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London, England, 1844-05-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1844.

The South Lancashire election has terminated in

the return of a monopolist, and yet
.its result is a
decisive triumph of Free Trade. A very large
majority of the freeholders gave their support
to BaowN, but their votes were swamped by the
tenants-at-will, of whom more than four thousand
were brought to the towns in feudal array, marshalled
by the stewards and land-agents, and held in disci-
pline by the threat of a'summary court-martial, in
case of desertion. The election has been also re-
marliable for a new division of parties; many of
those landed proprietors who usually side with
the Liberals, who became, on t his occasion, warm
adherents of the monopolist candidate, 'regard-
ing the struggle as one between the despotism
of land and the freedom of industry. They
stood by their order, and have thus shown the people
that, whenever proprietary usurpation is menaced, the
landlords, by whatever idle designation of party they
may be called, will be found banded together to
maintain their unjust and injurious class-ascendancy.
This was a lesson which many of the free traders of
Lancashire had to learn ; they have been hitherto
trammelled by old associations, and fettered by feel-
ings of attachment to titled leaders ; but they have
now been taught the real 'nature of the struggle
in which they are engAged; they now see clearly
that the despotism of land, irrespective of
petty and party distinctions,' is arrayed against
them in one compact body, and that they
have to contend against an entire class. The array
of the serfs, for the tenants-at-will are as much adscripti
glebe as ever were the vassals of a feudal baron,
would have been ludicrous if it had not been melan-
choly. Among the. bands thus paraded were
many whose sons and brothers depended for
subsistence on mills and factories, which furnish
them with the employment which the nig-
gard soil of South Lancashire refuses to an
agricultural population ; these poor fellows followed
their leaders with manifest reluctance, casting a
wistful eye down the by-roads and cross-streets as if
to seek means of escape ; but they were closely
watched by the stewards and agents, more closely
than are bands of slaves by Brazilian overseers.
It is said that a gentleman travelling in the
south of England during the war saw four men
heavily ironed, securely tied on a cart, :and escorted
by a file of musketeers. He inquired who the pri-
soners were, and was informed that they were
volunteers from the Tipperary Militia. There was
just as much volition in the tenants-at-will, who gave
their support to ENTWISLE, as in these truly Irish
volunteers.

man's evidence, and the petition, they.report to the
House ; but without expressing any opinion upon it.
The petition of KING to the House of Commons, sets
forth that during his residence in the Woodbridge
union workhouse, he had witnessed, among other
heart-rending acts of cruelty and neglect towards
the sick and other inmates of that establishment,
these : namely—" a poor man, aged 76 years, was.
cruelly bound to the-bedstead, the cord passing three
times over different parts of his body, to save the
trouble of (the nurse's) sitting up with him, during
the night ; in which state he was found dead, cold,
and quite stiff on the following morning ;" that pe-
titioner was acquainted with the names of several
other persons who were found dead in their beds,
having died in the night time, and on whose bodies
no coroners' inquests were held; that petitioner
could prove the facts of two such cases ; and of " other
two deaths caused by the extreme violence manifested
towards the individuals by the officers of the house,
and that as to these deaths the absence of a coroner's
inquest arose from the expediency of concealment ;
that petitioner having, in accordance with a sense of
duty, repeatedly petitioned the. Poor-law Commis-
sioners to institute a full and searching inquiry into
these cases, they had refused on the ground assigned in
a certain correspondence. -(which then follows)
between petitioner, the Assistant-Secretary to the
Board, and the clerk of the Woodbridge union). The
petitioner refused, under advice of counsel, to furnish
any previous list of witnesses to the Commissioners,
from apprehension of their being tampered with."
Our readers will probably imagine that there must
have been some gross exaggeration in such a cata-
logue of horrors as KING had thus opened to prove the
criminal misconduct of the parties in authority at the
Woodbridge union house. We are inclined to be-
lieve that of exaggeration KING has been guilty to a
great extent ; but, that one half, one tithe, of such
enormities should appear by the acknowledgement
and finding of the Poor-law Commissioiners7—them-
selves interested parties, and, we will say, in refer-
ence to their gratuitous vindication of the unfeeling
and most negligent master and mistress of the union
house—implicated parties too;—that a fraction of

At no former election did those manufacturers, who
arc renegades to their own order, and traitors to their
class, exhibit such suicidal zeal. They clearly proved
the truth of the old adage, that men set them-
selves furiously against reason so soon as
they discover that reason is decidedly against
them. Since the days of Peterloo there has
not been a more thorough manifestation of the bitter
spirit which animates those who are conscious that
they are apostates to the principles of their own natu-
ral order. The names of those who took a prominent
part in the. Manchester massacre, and which had for
years, for very shame, been withdrawn from public
observation, were on this occasion ostentatiously pa-
raded, as if such persons were anxious to show that
even in their ashes glow their wonted fires.
The revival of such spectral apparitions of the
worst of times revived many slumbering me-
mories ; but they were still doomed to feel
that they could now only command the votes of serfs
instead of the swords of cavalry. There was treason
in the manufacturing camp—there was union beneath
the agricultural banners ; but yet, under all disad-
vantages, the free traders have improved their position
by more than a thousand votes ; they have also learned
the exact force of the enemy ; they have discovered
the elements of falsehood, and therefore of weakness,
in their own ranks, and they have thus learned the
!proper course to adopt in order to ensure future
victory.

these atrocities has been committed, is a fac't which
calls on Parliament itself fur the sternest expres-
sion of its severe displeasure against the controlling
authority, under the jurisdiction of which—large,
inquisitorial, and well supported as it is, these
criminal delinquencies can have been committed.
They are a scandal to the national humanity
and civilisation ; a reproach to the county
of Suffolk; and a standing testimony to the im-
becility, as well - as the injustice, of that vaunted

"Poor-law Commission," whose whole career will
have been but one long drairi upon the public purse,
and one protracted outrage upon public feeling—if
they venture to commit themselves to such a mode of
dealing with such offences, as they exhibit in their
letter of the 20th of February last to the clerk of the

Woodbridge union.
An abstract of this report, and of the documents
embodied in it, which we giye in another part of our
paper, comprise this letter; and to it we earnestly
direct the attention of our readers.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 21st. On
the evening of the 20th the Royal Family had safely
reached Quintanar. The Carlist Chief, long a faithful
adherent of Don CARLos, and two of his officers, had
heen at last taken prisoner, and shot. The. Funds
continue to fall. On the 21st, the Three per Cents.
were done at 271 9-16 for cash, and 28 at 60
days ; and the Five per Cents. at 20 for cash, and
201 for 60 days.

they dreaded very much. M. de Kalbermattan is operating
a general disarming of the Lower Valais. The troops under
the orders of this chief were to occupy St. Maurice to-day
towards eight in the morning. They are also to occupy
Monthoy and the other communes as far as St. Gingolph.
There is no truth in the report of the burning of villages.
The only fires were those of the bridges, and of a few de-
tached buildings."
We read in the Courrier Suisse :—" In the midst of the
sad scenes of the combat of the Trient, where several Lower
Yalaisian leaders were killed in crossing the tozrent, we are
well pleased to cite the following fact :—M. Davey passed
without being wounded, but he was made prisoner. The men
who had taken him wanted' to shoot him on the spot. A.
cure, whose name, we regret, we are unable to state, pene-
trated into the midst of them, and said, ' Unhappy men,
what are you about to do ? Do you forget that before a pri-
soner is shot time must be allowed him to prepare for death ?
Let me confess him.' Thereupon he took him by the arm,
and led him without opposition to some bushes which grew
on the banks of the Rhone, and where they were soon hid
from sight. The cure returned alone, and when the men
asked him what he had done with the prisoner, he replied
that he had escaped."
THE BOURSE—MONDAY, MAY 27.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents •••••• 121 70 • • 121 80 •• 121 70 .• 121 75
Four per Cents.••.•• 107 75 .. 107 75 .. 107 75 .. 107 75
Three per Cents.•• • B4 50 .. 84 60 .• 84 50 .. 84 60
Bank of France .0 3075 •3075 .3065 ..3065
Laflitte Bank, I,ooof. SharesloBo ..1080 ..1080 1080
5,000 f. Sharesso62 50 • • 5070 .•5062 50 ..5070
Belgian Bank.. • • • • • • • • • • • • 665 • • 665 .. 665 .. 665
1841..••
Belgian Fives, 1840 .•• • • • 106 . • 106 .. 106 .. 106
1842 •• • • 109 .. 109 . 109 109
Neapolitan . 102 70 .. 102 70 .. 102 70 .. 102 70
Roman, ex div . • •••• • Mk • • 1044 a. 104 . • 104 k

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain 862 50 872 50 .. 860

.. 672 50

386 25 386 25 .. 336 25 .. 386 25
250 .. 251 25 .. 250 .. 251 25
Roman..

__...
Rouen to Havrc .... .. 775
Orleans
.... • •
_,..

In the due administration of the Poor-law, and the
efficient discharge of their duties who are entrusted
with the superintendence and protection, the manage-
ment and control of parochial paupers, every class of
the community has a deep interest. It is an interest,
indeed, much more immediate and absolute than cur-
sory observers can readily imagine. So long, how-
ever, as the inequalities of men's condition, and of the
means of maintaining themselves, remain as various
and as fluctuating as social constitutions have left
them—that is to say, subject to movements which
oscillate between the extremest points of opulence
and of penury—so long it is the obvious policy
of the fortunate few to consult the feelings
whilst they relieve the wants, to respect the sufferings
whilst they impose, for the sake of order and decorum,
some necessary restraints upon the personal freedom,
of those whom poverty or bodily infirmities have ren-
dered incompetent, of themselves, to alleviate those
sufferings or to supply those wants. It is the interest
of the few who enjoy the advantages of competence or
the luxuries of-wealth to conciliate the many who
cannot command the one, and know the other but by
name. The neglect of 'this principle is calculated to
precipitate events, the issue of which must always be
far more disastrous to the possessors of property than
to the victims of poverty. But its reckless and open
violation can work to no other result than to encou-
rage, in the pauper masses, the growth of feelings to-
wards the owners of capital, or of the property it com-
mands, which, if not checked by the timely manifes-
tation on the part of the latter of a willingness to
relieve all wretchedness that is not culpable—tO a cer-
tain extent, fairly defined and honestly and • impar-
tially acted up to—may eventuate, at any moment, in
some appalling and destructive collision of antagonist
classes.
On this mere prudential principle, therefore—and
witbout any present reference. to the higher and still
more imperative requirements of moral duty and of
social sympathy—we' would plead the necessity for a
most jealous and anxious watchfulness as to all cases
of imputed cruelty, misconduct, or negligence in the
officers and subordinate functionaries, from tke high-
est to the lowest, connected with the management of
the poor, under the new Act. The "First Report
from the Select Committee on Medical Poor Relief,"
together with the minutes of evidence attached to it
(ordered to be printed by the House of Common's on
the 22d instant), suggests the strongest confirmation
of the value of that vigilanee we recommend. We
must add,it illustrates the defective machinery and
unsatisfactory working of a system which too evi-
dently renders the Poor-law Commissioners judges in
cases where, if they themselves be not the inculpated
defendantt, their own creatures—subordinates within
their instant reach and control—certainly are.
The Select Committee report that they have consi-
deredgations compri.,ed in a petition referred
the allegations
to them of THOMAS KING, schoolmaster, late of the
Woodbridge union workhouse, in*the county of Suf-
folk, containing a complaint against the Poor-law
Commissioners; and that they have also examined
Sir Joan WALEHAM, one of the Assistant-Commis-
, sioners; in answer to such complaint, This gentle-

owing

The Paris papers of Monday announce the death
of the celebrated banker and politician, M. JAcQuEs
LAFFITTE. The melancholy event took place on Sun-
day evening, at seven o'clock. Ile had been suffering
for some time from a pulmonary complaint. A
favourable change had taken place in the morning,
and some faint hopes were entertained of his re-
covery, but soon disappointed. He was born in the
year 1767, and, consequently, had attained his
seventy-seventh year. From all accounts, he was a
man of very high character, uniformly consistent in
his politics, the unbending friend of liberty, and a
real lover of his country. Few men ever made such
sacrifices for the, public good. That the Royal Family
of France know well and they also know that to
him, more than any one individual, Louis PHILIPTE
owes his throne, though latterly this excellent man
was seldom or never seen at the palace. The follow-
ing just tribute to his memory appears in the Na-
tional :—" M. JACQUES LAFFITTE died last evening,
at seven o'clock, contrary to the hopes enter-
tained a few hours before of preserving him.
At four his state appeared more satisfactory, and it
was only at six that the change came on which in a
short time terminated his existence. Up to the last
moment M. LAFFITTE preserved his intellectual
faculties fully, and he had the consolation of once
more embracing those members of his family whom
he loved the most. The deep and sincere grief that
reigns at this moment in his house would prove, if it
was necessary, how excellent was his disposition.
Death, in fact, has rarely struck so noble a victim.
For more than a quarter of a century the name of
M. LAFFITTE has shone forth amongst us at the
head of the list of the purest patriots, and for fifty
years all persons in distress were accustomed to
turn their eyes towards him as towards a Provi-
dence. M. LAFFITTE committed errors in politics.
The generosity of his heart was such that he
could not believe in the perversity of' which some
men are capable, and this generosity rendered
him more than once their lupe. But the people,
whose feeling is so sure, never ceased to regard M.
LAFFITTE as one of their best friends, and they were
not mistaken. Every one has still in his recollection
the speeeh by which this great citizen bade farewell
this year to the•place of President of the Chamber,
feeling a presentiment that he should no more ascend
that chair, where he,had.inst uttered such unaccus-
tomed truths. FraiA not forget those words,
which are, as it were, the political testament of
M. J. LAFFITTE. She will not forget the man
to whom misfortune never applied in vain. It
may be asserted that if all those on whom M.
LAFFITTE has showered his benefits should attend
his obsequies, never will a prince's funeral have
drawn together in a concourse greater in number,
and formed of persons in a higher rank of life!
The funeral was fixed for Wednesday (this day), and
as it would to a certainty be attended by vast crowds,
the authorities were making every preparation for
preserving order. The Funds were slightly affected
by his death, but soomircovCred, and the Three per;
Cents. °kited at the prices of the previous day-
84f. 65c.

We learn by the Swiss journals that the fighting
in the Valais had entirely ceased. The forces of the.
Upper Valais have been completely successful in their
conflict with those of the Lower Valais, which are so
disorganised that there is little chance of their being
able to rally. Mest of the other Cantons have called
out troops for the protection of their respective terri-
tories. The Canton of Vaud have even sent a batta-
lion into the Valais. The question of convoking an
extraordinary Diet for the adoption of measures for
the maintenance of general tranquillity, has been re-.
solved affirmatively by several of the Grand Councils.
The Nouvelliste Vciudini df the 24th has the following,
under the head of Lavey, May 21 :
"The engagement which took place this morning in the'
defile of the Trient was an effort made by the entire column
of the Lower Valais to effect their retreat to St. Maurice.
The conflict appears to have been long. About 400 men suc-
ceeded in passing, by wading across the water up to the
waist, under a very sharp discharge of musketry. The resC
turned back to Martigny, to the number of about 200.
There; after having ascertained that they were surrounded on
all sides, they dispersed, with .a-view to escape separately,
though without much hope of succeeding. Messrs. Barman
and Joris formed part of this second troop; the latter •was
slightly wounded in the forehead. It is understood that they
have both succeeded in effecting their escape. The cause is
entirely decided, and the struggle is even finished. The
Valaisian volunteers who occupied the position in front of
St. Maurice have just returned, in consequence of the de-
mands made on them to do so. The prefect has given orders
vet to allow any man in arms to leave the canton. They are
.now bringing to the infirmary the wounded of both sides,
taken up from the place where they lay ; there are at present
sixteen of them. The number of killed in the last engage-
ment is supposed to be about twenty."
Under the head of Lausanne, May 23, the same journal
says :—" The mail from Italy yesterday passed the Valais
without obstacle. The conductor of the diligence has brought
word that the Upper Valaisiane are in number about -2,400
men, well armed and well organised, under the orders cf M.
' de Kalbermattan, and that they have provisions in abun-
dance. It was only yesterday, at four o'clock, that those
troops occupied Martigny. In taking possession of it, M. do
Kalbermattan issued a proclamation, inviting the inhabitants
to return peaceably home, promising them protection for
their property and persons.
The population of Martigny
viewed with great satisfaetiou this occupation, because it
placed them under protection from any attacks from the in-
habitants of the lateral valleys, particularly Salvan, whicb.

HE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1844.

AMERICAN NEWS.

DISGRACEFUL RIOTS AT PHILADELPHIA,
WITH LOSS OF LIFE.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 4 O'CLOCK.

The Royal mail steam-ship, Hibernia, Captain
Judkins; has just arrived, having left Boston on the
16th, and Halifax on the 18th. She brings a heavy
mail, and a large number of passengers.
The dates brought by this arrival extend over a
period of fifteen days, no sailing packet having brought
late papers since the arrival of the last steamer. The
only important intelligence in the papers is the ac-
count of a dreadful riot that had taken place in Phi-
ladelphia between the native American and the Irish
population, originating, it is said, in some difference
about the repeal question. Several lives are reported
to be lo3t, whilst two Catholic churches, two Catholic
school-houses, a Catholic nunnery, and nearly
dwelling-houses had been burnt down. The power
of the authorities and the police appear to have been
quite set at nought, and nothing in the way of in-
terference appears to have taken place till the fury of
the mob was spent.
The following accounts of these lawless proceedings
are taken from the American papers, and they may,
therefore, be considered as not too partial to the Irish,
who, by-the-by, seem to have beaten ihe Yankees to
their heart's content. When the latter fuund they
could not match the Irish in fighting, in a malevo-
lent and cowardly spirit! they set fire to the Catholic
churches and schools, as well as the dwellings of the
poor inhabitants.

(From thePhiladelpliia papers.)

The joyful shouts of the peaceful pithel-ink at Baltimore
aad scarcely ceased to echo through our land, when from her
fair sister city of Philadelphia arose the savage cry of an en-
raged mob, which has enacted scenes of riot and bloodshed,
certainly the most appalling that have over stained our
country's history, and almost without a parallel in atrocity
and brutality.
It appears by the United State§ Gazette that the Native
American party held a meeting on Monday afternoon at four
o'clock on a vacant lot at the corner of Master and Second-
streets, but before the meeting was organised a storm obliged
them to take shelter in the market-house near by at the
corner of Master and Cadwallader-streets. When the third
speaker rose to address the meeting, a man standing at the
outside of the crowd was heard to say to another, standing
next to him (both of whom are represented to us as being
Irishmen), "Now let's make a noise, so that he won't be
heard." - They forthwith created a noise, and were remon-
strated with by some of the bystanders, who requested them
to let the proceedings of the meeting go on in peace. They
would not cease their clamour,,and were finally compelled to
do so, in consequence of receiving a severe flogging.
This fight caused a little excitement, which was raised to
an intense degree, in consequence of several shots being fired
from the upper windows of the Hibernia hose-house, in
Cadwallader- street, fronting the market-house. By this volley
several wounds were inflicted, and the native Americans
gathered at the meeting, becoming highly exasperated, and
the Irishmen having gathered into ensob, they made an
attack upon them. A number of shots were fired from the
crowd of Irishmen, but they were. finally 'compelled to flee.
The native Americans pursued them, and several of the
fugitives, finding themselves hotly pressed, darted into houses
and up alleys, in order to escape. Several of the houses into
which they were seen to enter were immediately attacked,
and the front doors and windows of two frame houses in
Cadwallader-street, below Master-street, and one in the same
street above Master-street, were battered in with stones.
Finally, the Irishmen rallied, and beat off the native Ame-
ricans, and there the contest ended for the time. •
The worst result of this disgraceful contest is seen in the
loss of life. From the beginning of the affray the shots
were frequent, and one' man was killed instantly, and five
severely wounded.
The great excitement created in Bast Kensington by the
occurrence was intense.

Sheriff M‘Michael was early upon the ground, and we
learn adopted active measures to prevent further violence.
FURTHER PARTICULARS—TWO MEN KILLED.

During the evening great crowds of people were gathered
in the neighbourhood of .the scene of violence in the after-
noon, and about ten o'clock an attack was made upon a dwel-
ling-house in Second-street, just above Franklin. A cry was
then raised of " Go to the nunnery," and a crowd proceeded
up Second-street to Master, at the corner of which is a
Roman Catholic school-house. A bonfire was kindled at one
corner of the street, and the fence of the school-house set on
fire. About this time, when the crowd bad halted in front
of the school-house, a volley of musketry was fired from the
house opposite, and when the crowd had parted, it was dis-
covered that several were wounded; one young man was
. .

taken up. dead, a bullet having pierced his left breast, just
above the heart. Another was shot in the upper part of the
left lung with a bullet, and when we left Was expiring. We
were also told that two other men were seriously wounded.

The native Americans then retreated, and up .to twelve
o'clock (midnight) affairs remained quiet.
On Tuesday the riots were renewed with terrible atrocity.
In Kensington seven men were killed and a large number
wounded, and thirty buildings, including the market-ho Use,
were burnt. On the morning of Tuesday handbills were
posted about the city, calling a meeting of native Americans
at three o'clock ; before the time of meeting, however, a
large crowd of persons carried an American flag through the
streets, torn and defaced, having on it in large letters "Thisis
the flag that was trampled upon by the Irish Papists."
The speakers at the meeting at three o'clock vainly en-
deavoured to quiet the excitement. An immense body of
men, some 3,000, adjourned from the place of meeting_to the
scene of the' atrocities on the day previoits at Kensington,
where the following barbarous scenes were enacted, as appears
by the United States Gazette :
Most of those present moved in a body to KenSington (at
the corner of Second and Master-streets), and proceeded to
organise a meeting, but they had scarcely nailed up their
flag (the same that is spoken of above) when a number of
boys made an attack upon the Hibernia hose-house. A
number of shot were then fired from houses in the vicinity
towards the meeting, and the native Americans, after dis-
persing for a moment, rallied and attacked the hose-house,
took out the carriage, ran the hose off the reel, and then
broke the apparatus up.
The native Americans then (between four and five o'clock)
took possession of the market-house, and for the next three
hours, the shots were frequent from the houses in its western
vicinity. Men were seen lying upon the roofs of a row of
houses fronting the market ; and in every place of conceal-
ment near the same place others were occasionally discovered.
About five o'clock another attack was made upon the hose-
house, and a large new bell found in it was brought out into
the open square and shattered to pieces. Shortly after this
a frame dwelling-house next to the hose Ouse was fired, and
from that time up to nine o'clock in the evening, the flames
continued to spfead without stay until twenty-nine houses
were consumed, the greater part of them being upon Cad-
wallader-street;"and four upon the street facing the market.
About seven o'clock the market-house itself caught •fire,, and

at nine o'clock lay in a heap of ruins.
At seven o'clock the First Brigade and two companies of
the Third Brigade came on the ,ground, under the command
of General Cadwallader, and famed on Master-street, facing
north. Cannon were stationed so as to range on the street
fronting the market, and on Master-street westward. A de-
tachment of two companies, under command of Col. Murray,
marched to the north end of the market, and formed a cordon
across the street. The military had previously been formed
in like manner on Master-street.
The Sheriff then detached a number of his constabulary
force (which had preceded the military on their march up),
and proceeded to examine all the houses from which shots
had been fired ; in one of them a man named John Holmes
was found, and in the same room in which he was was a rifle
heavily loaded. He was brought out and consigned to the care
of the military.
In the meantime General Cadwallader made a brief ad-
dress to the great crowd assembled below Master-street,
urging them to preserve peace, and to act in co-operation
with .the The whole affair,!rested in the hands of
the law, and he was bound to see that ~the settlement was
lawfully made. His brief address seemed to meet the general
approbation, and during the entire evening the crowd of per-
sons collected seemed disposed to let matters rest in the
hands of the civil and military force.
At half-past eight members of the Carroll House com-
menced to throw water upon the burning buildings, and
succeeded in stopping the progress of the. fire northward.
At •nine o'clock the United States engine arrived on the
ground, under escort of a detachment of the Lafayette Light
Guards, and immediately went into service. The Assistance
engine shortly afterwards went into service, also under an
escort of military, and shortly afterward nearly the whole
Fire Department were upon the ground. The fire was
then stayed, but not until, a vast amount of property was
destroyed..
The result of the feW hours during which the contest
between the native Americans and the Irish raged was that
seven men were killed and five mortally, and 16 more or less
dangerously wounded, among them was: one who was
wounded by a shot fired by John Taggart. A negro, sitting
in the market-house, immediately fired at Taggart, and seve-
ral shot struck him in the forehead. Taggart. then ran-into
a house, but a number of the native Americans rushed in and
made him a prisoner. • • •
He was conducted down to Alderman Boileau's office, who,
upon the oath of the spectators, committed him to Moya-,
mensingyrison. He left the office in charge of two officers
and a number 'of citizens, but when- near BeaVer-street the
crowd took him violently out of the hands of his conductors,
tied a rope round his
_neck, and dragged him some distance
along the street. -
His captors then passed the rope over the end of an awning
post, and pulled him up for the purpose of hanging him, but
thebeam broke and he fell to the earth; he was then dragged
for some distance, and finally left- lying in the street, to all
appearance dead. He was, however; 'alive when taken up,
and remained so up to ten o'clock last' night. Ho cannot,
however, survive.
S. Abbott Lawrence, a nephew of Abbott Lawrence, of
Boston, was standing on the outskirts of the crowd, when a
bullet struck him and caused him much pain. It appearedl
upon examination, that the ball had struck his waistcoat, and
lodged against a cent which was in his pocket, by which its
course was stopped. The cent was completely bent up, and
the escape of Mr. Lawrence may be certainly considered pro-
vidential.
Sheriff M'Michael was unceasing in his efforts to put an
end to the riots. The military were called out at four o'clock
in the afternoon, and they were put in motion at seven o'clock.
Had they arrived on the ground at four o'clock, the terrible
destruction of life would have been prevented, and the confla-
gration would not have taken place. -
A meeting, of Catholics, we understand, was. held last
evening at the Cathedral of St. John, for the purpose of con •
sidering and adopting measures to allay the excitement.
The Bishop of Philadelphia issued an appeal to the Catho-
lics calling on them to shun all public places of assemblage,
and to do nothing that in any wry should exasperate.
The military remained on the ground during the greater
part'of the night.
There is reason to believe that the immediate danger is
passed and the riot quelled. Most earnestly do we hope that
it may be the case.
On Wednesday morning the rioting was renewed and a
row of frame dwellings, from which the tenants have re-
moved, were fired, and soon after another row, likewise
untenanted, just in the rear of Cadwallader-street, in the im•
mediate vicinity of the late fire, were fired and destroyed. A
short time afterward, two three story buildings, at the corner
of Jefferson and Washington-streets, likewise untenanted,
.were set on fire and shared the same fate.
HALF-PAST Two O'CLOCK.—The Catholic Church, called
St. Michael's, on Second-street above Master, has just been
fired, which, with the dwelling of the priest, on the north,
and small frame dwellings on the south, are destroyed. The
priest, under the protection of the military, quitted. his resi-

dence, and was carried away in a cab. It was with extreme
difficulty that ho secured a safe retreat.
I can o'cLocx.-=The female seratnary at the corner of
Second and Phcenii-streets has been fired, and remains a heap
of ruins.
During theburning.4 the church the mob continued to
shout, and when the crops at the peak of the roof fell, they
.gave three cheers, and adrum and fife played the Boyne
Water: Nothing now remains of the.beautiful gothic struc-
ture but its blackened walls. _ _ _

FIVE o'cLocx.—The seminary has been completely de-
stroyed. The temperance grocery store of Mr. Joseph Corr,
corner of. Phcenix and Second-streets,, opposite the seminary,
and from which it was said the volley was fired on Monday
evening, which killed Mr. Wright, was completely. riddled,
and everything in the house destroyed.
The firSt brigade, under the immediate command of Gen.
Cadwallader, has arrived upon the ground, accompanied by
SherifT M'Michael.

Six o'cr.ocK.—The rioters have proceeded to the house of
Alderman Hugh Clark, at the corner of Fourth and Master-
streets, and have entirely gutted it out.
The military arrived upon the ground after all the mischief
was done, and were there when we left.

SEVEN O'CLOCK.—By this time the district was compara-
tively quiet; the mob having apparently expended all their
wrath, and the military was posted in various sections.
HALF-PAST EIGHT O'CIA)CK.—ATICIIICT outbreak has oc•
curred. The house of Matthew Quin, in Master-street, be-
low Germantown-road, has been battered with stones. It
was untenanted. The mob forbore to set fire to the building
because it would involve a large number of Americans and
Protestants in the destruction.

Between eight and nine o'clock, Harroonr-conrt, consisting
of six or eight houses,- situated near Cadwallader,street,
was destroyed by fire. _ _

About half-past six o'clock information was received by
Mayor Scott that an attack was contemplat3d upon the St.
Augustine Church, in Fourth-street, below Vine, and that a
large crowd had already gathered in its vicinity. He imme-
diately repaired, upon horseback to the spot, with a body of
the city police, and addressed the crowd. The police were
posted around the chapel. The mass still increased. The
first city troop were immediately ordered out, and were upon
the ground in a short time;
In consequence of the stale of things, the Mayor issued the
following proclamation :
"There is reason to believe that the spirit of disorderraging.
in the county is about to extend itself into the city, and to
seek vent in the destruction of property and attack upon life.
All good citizens, desirous to preserve the public peace, are
therefore required to-prepare themselves to patrol the streets,
to resist all invasions of property, and to preserve the public
peace, by resistance to every attempt to disturb it.
" Each ward is requested to meet immediately at the place
of their'usual ward elections.
" JOHN M. SCOTT, Mayor."

-The crowd still continued to increase at the church, and at

ten minutes before ten o'cloc-, fire was communicatca to the
.vestibule of the church, it is said, by a boy about 14 years Old.
At twenty tminutes past ten O'clock the cross-which sur-'
mounted the steeple, and which remained unhurt, fell with a
loud crash, amid the plaudith of. a large portion of the spec=
tators.
In ten minutes afterward the steeple, which stood till burnt
to a mere skeleton, fell,'throwing up a mass of cinders.
AMOUNT OF Loss 'AND DISTRESS.—The St. Michael's
church and seminary in Kensington cost fur building from
35,000 dolls. to 40,000 dolls., and St. Augustine's not less
than 30,000 dolls. The amount of property thus far destroyed
cannot be less than 150,000 dolls. No less than 200 faiaulies
have been compelled to remove from their homes.
HALF-pAsT ELEVEN o'CLocK.-- The City Councils are now

in session, to take measures to subdue therioters.
A boy, fourteen or fifteen years of age, has just been
brought to the city police-office, who was arrested in at-
tempting to set fire to a vacant building in Kensington, near
the market-house. The fire was extinguished by the military.
The mob- has in a great measure left 'Kensington, and is
divided in squads at various points- in the city, and the
southern part of the country. .s • • ,
Fears are entertained that attempts will be made to. fire
other Catholic churches, and the military hive been strongly
posted in the vicinity of them.
The conflagration at St. Augustine's has nearly tibsided;
several houses in the immediate neighbourhood were injured.'
At this place -several of the police-officers were knocked
down, and the Mayor was struck in the breast with a stone.
TWELVE O'CLOCK.—AII avenues leading to St. Mary and
St. Joseph's churches, in Forty,_near Prune, and in Willings-
alley; have been guarded by troops, who suffer no person to
enter the space, unless they live in the square.
The fire now raging at St. Augustine's is occasioned by the
burning of the, magnificent library of books attached to the
church. They are piled up in front of the house, and made
a bonfire of.
(From the United States Gazette of Thursday morning.)
• uring the night hostile demonstrations were made against
the Cathedral Church of St. John and St. Mary's Church.
At the former General Cadwallader informed them that
martial law had been proclaimed, and allowing the crowd five
minutes to leave the ground, the mob dispersed.
At the latter the United States marines enfiladed the
street, and were brought to a charge. The mob dispersed.
No persons were killed yesterday, and but one (James
Lenox) wounded, and he not dangerously.
(From the North American.)
THURSDAY, HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK, A.M. About
eleven o'clock the Ist division were withdrawn from Kensing-
ton, and the Ist brigade marched to St. John's-chyrch.
. Kensington, in the meantime, was left under the protection
of only two companies from Germantown. The citizens of
that district were in great alarm, owing to the. absence of the
division.

ORDER RESTORED.
The latest accounts (Friday) state that Order is at length-
restored- in -Philadelphia, and law has the asceridaucy.
Governor Porter arrived .on Thursday afternoon and prOmptly
issued a proclamation for the suppression of the disturbances
and the arrest of the rioters. The citizens of the several
wards were also promptly organised for the preservation of
the peace.
All the officers commanding detachments were authorised
and required to repel force with force, and the Generals com-
manding. were authorised and required to enrol, arm, and 'or-
ganise, for the preservation of the peace, any number of
citizens that might be required.
During the day, a proclamation was issued, signed by the
Sheriff and Mayor, enjoining all good "citizens to: abstain
from mingling in crowds, to aid in preserving the peace, and
to stay at home as much as was practicable.
Another proclamation was also issued, signed by the
Mayor and Sheriff, announcing that citizens were forbid from
assembling in such streets as were in the possession of the
civil and military authorities, and authorising the said au-
thorities to break up any such assemblage by force.
. General orders to the military were issued by Major-
General Patterson, giving the directions for the defence of
the churches. •
The United States Gazette of yesterday (Friday) morning
says, " Although it was evident that much excitement
existed in Kensington yesterday, yet no.outbreak occurred.
Large numbers of men Were gathered about the streets, but
they were principally strangers, drawn thither by curiosity,
to view the destruction made by the bands of lawless rioters.
"In the neighbourhood of St. Augustine's church large
numbers were gathered, and a crowd was also gathered in the
vicinity of the church of St. Philip Neri, in Queen-street,
Southack, which greatly increased towards nightfall. .All
the Catholic churches were however guarded.
" The city councils Met last evening, and placed 20,000
dolls. at the disposal of the committee of police, for the pur-
pose of protecting the property of the community and ensur-
ing the public peace. The Mayor and Sheriff were actively
engaged during the day and night. Generals Patterson,
Cadwallader, and Hubbell, with their aids, were also con-
stantly employed in busy and judicious movements.
"We understand the Governor was accompanied to the
city by two companies of troops from Dauphin, and three
other companies are on their way.
"There has been but little disposition manifested to break
the peace to-day, though there is evidently a bad feeling
existing in groups of men and boys of the lower classes.
There is, however, a unanimous determination among the
military not to bear any more insults from this class of per-
sons; and the first breach of the peace will be put down
promptly by force. This measure is now absolutely neces-
sary, as the several posts within their jurisdiction have been
declared to be under martial law; we believe they will act
with vigour."
TWELVE o'Crococ, MIDNIGHT, THURSDAY.—We learn that
everything is quiet,- both in northern add eastern, as well as
in the other sections of the city and county. Not the
slightest dispoSition is evinced in any quarter, to disturb the
• .
comparative tranquility of the' eity.
The reported list of dead and ,wounded, as far as we have
been able to learn, embraces 14 killed, and 39 wounded:
" It is thought, however, that many persons have suffered
from these scenes of violence, who are not included in the
above list. The amount of property destroyed is probably
between one hundred and - two hundred thousand dollars,
which sum the county will undoubtedly be compelled to pay."

The proceedings in Congress since the last accounts
possessed little interest. In the Senate, the long-
argued Tariff Bill had been defeated, and silenced at
least for the session.

Nothing whatever is said on the Oregon question
or the annexation of Texas affair.

The House of Representatives, by a vote of 114
to 88, have agreed to dose their session on the 17th of
next month. The Senate will probably concur.

HAT TL

COMPLETE OVERTHROW Or THE MULATTO GOVERNMENT.
,From Captain Hoyt; of the brig Republic, who left Port
Republican 27th ult.,
. and arrived at New York, we learn
that the blacks have been entirely successful in their 'engage-
meats with the Government troops. nerard's forces had dis-
banded in the north, and he took refuge in Port Republican,
but was hotly pursued by a superior numerical force, and it
is believed he could not hold out many days. The Revo-
lutionists have established an independent Government in
the Spanish part of the island. The French Admiral lay. off
Tort:Rep, with three frigates,. waiting the issue of events.
lie would probably take possession of the island, and the ex.
pected failure of the Government to pay the indemnity due
to France would be used as a pretext for that purpose.
The black population have been fighting for a Republican
form of Government, instead of a militarfdespotism, and we
think the possession of the island will cost France much more
than any pecuniary advantage she can ever expect froth it.