The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-03-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EDINBURGH, 11 O'CLOCK, P.M. " 150 dragoons have just left for Glasgow. The mob are increasing. They are pulling up the rails on the Paisley and Airdrie railway. 600 of the 71st foot have just left for Glasgow." The turbulent mob renewed their hostilities on Tuesday afternoon, though all appeared quiet when our last despatches were published. The riots were recommenced in Bridgeton, by an attempt to stop a mill which was at work. Eighteen s.rmed out-pensioners were on the spot, and having been ordered to fire, en old man was shot  through the head at the corner of Muslin-street. A younger man was also shot, and three young boys, who chanced to be near the place where the people were assembled, were shot, but were still alive. The excitement amongst the working population from the mills, who by this time were collected in crowds, was very great. Soon afterwards a troop of cavalry entered Bridgeton at a canter, and were received by the populace with great cheering. In the midst of the display, one of the dead bodies of the men who had been shot was carried down Mainstreet on a deal board, supported on the shoulders of six or eight men, and followed by a concourse of mourners, who ever and anon shouted " A military murder !" The dragoons at once made way for the passage of the mournful cortge, by taking the other side of the road, so that the body and its followers passed without interruption. The cause of the disaster was, that a number of boys had, in the first instance, commenced throwing stones at the out-pensioners, that one boy was made prisoner for so doing, that the crowd effected hiscescue, and that Policecaptain Smart gave orders to fir, when five individuals fell after the first discharge. By the evening the excitement. increased to such a degree that the shops and warehouses were closed. Large bodies of military parade the leading localities in all parts. The banks and principal public offices were guarded with military.  The police-offices of the city were, towards night, crowded with prisoners to the number of 100. Upwards of sixty guns and other weapons were taken from the rioters, and on the persons of the prisoners were found quantities of cheese, butter, ham, barley, as well as powder-flasks and powder. During the greater part of Tuesday night the mob remained in the streets, but they were quiet. Every thing was quiet on Wednesday, and business proceeded as usual, though the town was in a state of excitement.  A man named Campbell, one of the persons wounded on Tuesday, by the fire of the pensioners, died on Thursday, in consequence of the injuries then received by him. This is the third death which has now resulted from the fatal collision between the populace and those armed for the preservation of the peace.  On Tuesday an attempt at disturbance was made in Edinburgh, of the same kind as that of Glasgow. The Riot Act was read, and the military obliged to be called out before the mob dispersed. The town, at the latest intelligence, was quiet, but considerable mischief was done to property. About a thousand street-lamps were broken. About fifty persons have been apprehended. On Friday, a body of colliers paraded the streets of Airdree, about ten miles from Glasgow. They seemed dissatisfied, and evidently meant to create a disturbance. They were joined by one or two agitators from Glasgow.