The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-15 00:00:00

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RIOTS IN TIIE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.
The riots which took place in the early part of June, ii-
Silesia, have been foil- eed by others in Prague ; and IS:nil-
missions are sitting in both districts, to explore the real cause
of these excesses. From the various accounts from tilos.
districts, these causes are pretty plainly excessive lowness
of the price of labour, and, to a great extent, utter want of
work. For a long period the distress among the band-loom
linen weavers has been dreadful. This has now extended
itself to the cotton spinner,, and the description of the ap-
pearance of these work people—the fortnerly simple, peace-
ful, industrious, and happy inhabitants of the Silesian val-
leys, is heart-rending,. Pale, consumptive, weak-eyed men,
languidly gliding down from the mountains, staff in hand.
clad in their blue linen jackets, and bearing wearily the
bundle of linen to the master's, which they have woven at
eighteen-pence the 120 elk !is the picture of the linen weavers.
That of the cotton-spinners is worm, because it is more
morally revolting. Before Christmas some disturbances took
place—the disuses- lute ;elle or, niereasieee On the one
hand the formidable conpetition of England; on the other,
the strict closing of the trade aer,ss the frontiers with Russia,
Las at length brought the people to desperation. They at-
tributed all their miseries to the introduction of machinery,
• • and accordingly against that they turned their fury. Col-
lecting in a mass of more than a thousand, they marched
With a white curtain torn down from a window, and hoisted
oil a pole as a banner, and to the singing of a song which
'lad long been sung through all the district to express their
injuries, into the populous manufacturing village e of Peters-
Walden and Langenhielau, where they attacked the chief
factories, those of Messrs. ,Zwanziger, Hilbert and An-
' dritzky, and Dierig. Attempts were made to turn away
their fury by the distribution of money, but in most cases,
in vain. The fury of the rioters was terrific. Windows,
roofs, machinery, furniture, all met with one common de-
struction. The stores of yarn, indigo, manufactured goods,
spindles, Lee., were all carried out and flung into the mill
streams. During four-and-twenty hours that it required to
get-an order from Breslau for the employment of military,
this work of demolition and plunder went on. The soldiers,
Cott their arrival, fired on the mob, and killed thirteen on the
eamt, besides wounding many others. The rioters then fled
to the hills and woods, whence the soldiers hunted them out.
• Upwards of a hundred were conveyed to the prison at
'B9kweidniz. The Prince Adalbert of Prussia hastened to
13reetee, to ascertain the real facts of the case. There, also,
the mob manifested a disposition to the same excesses; broke
thestreet lamps, and the ;vindows of houses, and of the Re-
formed Ciitirch. No sooner did the news arrive in Prague,
than the cotton spinners also assembled on the 17th and 18th
of. June, and demolished the machinery of the factories, to
Which they attributed the lowness of their wages, and all
their consequent miseries. All these excesees, except those
at Peterswaldau, have been attended without loss of life.
, Thus Germany is beginning to taste some of the sours as
Noises the sweets of the manufacturing system. With ail
their ambition to become a west manufacturing power, and
t 9 make themselves independent of us, it is plain that,
spite of Our corn-laws, and excetseice, taxes, they find
it a severe contest with us ; and if these things
" are done in the green tree, what will be done
in the dry ?" if these miseries store them in the
i2re in the youth of their manufactures, what may
the expect when they have converted millions of their la-
bourers into spinners? It is a prospect that- nay well in-
spire the most serious reflections. In the meantime, the
Mauufacturers raise a loud cry for fresh import duties, not
Only on our fabrics, but on our yarns. Till they can make
their ownarns, they assert that they cannot fairly compete
with us, as they lose the profit on the manufacture of those
yarns: To effect this object, fresh duties must be imposed
both on webs and yarns. This now will be the vehement
cry on the Zollverein, and this our manufacturers must ex-
- Deet, for nothing less than this can remove the dreadful
misery that haunts the once happy Silesian valleys, or, in,
,deal, . save from preinature decay the manufacturing system
of Germany. At the root of all this forced and unnatural
• system lies our corn-late. Abolish that, and the whole
c99vulsive effort is annihilated, and a healthy exchange of
Our goods foi'their corn is secured to both countel4s,—Atlas.

DIARIES and CORRESPONDENCE of LORD
MALMESBURY. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1844.
James Harris, the first Earl of Malmesbury, who
was engaged in the public service of his country,
chiefly on foreign embassies, for upwards of thirty
years of his life, was the sou of the well-known
author of "Philosophical Treatises" and of f` Hermes,"
and was born at Salisbury in the year 1746. Is
father, who was Secretary and Comptroller of the
Queen's Household, sat in Parliament till his death in
1700; and it is related that when he first took his seat in
the House of Commons, John Townsend asked who be
was, and being told that he had written on Grammar
and Harmony, replied, il Why., then, does he come
here, where he will hear neither ?"—an apt and
ready sarcasm, worthy of Selwyn, or even. Sheridan.
The interest which the elder Harris's literary talents
had obtained for him among the leading men of the
time, enabled him to launch , his Son early into
public life ; and the latter's own undoghted
abilities, combined, with sound practical sense,
perseverance, and inflexible integrity, such as
was by no means common among the statesmen
FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE ON BOARD THE WATER-
of big earlier years, raised him subsequently to the
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"c eleven and twelve, a deplorable accident happened to highest diplomatic distinction. "Of his boyhood,"
a fine lad, taunt d Waller, oil hoard the Waterman says his biographer, " I Iran give no anecdote but the
li'artice, No. 6, when off Blackwall pier. It appears following one, which was related tp me by his kins-
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,43,-- the nnfortunate youth was what is termed a call- man, Lord Shaftesbury, and proves him to have been
Vixteid at times would a.E.sist in cleaning the machinery.
period above stated he was performing the latter a bold and act",ve lad ;-,--As Mrs. Harris was walking
with some friends, before hey house,
.in the Close of
duty "whilstPt the engine was at wnrk, a practice much
Adopted on board the smell riv r steamers, when, through Salisbury, she descried a per,sonPlimTung up the spire
Some unfortunate circumstance the huge revolving crank ,
of the cathedral, and having obtained a glass, the
eiught •
his head, and completely smashed '
it against the better t.o observe so perilous a feat, inUilez
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..ts., nom tallest steeple in Great 13ritain !" In due
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