Star.
London, England, 1826-07-20 00:00:00

ELECTION OF ALDERMAN WOOD.

Yesterday, the friends of Alderman' Wood -dined
together at the Albion Tavern, to celebrite hii election
as Member for the City of London.
Wu. Sums, Req. was Chair Man, and was supported by Al.
demise Wood, Rsq. SLR Joseph Hume, Faq. M.P. C. Tennyton,
Req. M.P. T. Binh, Esq. M.P. the Duke de Montebello. Std. ate.
After *every excellent dinner, the eIIAkIIIIAN proposed the f-
lowed teases, which were drunk seriatim: " The King, and may
he never forget the printiples which placed his family on the
Throne."--" The Duke of York and the Army ; may it ever be
adequate to the defence of the country, and neser prove dangerous
to the liberties of the people."—" The Duke of Clarence and the
Navy, and may neither the people nor the navy ever forget the
old motto—' that England's best bully/arks are her wooden walls.'"
—u The Duke of Sussex, our friend and fellow-citizen, the patron
of every liberal institution in the City."—t4 The People, the foun-
dation on which every Government should be created, and by
which, if it deserves it, every Government will be supported."—
" The City of London; may her -love of freedom increase with
bet increase ; may her intelltgence vow with her growth, and may
her example benefit and bless the world."-.-" The Lord Mayor,
and thanks to him for the liberality and sagacity of his Magisterial
determinations, and may his political chamfer keep pace with his
judicial one."—" A full, free, and. honest represuntitiou of the
people in Parliament." •
The CHAIRMAN. then said that he was about to pro-
pose the bealth of the Gentleman whose triumph they'
had met to celebrate.—(Applouse).—From his own
knowledge, he could declate that no man was more
punctual in the discharge of his Parliame( tary duty
than Alderman Wood. His vote was uniformly- re-
corded on the popular side of the question. The Hon.
Gentleman concluded with proposing "Mr. Alderman
Wood, and success to him whenever he presents himself
to the people of England? (Chaos).
Mr. Alderman Wows then rose amidst shouts of
applause, which were continued for several minutes.
He owed, he said, to the citizens of London, a debt of,
gratitude which he could never repay. He could only
hope to compensate them for their kindness, by conti-
nuing to act upon those liberal principles which had
first recommended him to their notice. He professed
himself anxious, as he had always been, to promote the
prosperity of the City, and concluded with proposing
as a toast, "The free sad independent Electors of the
City of London."
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the Duke of Monte-
bello, which was drankraid his Grace returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed, " Prosperity to Ireland."
Mr. Keane as a native of Ireland, and a Member of the late Ca.
thane Association, begged leave to express his thinks for the com-
pliment which had been paid to his country.
The company did net separate till a late hour.

Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Earl
of HAaUWIT, at his Mum in Grosvenor:square.
The Princess Auonsra was sufficiently recovered
yesterday as to be able to take an airing in her carriage and four,
during the afternoon, for about as hour and a half, for the first
time dam her indisposiden. The Duchess of GLovesafres dined
with her Royal Highness on Tuesday, at her residence in the
KistPalace, Sc. James's.
esday Alderman Sir preen [avant gave a grand
dinner at -the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street' to the
inhabitants of his Ward ; he was supported by his De-
puties of the Ward, Within and Without; and a num-
ber of the most respectable citisens, not resident in the
Ward, partook of the entertainment. •
It, is said that Government has issued orders far 1.
Commission, to be formed of a certain number of. Ma-
gistrates, and four Members of the Bar, King's Court.:
sel, which is to sit daring an appointed fief!, at the
Kerry Assists, when the entire of the transaction which
led to the fatal and melancholy deprivation of so many
lives it Trak*, will undergo the most solemn investi-
gation, and that the evidence adduced before the Coro:
ner's Inquests will be received, "and,.if fOutial *mess,
sary, some of the witnesses examined.
NORtH SHIRLD3, JULY 17.—Mr. BRAWSONT made
his public entry here to-day. Everything bad been
previously arranged for his reception, his agents having
orders to spare no expense on the occasion. White flags 1
were also hung out in great numbers, many ofwhich
hid also figured at Alnwick during the election. The
cheering was very slack, and wholly confined to the
men- hired to draw him. The concourse of spectators
was very great.
The following romantic story verifies the Proverb,
" Cast your bread on the waters, and you will find it
after many days,"-to the letter. Mr. Kinsman, a highly
respeitable butcher, near the Elephant and Castle, has
lately come into possession of a very considerable estate
,in the county of Devon; in a singular and unexpected
manner. A few years ago, a person having all the man-
ners of a Gentleman, but very much reduced in life,
drew the attention of Mr. Kinsman, by his frequently
coming to his shop for small bats oimeat ; from which
circumstance be entered into conversation with him, and

him in the greases possible distress, not only
I him with meat for his dinner fur upwards of

twelve months. but became his friend in many other
respects. About sit years since, the person disappeared,
and from that time, till within these few months, he
never heard anything of him ; and it now turns out that
he became postessed of very large property in the county
of Devon; at which place he died, a few months ago,
leaving Mr. K. the estate above named, which is sup
posed to be worth 5001. a year. Mr. K. will set off in a
few days to take possession.
. FSIIII Is Dunua.—We are wiry to say that a low
contagious fever, which has prevailed in many parts of
the City for two months past, has, durin;tbe last week,
had a very considerable Increase. This disorder is found
chiefly in the narrow streets of the "Liberty, and other
confined situations, ichich are the ordinary resoits of
poverty. Several causes may be assigned for the pre-
talence of fever at this time ; some of them adventitious I
and unavoidable. but one of them certainly which might
and which ought to be remedied, and which, to the
disgrace of the City, appears to be permanent. .We
allude to the filthy state in which the by4treett are
allowed to remain. No person who views the collection
of putrid vegetable and animal matter that is accumu-
lated in these streets can be surmised at the existence of
fever; on the contrary, the only matter of wonder is,
that we have se little contagion ; and wv have no hesi-
tation in saying, that were it not for the natural gala-
biity of the air of the City, situated at the foot of a
range of mountains, and with the tide flowing and
ebbing through the centre of it, we should never be a
summer without 'a malignant fever.—Freeman's Joan.
Thursday, Sir Rouen GO MM made a kind of tri-
umphal entry into Lichfield, where arches decorated
with oak and laurel were erected in the streets. The
Hon. Baronet proceeded to the Swan inn, where he
addressed the people, and in the afternoon a number of
'his friends sat down to the dinner given in honour of
him. Sir Roger Greeley took the first opportunity of
refuting the charges made against him, and after al.
lading to them in succession. solemnly denied that he
had acted in the treacherous and mercenary manner
ascribed to him. lie said bis only reason for abandon-
ing Evesham was that he could place no dependence
J:) 1 ;swats.

NtAt:-MO.S.
Lll Pltfßs, Jeyr, •
We have th:s week in. record an occurrence with
which our tdtvn ffas noriiiifieito for a period-of nint or
ten years been disgraeed, and which we imagined the,
increase of intelligence among our nativeinlisbitants,
had rendered no longer possible. At the market
upon Wednesday lag, a man • named R ibert Clerk,
a meal-monger in ltliswelltown, appeared at his usual
stand here in the morning,- and commenced selling hi.
oatmeal at 2s. 10d; per stone; but, perceiving that the
supply was not altogether adequate to the-demand, he
afterwards shut his sacks for a little, and then an-
nounced
his determination not to make any farther silos
excepting at the advanced rate of Ss. per stone. He was
immediately challenged for this improper conduct, and
some women having expressed themselves with consi-
derable warmth, he struck r.ne of the most forward, and
applied to others that degrading epithet which women
are least ratiene of enduting. A scuffle immediately
ensuei,atiti.vrotrid soon have proceeded to a dangerous,
extreme, had* not die meal-monger been nppottudely
seizedbfehe police officers, and tonducted to the C.ittti.-
cil Chamber to answer for his conduct. • He was there'
committed to the gaol, and afterwards released, on Pro-
curing bail to re-appear on the ensuing morning, and
await the decision of the Magistrates. With a foolish
confidence, which in the end cost hilts dear, he imme
diately returned to the market place, and on regaining
his old station by the side of his sackwhe proceeded to
open them, exclaiming to the crowd, that " Three shit-
, ling: Kab" was among them again, and that he now
would sell only at the still farther advance of ss. 2.1.
The crowd, *heady sufficiently exasperated, instantly
began to " hem him round," and commenced an attack,
from the fury of which he was obliged to retreat into
the house of Mr. Baird' n, which stood nigh at hand.
There, however, he Gumd but a temporary asylum.
His enemies i:i a short while demanded him of Mr. Bair-
den, and threatened the most summary measures upon
a refusal ; in consequence of which Clerk was of neces-
sity thrust out of doors, and forced to seek for shelter
in some other quitter. lie no* darted into a close,
which leads from the High-sweet down to Irish-street,
but a part of the mob, ass are of his intention, separated
from the rest, aid reached the foot of the close in time
to intercept him .here. Being thus caught, he received
a severe pommelling, but at length fortunately suc-
ceeded, all battered and bloody as he was, in escaping
from their hands, and reaching, after much exertion
and mancearting, the Maxwelltown side of the river,
where, in a house near the end of the New Bridge, he
securely ensconced himself for the night. The victors,
thus disappointed in their revenge, resolved to wreak
their vengeance, if not upon his person, at least upon
his property, and for this purpose they hastened to his
house, where they smashed some glass in the windows
and committed many acts of outrageous violence.--;
But,. br a strange. perversion of their first' feelings,
which shews, better than a thousand plecers, the blind
indiscriminating madness .of a 'lawless multitude, they
here stopt Aunt In their work of destruction, and rushed
towards the houses of the other- meal-mongers in Max-
welltowna to involve the• sit hole—the • innocent as well
Its the guilty—in one common fate.—The scene which
now ensued Wits description. Stones and other mis-
siles wets flying in alf directions; windows were
stisasbeil;door s forced, torah ore broken, and even stolen;
and sonfehouses, iri which not an obnoxious indivi-
dual resided, soon exhibited an appearance resembling
the effecti. of a bombardment. The damage thus
doile to many individuals, was great, and one in parti•
cular rates his loss at ipwards of 201. CPIs the Dumfries
side of thetiverothe police and special constables, by their
exertions, prevented in a sleet measure the fatal results
whkl might have been anticipated; but in Maxwell-
toWn there is no regular police or public body of stiffs-
tient 'power to suppress such general risings, and hence
the, fury of the mob raged there almost without con-
troul, until if might be said to bare exhausted itself
merely its own violence. Stones of all sorts and
sizes were flying in every quarter, and darting through
the windows{ and we heard of one of these afterwards
found in a house, not less than 101 pounds in weight.
About eleven o'clock at night the riot began to subside,
yet many perions paraded the streets until
...a morning,
and kept watch and
.watid at the mouths orEloves and
corners of streets, for they absconded prey. Clerk,
however, remained snug in his birth doting the whole
of the storm -; and next morning he made his appear-
ance in the Council Chamber, where he was amerced
in the sum of two guineas, and afterwards discharged.
A crowd again assembled, and waited his liberation in
front of the Chamber, but on his coming out he was
escorted to the head of Bank-street by the Police officers,
at which place one of them halted and prevented the
people from following him farther. Many, however,
ran down the closes, and overtook "their man," on the
Sands, along which they followed him to his own house,
but without offering any injury, farther than a few ex-
pressions of not a very pleasant kind. In the afternoon
Clerk announced through the town, by the public crier,
that he had on hand a quantity of meal for sale, at the
reduced price of 2.. 9d. per stone! This deprecatory
appeal will not, we hope, be lost upon the people, but
induce them to act towards him upon the upright prin-
ciple of " live and let live.",
We learn that an investigation into the ease has been commenced,
and is mill going forward, but as yet cm particulars et it are pub.
Illy lumws.--Doinfries and Gamey Ganrise.
H A it VEST.
The reaping of oats and barley has now continental on many
farms around Dumfries, and harvest, in a very few days, Min be
pretty eeneralskrooesout this district. On Monday the Roth
ear-
rent, a Geld of excellent potato oats were cut down ea the farm of
Gatesidei pariah of Newabbri. and last week several farmers is stir
r more immediate neighbourhood imitated the example.. On Mr.
GrieflOWS farm of Raeford, parish of paspost, her sera of out.
oats were also eurum Monday last, which are earliest ever ea
membered in that part of the country, and a Gentleman informed
us yesterday, that at Sanquhar. a place remarkable for its told mil,
he lately beheld some rye which was in a state of perfect ripeness. 0

Major WARiIIiTON has left Galway faigastlebar, to
inquire into the disturbances there.
The late Viscount NETTIRIIILLZ his bequeathed, by
his will, his seat of Douth Castle, in the county of Meath,
and vslious other properly, to a large amount, for cha-
r i table Tut poses.
Tuesday Mr. Cost presided at the Fiftieth Anoint
sal y of his Audit, for which he returned to Hulkham
from the fete at Felbrigg that morning.
Charles 11. once observed of a country Gentleman
with a very retentive memory, that he thought he might
014 of his store produce an amusing book of good say.
ings.., Yes," rejoined Rochester, who stood at the King's
elbow, a. provided that he inserts none of his own."
T.ie Commissnners arpoinrell by his Majesty the
King of Ssiosv to regulate the succession to the 'Maks of Goe-
bert Altenburg. it al the Envoys from Saxe Meinengen sod
SA:* Coburg, have been aseinsbkd for some time past at Zile,
burgh-use's.


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• SIANCIIEsnit .1 • ULY
The movements of thepeciple have entirely iubrae..l:
further- than their gathering In pinups at' the end of
the 'streets, and conversing upon their hard lot and
common -misfortunes. Two of the persons taken at
Middleton have been discharged, and four stand cnnt.
mined for want of bail. It was rumoured yesterdat
that a meeting-would be held at Oldham Edge, but
nothng of the kind took place. At Tandle Hill there
' was a slight assemasge of people, who dispersed with.
out et:kiting toanylesolution, or adopting any measure.
Nirt mach alteration in the market.to-day r deny, it
is rather for the better. Town goods are more in sea
quest, and..in consequence-of there being few on hand,
some trifling -advance has been observed in those
articles., Qtber Oescriptions manufact.rre are sta,
tionary. Few sales to any amount, bin no further de-
pressien in prices. That method of seeking a market
having been found of no use, manufacturers now seem
•
;to have hit upon aiiother plan of curing the glut. The
number of hands employed is very rapidly decreating.
This would have a effect upon the marker, did it
not precince one or effect
nature elsewhere.
There has been but one failure of consequence this week ;
that, however, is to a serious amount.. Report says as
much as 30,0601.

Buyers In the mutat—frees London, Laneson,Wilson, Hanson
and Stott; Greavee, of Reds; Berwick: of Dotofridgo-LRobert:
of Kidderminster; Owen, of Sbefield ; Wilton, of %* Acne*
Resseldoe, .of Lincoln; Chanibers, of Newark; Osborne, of
Tewkesbury; Blackwell, of Wirkswortb ; and Mason, of York:
An agreement has beeh signed by a number of the
most respectable spinners and power loom manufactur.
ens of Hyde Srayley B;idge, and Dukinfielsk, engaging
to work their factories only four days a week, for the
ensuing two month:, provided the other matters io the
neighbourhood will concur in the measure. The motives
for this step are to prevent further accumulation of stock
in the yarn and cloth market, and which is a very laudable
and important object, to obviate the necessity of making
any further reduction in the wages of the work people.
The earnings ofthe persons engaged in spinning mills and
in power-loom factories, have hitherto, when the parties.
were fully employed, been much better than those
of hand-loom weavers; and it is extremtly desirable
that they should be kept so; but thete seems at ptesent
no other way of doing this than by itb: idging the time
of labour. We trust the body of manufactu: ers in the
above neighbouthoud will act in this matter with nnani.
mitt' and good faith, and that no one, for the sake of a
little temporary advantage to himself, vnirthiak of
adopting a course which may tend to the permanent
•njury and degradation of thousands orbis fellow 'crea-
tures.—Manckester Mercury.