Star.
London, England, 1826-10-03 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, Ocrosaft h

' A hook has been engaged fait Lord CHATHANI and"faMily, ott,tiVe
Marine Parade; and the Prince and Kittens Livens and suite,
who arrived yesterday, have taken poslession of Belle Yue House,
on the King's Road. The Portuguese AmbasSador, the Marquis
PALNRALA, who came in yesterday, is remaining at the Royal York
Hotel. The 'Duke and Duchess of Laustrraa are continuing with
the Earl of HARRINGTON; the Duchess of NIWCANTLR is their neat
door neighbour. Lord Pseaastraar paid a visit to the venerable
Earl, his father, last week, but has since left us. The Russian
Prince Goarenacors is remaining at the Royal York Hotel, where
the Karl of Gil/WALL arrived last night—the latter is also looking
oat for a family residence. Lady ilimmeas, and Doctor and Mrs.
GOODENOUGH, were the departures for town from the above Hotel

this morning.
We have bad a damp morning, but a pleasant afternoon. The
band of the sth Hussars have been harmoniously employed on the
Sterne, and the evening confluence of promenader* has embraced
the leading personages of Toe in the place.

BRISTOL, OCTOBER 2.

We regret to state, that a breach of the pease occurred I,
in this city on Saturday last, by the ship carpenters, who
have been for some time out of employ. It was not at-
tended with any great violence; but if the parties as-
saulted had been mere powerful, or there had been any
thing like a party of numbers, a serious and dangerous
breach of the peace might have occurred. It seems,
that some time ago, the master shipwrights wished to
reduce the wages of their journeymen is. a day ; the
men would only submit to a reduction of sixpence,
as neither party would concede to anything further, the
men struck, and several advertisements have appeared
in the papers from both parties. So far each acted in
the spirit of the laws passed on the reveal of the Com-
bination Laws, the masters combined to fix a maximum
on the wages they would give, and the journeymen com-
bined to fix a maximum of the wages they would re-
ceive. It seems that three men had given great um-
brage to their fellow-workmen, by accepting the re.
duced wages; they therefore watched their lodgings,
and on Saturday morning about six o'cicck succeeded
in intercepting one of them on his way to his work.
They immediately elevated him on their shoulders, and
forming themselves into a procession, paraded through
the streets of the city, and the parish of Bedminster,
for two or three hours. An outrage of this kind ought
not to have been tolerated for a moment.

The journeymen are greatly misinformed, if they
think that the repeal of the Combination Laws simply
removed the impediments to their assembling to agree
what rate of wages they would receive; it also gave
any single journeyman the power of dissenting from their
regulations. It gave him the power of selling his labour
at whatever price he chose to accept; and it specially
protects those who take less than the regulated scale of
wages from any interference or violence on the part of
their fellow•labourers.

The Journeymen must not think we entertain any
unkindly feelings towards them, because we deprecate
their using acts of violence towards each other. Unless
outrages of this description are repressed, not only is
the liberty of the subject violated, but, what is of
much' consequence, the peace of society at large is en-
dangered. Both are under the protection of the Ma-
gistrates, who have laws for the rule of their conduct
towards. offenders of this description. But we have
another m.)tive for reprobating their violence ; it is to
caution them against giving those who betrayed so much
jealousy at the, repeal of the Combination Laws, any
handle for applying to the Government for the re-enact-
ment of them. Evidence of violence like that on
Saturday, would deprive their best friends of some of
the strongest arguments hitherto used in their favour.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.-•-•SHAKSPEARS'S
gedy of Julius Ccesar was performed at this Theatre lase
night, to a brilliant and crowded audience. Mr. Yonno,
in the part of Brutus, played with his accustomed
ability ; in the principal scenes he was very effective,
and received great. applause. Mr. WA ROE played Gas.
sius (for the first time in London). His performance
throughout was marked with much d;scrimination--it
was a highly spirited piece of acting. Mr. C. KEMBLE'S
Marc Anthony was, as usual, excellent. The pelile Co-
medy of Clearks the Second followed, in which Messrs.
C. KEMBLE, FAWCETT. JONES, titc. played their parts
with much spirit and effect. They wet e powerfully as-
sisted by Miss M. GLoirsa, who has improved much
since her first appearance:
Theatrical performances seem to be losing specula-
tions not only in this country, but even in France. Of
all the Parisian theatres not two are profitable, and
many of the proprietors are in a state of insolvency.
The Porte St. Martin Theatre, notwithstanding its
monkey (Mazurier) and its monster (Cooke), has been
so unprofitable, that the enterprising proprietor and
manager, M. Merle, who is the author of some score
or two successful vaudevilles, has been compelled to
sell out, and the treasury of the theatre was in so ex-
hausted a state, that Ellar the Harlequin, Paulo the
Clown, and two others, who were engaged at a salary
of N. per week each, have returned to England without
having performed at all, the managers having frankly
assured them that they were unable to pay the salaries
agreed upon. The state of theatrical property in Eng-
land is wretched beyond description. Many of the
large towns which supported a theatre three or four
months in the year, do not now encourage even a week's
acting, and in many of the places where theatres are
open, the performers are almost starving.
SHOCKING ACCIDENTS.—Sunday evening, as a young
lady in the Commercial-road was dressing to join a
party, her clothes unfortunately caught the fire as she
passed by to another part of the room, and in a moment
she was enveloped in flames. The servant, on hearing
her scream, immediately came to her assistance, and
with great presence of mind threw a piece of carpet
round her, which completely extinguished the fire, but
not until she was so dreadfully burnt, that little hopes:
are entertained of her recovery.—John Wright, an as-
sistant labourer at St. James's Palace, was moving a
piece of stone towards the centre of the roof, when he
suddenly fell with the piece of stone into the area, a
depth of more than seventy feet : one of his thighs was
broken, and his agony, on lifting him up, was intense.
Being placed on a shutter he was carried to the West.
minster Hospital, where the broken thigh was pro-
nounced to be so serious, as in all probability to re-
quire amputation.
CARMEN.—It is not perhaps generally known, that
by a recent Act of Parliament, Carmen and others are
compelled, under a heavy penalty, to keep to the side
of the road, and not to run their carts in the centre,
when meeting a carriage. This Act, if put in force,
would operate to put down the obstinacy and pettinacity
of carmen, as any spirited individual now has it in his
power to bring the offender before a Magistrate and
have him punished.
It is repotted that the 64-gun man of war, building
at Marseilles for the service of the Pacha of Egypt, on
her being hunched, fell on her broadside, and bilged.