The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-20 00:00:00

SIII RIFF W.HUIEN'S PARTY DINNER.

Amongst the many party toa.vts which were given at Mr.
Sheriff Warren's dinner, die following appeared to await
general attention:—
" Sir George Dill and the 'Prentic: got, of Derry.'"
Air—" Croppies lie tlown."—( Loud applause.)
Inter Colonel Blacker thus returned thanks :
.

•• Gentlemen—lt is with great reluctanceTtrespass thus •
axiond time upon your patience, but it would be but • bad way to
recommend turret( to the approbation of generous minds, were I
to appear to have fired away all my ammunition no my own ac-
count, without reserving • cartridge for a friend. (Cheers.) Thaw
is not an individual whom you hare this night honoured with your
notice—Poem it not an individual whom you can npun any occarian
thus honour, inure thoerving of it than my repected relative sitar
health you hare just drank. Ilia principles are drawn, like your
own, from the pure fountain of the Constitution ; and, like you. !re
has niece feared to avow them—he has proclaimed them alike ar
the festive board, and in the lmperiel Parliament. The 1.6-al
• Prentice Boys of Derry,' I 117,v: the satisfaction of assuring you,
are unabated; and there is not a cheer fur the Protestant accnd -
ancy which this loyal corporation cat, raise but will be erhmid from
tlioie memorable walla, Fran whence bigotry and oppression retired,
batted and discomfited."

T lie roaring. Lion was peculiarly at home en tho °era-
sion but when he endeavoured to do justice to the merit
of his relative, he should reflect on tho conduct and
character of the persons with whom his name was associated.
We will ask the gallant Colonel, who are the 'Prentfor
Boys of Derry ? Ile may answer, with the raier of /Hander,
that they are the most respectable class of society hers.
This we flatly deny. The gentry and merchants of Derry
despise party, and deplore its existence as firmly as iu any
other part of the Empire, and the Worthy Baronet is un-
necessarily placed iu company with persons without in-
fluence in the State, or respect in society. However, the
gallant Colonel v..as perfectly right in declaring that
bigotry and wrrx,ian hare rrlired, h gird and disenlf!fikd,
from the walls tf Derry, as that fart is fdly proved by the
harmony that exists between :he Protestants here, and their
more numerous fellow-citizens, the Raman Catholics ; and
should the fountain of, ustice be occasionally sullied, when
the darkness of corrnpticn would hide the monster of op.
pression, such activity is used for its re-purification, that
its waters issue forth again in their usual purity and free-
dom.—V.l(T IlecorJer.

POTUL•TION OF laer.AND.—Summary from returns
of 1821, not yet printed :—lit Leinster there are
1,785,763 inhabitants : Munster, 2,003,363 ; Ulster,
2,001,095; and Connaught, 1,053,913; making in lre-
land a total of 6,816,948. _

RUNAWAY WIFE.—A large hand-bill Was posted at
Mary-la-bonne Office, on Saturday evening, describing the
person of a Mrs. Gurnell, who has eloped from her hus-
band's house at Chelsea, and taken with her 1,0001.
A liss 111.11.8 I'ARCI:I STOLEN.—Yesterday M0111:11r, at
six o'clock, a banker's pante!, directed to the house of Sir
P. Pole and Co. W 33 stolen from the coach-office at Maid-
stone. The person who was entrusted with it left it fee a
moment, on the counter of the coach-office, and on return-
ing he found it had disappeared. An alarm was imme-
diately given, but we understand not the slightest trace of
the thieves was obtained. An express was immediately
sent to town, and application was made to Mr. Brown. the
City Marshal. 'Measured were promptly taken to stop the
payment of the bills and notes, and at about two o'citek
`lr. Brown, accompanied by two active officers, went down
to Maidstone. 'f lie police have, we undetstand, obta'n,:et
intelligence of the track of rome,finnay men, or experiena
thieves, in that direction; but the particulars have not
transpired. The parcel was from the hank of Edmonds
and Co. Maidstone, and consisted of the sum of trStelf. 16s.
in cash, in different country notes, 4.4671. in draughts',
payable at sight, and 7,W2t. 9s. 6il. bills ; in the whole,
13,189/. .51. Gd. But the value of the booty obtained by
the thieves will be greatly diminished, by the prowl*
measures taken by the police.
GL ASGOW WrAcrus.—The experiment made with the
new workers at the cotton mill in Mile-end his succeed's!
beyond expectation. The new hands already make Taped
work, and in a few weeks will be as expert, as the olst
spinners. In consequence of the system of intimidation,
the +ix new spinners are obliged to carry lowkd pistols,
and only. work from day-light till the dusk. Almost every
night, after leavinc the work, they are followed hone by
numbers of evil-disposed people. and they sometimes have
to take r.filiy,e in the Calton police-office. Yesterday after.
noon, about four o'clock. a crowd, as usual, began to co"-
lect about the mill, which increased to at least five hundred
before it was dirk. Some designing persona wereobserved
lurking about the closes and corners of' the streets, veto
were the chief promoters in inciting those arvemlied. to
commence a disturbance. The crowd were much more de-
terminci than on the former occasion, and were b 4 nt on
violence and outrage. They cursed Mr. Thomas Connor
(who is particularly obnoxious, as he is the uncher of the
new hands) and his " nobs" to come out, anti they would
do for them. A general attack with stones was then made
on the windows. The workers were afraid to venture out,
and a messenger was twice despatched for the Calton po-
lice. As they did not snake their appearance, about w wen
o'clock the mechanics of the will escorted the new workers
home, by tlt-_tr, res. at considerable personal risk. The de.
lay in the arrival. cf the police, ('aptain Hamilton says,
was owing to his wishing to collect a strong party of Jay
and night officers before venturing to encounter such si
crowd. When they went out, they found an quiet.—Wass.
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