The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-30 00:00:00

ALARMING NEWS FROM THE COUNTRY.

AWFUL INSURRECTION AT STOKE POGIS-TIIE

MILITARY

CALLED OUT-FLIGHT OF THE MAYOR

We are concerned to state, that accounts were received in
town, at a late hour last night, of an alarming state of things
at Stoke Pogis. Nothing private is yet made public ; but
report speaks of very serious occurrences. The number of
killed is not known, as no despatches have been received.

" Further particulars

" Nothing is known yet ; papers have been received down
to the 4th of November, but they are not up to anything."

Then we have " Another account"
quarter"—" A later account
&c., &c, ; from which we take a few of t
Lars

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From another
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various particu-

rn another (pi

" We are all here in the greate.•t alarm ! a general rising
of the inhabitants took place this morning, and they have
continued in a disturbed state ever since. Everybody is in
a bustle, and indicating some popular movement. Seditious
cries are beard ! the bellman is going his rounds, and on
rer

3eating ' God save the king !' is saluted with Hang the
crier !' Organised bands of boys are going about collecting
sticks, &c., —whether for barricades or bonfires, is not
known ; many of them singing the famous Gunpowder hymn,
Pray remember,' &c. These are features that remind us
of the most inflammable times. Several strangers of suspi-
cious gentility arrived here last night, and privately engaged
a barn; they arc now busily distributing hand-bills amongst
the crowd :—sure some horribly tragedy is in preparation !

" Eleven o'clock

a have proceeded to outrage—the poor poor-
house .. It a whole pane of glass in its whole frame! The
magistrates, with Mr. Higginbottom at their head, have
agreed to call out the military ; and he has sent word that
he will come as soon as he has put on his uniform. A ter-
rific column of little boys has just run down the High-street
—to see a fight at the Green Dragon. There is an immense
crowd in the Market-place. Some of the leading shop-
keepers have had a conference with the mayor, and the
people are now being informed, by a placard, of the result.
Gracious heaven ! how opposite is it to the hopes of all
moderate men—` The mare is hobstinate—he is at the Roes
and Crown—but refuses to treat."

" Half-past Three.
" The check sustained by the mob proves to have been a
reverse ; the constables are the sufferers. The cage is
chopped to faggots, we hav'nt a pound, and the stocks are
rapidly falling. Mr. Wigsby has gone again to the mayor
with overtures; the people demand the release of Dobbs and
Gibbins, and the demolition of the stocks, the pound, and
the cage. As these are already destroyed, and Gubbins and
Dobbs are at large, it is confidently hoped by all moderate
men, that his worship will accede to the terms."

" Four o'clock.
" The mayor has rejected the terms. it is confidently
affirmed that, after this decision, he secretly ordered a post-
chaise, and has set off with a pair of post-horses as fast as
they can't gallop. A meeting of the principal tradesmen has
taken place, and the butcher, the baker, the grocer, the
cheesemonger, and the publican, have agreed to compose a
provisional government. In the mean time the mob are loud
in their joy—they are letting oil' squibs, and crackers, and
rockets, and devils, in all directions, and quiet is completely
restored."
Then comes, to crown the whole, " The Narrative."

The Narowtie of a High Witness who seed every Think
proceed out of a Back-winder up Four Pears to Mrs.
Huniphris.

"Oh Mrs. Humphris ! Littel did I Dram, at my Tim of
Life, to see Wet is before me. The hole Parrish is Throne
into a Pannikin ! The Revelations has reached Stock Poggis
—and the people is riz agin the Kings rain, and all the Pours
that be. All this 'Messed Mourning Mrs. Griggs and Me
has bean sitting abscondingly at the tiptop of the Hows
crying for lowness. We have locked our two selves in the
back Attical Rome, and nothing can come np to our Hank-
siety. Some say it is like the Frentch Plot—sum say sum
thing moor arter the Dutch Patten is on the car-pit, and if
so we shall Be flored like Brussels. Well, I never did like
them Brown holland bruin gals! Our Winder overlocks all
the Hig Street, xcept jest ware Mister Higgins jutts out
Behind. What a prospectus !—All riotism and hubbub—
Their is a loud speechifying round the Gabble end of the
Hows. The Mare is arranging the Populous from one of
his own long winders. Poor Man !—for all his goold fine
Cheer, who wood Sit in his shell's! I hobserve Mr. Tuder's
batik" Hed uncommon hactiv in the Mobb, and so is Mr.
Wagstaff the Constable, considering his runimatiz has onely
left one Harm disaffected to shew his loyalness with. He
and his men are staving the mobs Beds to make them Sup-
surate. They are trying to Custardise the Ringleders But
as yet hay Captivated Noboddy. There is no end to acci-
dence. Three unsensible boddis are Carrion over the way
on Three Cheers, but weather Naybers or Gyes, is dubbious.
Master Gallop too, is jest gon By on one of his Ants Shu-
ters, with a Bunch of exploded Squibs gon off in his Trow-
sirs. It makes Mrs. G. and Me tremble like Axle trees, for
our Hone nevvies. Wile we ware at the open Winder they
sliped out. With &nil Broils in the Street who nose what
Scraps they may git into. Mr. J. is gon off with his mus-
kitry to militate agin the mobb ; and I fear without anny
Sand Witches in his Connell Box. Mrs. Griggs is in the
Sam state of Singularity as nieself. Onely think, Mrs. H.
of too Loan Wiming looken Down on such a Heifervescence,
ann as II ignorant as the unbiggotted Babe of the state of our
Husbandry! To had to our Convexity, the Botcher has not
Bean. No moor as the Backer and We shold here Nothing
if Mr. Higgins had'nt hollowed up Fore Storys. What news
he brakes! That wicked Wigsby as reffused to Reed the
Riot Ax, and the Town Clark is no Scoliand ! In'nt that a
bad Herring! 0 Mrs. Humphris! It is impossible to throe
ones hies from one End of Stock Poggis to the other with-
out grate Pane. Nothing is seed but Wivs asking for Huz-
binds—nothing is herd but childerin looking for Farthers.
Mr. Hatband, the Undertacker as jist bean squibed and ob-
ligated for safeness to inter his own Hows. Mr. Higgins
blames the unflexable Stubbleness of the Mare, and says a
littel timely Concussion wood have bean of Preventive
Servis. Haven nose ! For my Part I don't believe
all the Concussion on Hearth would hay prevented the
Regolater bein scarified by a Squib and runnin agin the
Rockit—or that it could unshattcr Pore Master Gol-
lot, or squentch Wider Welshis rix of Haze witch is now
'lamming and smocking in two volumes. The ingins as
been, but cold not Play for want of Pips, witch is too often
the Case with Parrish inginuity. Wile afares are in these
friteful Posturs, thank Haven, I have one grate comfit. Mr.
J. is cum back on his legs from Twelve to won tired in the
extrearns with Being a Standing Army, and his Uniformity
spatterdashed all over. Be says his hone saving was onely
thro leaving Ais retrenchments. Pore Mr. Griggs, has cum
In after his Wif in a state of grate exaggeration. He says
the Boys hay maid a Bone Fire of his garden Fence and
Pales upon Pales cant put it out. Seven! Shells of a bom-
bastic natur as been picked up in his Back Yard and the old
Cro's nest as bean Perpetrated rite thro by a Rockit. We
hay sent out the Def Shopmun to here what he can and he
says there is so "Vienne Crackers goin he dont no wich re-
port to Blive, hut the Pig] mongern has Cotch'd and with all
his Stock compleatly Guttid. The Brazers next Dore is
lickwise in Hashes,—but it is hopped he has assurance enuf
to cover him All over. Ehe say nothink can save the Dwel-
lins adjourning. 0 Mrs. 11. how greatful ought J andl to
bee that our own Premiss and propperty is next to nothing !
The effex of the lit on Biidings is marvellus. The Turrit of
St. Magnum Bonum is quit clear and you can tell what Time
it is by the Clocke verry pleaneii only it stands ! The noise
is end to drive won deleterious ! Too Specious Conestabbles
is persewing littel Tidmash down the Hi Street, but I trem-
bel for the Pelisse. Peple drops in with News News every
Momentum. Sum say All is Lost—and the town Criar
is missin. Mrs. Griggs is quite retched at herein five litiel
Boys is throwd of a spirituous Cob among the Catherend
Weals. But I hope it wants cobbobboration. Another Yuth
its sed has had his hies Blasted by some blowd Gun Powder.
You Mrs. H. are Patrimonial, and may supose how these
flying rummers Upsetts a Mothers Sperrits. 0 Mrs. Hum-
phris how I envy you that is not tossing on the raging bel-
lows of these Flatulent Times, but living under a Mild Dis-
potic Govinment in such Sequestrated spots as Lonnon and
Padington. May you never go thro such Transubstantia-
tion as I have bean riting in ! Things that stood for Sen-
tries as bean removed in a Minuet—and the very effigis of
wat is venerablest is now burning in Bon Fires. The Wor-
shipful' chaer is empty. The Mare is gon off clandestiny
with a pare of Hossis, and without his diner. They say he
complanes that his Corperation did not stik to him as it shold
have dun But went over to the other Side. Pore sole—in
sich a case I dont wonder he lost his Stormnich. Yisterdy
he was at the summet of Pour. Them that hours ago ware
enjoying Parrish officiousness as bean turnd out of there
Dignittis ! Mr. Barber says in futer all the Perukial Au-
thoritis will be Wigs. Pray let me no wat his Magisty and
the Prim Minester think of Stock Pogis's constitution, and
believe me conclusively my deer Mrs. Humphris most frendly
and trully BRIDGET JONES."

The mortality from cholera, diarrhoea, and dysentery in
London, for the three weeks ending August 6, amounted to
109 deaths; for the previous three weeks, ending July 16,
40; making an increase of 69 deaths in the course of the
last three weeks—a consequence of the rash indulgence re-
sulting from the plenty and cheapness of fruit. Children
and aged persons have been the greatest sufferers.
ITALIAN BOYS IN ENGLAND.—A number of Italian
gentlemen in this country have formed themselves into a
committee for the purpose of erecting a school, and giving
gratuitous education to the poor wandering minstrel mendi-
cants who are to be seen so constantly exhibiting themselves
in our highways. The preliminary steps were commenced
in the month of November last, and there are above 200
children receiving the benefits of this beneficial and excel-
lent plan.
At a Meeting of the South IV ilts and Warminster Farmers'
Club, on Friday week, among the labourers who obtained
prizes for good conduct, was an old man, who had arrived at
the age of fourscore and two, and who had lived in the
service of the chairman (Harry Biggs, Esq.) and his father
for the long term of sixty years. In presenting the certifi-
cate to this aged servant, it was evident that the Chairman
struggled hard to repress his feelings ; the poor old man,
too, appeared overpowered—and the company sympathized
with both. At length the Chairman feebly said, " James
Sturges, you have been a faithful servant to me, and my
father before me. I believe you have never lived in any
other service. Take this as a slight testimony of your good
conduct." Where, but in England, are Societies of gentle-
men assembling for such a purpose, or such candidates for
their honours ?

IHE QUEEN'S VISIT TO EDINBURGH.—The committtee
of town-council appointed to make all the necessary arrange-
ments with reference to this at present all-engrossing occasion,
have not yet done anything definite, having to waite for
official and authoritative intimation of Her Majesty's inten-
tions from London. If Her Majesty land at Granton, as we
understand will probably be the case, although our Leith
friends are strenuous for the landing being effected at their
pier—and if Her Majesty proceed to Dalkeith-house, not by
a private road, but through the town—the Lord Provost and
magistrates will, it is intended, present her with the keys of
the city at the Parliamentary boundary nearest Granton,
which, we believe, is Pitt-street, where a temporary barrier,
with a gate in the centre, will be erected. If, however, Her
Majesty prefer going privately to Dalkeith-house
.on the day
of landing, as from the fatigue and probably sea-sickness at-
tendant upon the voyage may perhaps be the case, the keys
will not be presented till the day on which Her Majesty
drives through the town, when the boundary selected will, it
is said, be that at the University end of the South bridge.
The Earl of Aberdeen or Sir James Graham is to be in town
this week to convey Her Majesty's wishes and instructions to
the authorities here.—Edinburgh Witness.

On Saturday, at the Insolvent Debtors' Court, Lord
George Loftus (son of the Marquis of Ely) filed his schedule,
previous to obtaining a hearing for December next. In his
affidavit he stated that his father refused to pay his debts.
His Lordship has been in the Fleet Prison since February
last, and has had an allowance during that time of £6 per
week from his father, the same allowance which has been
paid him a great many years. The debts, in the aggregate,
are set forth, at 15,2341., of which 9,1511. are without consi-
deration. In the year 1838, the Marquis of Ely paid debts
for the insolvent to the extent of 3,0001. The insolvent
stated that many of his debts arose from having become
party to various bills of exchange for Captain the Hon. F.
w. Byng, for which he never received any consideration,
and on three of which he was in custody. The insolvent
was formerly an ensign in the Grenadier Guards, which
commission
the_it
commission he sold some time ago. Amongst
the schedule, two are extracted, as extending
fromf
amusement,
present year :—" Paid for admission to places o
d betting during
1836 to the
libraries, &c., 1,2001." " Lost by play
this time, but of which I can give no
1).• in the schedule
about 10,0001." There does not 1313 anrticular account,
are peraincipally composed
any property for the c!ediitoi:s,
of 'Demons wed figure tatsvb:saactions."