Star.
London, England, 1826-05-08 00:00:00

FROM THE MANCHESTER GAZETTE OF SATURDAY.

Friday, at noon, the turn-out power-loom weavers
assembled in front of Messrs. Clogs, Norris, and Ca. in
Miller's- street, and endeavoured to intimidate those who
were at emir. When the latter went out to dinner, the
turn-outs became so violent, that it it was thought ne-
cessary to send for special constables, who'succeeded in
taking into custody two of the most outrageous, and
conve)ing them to the New Bailey. The attempt to
prevent any person from accepting work is at all times
a most unwarrantable interference, but it is peculiarly
aggravating in times like these. We understand, th it
at Clogg and Norris's the people were assured, that
nothing but the badms of trade prevented them giving
an advance, and that to enable the weavers to earn more

these Gentlemen agreed that they might work full time
instead of four days a week. All the weavers, with the
exception of about thirty, were satisfied with this, but
the intimidation which was used forced fifty more to
join the turn-outs. •

NllOll TUE BRADFORD COURIZISECOND EDITION.

Curium-mews, Arnamens. Five e'Cr.ocz.
The Inquest has just finished which bas sat upon'the
body of Jonas Bairstow. The Jury, after hearing evi-
dence, returned the following verdict ;—., Shot by some
person, t. the Jurors unknown, in the mill of Messrs.
Hord:11 and Co. in preservation of the lives of the per-
sons and property therein."
There is no other person dead of the wounds re-
ceived last night than Joan Bairstow. It is not the
fact, as stated in a Second Edition of the Leeds Inteiii-
gencer, that Henry Pearnley died last night. Another
per son, Richard Thempson,was also wounded yesterday
evening in the leg.
Ammo Cranes, who was apprehended about two o'clock this
morning, was brought up foe eumination this forenoon, and fully
commeltted to Tsrk Castle.
There is at present perfect tranquillity in the town and neigh-
bourhood, and the meat Agonies means have been adapted to pre-
vent any repetition of lest night's transudes.
We are glad to anneunce that there has this day been an improve-
ment in the market, mere goods having been sold.
We learn from Blackburn, under the date of Thursday
last, that the return of tranquillity had brought with it
some symptoms of the revival of trade; 40,000 pieces
of band-woven calicoes have been sold this week, and
the manufacturers have given out more work to the
weaver's than usual. Horsfall and Garnett's works at
Low Moor, near Clithero, are again in full operation.
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

IMIIIII SATIIIIDAT 1NP11303‘114 MAT IL
The state of this town and neighbourhood has been
'lslet within the last two days, except some culpable
quarrels individually among the fellows who have
turned out from two of the factories, and who are desi-
rous of annoying those with better feelings, who retain
their employment at the reduced wages. One or two
of these workmen have been beaten, and principally
by sturdy women, whose pugnacious powers are likely
to be reduced by the discipline of the tread.wheel.—
The presence of the military has given confidence to
the manufacturing and trading interests, and both Lan-
cashire and Yot is+hire ar• now completely garrisoned.
Major Chester's troop of Horse Artillery, which made

•nch a rapil march from Woolwich, is stationed here,'
together with the Ist battalion of the 3d Regimeat
of Guards, and the ed battalion of the Coldstreams,
which left town by the Paddington Canal at one
o'clock on Monday, and reached Manchester at three
o'clock yesterday. A party of the 10th Hussars.
the 36th Regiment from Chatham, and the 58th and
73d from Dublin, are also here. The Rocket Brigade
is male disposable according to circumstances, and
other divisions of troops are stationed at Warrington,
Wigan, Charley, Preston, Blackburn, Bolton, Bury,
Burnley, Clithe-o, Rochdale, Oldham, Ashton-under-
Lyne, Hyde, Stockport, and Macclesfield ; and corn-
, municatioas are constantly kept up by piespets with
the ti craps in Yorkslir-. Besides the regular forces, the
Volunteers are ordered on permanent duty in the prin-
cipal towns, and the Magistrates are now every where
on the alert : the 'manufacturers, too, have well armed
their men, and the re i$ every probability that the season
of violence is past.
In the mean time several of the influential journey-
men have themselves published addresses to their fellow
workmen, strongly pointing out the inevitable danger
of these lawless attacks up na machinery. Indeed, the
blindness with which some of these cu•rages were per-
petrated strongly at eats their folly ; for power-looms
have been destroyed, which, so far from interfering
(according to the prejudice that prevails) with mere
manual libour, were actually idle for the last two

months; and the same infatuated spirit of attack wa,,
endeavoured to be directed against the long French
looms, which some enterprising manufacturers have
imported from Lyon*, to enable them to compete with
the approaching introduction of the French silks into
the British market. At Bvalford (Yorkshire) the most
persevering spirit of insubordimition has prevailed, and
epeatedly (particularly 14stWednesday eveni ►g) broken
out into violence and riot.

I have gone within the last two days into the quarter
of the town where the distress principally rage; and
taking merely two streets, apparently a fair sta tdard of
the population of the rest, I certainly witnessed scene.
of heart-rending misery, which, whet!►er they be said
to approach the crisis of starvation or nor, must speed ly
produce disease, and a mortality mote slow, istt as cer-
tain as starvation. In only tour houses in these two
streets did I see any thing like furniture—not for corn•.
orts, for these are no where to be found, but for actual

and partial necessities. Squalid wretchedness charac-
terized the inmates, and their clothing was barely cal-
culated to hide nakedness : the women and children
were miserable and desponding to a degree, and
these females, in the proportion of four t five, were
wrapped up in a single garment. Still, however—.
in the relative ratio, I would say,' ot five to seven
(estimating families)—some miserable pi Lance was
coming in from the earnings of one ot two of their
number. I saw twelve and fourteen individuals,
of whom six were children, penned up in a single room,
and a stool. and a small wood:nt spinning wheel ar
hand-loom, were the only articles .it .contained. The
resting. place, if there be such in a shed of misery so cir-
cumstanced, was is a corner, and consiited of straw,
that, from its varied colours, seemed to have been
picked up at different times in the stteets and stables.
This is not a single picture : it rather de-crib-s a cla s
of inmates forming the majority of the families in the
two streets I visited. In many instances this straw was
absolutely without covering, but in others there was a
ditty and torn piece of blanket, or cloth, or calico,—.-
often the tattered fragtuent ot some Article of dress. In
these cases, howevsr, with few exceptions (undoubtedly
there were some, I should say in the proportion of one•
fifth), some part of the fam ly Was earning something,
where there were lour and ix children each, one or.two of
the latter were picking up twopence and threepence a
day at some. sort of employ anent ; and in others,lhe
man or the women were, with their wheel, working up
some worsted or cotton, which I could understand
would, after the day's work. produce threepence or
leurpence for labour. This lamentable effort of industry
appeared just enough to enable them to eke out, with
whatever casual charity added to it, something
amounting to the lowest condition of human subsistence.
The state of Manchester is gra tually improving ; the
cotton trade is described at being better this week. It
is in consequence ot this improvement that these turns
out" among the workmen have taken place. The
"turns out" are, at least in Manchester, very discos'•
raging, for the parties are marked, and absolutely ex-
cluded from relief, and all the club funds have ben
long since exhausted. 0 the 91 refractory wo:kmen
who broke loose two days ago from the factory of
Messrs. Clogg and Co. 51 have gladly returned, arid are
to be re-admitted next Monday ; and of the remaining
40, 20 have espre.sed a willingness to resume work,
and will be permitted to do so.
Tire Magistrates, both yesterday and this day, had
the town placarded with bills announcing their deter-
mination to enforce the public peace, and warning all
persons from congregating, even in small groups, in
the streets, and particularly denouncing processions,
under whatever denomination. This is market-day ;
and from what I can learn, the state of business in par•
ticular branches (particularly the cotton trade) denotes
Anne improvement.
The main cause of all the disturbances hsv, undoubt-
edly, been poignant (Hitless for want of employment.
The extent of that distress it is, however, impossible to
ascertain with atcuracs. They merely tell you in
round numbers, thar nearly 50,000 of the adult labour-
ing poor of this town ire now throws altogether upon
charity for subsistence. This account, however, cannot
be correct to the actual extent of the statement, for the

following is the official table of the quantity and quality
of relief afforded by tickets for the current week. Each
ticket affords the holder 18 pence worth of food for the
week. This ticket is merely intended for one individual:
two are sometimes (but stldom) given in the same
family, but never, as 'far as I can learn, more than
three, and this very rarely indeed. So that, whatever

extent of misery may be found in a single family, the
administration of the quantity of relief does not exceed
this proportion. The following is an account of the
distribution of yesterday, for the week, for Manchester :
No. Of Bacon 'Oatmeal Peas. Herrings.
Tickets. lb. lb. mess. btu

Sudan 4,702 6,67! 35,1180 64 11
Oldham-road 2,533 3,053 22,560 40 0
Anew* 1,246 5,527 11,280 54 0
Wauuo-str►et 1,451 3,623 17,640 59 0
Minatoll-st. 2,373 2,962 11,140 SO S
Chorlton-row 1,128 1,196 7,152 57 0
Ardwick 265 163 1,621 lili 0

ISMS 211516 116,605 246 i Si
Food digtribited to the poor or Hahne, Friday, May d, 11.43111 b.
potatoes; 7sslb. meal; 20elb. bacon; U quarts peas.
These tickets are provided by public- subscription,
And their issue to the distributors is regulated by the
L pecuniary payment of each subscriber. Now it is cleat

from this meanest, that if there be 11,000 actually'
unemployed adult workmen in Manchester, relief,
making every passible allowance for the amount fur-
nished from the ro-rr•rates and Ovate channels of
charity, is not furnished for any thine 'hat number.
MANCIIIIISTX4I SARRINORT Art:miaow, Two O'CLOCK.
Nothing particular has occurred since Thursday. I
understand that of the 91 power loom weavers who struck
at Clogg's and Norris's factory, 40 only rem in out, and
that 20 of these are willing to return to their wet k, and
will return on Monday. On Friday morning these men
assembled in the hollow to the right of Oxford read New
Bridge. They also offered some annoyance in the course
of the day to the hands who still continue to work in the
Oxford-road mill. They were, however, dispersed by the
Police, and one or two (females) taken into custody.—
, Some little disturbance of a similar kind took place at
Messrs. Chadwick, Clogg, and Co.'s ne v mill. In the
mean time distress amongst the hand-loom weavers is
I rather upon the increase than the decline. A Gentleman
who is in the habit of visiting their house for the pur-
pose of administering reief to them from the public
subscription funds, informs me that it is Almost impos-
sible to form aily adequate idea of their wretchedness ;
many of the women, he sa,, s, were getting too weak
either to nurse or slick:e their children. Numbers of
females and children of both sexes are eagaged hi beg
ging, an employment which n Abing b it distress the
most dire can ever induce any consid:rahle part of au
English populati m PI engage in.
The fustian-cutter, have held a meeting, for Cie purpose of re.
commending their fellow towns/11t11 Dot to cope in any acts of
insubordination, and deprecating the destruction al power looms as
a proceeding which can only increase the distress of the w a.
Mr. Poetry, an extensive cot!ou spinner at Hulme, near Man-
chester, stopped payment yesterday. Tails gen•leman has bad
10,0001. of Gyvernment money on personal security of three indi-
vidu►ls. The consequences of this failure will be very disastrous
at Mime and its vicinity.
Six *Timor. —The market to day is said by some to have
experienced a little impruventent—hy others it is said to be worse.
BIRDIORD, SATURDAY MORNING.

The affair here, an Wednesday, was by far the most desperate

one on the part of the rioters which has occurred in the North.
From fifty to a hundred shots wire certainly fired before the dis-
persion of the mob could be effected. When the fact of the soldiers
firing with ball became known by the effects which it produced,
instead of alarming the rioters, it appeared for a time, at least, to
make them ten times more desperate, and individual instances of
bravery were exhibited, which in a better cause would have re-
flected the highest credit upon them. It is reported that when the
boy Fearniey was wounded, a young man took him up is his armss
mad having carried him into a neighbouring house, returned to the
scene of action, and commenced a second attack upon'the mill with
redoubled fury. Another man on getting his arm paralysed with
a shot, Instead of leaving the ground, still endeavoured to throw
stones at the•soldiers with his wounded arm.

A third, on receiving a shot through the hand, called out to the
persons in the mill, " you must give me more than that before I give
in." Indeed. so determined were the rioters, that it was evident
that if the Yeomanry had net arrived, and attacked them in the
streets, they would finally have effected an entrance into the mill,
notwithstanding the manner in which it was fortified, and the
firearms with which it was defended. The conduct of the York
Hussars was highly praiseworthy. No person was injured by
them that we heard of, though several of them were struck by the
stones. After the rioters were dispersed at the mills, a crowd
assembled in Darley-street. Colonel York, of the York Hussars,
observing these people, rode up to them, and in the kindest and
most conciliatory language, endeavoured to persuade them not
to engage in 'any more acts of insubonlinatieo. He said "his
heart bled for their sufferings, and he was extremely sorry to we
soldiers galloping up and down the streets of a town, whose inha-
bitants, he was convinced, had they not been goaded by the most
poignant distress, would not have.eonducted themselves otherwise
than with the strictest 'propriety." The kind and friendly manner
in which the Colonel addressed the people, appeared to have
a very good effect upon them. Lea poorrai.tham also addressed the
people in various parts of the town, in very conciliatory and judi-
cious languagi.
It seems that Bairstow, who was mortally wounded, was fully
conscious of his danger from the moment he received the shot. He
was in the act of swearing and exciting the people at the time he re-
ceived the ball, but no-sooner had that fatal event occurred, than
he fell upon his knees and began to pray. A few hours previous to
his death he was visited by his father, who had no sooner catered
the room than the unfortunate youth exclaimed—" Oh ! father !
father ! pray for me, pray for me." The old man replied—" Nay,
lad, I can do nothing for thee, thou shouldst have taken my ad-
vice and not gone to the meeting." Finally, however, he yielded to
the importunities of his son, and going upon his knees by the bed-
side, prayed for some time with great fervency and apparent devotion.
Bairstow continued to pray till his voice sunk away, when he almost
immediately expired. Ile was a cotton weaver at Queen's Hesd,
about five miles front Bradford. • Coroner's Inquest sat upon his
body lasn Thursday, when they founds verdict to the following
effect—" That the deceased was killed by a musket shot fired in the
necessary defence of the property of Messrs. Garnett and Horsfall."
Every thing 14 perfectly quiet in Huddersfield, Halifax, &c.
The market in Bradford, last Thursday, was ',suer than it had
been for three months before.

The Liverpool subscription, for the relief of the poor
in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Che-
shire, amounted, on Saturday evening, to 30001.
Loanos litaxantast Srmxtv.—Saturday, the twen-
tieth anniversary of this Society was held at Freemasons'
Hall, Great Queen-street, at which the Right Hon.
Lard Gasman, G.C.B. presided. The Report, which
Was real by the Secretary, was of the mist gratifying
description, in regard to the effect produced by the
exertions of this laudable Society, wish respect to the
education of the lower orders of the Irish. Thanks
were unanimously voted, and the Meeting adjournei.
It is a singular circumstance, that the two unfor-
tunate E ist India ships the Kent and the Royal George
sailed nearly at the same time from England, were
insured at Llpyd's at the same time, mostly by the same
underwriters, and met the same disastrous fate. And
it is no less remarkable, that the policies of insurance of
the latter ship were consumed in tie late CAIIMIIOUS
fire at the South Sea Chambers—although, to the
honour of the parties interested, this circumstance will
be of no consequence in recovering the loss.
Several of the clothing villages in the neighbourhood
of Leeds have become unusually active in the course of
the last week. The arrival of another order for the East
India trade, principally for smart light fabrics, usually
called ladies cloths, has given this partial but salutary
impulse to the manufactures. .
01 DIVONSKIRZIII DZPAILATURC, &C.--
His Grace proceeded to the point of embarkation on
board the QLOLICESTIM man of war, on Saturday last,
Accompanied by the Steward of his Household, Mr.
SPINCER RIDGWAY. The plate occupied was dispatched
by a transport, lying at the Tower Stairs, on the prei
ceding day. It forms a complete service, and consists
of sixty thousand ounces. The field of the table is
completely filled with magnificently wrought silver
plateaux, covered with candelabras of the
.most exqui•
site workmanship, with groupes of figures, supporting
flowers in every appropriate situation. Ten. massive
wine-coolers, the sculpture quite unique, give a noble
effect to the coup Ica. The table-service is complete
for a regular dinner fur sixty persons, with all the
paraphernalia a In Francais. - The spoons, forks,-&c.
are quite new in device. The whole. filed twenty im-
mense chests. Twelve Noblemen and Gentlemen coal-
, posed the suite.

FASHIONABLE" INTELLIGENCE.
FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK.
Tab Evemuto—The Duke of Northumberland's grand Omer
party. and the Duchess's evening party, Northumberland House ,
the Marchioness of Camden's first grand assembly, Arington.
street; the Countess of Jersey's party,•Berkeley-square; Lady
Ntraee's tout, Old Burlington-street; Lord Itedesdale and the
Hon. Miss Mitford's ball, Harley-street; Mrs. Chaplin's party,
Welbeck-street.

Te-stessow—The Countess of Arran's card party, Diver street ;
Mrs. Thomas Chaplin's second assembly, Grafton street; Lady
Long's assembly, Richmond terrace.
W Y —The Dowager NI archioness of Salisbury's assem-
bly, Arlington street ; the Arch'ishop of York's ancient snuck
dinner, Grosvenor square.
THURSDAY—The Marchioness of Lansdlwn's grand rout, Berke-
ley square; the Countess or Arran's assembly, Diver street; Sir
William Abdy's music party, Hill street; Lord and Lady Duties
party, Dover street.
FRIDAY—Lady Campbell's rout, Rakes street; the Hon. Ural
Hope's assembly, Mansfield street.
SATURDAY—The Countess of Arran's card pasty, Dover street;
Sir William Abdy's music party, Hill street.
Sex:me—The Countess Sr. Antonio's concert of sacred music,
Hanover square.
PARTIES.
The Duke of Athol entertained a distinguished party at dinner
yesterday, at his Isi.u.e in Great George street.
The Earl and Countess Gower entertained the Marquis and
Marchioness of Lowdown and a large party at dinner yesterday,
at their house in Hamilton place.

Lord Colchester had a grand dinner party yesterday, at his house
in Spring gardens.
The Right Honourable William iluthisson had • Luge party
at dinner yesterday. at his home lo Somerset place.
The following distinguished personages had dinner parties yeller.
day—The Honourable Charles Wynn. Whitehall place; Mrs.
Coots, Piccadilly ; Colonel Cuff, M.P. Whitehall place • Lord
Berwick, Bryanston square; the Earl ef Shaftesbury,- GsWeencor
square.