The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-16 00:00:00

Standard-office Half-past Three o.'clock.

LATEST PARTICULARS,

FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.

MANCHESTER.
The town has been perfectly quiet during the whole of the
forenoon, and the only circumstance to be noticed is the
large numbers of idle persons walking the streets, apparently
without an object or a feeling. The factories are, with few
exceptions, standing, and no terms have been come to, or
are in progress, between the hands and their masters. The
impression of many influential parties whom we have met,
is, that the neck of the " insurrection," or whatever else we
may call it, is broken, and that, were the men allowed quietly
to resume their work, nothing more of a serious nature
would occur. The proposed processsion, in memory of the
Peterloo affair, is apparently abandoned. We learn, how-
ever, that a tea party and ball (!) will be held this evening,
at which the notorious Fergus O'Connor will address his
Chartist dupes, to what effect and in what strain we know
not.

The military strength of the town was yesterday 2210 men,
besides two howitzers, and four 6-pounders. Of the former,
there are of the Royal Artillery, 70 men ; Foot Artillery, 40 ;
3d battalion of Grenadiers, about 500 ; 58th Infantry, 600 ;
60th Rifle Corp, 600 ; and Ist Royal Dragoons and Lancers,
300. This, however, has. been diminished by the draft for
service, for Warrington, and other places. A large detach-
ment of Rifles is stationed in the warehouses at the terminus
of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, to lie in readi-
ness in case of disturbance at Hyde, Mottram, &c., or in
case of the railway being threatened to be interrupted.
At the meeting of delegates held yesterday, it was an-
nounced by the chairman that meetings were to be held by
the Dissenting Ministers and the shopkeepers in aid of the
turn outs. One of the speakers—Mr. Duffy—proposed that
they should proceed to stop the supplies. He had taken
that hint, he said, from the Anti-Corn-Law-Leaguers.

RIOT AT BLACKBURN.
THE MILITARY ORDERED TO FIRE.
TWO MEN SHOT.
(From a Second Edition of the Manchester Times,
published this Morning.)

We have just been favoured with the sight of two letters
from Blackburn, from which we glean the following particu-
lars :

The first letter is dated last evening, and states there had
been a general turning-out of hands there during the day.
On coming before Messrs. Livesey and Hodgetts' mill a stout
defence was made, and the crowd was beaten back by the
military, consisting of two companies of the 72d Highlanders.
In the affray Mr. Livesey, jun. was struck in the eye with a
stone, and received a severe laceration.

Soon afterwards the turn-outs returned in great numbers,
and Mr. Livesey thought it prudent to lock up the mill. The
constabulary present, aided by the military, proceeded to
arrest some of the leaders in the attack, and a number of the
prisoners were sent off to gaol under a strong escort of the
soldiers. Some stones were thrown at the military,
when the officer in command remonstrated, and cautioned
the multitude to abstain from acts of violence or the autho-
rities would be compelled to retort violence in self-defence.
The caution was unhappily unheeded: a great many in
the crowd hurled stones at the soldiers, and ultimately the
position of the military was one of such peril that the officer
deemed it necessary to give the command to fire. The dis-
charge took effect, and the letter states that two persons fell
dead on the spot, one being shot through the body. Several
persons were also taken away wounded, but the entire num-
ber shot was not then known. The people instantly dis-
persed, and the soldiers succeeded in carrying off their
prisoners. _ _ _

The second letter, which is dated this morning (Tuesday),
states that, notwithstanding the melancholy affair of last
night, the turn-outs had again assembled in great force, and
had attempted to turn Mr. Forrest's hands out. They were
met, however, by the military, and prevented, without any
resort to violent measures.