The accounts from Inverness, down to Tuesday, represent the inhabitants
as keeping within doors, and the soldiers within their quarters. To relieve their ap- prehension of scarcity, one farmer caused the town-crier to gira.notico that ap- prehension
was ready to supply the inhabitants with potatoes in any quantity. The price is 168. per boll; being double the price of potatoes in ordinary seasons. A candle- manufactory, belonging to Mr. J. Forsyth, was burned down on Monday; and the surmise is that the fire originated in a spirit of revenge. Several of the more au- dacious rioters have been apprehended. During the encounter with the military, some stabs were given; but the sufferers are recovering. One soldier was dan- gerously wounded on the bead with a stone.
Some desperate affrays have taken place between the English and Irish labour- ers employed on the works of the Lancaster and Carlisle and other Railways in the North. On Wednesday last the military were called out at Penritli, to quell the rioters in that vicinity. Several outrages have been committed, and venous persons severely injured on both sides.
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