the crowd, by which a spectator named James Bentley, was unfortunately killed. The cottages occupied by the families in the employment of Mr. Thompson, and subsequently the residence of Mr. Thompson, adjacent to the mill, were plundered and pillaged. The riots terminated about mid-day. The authorities of the town being powerless, a squadron of the 12th Royal Lancers, from Manchester arrived in half-an-hour after the termination of the disturbances, and at two o'clock, three companies of the 18th Regiment of Foot, also from Manchester, reached the town. A large body of soldiery were quartered in the town for several weeks, principally owing to the great mass of the operatives refusing to resume their work for nearly a fortnight, in consequence of an erroneous expectation that the working classes in other towns were on the point of organising a general resistance to the attempts then making for the suppression of operative trades' unions. Numerous persons implicated in the riots were apprehended, and sentenced, at the Lancaster assizes and Salford quarter sessions, to transportation and imprisonment* The coroner's inquest, relative to Bentley (the individual who was unfortunately shot), took place on the 18th of April, and terminated on the 23rd, with a verdict of manslaughter against James Isherwood, and James Donelly, At the following assizes, no bill was found against these prisoners. The funeral of the individual who lost his life during the riots, took place on Sunday, the 20th of April, at Providence Chapel cemetery, and in addition to a procession of 1,500 Independent Odd Fellows and trades' unionists, it was estimated that upwards of 20,000 persons were presenton the occasion.

Although a full share of the accidental conflagrations inevitably resulting from the inflammable nature of the manufactures have taken place here, the only

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* In consequence of numerous applications and petitions from the town, these persons, who had been sentenced to transportation for life, received a full pardon last year.

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