The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-22 00:00:00

STATE OF MANCHESTER.

MANCIIESTER, THURSDAY.—The disturbances detailed in my
last communication (dated Tuesday night) were renewed yes-
terday. Several assemblages of people took place in the
neighbourhoods of St. George's-road, Oldham-road, Ancoat's-
lane, and Bank-top. A great number of special constables
were out, in addition to the regular police force, and every
effort was resorted to for the preservation of the peace of the
town and the protection of property, without calling in the aid
of the military ; but a piquet of cavalry was stationed in the
police-yard, in order that communication might the more
speedily be made with the officers in command at the barracks,
if assistance were required. Mr. Thomas, the excellent de-
puty constable of this town, made very judicious arrangements
with respect to the civil force placed at his disposal ; and by
sending active officers into every district, he obtained every
half hour throughout the day, a report of all that was going
on, and more frequently if occasion required.
One of the most formidable of the mobs above alluded to,
committed several outrages, and was evidently, for the most
part, composed, not of the poor weavers—not of those who
have been unhappily betrayed into violations of law and pro-
priety by the operation of commercial embarrassment, and the
consequent goadings of severe privation—but of thieves and
vagabonds, who invariably take advantage of seasons of cala-
mity and temporary disaster to commit depredations. But, for-
tunately, such characters are too well known to an active po-
lice, to permit of frequent success in such attempts ; and many
of the rabble who have on this occasion disgraced the cause of
the suffering class to which they affected to belong, will find,
to their cost, that they will be dealt with accordingly.
Detachments from the mob in question entered a number
of shops in their progress, and demanded relief in money or
provisions. The dread of violence in most instances induced
compliance with the demand ; but if the compulsory gift were
not satisfactory to the recipients, they insolently assured the
party that their shop should be marked for pillage—that it
should shortly be stripped of every thing it contained. The
terror produced by these threats was so great that a great
number of shops in all parts of the town were entirely closed ;
and in the neighbourhoods in which this system of barefaced
plunder was practised, scarcely a shop was to be seen open at
noon yesterday.
At Bank-top, where portions of the mob were engaged is
effecting forced loans and obtaining involuntary contributions,
some of the police, in taking the ringleaders into custody, were
roughly handled, One of the officers, named Daggett, vres
knocked down and severely kicked and beaten, and the hand-
cuffs, with which he was endeavouring to secure a prisoner,
were taken from him and broken. A number of the offending
parties were, however, taken into custody. Two of the pri-
soners taken on the preceding day, were yesterday brought up
at the New Bailey, and severally ordered to find two sureties
in 201. each, and 24 hours' notice of such bail to be given, in
order that its sufficiency might be ascertained. They were
both severely lectured by the magistrate, as they were nei-
ther of them weavers, but able-bodied young men, capable of
performing any labour at which a living might be obtained ;
but they had not been previously known to the police.
At two o'clock yesterday afternoon a meeting of weavers
and others out of employ was holden in St. George's.fields,
in this town, and several hundreds attended ; but as the meet-
ing was not so formidable in point of numbers, and they were
closely watched by the police, but little was done, and they
soon dispersed.

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The promise of relief made by the town's officers to the
deputation of weavers, on Tuesday night, produced the at-
tendance of nearly 800 individuals at the town's office yester-
day ; but though many were relieved, great numbers of gross
impostors were detected. A still larger number, it is ex-
pected, will present themselves to-day.
In consequence of a supposed misunderstanding, the fol-
lowing circular has been widely distributed in the neighbour-
hoods most affected :

" The Boroughrecve and Constables of Manchester having
been informed that their reply to the deputation of the hand-
loom cotton weavers, last evening, has been somewhat misun-
derstood, take this method of stating that the parochial officers
have undertaken to pay immediate attention to every represen-
tation of distress which may be made to them and that means
are adopted to afford relief, without delay, to all such as real',
require it.—Town-hall, King-street, April 19, 1837."
The prospects of trade are gloomy in the extreme, as it is
the opinion of the best informed on the subject, that we are yet
a long way from the worst situation to which we must come at
last. Private letters from America are of the most discourag-
ing description, and the large houses here arc stopping their
credits, in the hope of avoiding, if possible, the necessity of
stopping themselves.

THIER'S CELEBRATED HISTORY OF Tilt
FRENCH REVOLUTION.--This most interesting narrative of
the greatest event of the age, is about to be published by
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of the chief actors in them ; so that the reader will be able!'"
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nesses. The present edition will be enriched with portraits of
the most prominent characters who figured at the time, and
with views of those wonderful scenes which constitute the
French Revolution one of the most astounding events the
world has ever known.

MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW WORK, "J4CIC
BRAG."—The brilliant and caustic author of the vo-
lumes has produced no pleasanter work than Jack Brag.''
There are none, either of his own, nor of any ether author in
the same department of literature, that will contribute more
copiously to the amusement of the reader, than the comic
and multitudinous misadventures of "Jack Brag." Of the
characters there are several which might have been, and which
we are, therefore, tempted to believe have been, drawn frot?
life. Indeed it is one of the great characteristics, as it is
also the most triumphant test, of Mr. Hook's talents es°
painter of human life and character in our own times, that his
personages have all, more or less, the air of old acquaintances.
They aro no " air-drawn bubbles ;" no fanciful and arbitrary
creations. They are, to parody the poetical definition of

" What all have seen, but none so well described"
as the shrewd and laughter-loving limner of " Jack Brag."--
Morning Post.
TIIE MUTINY AT SPITHEAD.—Perhaps, among
all the momentous occurrences connected with the Naval
History of Great Britain, there is no one so important and sin-
gular as the " Great Mutiny of the Channel Fleet at Spit'
head." Every additional incident that is disclosed—every ne'r
view in which this extraordinary affair is regarded—seems to
augment the untiring interest that it never fails to call forth:,
In the new naval novel of " Gentleman Jack," the author o
Cavendish" makes his hero take a prominent part in one o'e'.
the mutinous line-of-battle ships, which leads to his being
towed ashore on a grating by the mutineers. The whole 1.
this operation is described, together with a Court-martial o
the men on some of themselves, in a way which convinces us °:„
the truth of the report that the author has had placed at Iv.'
disposal true and actual data from some officer who was ail
eye-witness of the scenes detailed.

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BIRTHS.
On the 17th inst., at Burton-on-Trent, the lady of the Rev-
Harston, of a son.
On the 17th inst., at Blackheath, the lady of Captain Reilly, °f
the Bengal Engineers, of a daughter.
On th 17th inst., at Streatham-common, the lady of John 01'
bert Tate, Esq., of a son.
On the 18th inst., in Great Marlborough-street, Mrs. Wallis, °f
a daughter.
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On the 19th inst., at Stockwell-place, Stockwell, Surrey, --
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Wm. W. Fenning, of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at South-grove, Hampstead, Mrs. BeauMe°
Atkinson, of a son.
On the 20th inst., at Barnsbury-park, Islington, Mrs. 111idaW
ditch, of a daughter. C.
On the 18th inst., in Shaw-street, Liverpool, the lady of
Chapman, Esq., of a son. lady °f
On the 17th inst., at Stotfold Vicarage, Bedfordshire, the la 4
the Rev. A. W. Chatfield, of a daughter.

MARRIED. -flatbt
On the ISth inst., by special license, in Queen-square, ft,
George Purefoy Jervois, of Herriard House, Hants, and the
DI to
Wiltshire, Esq., to Anna Maria Selina, eldest (laughter of the la
Wadham Locke, Esq., M.P., of Rowdeford House, Wilts. the
On the 20th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover-square,,_ira.
Rev. Augustus Morgan, Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, pond
son of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., of Tredegar, to Frances, set
(laughter of R. Lascelles, Esq., of Upper Grosvenor•strect. Lioare,
On the 17th inst., at Maidstone Church, Peter Richard "biter
Esq., eldest son of R. Hoare, Esq., of Clayton Hall, Lancefibter
and of Kelsey, Kent, to the Lady Sophia Marsham, eldest (IV
of the Earl of Romney.

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