There is nothing further from Wolverhampton in the Morning Pa-
pers; but we have seen a letter of yesterday's date, from a gentleman of unimpeachable veracity, who was an eye witness of the—massacre shall it be called ?—on Wednesday evening. This letter confirms fully the principal facts mentioned in the account given in a previous column. It also states, that old men, women, and children, were cruelly beaten by the dragoons, and that a great number received sabre and
shot wounds. As a proof of the peaceable disposition of the populace, the writer of the letter mentions, that although the street in front of the Swan Inn leis been lately macadamized, :Hid there were plenty of loose stones lying about, on time morning after the alleged riot he could only count four panes of glass broken, though some say there were five. It was the breaking of the windows that afforded the Magistrates the excuse for calling in—not the constables or civil officers, be it remarked—but the infuriated dragoons. The Times says, that "the inquiries of Colonel ANSON'S Committee have been confined to what took place after the charge of the Dragoon Guards." This is not correct ; but if it were, the fact we have just mentioned, of the small amount of damage done, proves that there was no previous riot.
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