27 NOVEMBER 1830, Page 14

POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS. SPat tArOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, ' NM

o'cLOtk. *4P1 have. just seen a gentleman who passed through Berkshire and Wiltshire, on his Way from Bristol, yesterday ; and took pains to learn the state of the disturbances in those districts. He informs us that the prompt and earnest co-operation of the higher and middling classes had almost subdued the riots. At Bristol, so great apprehensions had been entertained, that the stage-coaches could not obtain passengers. He assures us, from what he saw, that there is no room for such alarm. The coach by which he travelled, had occasion to stop, in consequence of a slight accident; and there immediately issued forth a body of sturdy people, with short thick sticks, to protect them from what was supposed might be an attack of rioters. The general impression among all classes is, that the peasantry have not been the authors of the fires ; but, on in-