The accounts received from the manufacturing-districts this morning do not
materially differ in character from those of previous days. At Manchester, it is considered a point of some importance that Messrs. Birley's mill is again at work, though all the hands have not returned. Some of the factories in Stockport have been attacked, and the bands forcibly turned out ; and it is said that the Magistrates have received information of secret meetings, of a -very dangerous character. Yester- day morning a private watchman was beaten and stabbed. While Lord- Dartmouth pursues his endeavours to effect a reconciliation between masters and men at Westbromwich, in Staffordshire, some of the more riotous have created a new disturbance. A party of four or five hun- dred attacked the pits of Mr. Gilbert, yesterday. They threw a work- man into a canal, and hurled a skip and waggon down the pit to injure the workmen below. They beat off a body of special constables ; but some of their number were captured ; and a detachment of yeomanry cavalry dispersed them. In their flight, several attempted to cross a canal, and some were drowned.
The trials of the rioters have begun at York Assizes ; and at Salford Sessions they are to begin on Monday. The cases are numerous, but individually they possess little interest. A good many were convicted at York, on Thursday.
A bulletin, issued at Addington Park this morning, states that the Archbishop of Canterbury has had a good night, and continues gra- dually to gain strength. Mrs. Howley keeps well, although un- remitting in her attendance on the Archbishop.
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