The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-08 00:00:00

(From the Freonates Journal of Friday.)
THE .WORKMEN—MEETING IN TILE PARK.
.In our. Paper of yesterday, we noticed that placards hal been
posted about town, calling a meeting of the workmen to be held
in the Phoenix Park yesterday. Di conseque:.ce of this public
announcement, Mr. Greece, one of the MarUstriees of the Head
Office, and Mr. Studdart, one of the Second Police Division, pro-
ceeded to the Park, at the head of twenty. horse police, with a
reserve of forty of the foot patrol. On their arrival at the ap-
pointed place of meeting, the Fifteen Acres, they found an assem-
blage of about two thousand persons. Mr. Graves, in a hem, but
conciliatory manner, remonstrated with them on the illegality of
such a meeting, and admonished them instantly to disperse.—
Two persons, who appeared to assume a kind of leadership,
produced a copy of the Resolutions which were to be proposed
for the edoptton of the meeting. They were to this effect:—
" That, with every desire to be amenable to the law, they felt
themselves imperatively called upon to demand from their employ-
ers British currency, instead of Irish, which no longer existed. tin
being again warned to disperse, they. requested. a few minutes to
communicate the opinion and the wishes of the Magistrates to
the meeting. This was granted ; but the Magistrates perceiving
that a meeting of the delegates of trades was about to be called,
and that the people had formed a ring, they teed the Riot Act,
and peremptorily called on the people to -disperse. This tined
mandate was complied whit, seeing that the Magistrates were
determined to enforce their orders. The meeting slowly cho-
mped, the police attending them through the Park, and the
adjacent streets, mail they had completely separated by half-past
two o'clock.
Peace-officer Needham, and a party from College-street office,
were stationed in the Gas Works in Brunswick-sheet, on NVednes-
day night, in consequence of an apprehended attack on the men
employed in that establishment. Every thing remained quiet during
the night.
DISTRESS IN TIIE LIBERTY.
The adjourned meeting for the purpose of receiving the report
of the Committee appointed to administer the funds subscribed for
the .relief of the distressed weavers, was held yesterday at the
Royal Exchange, the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor in the
Chair. We were happy to ace the meeting very fully and respect-
ably attended. Among the persons of distinction present were :-..-
Lord* Rosamore and Clonctury, Archbishop Murray, Mr. J. Grat-
tan, M. P., Mr. H. Grattan, and Mr. Moore, City Members, D.
Latouche, Esq., A. Guinness, Esq., Mr. Blake, Chief Remem-
brancer, Sir C. Morgan, &e.
Mr. ObtovEs, the Secretary, read the report of the Meeting,
which was received and ordered to be printed. Several Resolutions
were proposed and carried, and the Meeting was addressed by most
of the respectable gentlemen we have named, as likewise by
several others. At the close of the proceedings, Mr. Home rose
to address the Chair, on the subject of the market and loan fund
for the operative weavers, which he had so frequently proposed to
be established.. The sense of the Meeting appeared at first to be
against entering into Mr. Home's views, at least at the present
Meeting; but after he had been heard for a short time, his ar-
guments were so convincing, that a sudden change of sentiment
Was wrought.
Mr. 11. GRATTAN' then !Ingested the propriety:of adjourning
this important discussion to a future day.
The meeting acceded to the propriety of an adjournment to
Saturday next. In the course of the proceedings, the necessity of
en immediate subscription, to relieve the present distress of the
working classes, was strongly urged by all the spea.kers. A long
conversation took place on the propriety of applying the money
subscribed to erect a testimonial to commemorate his Majesty's
visit to Ireland, to a loan fund for the operative manufacturers.
Mr. Home said, he had addressed a letter to the King upon this'
subject, which he read to the Meeting.
It was truly pleasing to observe the perfect unanimity of senti-
ment that prevailed in the Meeting, where persons of all creeds
and politics were assembled for the one great object—Christian
charity.
From the late hour at which the Meeting adjourned, and the
length to which the proceedings ran, we must defer a detailed es-
port of them to our next publication.
••••tetet-- —'''''''"'''''''''''''' ----- _ I
Friday, a little boy offered his services to the owners
of two potato carts, in King-street, Aberdeen, to keep a
look-out, which were accepted. Being mounted between
the carts, in a short time lie was discovered ever ant! anon
dropping a potato, from either cart, into the apron of
another boy, who was snugly seated on the ground. By '
this windfall the latter had collected a comfortable al-
lowance, with which he escaped ; and his companion was
simply discharged for breach of trust.—Aberdeen Journal.
A man was taken out of the river Tyne, on Tuesday last,
with his feet and hands tied so as to prevent him from
making any effort to prevent the approaches of death, in
case he had been so inclined, after he had thrown himself
into the water. It appeared that the person in question
was a Danish seaman, who had been employed in a foreign
vessel freighted to the port of Newcastle; and that having
shown symptoms of insanity previously, it is supposed'he
had, in the very singular manner above narrated, contrived
to wake au cad a himself.--X Chronicle.