Star.
London, England, 1826-05-04 00:00:00

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We basest to be compel/ell to say, that the turbulence is far
more extended than we conceived, and as violent as the condition
of a starving people can make it. Sedition and disloyalty have
nothing to do with the present Hots, unless we call it the sedition
of the belly. The people are absolutely in want of the necessaries
of life to support their exigence, and their children are famishing
before their eyes. Another man has died of his wounds • and a
youth, living at Oxbeigh, Tottington Higher End, has been dis-
covered wounded in the abdomen. Seven individuals have now
died in that neighbourbned.—When the Riflemen first fired upon

the mob they were concealed behind a garden liedge,and were there-
fore enabled to take aim with the greatest deliberation. Whilst
they were hid there, and when they had discharged their rifles, a
working man assaulted them with stones, and walked deliberately
away ; this be did repeatedly after the soldiers had fired, and re-
treated, snapping his fingers in their face. This daring behaviour
made one of the officers had I a company of such de-
termined fellows as that, Ed storm bell, and make the devil
prisoner."
IRON TH B MANCHUTZR MIRCURY, MAT 2.

We understand that a large proportion of die power loom factories,
in this town and its inunediate neighbourhood, are already well
provided with Are arms, and other formidable weapons of defence,
furnished from the Government stores, at the request of the autho-
rities here, who have strenuously u►ged the propriety of every owner
of such establishments defending his property to the utmost.
PRIVATE LETTER,
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" Bummingi MAY 1.
" Our Committee have often discussed the subject of employing
the poor, but cannot fit on any plan likely to answer for such a
large number of able-bodied men and boys as might be selected out
of fourteen thousand individuals. Our workhouse is crowded to
excess. It is calculated to accommodate about five hundred, and
now there are more than seven hundred. The overseers find great
MI-Cony in getting employment for this number: many of them
are employed in repairing the roads !belonging to the township.
" The town is very quiet. No attack has yet been made on
Low Moor, but Messrs. Garnett and Horsetail have fortified their
works, and riflemen sleep in the mills."

The following Address, by the Rev. W. JOHNSON,
A.M. to the Inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Si,
George's Free Church, Manchester, was published on
Saturday, and was very attentively read by the Work-
ing Classes :

Natosmouas--I have been amongst you many years. Have you
found me your enemy or your friend 1 If I have been your friend
and faithful adviser, ready to comfort you in sickness, and to assist
and relieve you as far as I have bad the power, I think you will
hear what I have to say, and if my advice is good you will follow it.
I know your distress, and hard is the heart that does not pity it.
I know. too, that till Thursday last you bore it with such patience
and peaceable demeanour as obtained you the good will of the
whole town. On that day, before any of this disturbance broke
out, a numerous Meeting at the Police-race resolved to begin a
new subscription for your relief, and upon a much more extended
scale than the last. To this your Gracious Sovereign added, out of
his privy purse, a munificent gift of One Thousand Pounds. Had
your peaceable conduct continued, the fund raised would by this
time, I am persuaded, have amounted to five dines that sum; but
sorry am I to say, that some of you have suffered yourselves to be
led away by the worthless and the idle, and have committed ex-
' mews which Dotting can excuse.
Of the well-disposed I know there are many, very many amongst
you, if they would but As'', themselves like men—but they seem
afraid of doing their duty, and look on, almost with unconcern,
whilst the work of plunder and destruction is going forward. And
to what can ibis lead, but ro make the matter worse? If the
dealers ice provisions are t have them taken away without being
paid for, who do you think will bring any. provisions to Manchester?
and then, what will become of you ? If travellers and others are
to be plundered as they come into the town, who do you think
will trust themselves in Manchester to boy you: goods? and then
whit will become of the trade you have kit, or how can you get
more to set your looms to work again? Does not this skew, that
those who ate committing these depredations are the greatest ene-
mies to the poor ? And what good can arise from the destruction
of factories ? The kiss you know will not fall open the owners' of
them • the whole neighbourhood will have to pay for the damage
you do ; so that the principal effect will be, that you depthe those ,
who are employed in them of the little work. hey, have, and add to
the distress that surrounds you.
Do. then, let me persuade you to be peaceable. On many occa-
sions you have listened to me with attention, and received me with
kindness which I shall never -forget. I think you will believe my
advice is intended for your good, and will be disposed to follow it.
Let me then recommend you, and especially such as have young
people under their control, to keep yourselves and your families, as
much as posuible at home, andvonsequently out of danger. Do not
join or follow any mob, nut even from curiosity, for you will sad
to their number.. and to their apparent strength. Refrain front
giving them encouragement by shouts or by cheers ; and persuade,
as much as you can. those with whom you have any influence, to
join you in assisting the Cavil Power when called upon.
Some stop. it is true. has been put to the subscription for your
relief; but the moment the present disturbances are appeased, it
will be renewed, I have no doubt. with alacrity—so that a much
greater number of food tickets may be distributed, and great care
will be taken that those who most want them shall have them.
I know the disposition of the Town's Miters is to do all they
can for you ; but you must first be peaceable ; for while riot and
plunder prevail, yon leave them no time to consider how they can
best serve you.--Ile peaceable. then, I entreat you, be peaceable.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, A. M.
Curate of St. Oeorge's Free Church.