Star.
London, England, 1831-06-01 00:00:00

The hamlet of Hammersmith has been the scene of great
excitement during the last week, in consequence of a mob
having committed outrages upon the persons and property
of several of the most respectable inhabitants of Fulham.
The hamlet of Hammersmith and the parish of Fulham
were originally conr.ecied. but are now quite distinct. ex-
cepting toat the parish officers of Fulham hare been always '
accustomed to meet those of Hammersmith on Holy
Thursday, and to beat the bounds of the Hamlet in company.
A jealousy, however, has always existed between the parties,
but nothing personal ever took place till Thursday week.—
Mr. G. Bird, the overseer of Hammersmith, on that day re-
paired, with several of the parishioner. and the clergyman,
to Parr-bridge where they met several of the Fulham officers,
and the parties having united, they proceeded dowr the road
which was being made by the 3letropolitan Road Trustees ;
they had not gone far before the Fulham officers discoveted
that a water course which divides the hamlet and the parish
had been contracted, and they immediately urged their follow-
ers to destroy the brick-work. This was ~non done, but in so
violent a manner, that Mr.M'. Bin', a highly respectable hills-
bitant of Hammersmith, refused to proceed with them, anti
mining his horse's head towards home, left the patty.—
The officers then went on, and when they came to the boun-
dary mar Chiswick, the Fulham people bumped, as it is
vclgarly called, some grown up persona, and then collected -
around Mr. Attwood, the Clergyman of Hammersmith, and
threatened to bump him if he did not give them some money.
Mr. Attwood, from intimidation, gave 5.. The fellows then
by threats extorted ls. or Gd. from each of the Hammersmith
parishioners who were present, and bumped a gentleman
named Painter, who had given them money. Having thus
intimidated many, they again applied to the Rev. Mr. Att-
wood for money. He however refused to comply with their
demand, and they actually polled him off his horse and
immediately bumped him. The Fulham office:s then pro.
carded nn their course, and when they arrived at Acton,
their followers stopped a carriage, and extorted money
from persons in the inside ; they afterwards threatened to
attack a Mr. Coleman, an inhabitant of Haurnetsmith, but
he expressed his determination to lousecute them if they
touched him, and he was not further molested. They then
pulled elle. Gonnue off the box of a carriage, and nerved
him as they had previously done the Rev. Mr. Attwood.' The
Nosy proceeded across Shepherd's-hush to the house of Mr.
Hackett, in Wood-place; there they pulled down the iron
railing in front of the house, and brolie into his garden, where
they met and assaulted him, striking his head, which is
dreadfully cut, with large stones : they then bumped him
against a tree, and left him on the ground Weeding profusely.
Lady Cockburn's premises were next attacked, and the posts
and chains in front of the house were destroyed. Lady
C. is between eighty and ninety years of age, and was dread-
fully alarmed and agitated at the attack, fearing that the
mob would next break into the house. After quitting
Lady Cockburn's, they met a stout elderly gentleman,
named Spies; they immediately seizes] and bumped him
against an oak fence ; not satisfied with this attack on his
person, they went to his house, and cut and tore up the posts
in front ; whilst they were thus occupied, a lietht between two
of the Fulhamites ensued ; and seven police ffi..ers, who had
that minute arrived, interfered; Scrjeant Ted nan placed him.
self between the combatants, but the mob, alt :eh amounted to
700, immediately attacked him—knocked hint down, and his
sex companions in rescuing him were very roughly handled.
The police finding that they should be overpowered by
numbers, retreated, but were compelled to defend themselves
from the pickaxes and other weapons of their opponents.
Mr. G. Bird, the overseer, of Hammersmith, finding that
the police officers present, even with the assistance of the in.
habitants of the hamlet, could not contend with the rioters,
or prevent them front committing further excesses, sent off
to the Superintendent of the T. Division, with a request that
he would come with a large force to suppress the riot. The
seven police officers, attacked in the manner before stated.
retreated to the Beaumont Antis. When within the door they
attempted to make a stand, but the mob compelled them, by
throwing bricks and blocks of wood, to seek tefuge up stairs.
Two of the police officers were, however, imfortunate ; one
of them, a man named Wincoop, was knocked down; and
Macarthy, who had that day joined the police, was struck on
the stairs and felled to the ground ; the mob then broke the
railings of the staircase and bei.t him iu a dreadful manner ;
the poor man kept crying murder for n,..t,ty t quarter of an
hour, and his companions, by a desperate. etiort, succeeded in
getting him up stairs; they then locked themselves in an
attic, and remained there, the mob endeavouring all the while
to break in, until Williamson, the Su; erintendent of the T.
division, arrived with seventy men. Immediately
liamson came up with the mob, an inhabitant of Fulham, hay.
ring parochial authority, told him the mob were justified in
what they had done, and used language which was calculated
urge them on. Williamson replied, that if he continued to
use such inflammatory language, he should feel It his duty
to take him into custody. The person then became alarmed
and left the Green. The mob, however, were not to be dia.
persed so easily ; and it was not till after a severe fight that
twelve of the most active woe arrested ; the remainder rao,
treated towards Fulham, doing great injury to the premise"
of Mr. Scott, a Magistrate ; Ir, /fall end Mi. W. Bird, et
Brook-green. Williamson, at tile latter spot, took a pielt.
axe from a person who had been using it with great violence,
striking at the police whenever they approached.
The exertions of Williamson, the superintendent, bow
met with the approbation of the whole of the Inhabitants
Hawsmersmith, who feel confident that had he not thus Gss.
Lively collected his whole dispoiavde force and boldly attacked
the mob, murder would bare been committed ; and to testify
their approbation of his conduct, several of the most respects.
ble and wealthy Inhabitants have resolved to prosecute at
their own expense, the ruffians arrested by him. Wincoop.
Blatarthy, and Kelly, three police( Seem, who suffered most
severely, have not been able to quit their beds Kielce the affray.
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We understand that although M.r. Alexander
Lee and Captain Polhill. the proprietors .'f Drury-lane
'Theatre, have paid 43,0001. on account of the Theatre,
still they are losers to the amount of 1.2001. on the speeu.
lation of the season.
At half-past .11 o'clock, Monday, the Trinity
Company, accompanied by a Land of music, left their heat
In Trinity-square, and embarked on board six different state
bargee, at the Tower-staira, whence they proceeded to the
Trinity house in Church street, Deptford, where they Mud
according to annual custom. The admirals wore unifonnil
on the oocaaion.

All the Russian line-of-battle ships in the MO=
diterrancan, and one frigate, were to quit the station for the
Baltic in the early peat of this month. They will previously
go to Alexandria, to embark some articles of antiquity. Ad.
miral Ricord will hoist his flag in • frigate, until another
line.of-batde ship is sent to him, and which ship is now
hourly expected at Spithead. •
•
EM IG RATI 0 N.--By accounts from the Western
Isles, we are informed that many of the inhabitants there are
making arrangements for emigrating to North America We
season. It is but justice to say, that wine of the proprietors
are assisting their tenantry to take themselves and their fa.
miliee acmes the Atlantic. From the reduction of duty on
Barilla, andother causes, kelp manufacture, which enabled the
small tenants in those districts to pay their rents and support
their families must nowin a great measure be discontinued, and
the only way to get rid of the redundant population, is by the
" safety valve" of emigration. The difficulty and trouble
with which these poor people effect their own " transports.
don," may not be unworthy of noticing. The circulation
of money is very liMited among them, and their whole pro.
perty may be said to consist of a few black cattle and small
hones, all of which are made over to the emigrant's agent at
his own price, and which he sends to the south market. as
his own risk, the roof of their huts, their boats, in short,
every thing they have, must be converted into money by
him, before the necessary sum for defraying the freight can
be realized. The last summer beim), very cold: and wet,
pondered the crop less productive, particularly the potato,
mop, which is the principal support of the lower class, not
'only in the Highlands, but throughout the Western is.
beds. The low Deice of black cattle last harvest induced
inlay of the small tenants to keep an oretstock, anticipating
better times. The winter being unusually severe in those
.ffittricts, their provender ran short, and in onler to save their
property they shared their own provisions with their kyloes,
Which rendered in many instances families quite destittre ;
and by the time the seed is in the ground.,it feared that
scarcity may be general. It is hoped the proprietors, as
usual, will send sufficient supplies to their tenantry. We
understand that, particulatly In the Island of Rani, they are
in a most dieires•ing state. Huitdreds or the. people with
their hones and aerie may be sten Uppil tilt sande, at w
water, every tide, collecting cockle}, and other shell fish,
wine of which are carried on horseback uearly ten miles, and
which, along with" a a scanty supply of milk sometimes from
• starving ewe, sonstitutes the main aupp.in of many rand.
lics.—Perth Casuist. , .

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