrival at the scene of
action, read the riot act, and the remainder dispersed
without offering any further violence. The injury done
to the machinery was not material, hut about 690
squares of glass in the windows of the mill were broken.
During the firing, which was only with shot, it is supposed that
about twenty persons were wounded, eleven of them so severely
as to need surgical attendance at Addingham, but we understand
that only ore person is considered to be in danger.
During the greatest part of the day, the bills round Addingham
were covered with people, to the number of several thousands,
waiting for a favourable opportunity for renewing the attack, but
being apprised of the arrival of the military, they held a Council of
War, and, after rmie consultation, withdrew their forces.
About three o'clock this afternoon an express arrived here, that
the loom-breakers had assembled in great numbers in Chorley, and
were preparing to attack the power-looms it, that place, and, of
cour.e' no soldiers being there, about 70 of the Ist Dragoon Guards
went off at full gallop, sword in hand, to the assistance of the power-
loom masters there. However, befare the soldiers retched their
ee.tination, ninety pair were demolished, and all the loom-breakers
had diverged.

Monday, in our town, five couple presented themselves at the
altar to get the hymeneal knot tied, but such was the alarm that no
Priest could he found to tie the knot.

Half•past Nine o'Clock, r m.
PRIVATE tr.TTnas.-

FRIDAY EVININtI, 6 o'flock.

" The spirit of riot which has been en actively at work this week
in this neighbourhood has at leng.h extended itself to the town,
and for the greatest part of yesterday and the whole of to-day, the
inhabita..ts have been in a state of consilerable alarm. The
boroughmrn and constables received intelligence on Thursday that a
number of men of suspicious appearance had been seen that morning
to come into the town from the Ilaslingden and Blackburn roads,
where the destruction of power looms has been carried on se sys-
tematically, and that it had been arranged that a large assemblage
was to meet in the evening in the neighbourhood of St. George's
Fields, and an attack was to be then made upon some of the power
loom milk. The number of military in the town having been
much diminished this week, in consequence of the various detach-
ments that have been sent to Bury, Blackburn, &c. and the other
regulars that had been sent for not having arrived, Mr. Cross, one
of the head constables, went in the afternoon of Thursday to Sir
John Fleming Leicester, at Tapley, the Colonel of the Cheshire
Yeomanry, requesting he would immediately assemble his regiment,
and send them to assist in the protection of the town. The special
constables were all assembled in the morning of Thursday, and
ordered to meet again at five in the evening, at the Town-hall. The
constables promptly obeyed the call,and assembled in great numbers.
" To.day the mob again assembled at the obl rallying.point, the
New Cross. A number of them proceeded to the shops of the
bakers and provision dealers, and;conipelled them to give provisions.
Although the streets have been paraded all the day by the mili-
tary, who have amongst them some Congreve rockets and a field
piece, the crowd does not disperse. Any constable who is separatikl
for a very short distance front the military. is immediately attacked
with stones. Numbers of infamous villains, the refuse of Angel
Meadow, took the opportunity of attacking every person of respec-
table appearance, and robbing them. They run in a numerous body
to persons, with their hats iq their hands, pretending to beg, but; by
violence, obtain every thing in their pockets. The number of
Gentlemen so robbed is very great.
" Generally, the poorer classes, who are watching the proceed-
ings, express their abhorrence of such conduct. Many of them
express themselves very grateful for the provisions delivered to
them in consequence of the subscriptions made in their behalf.
To-day, placards are posted, announcing a gift of 1,0001. from his
Most Gracious ISlejessy, for toe relief of our distressed poor. This
has led to a second sobscription amongst the principal inhabitants.
The Bight Hob. It. Peel has given .501. to the subscription, and the
houses of Birley abd Co. J. and B. Barton, and Jones, Lloyds, and
Co. 150/. each. _ _ _

" About midnight the inhabitants were much alarmed by the
ringing of the Are bells, and every person feared some other mill had
[been attacked. The fire proved to be at _a hat manufactory of Mr.
r 'Walk's, in Xiajok,street, which was completely destroyed. There
"does not appear anysesson for supposing the fire was caused by any
incendiary.
Number of power.loonu destroyed during the present week, in
the factories of—

Messrs. Sykes and Co. 'Untieid
Mr. %lunacy, Rough Hey , „
Mr. Bury, White Ash . .
Me . W..apd R. Turner, Helmshore
Mr. Whitehead, itawtonstall . .
Mr. Kaye, Longholme . . .
Bottumand Sons, Etienfield . .
Banuister;;Ficks, and Co. Blackburn
Messrs. Hamer and Son, Summerseat
•
Mr. Whitehead, Woodbill
Messrs. Ashworth, Bolt Slip. .
Messrs. Hargreaves, Bacup . . . 28
Mr. &lutist, Bacup . . . . . St
Dieser,. Mason, Gargreave . . . 25
-$65
Exclusive of theme 'destroyed st the mills of Messrs. Aikin and
Lord, Chattorton, and Mr. Naughton, Grimshow Park, the num-
ber of which is not stated. The total number of looms destroyed
may be estimated at 1000, and their value at 30,000/.

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100
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. 180
. 170
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