Star.
London, England, 1825-08-18 00:00:00

THE SILK DYERS.

Monday evening, a numerous Meeting of Silk Dyer,
took place at the Red Lion, Phceni:•street, Bpitalfieldss
to take into consideration the propriety of raising a
subscription in aid of the Bradford wool-comhers and
stuff-weavers, who are at present out of employment,
in consequence of a suikaior an advance of wages. It,
appears that the Committee.. by Whom their affairs are
regulated have dispatched-delegates through all the
manufacturing districts, to solicit the support of their
fellow-werkmen. One of those persons was present at
the meeting, and gave a melancholy picture of the
privations to which the people of BiaclfOrd trete subject,
but expressed their determination to endure the utmost
rather than return to work without the advance. He
stated, that the masters, in order to effect their prin-
cipal object—a breaking up of the Union"—had en-
deavoured to enforce obedience.from their refractory
workmen, by discharging the wires and children of
those who were members of the Union, and in cont.-
qnence 4000 persons were thrown out of employment.
A letter was read to the meeting, from which it ap.
peared that one house in Bradford had agreed to the
advance, and 300 bands had in consequence resumed
their work. The utmost gratitude was expressed for
the liberal manner in which the unemployed persons
had been supported by other work-people.
A sum of 101. was voted by the meeting, the members of *kith
entered with enthusiasm into the feelings of the deputy.

The Journal de Rouen, of Thursday last, contains
the following paragraph respecting the refractory and
riotous workmen in that city :0..14 The investigation into
the late affair is carried on with great activity; the
authorities are in pursuit of those rioters who have not
yet been arrested. and we may be assured that none of
them will escape justice. Prompt examples of just
severity will prevent the return of similar disorders. of
which the work;ng classes would be the first victims,
by its leading to the ruin of the establishments which
furnish them with the work from which they draw their
means of subsistence. The Mayor of Hoolme, who has
manifested mach zeal on the occasion, has perstiaded 4
past of the wotk men of M. Levavaseur to return to hii
manufactory and continue their work." • ,

A conviction-under the rew Combination Act, took
place at the Public-office, Itlrmingbatn, on Thursday last. Witham
Cross was charged with baying endeavoured by threats to force
-another journeyman sawyer, in the employment of Mr. Maurice
Shipton, of that town, to leave his employment. The charge was
fully proved, and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned, and
kept to bard labour for the space of three months.

Circulars have been sent from the Office of the Ma-
gistrates of the Eastern Division of Kent, pursuant to
a resolution passed at the last Quarter Sessions, re.
quiting all parish officets and overseers to forward
forthwith a return of all lunatics and insane persons
under their charge, and to state the general conduct
and infit mities under which they labour, which is to be
verified by a certificate of a medical person, and fur-
ther confirmed by the oath of the overseers at the next
Quarter Sessions.
The heat has been excessive at Guadaloupe, and fa-
voured the developement of the yellow fever.—A letter
from Point-a-Petre; of the 25th of June, says, that dis-
order rages with great violence, and almost all the Eu-
' ropcans have sunk under it. The mortality is said to be
greeter than in 1816.
DREADFUL ACCtoaNi.—As three men were de-
scending a coal-pit, called the Independent Pit, near
13team,,in the Forest of Dean, on Thursday last, the rope
by which they were descending unfortunately slipped,
and they were &tip tared to the bottom of the pit, a'
depth of. snore than 100 yard., and which of course
caused their twang death. 4n Inquest was held on the
bodies before W. Joyner Ellis. Esq. Coroner, when a
verdict was teturned of Accidental Death.

ST. PETERS73URGI4 JULY 27.
sendar.• the 114 tit, the Infant Grand Duchess Alexandra
fficolageisi was y baptised at Zarskoleselo; besides their
Itispetial Majesties, the Ministers, the Officers of the Im-
perial Hoinehdld, and the principal avn. and Minter); 0 fact"'
were present. The capital was illuminated in tht evening.
On the same 'day the Emperor and Empresses gave private
audiences to the Baron Von Domberg, the. Hanoverian Minister,
who has retuined-to this capital ; to-Sir B. Bloomfield, English
Ambassador at the Court of Stockholm ; to his Aid-de-Camp,
Capt. Bloomfield ;to the eldest soa of the Marquis-of Londonderry
(Viscount Castlereagh); to Mr. Robert. Kennedy, father-in-law of
the British Ambassador here; to his son Mr. Jelin Kennedy ; and
to Count Kielmansegge, attached to the Hanoverian Legation.

RUSSIAN SALVAGE.
of the Imperial Ukase, by which the Diving Corn-
psi y of St. Petersburgh is deprived o 7 all its privileges in the Duchy
et Finland :
" We, Alexander I. by the Grace of Gin, Emperor and As-
twat of all the Russias, Grand Duke of Finland, &c.
" Do hereby make known, that our Senate of Fin-
land having humbly addressed to us a representation
reporting in how far the privileged Diving Company
established at St. Petersburgh in the year lot the
purpose of rescuing ships and craft wrecked or suffering
loss on the Russian coast, in the Gulf of Finland, is
empowered, in consequence of said privilege, to ex-
ercise at present any exclusive tight of diving or salvage
within the Province and Government of Wcburg ; and
after taking the humble opinion -of our Minister of
Finance on the subject, we have been graciously pleased
to declare that the right of salving wrecked and
stranded vessels on the coast' of the Wy burg Govern-
ment, which was granted to the said Company under
the former Government of the province, shall, in con-
sequence of the altered organization of the said Govern-
ment, from hencefoath entirely cease ; and that on all
future occasions' of losses at.-- sea in that district, the
salvage shall be effected in like manner as in the rest
of Finland, which is to serve as a guide to all whom it
may concern. .

(" Signed by the Senate appointed for Finland in the
name and as the will of his Imperial )Majesty.]
" Helsingfors, March 10, 1925.
" Mem.—By letters from St. Petersburgh of the 17th (29th) ult.
it was the general opinion of the Russian merchants that the
Diving Company has no right to act in any part of the empire."