The Sun. — 1851-10-28 (London, England)

GLASGOW, OCT. 25.—Cotton—The market for cotton wool has been flat all the week, and prices may be again quoted 1/Bd. per lb. lower, caused by the reliable news of the promise of an abundant crop in the United States. Goods and yarns are steady at former rates, but the amount of business doing is small. The tendency is rather downward, however, from the lower range of terms on—Our going for ehmasPlb°eYeenrselulliarnda inactive, wool. The strike among the spinners terminated on Monday last, after the men had been out a week. present circumstances of the trtandee htuhseinoepsseradtoinv eesh ahlsildbtehe the quotations are, mixed numbers, marketchance forin pig i contendingrond uri during with e 1 thes, eweek lltehrse; buyers at 3Ss. 6d. to 3Ss. 9d and for the last few days limited.39s. To-day3d., s vwarrants,ery No. 1 g.m.b., 395., and No. 1 Gartsh • • ; bill of lading. erne, 41s. cash against The award of prizes at the Great published in the Edinburgh Gazette Exhibition was occupied 110 pages.of Friday, of which it  THE LATE FATAL AFFRAY WITH ,Clllllotil ASY .-11;11Vie °aid‘jToulrinlVed°iTb q2u'elt v. as EARPEt°lls4c4• resumed this morniiir, at the house of Mr. Roberts, before the county coroner, Mr. Falkland. Very great excitement was manifested, and a strong feeling pervades the district in favour of the poachers, % in several of the neighbouring villages have formed themselves into associations or clubs for the destruct• tion of game, every member of which has to pay fee upon his enrolment. The substance of the evidence given is as follows The poachers belong to the villages of Sutton-in. Ashfield, Arnold, liucknall Torkard, Mansfield, and Bullwell, all stocking-weaving districts. A numbs" of them are captured, but nothing can be decided upset until the result of the inquest is known. One of the witnesses stated that the keepers and watchers amounted to ten men in all ; that they bad no fire-arms with them, with the exception of two pistols. Their only weapons were what they term flails, made of two pieces of wood, fastened together like a threshing An unusual thing was, that they left their dogs behind them. About ten o'clock, or a little after, on the night of the affray, footsteps were heard on the Bilis, thorpe-road, in the heart of Sherwood Forest. The poachers halted when about a dozen yards from the keepers, and in the immediate proximity of a heap of large stones. A number of these boulders the poachers placed in their pockets, end they then went in the net for game dito bethoen them, but as silently as possible. A. breecintigonm3tof, Bilsthorpe. The keepers quickly pursued tkeepersh e t o ok approached. -out, who A soon descriedp oach e appeared r the watchers, and hurled a large stone at them. Witness _intimated that it was high time to make a capture of him, and on wards the whole party dashed. In a shun time two of the poachers were overtaken and knocked down by the keeper's flails. As soon as this was dor,a, tfle keepers rushed after other of the poachers, one pooaNcvhbeormgthaveey aqusihckrillyi overtook ; he was also " felled" by a flail. Upon striving to capture a fourth, the turned round, and hurled lence, which struck one of the great ghouleepers on the discovered.der- Aft e r this, Theythe wwth:slhetj ae v, body ek stonees amountedp e d .ove r throwing a hedge,la large of poachers was sotaotnhess, must that they would m forty men. Tha keepers keepersas,tsaythninedmg rounded, and the poachers were ed us instantly One of the watchers contrived to get commenced iumtwrmletehermd itoahrsteetetalotyg fearfula nysinuei a r poachers, t andwith several,i n advance used df thees such success success that being followed by 4, felled" two or three. Upon the keepersthe going into the field, for the purpose of securing that had been knocked down, they were met by Robertsse deceased), who complained of being' hurt ink• ing he was seriously hurt, the keepers advised himm to go to " the house," and upon their arriving there he was insensible. The poachers had only one dog with them, a bull-terrier, which, however, they did not let loose. Besides Roberts being injured, another keeper, named Charlesworth, was hurt by a boulder. Roberts died on the lith inst. The poachers were armed with no other weapons except stones, and were not told to surrender previous to their being knocked down with the flails. The man who struck the de. ceased could not be recognised. At the time of our parcel being dispatched the in. vestigation had nut terminated, and it is currently believed that the jury will not agree as to their verdict, whether murder or justifiable homicide. It is, therefore, not improbable that another adjournment will take place.