The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-30 00:00:00

[FROM THE SAME PLACE. I

The privations of the Cotton Spinners at this
moment must certainly be great, since the receo
'of from twenty to thirty shillings per week, by
nearly every adult so employed—by very many
from thirty to forty shillings per week—and, in
.many instances, the latter •suins doubled by the
auxiliary strength of a family of children, work-
ing in the same factories with their parents, is
for the present ospended ; but the suTensiou is
a voluntary one ; the privation was self awarded.
The sympathy which the idea of so warty persons
being, possibly, without bread, is calculated to
awaken, is softened by the recollection, that em-
ployment, which will at once put an end to the
temporary distress they are now •suffering,, awaits
acceptance. We are given to understand, that
the wages-they have rejected are not only very
much superior to that of the major part 0: the vast
-population employed in the cotton manufacture,
but are also at as high a rate as can be paid, con-
sistently with the. existence of the trade, when
the rivalry of the Continent is considered, where
extreme cheapness of labour is made to compete
so closely with British ingenuity,British industry,
and British capital. lts our next we hope to he
able to state, that true policy has prevailed, and
that the spinners,%who, we are happy to observe,
rave conducted themselves most orderly during
their absence from their customary employment,
have again
,resumed the power of furnishing not
only the means of subsistence, but of comfort to
their families, without draining the fund intend-
ed for the hour of sickness--submitting to the
degradation of asking charity, or to the mean-
ness.of depending on parochial relief, when they
are enabled by their. own hands to secure inde-
pendence.

A most daring attack w•aS made on Mr.. and Mrs.
PRINGLE, of Haughton-street,. Tottenham-court -
road, early on Tuesday evening. They were at-
tacked in the fields by a gang of five or six per-.
sons, who, without notice, knockrd them both
&Juin, ant!. robbed Mr. of 71., and his watch,
And the lady of inn redicule, containing some sit,
ver. w. N G LE, Wha is infirm, was severely
beaten.—The ruffians. were disguised as sailor.

COURT OF CO:,IMON COMTIL.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was
held at Guildhall, tvhicli was numerously at-
tended.

ROYAL ADDRESSES AND ANSWERS.

The Lotto Ainvoa said he held in his band the
Answer of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent,
and of their loyal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Clarence and the Doke land Duchess
of Kent, to the Addresses presented to them pur-
suant to the Resolutions of the last Court of
Common Council, congratulating those Royal
Persons on the recent :Marriages of the Dukes of
Clatenee and Kent.

An. S. DixoN moved, that the Answers should
be read, observing at the same time that lie-trust-
ed the cause of the Addresses would afford to his
Lordship's successor more than one funzous oppor-
tunity for doing up will) Addresses of Congra-
tulation and tasting Court Candle—(A laugh )

The Altswers were read tind ordered to be en-
erect or) the Jnurnals.

'foe LORD MAYOR said he also held in his hand
a letter which he had received from Luird illorton,
the Queen's Ch,amberlain, on the subject of the
'Address voted to her Majesty, which httwished to
have read.

The letter was accordingly read, and was to the
follo,ving efrect,:7---" Lord Morton presents his
compliments to the Lord Mayor, and begs to in-
form him, that he has in command from:her Ma-
jesty, to express her Majesty's regret that she
could not have the satistactiun of receiving the
Address of the Lord Mayor and Common Council
in the usual way, on account of the state of her
heal h;' desiring that the Address should be
forwarded to Lord Morton, by whom it would be
transmitted so her Majesty."
On the motion of Mr. S. DIXON, it was ordered,
that the letter of Lord Morton should be entered
on the Journals.