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London, England, 1819-03-22 00:00:00

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[ARCH' 22, 1819_
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PRI= OP STOCK* pAlt AT ONE O.CLCCK :
Bank Stock shut—Bank Long Anns. shut.
3 per Cent. kodg:ced t—A.,-'nfis. 74111
Cons. for Ae0.742 7+,1-3 ;per Cent. shut.
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4 per Cent. s4at.-.0-s..per-Cent. Navy 10111
Indite Stock shut.— bdia Bonds 30 prem.
Exch. Bills (2d,) 1 6 dis.

Some of our Contemporaries have been alarming
their Readers with accounts of projected insurrec-
tions in the vicinity of Manchester, and other parts
of Lancashire, &c. and have gravely asserted that
some thousands of young poplar trees have been cut
down in the plantations near Stockport toform
dies for pikes ! Where are the pike-heads? We have
been at some pains, causing inquiries to be made at
Stockport and the vicinity, and can assert with con-
fidence, that the above statement is a gross imposi-
tion on the public. There have been of late as there
. have always been, depredations committed in the
plantations named ; but proceeding only from that
wanton spirit of mischief which in towns manifests
itself in breaking of lamps and the like, without re-
ference to any designs against the Government. But
" that there will •be another turn-out in the districts
alluded to, and that at no distant day, is, we think,
as certain as that two and two make four, and what
mischief this may lead to cannot possibly be fore-
seen. The workmen, not only at Manchester, but,
throughout the whole of the manufacturing districts,
have, as we have more than once stated, associated
and corresponded by districts and divisions, and sub-,
scribed one penny per week each, fiir many months
past, in order to raise a fund, to maintain themselves
during another struggle, which they mean to make
early in the ensuing snmmer, to obtain an advance of
wages. Reflecting minds must shudder at the mis-
ohief that may ensue, whenever this tzern-out takes
place ; for who can contemplate, without dreadful
forebodings, the consequences likely to ensue from
the mere congregating together of so many thou-
sands of infuriated workmen, goaded to despera-
tion by repeated disappointment, without the least
prospect of any amelioration in their condition.—
Indeed the crisis is most embarrassing ; for instead
of the demand for labour increasing, so greatly
has the Manufacturing been overdone, that many
hands are weekly thrown out of employment in the
principal manufacturing towns, swelling the already
enormous ranks of those who are willing to labour
for an honest livelihood, but who cannot find em-
ployment. In Leeds, Dewsbury, Bradford, and other
considerable towns in the woollen trade, many hun-
dreds have lately been discharged on account of the
dulness of trade; nor is there any foreseeing where
the evil will stop. So late as Saturday last, one of the
principal Manufacturers in Leeds discharged 20 more
of his hands ; while smaller numbers were likewise
,dismissed from several of the minor establishments.

A Dutch and a Flanders Mail arrived yesterday,
from which we have given extracts in another co-
lumn ; and this morning two Hamburgh Mails
reached the Post Office, bringing accounts from that
quarter to the 12th inst. on which day the Exchange
on London was 33.2 a 33.5.—We subjoin the only
articles in the Hamburgh Papers deserving of notice: