The Bee-Hive. — 1870-10-22 (London, England)

FATAL RIOT AMONG "NAVVIES."  Scenes of violence and' bloodshed were enacted on Saturday and Sunday morning at the village of Armathwaite, 'about twelve miles south of Carlisle, where a large number of navvies areemployed upon the contraet of Ilesats. Baylis and Eckersley, in the construction of the Settle and Carlisle extension of the Midland Railway. Saturday was "big pay," and the navvies, after receiving their wages, repaired in gangs to their respective ,quarters. The men consist of Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen, divided into distinct gangs, who work together, drink together, and fight together, too. The English appear to have fancied that the Irish were working for less money than themselves, and this suspicion engendered much ill-feeling, which vented itself in a very forcible manner when the men had drunk deep. A company of navvies were on Saturday night drinking in the New Inn, about a mile from the village, and tossinc, for gallons of ale, when another gang came ,up and demanded admittb.nce. The inn being already full, they could not obtain admission, but by way of effecting a forcible entrance, they stormed the house, smashing the windows with stones, and making a coinIdete wreck of the place. A general fight ensued, in which many heads were broken and one man fatally injured; this was a navvy, named Cornelius Cox, an Irishman, who, it is stated, had been held• up and kicked in a very savage manner by two nibvies, while a third battered his head with a spade. After being thus abused, he was thrown over a wall, where he was disco vered two or three hours afterwards so much injured that his case_ was at once seen to be hopeless. He died on Monday afternoon. A Scotchman named Campbell was pursued by a dozen navvies to a store belonging to the contractors, and there brutally kicked and mutilated. Another . navvy was left on the road with his ribs broken, while broken heads and bruised faces were verynumerous. Sunday was spent in drinking and disorder, but as the New Inn had been wrecked, and the principal public-house of the village drunk dry, the violence somewhat abated, and the arrival of a body of police to re-inforce the local constabulary tended to preserve order. On Sunday, however' a cdmbined plan of action had been arranged. The Irishmen all work in a cu4ing known as Dickenson's cutting, and two strong gangs of Englishmen, much more numerous than the Irish, are employed in Lowwood .cutting and Barrowwood cutting. On Monday morning a gatig from each of these places began simultaneously to march upon Dickenson's cutting, with the avowed intention of driving the Irish from the works. The Lowwood division was found in the villaw four deep armed with bludgeons'. But the timely's-4opearance of a bed); 6I the county police across the road with cutlasSes had the effect cA checking the march. The other 'gang from Barrowwood, however, did succeed in making its way to ,Dickenson's cutting, and driving the Irishmerl from the works. This done, they broke up into groups, and spent the rest of the day in loitering about the roads, and there were frequent fights; all work beinc, suspended. - Three men have been apprehended on the charge of being concerned in the murder of Cox, and three others as ringleaders in the riotous affray. The inquest on Cornelius Cox was opened on Tuesday. A policeman stated that he found the man lying insensible behind a stone wall five feet high, over which he must have been thrown. The inquiry was adjourned, but three important English witnesses have disappeared. The English and. Scotch navvies have resumed work,' the Irish having left the neighbourhood.  WAR MArs.—The Guardian has presented it readers with two admirable maps, one of the provinces over-run by the Prussians, and the other of Paris and the surrounding country.