H UNTINGDO N, Sunday Evening, Nov. 28.—On Wednesday evening a party of
from forty to fifty men assembled in the village of Sawtry, in this county, and demolished two thrashing-machines. On the following evening, a more formidable party destroyed a very valuable machine on the farm of Mr. Sturton, at Alconbury Hill ; another at Mr. Dann's, at Stukeley Lodge ; and a third at Mr. Wright's, at Monk's Wood House. The party next proceeded to Buckworth, where they arrived between two and three o'clock in the morning, and immediately broke to pieces two thrashing-machines on the farms of Mr. Gray and Mr. Bowker. On Saturday morning, a party of about fifty having-commenced opera- tions in the neighbourhood of Stilton, the Reierend Mr. Gordon, at the head of several gentlemen and farmerii iftern Severe skirmish, in which one of the rioters had his arm broken, simieldedain capturing eighteen of the ringleaders, who wereiinmediately sent,' under a safe escort, to Huntingdon gaol ; and in the course of the same night, twenty-five of the gang were seized, and sent in Safe custody to the county prison, to- gether with three poachers, who were apprehended at their nightly aro cations, making a total capture of fifty in one day.
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