The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

•ectuested to 1

Peace to the Do
at hand. 1

lreds in number

A body of police came on the spot, and remained some
time, hoping to keep the mob in awe, but, finding their
presence more likely to irritate, they withdrew. On
reaching the-police-office the chief constable despatched a
message to Mr. N. Eckersley, the mayor, who arrived at
the police office in a short time. Mr. Cook, draper, and
Mr. Thomas Byrom, grocer, who are magistrates for th
borough, were

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upon their arrival, which elided in the two latter going
the Royal Hotel, with the view of advising the people

upon the Royal Hotel was meditated, an(
trates, believing no time should be lost, retur

two magis-
I to the

mayor to concert measures of a more vigorous character.
The mayor and his brother magistrates having assembled
24 special constables, and six of the regular police, they
proceeded to the front of the Royal Hotel, where they
found the rioters breaking the windows, and becoming
more daring every moment. The greatest confusion pre-

veiled. The mob seized stones, and, when they could not
find these, laid hold of potatoes, turnips, and other vege-
tables from the market stalls, and hurled them at the win-
dows of the hotel. Mr. William Marshall, standing by
the side of the mayor, in front of the hotel, was struck in
the eye by one of these missiles, and another gentleman
was hit behind the head. His worship gave one of the
leading ruffians into custody, and four policemen proceeded
with him towards the police-office, but he was rescued by
the mob, The mayor had two of the regular police still by
his side, but, alas ! for the specials—now, when they were
first needed, it was discovered that they had " levanted."
The rioters from this time had everything their own way.
The mayor, finding himself wholly unsupported, hastily
consulted his brother magistrates, went to the Electric
Telegraph-office, at the North Union Railway station, and
forwarded a message to Preston. 164- miles distant, for the

aid of the military: He subseqUenily, at half-past eight
o'clock, despatched a special engine to Preston, on which
was Mr. J. L. Wright, with a written request for the mili-
tary. The barracks, however, are situate at Fulwood, 3f
miles beyond Preston ; and as the soldiers had retired to
bed when the message arrived, and as a consultation had
to be held whether it was safe for the military to leave
Preston, where hn outbreak was not improbable, much
time was lost before the troops could be put in motion.

During the scene of confusion in the Centre of the town,
above described, the shopkeepers were seized with a panic,
and most of them precipitately closed their establishments.
After breaking the windows of the Royal Hotel, the riot-
ers, who now consisted of factory operatives and colliers,
proceeded, at a little after eight o'clock, down Millgate,,
destroying the windows of the police-station, extinguish-
ing the gas-lights in the streets, and breaking the lamps.
They then returned, and went down Standishgate, com-
mitting similar acts of violence. The less daring in these
unlawful proceedings cheered and encouraged those who
most distinguished themselves. Many of them had sticks,
as well as pockets full of stones, and others armed them-
selves with staves by destroying the frames of the stalls
in the Market-place. About half-past eight o'clock they
attacked the Moot-hall and the Town-hall, and broke a
good deal of glass. They then proceeded down Wallgate,
extinguishing the gas-lights, breaking many of the lamps
entirely Off 'the posts, and hurling stones through every
window where a light was visible. They broke the win-
dows of the Clarence Hotel, threw stones into the post-
office, destroying the glasscases and other property inside,
and demolished the front of the Victoria Hotel. Having
gone as far as the railway station in this direction, they
returned about nine o'clock, and commenced a second
attack on the Royal Hotel. This time they entered the
house, tore down the curtains of windows and beds,
smashed the pier and other glasses in the various parlours,
the glass in the picture frames, took away some liquors
from the bar, and 'finally attempted to set fire to the house.
They entered the house in front, proceeded into the com-
mercial and other rooms, carried handsome pieces of fur-
niture out, anti threw them from the entrance of the
house into the street, cutting open stuffed chairs, &e. At
the rear of the house an attack was made upon the
windows of the 'bar-room, kitchens, &c.. where they
committed the greatest possible havoc upon the utensils.
While here, it is stated that loud ,cries were raised to
'blow up the house, and it is believed that, had opportu-
nity and means been at hand, this would have been done.
themob next made another excursion down Wallgate, and,
on reaching the opening opposite the Victoria Hotel, pro-
ceeded up to the house of Mr. James Taylor, of the firm of
Taylor and Brother, cotton-spinners, a lofty, three-story
building, which they attacked both back and front, demo.
ashing the windows so entirely that on the following day
many of them had to be boarded up, until new frames could
be-made. There was a majority of factory lads and girls
among the mob engaged in this attack, who screamed and
appeared almost frantic with delight at the wickedness of
their proceedings. An attack was made on the shop of Mr.
Esplin, watchmaker and jeweller, and the shutters and
windows were broken ; but just then a heavy railway train
• crossed the • bridge over the street close by, and a false
alarm that the soldiers were at hand from Preston being
raised, a precipitate retreat was made: The mistake
having been discovered, the Overseers'-offices, the offices
of the Board of Health, - and other public buildings were
attacked, and had their windows destroyed. A cry of
"JOhnson" was here raised, and the mob rushed down
Queen-street towards the house and mill of Mr. Johnson,
cotton spinner, .Mr. Johnson and his family had barely
time to effect a retreat through the garden when the ruf-
fians attacked his house, breaking open the windows and
doors, and entering the drawing-room and parlours to
destioy the furniture. A -valuable finger organ and a
piano-forte, and some fine _engravings and paintings with
their frames were'destroyed in a short time, and damage
was ,committed to the amount of about £5OO. In the
drawing--room they took the fire from the grate, and,
placing it in the middle of the floor, heaped upon it table-
cloths,- furniture, umbrellas, and whatever articles of a
.combustible nature came to hand, and so left the house to
become a prey to the flames. On their retreat, however,
Mr.. Johnson and his family reentered the house, and were
in time to-counteract the design. _

Retracing their steps to the centre of the town, from
Rbach they were now a mile distant, the rioters next, about
ten or half-past ten o'clock, made a third attack upon the
Royal Hotel. The masters had met here, and the fury of
the Inohivas not so readily to be ,sated; so they now sur-
rounded the teuse, and attacked it back and front, broke
more windows and more furniture, and again proposed to
burn it, but without putting the threat into execution.
Subsequently two shops, situate in ...distant parts of the
borough from each other, were entered and sacked of their
contents. One .of these was the shop of Mr. John Liptrot,
of Wigan=lane, provision-dealer, and the other that of Mr.
Isaac Wright,_ provision-dealer, Darlhigton-street. These
persons are supposed to have been singled out for ven-
geance, because they had refused to contribute to the funds
of the tarn-outs. •An attack was made upon the shop of
Mr. Collinson, pawnbroker, Standishgate, and property to
the value of £s',,or R 6 was taken. Mr.•Ooilinson, however
got rid of the rioters by paying to their leader
not to destroy his stock

sovereign

After the bcrough Inal been thus given np-a prey to riot
tamd the, most wanton -14olence, generally directed to the
pmperty of all persons, without distinction, for many
hours, at length came the military. They arrived at the
railway-station at ,half-past eleven o'clock at night, con-
.sisting of 150 rank and . file of the 34th Infantry, under
the command of Captain J. Wilt. The Mayor and some
of • the magistrates placed themselves at the head -of the
soldiers, and went through the town, but only came up
with an insignificant party of stragglers from the rioters,
seizing from among them Ave youths (mostly Irish) who
had evidently .taken part in plundering the provision-
dealers,- the pockets of the prisoners being stuffed with tea,
sugar, rice, tobacco, and biscuits. The prisoners were
lodgedin the lockups, and the town gradually assumed a
state of quietnde, while the soldiers took up their quarters
at the Victoria Hotel and at the Moot-ball.
On Saturday all was quiet up to a late hour in the even-
ing. The magistrates were assembled during the greater
part of the day concerting measures to prevent a renewal
of
disturbances, and issued a, notice warning every
person to leave the streets after nightfall, .on pain of ren-
dering themselves liable to apprehension. The fair con-
tinued, and the town was much crowded with strangers,
many of whom looked with wonder, and some, it was
thought, with satisfaction,on the evidences of mischief dis-
cernible as having been committed on the previous evening.

LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT,--.
YESTERDAY.

(Before JOSEPH POLLOCK, Esq., the Judge.)
The court sat at eleven o'clock. The first case called
was that of
CHOPS AND COMERS V. JONES. —This case, which
stood over from Wednesday last, was one of "demurrage,"
in which the plaintiffs, Messrs. Chope and Co., merchants,
Bristol, sought to obtain possession of certain goods from
the defendant, Evan Jones, master of the brig Eigen,
which goods he retains till certain alleged claims for de-
murrage have been paid. Provision for such charg.es,
it
appears, had been made in the charter, but no allusion is
made to them in the bill of lading. The real question at
issue, therefore, was, as to whether the defendant Jones
was entitled to a lien on the goods or not. The case was
set down for hearing at eleven o'clock, and Mr. Aspinal
was present for the defendant, but no one appeared for the
plaintiffs; under these circumstances the court delayed
proceeding till twelve o'clock, at which time there being
still no appearance for the plaintiffs, his Honour directed
the case to stand over till the court meets again.--Mr.
.Aspinal made an application relative to the present costs,
consideration of which was also ordered to stand over
His Honour then proceeded to hear some few continued
cases, none of which were possessed of general interest
next.
At the conclusion the court adjourned till Monday

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