The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

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TO THE

iiiittpial tailb:arV & Onterat Ciantmercial AVllerficr.

No. 1616.1

TUESDAY, NO

EMBER 1, 1853.

[GRATIS.

Standard Office, Two o'clock, p.m

THE RIOTS AT WIGAN.

The town was perfectly quiet up to last evening. A
good many people were present at the pleasure fair,
which yesterday succeeded the cattle fairs, but the
purchasers were mostly country people, a great portion
of the townsfolk being too much impoverished by the

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There is an uneasy feeling -prevalent

withhold the following telegraphic despatch which we

lest the peace should again be disturbed, some of the
colliers having been heard to threaten more serious
disturbances than any that have yet taken place. There
are people who point to the soldiers as a source of security,
" but," said a collier, who was talking to one of these,
"the colliers as a body are too ignorant and uninformed
to calculate the risks of such a collision ; a thousand strong
ablebodied men might be chosen from them who would do
much mischief before they could be stopped, and that is
all at present they think of."
The prisoners taken on Friday night were brought
before the magistrates at the Town-hall, at eleven o'clock
yesterday, but the only evidence taken had reference to
the riot generally, and no special evidence was given
implicating them. The witnesses examined were Ed-
ward Birchall, police-officer, in charge of the police-
office on Friday night, and Mr. Part, the clerk to
the magistrates. The accounts given by these wit-
nesses bear out all the principal statements already given,
but Birchall gave more minutely the details of demon-
strations made by the mob at the commencement of the
riot in front of the Town-hall and of the Royal Hotel,
where it appears that many stones were thrown at the
police in volleys, before they were driven from the front
of the mob. _

have received from our correspondent at Vienna, but, like
him, we attached very little credit to it, and regard both
the statements which it contains as in a high degree

improbable

" VIENNA, MONDAY.—A private despatch from Times-
war states that 26,000 Turks have crossed the Danube
and occupied Kalafat. From Ortova another despatch
says that 52,000 men have crossed, and that hostilities
have commenced. This news is believed in, although not
authenticated."

The other morning papers contain no later news from
Vienna or the East.

The Times has good ground for confidence that the
late effort in the cause of peace will prove successful. If
the Turks attempt to cross the Danube, the result must
be disadvantageous to them.

MONDAY_
°faciallY nominated to the embassy at Constantinople
An
unfavourable reaction at the Bourse. Threes' closed
at 73 15 ; Four-and-Halves', 99 65.

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The prisoners were remanded until to-morrow (Wed-
nesday).

To-Way (Tuesday), the municipal elections may be ex-
pected to cause a good deal of excitement. All candidates
for the Town Council obnoxious to the turn-outs will, of
course, excite strong feelings should they be successful.

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—Mrs DAY.

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171.

boys attaked the Saw Mill at Lord Crawford's Colliery, New
Springs, Aspull, and were fired on. It is believed two of
them are wounded, but none of the rioters were ieft on the

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stern Union, 8., 7.

ground. The finVf Miii is a large building witere the joinering,
smith-work, and waggon-making for the colliery is done,

—Tats DIY

and about 120 Welsh colliers, (" knobaticks,") as they
are here sometimes called,) are at present lodging in it.
It is about two miles from the centre of the town. It is
said, that yesterday afternoon the authorities received
an intimation that an attack upon the place was me-
ditated, and that threats had been used by turn-Jut colliers
to the effect, that they would have the Welshmen's blood that
night ; and Mr. Peace, manager of the colliery, was warned.
About six o'clock the mob came to the Saw-mill, from the
direction of Wigan, armed with sticks and making a great
noise. Inspector Gillet and ten country policemen and Mr.
Peace and half-a-dozen of his men tried to prevent the
rioters coming through the gate leading into the saw-mill
yard, but after standing a shower of stones for some minutes,
tney retreated to the saw-mill, and the mob then broke
through the gates, and advanced about sixty yards to where a
large fire was burning ; this gave forth a bright light, a thing
they did not appear to want, therefore they threw it over. A
shot was then fired at them srom the saw-mill, and they
retreated to the gate; but rallied and returned to within a
few yards of the building. Four shots were then fired at
them, and they retreated and ran towards Wigan. Two men
are said to be wounded, one in the face, and another in the
leg. It is said one had to be carried away. The military
were sent for from Wigan, but when they arrived all was
peaceable. Thirty soldiers, and Mr. Acton, county magis-
trate, remained at the Saw Mill all night, but the rest of the
troops were marched back to Wigan. Two additional troops
of the 34th regiment of infantry were telegraphed for from
Preston, and arrived at ten o'clock, and at two o'clock this
morning a troop of cavalry came from Manchester, having
been sent for. The troops are quartered at the new Public
Hall.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Amphitrite, hence at Bruges 28th ult. ; Freiheer Otton
Pon Manteuffel, hence at Danzig 24th ult. ; Emerald,
hence at Browershaven 25th ult.
Jeune Ida, from Bordeaux for this port.
The Muskingomo, from Havana;
Whampoa—at Gravesend 31st ult.
The James Booth, from Calcutta ; Chance, from Madras ,
Patrick Henry, from New York—at Deal 31st ult.

Sea Queen, from

Scholes (inhabited by colliers and factory people), was
much excited, when the report of the attack and firing spread
through the town, but towards half-past 9 the streets became
less thronged, and by 10 o'clock few were to be se en out of
doors. All is now quiet.
About one o'clock on Sunday morning, the houses of five
.4knobsticks" (labourers who have gone to work in coal-pits
belonging to Lord Crawford) were attacked by about fifty men
with blackened faces, and the windows were smashed, but
nothing further done. These houses are at Blackwood, 3i
miles from Wigan, and they are the property of his lordship.