Star.
London, England, 1826-05-11 00:00:00

The number of persons committed from this place is twenty.

MANCHESTER, TUeSDAY E•ZIKIXIII, MAY 9.
Matters still continue greet here, but a few local
failures in the commercial world have caused some
unpleasant interruptions in trade. The prompt pecu•
niary aid sent fr ma the subscription in London has been
put in course of application, and the poorer classes
appear not only resigned, but grateful. There is not
the least reason to think that they can now, in this
neighbourhood at all events, be induced to commit any
aggression upon their late employers.
This day's market was crowded, but the general deal-
ings in the raw material were slack. Ho.vever, this
circumstance is accounted for, without any particular
influence from the late disturbances. The week before
the races (they are fixed for the 16th inst.) is always a
dull time of manufacturing trade, most people being
then preparing for the coming sport; and besides this
cause, a more cogent reason is assigned, in the fact,
that the great canal which forms the line of communi-
cation with London, is this week closed for business,
the water being partially dia.% n off, for cleansing the
bed of the excavation. This operation is performed
once a year, and it always, and necessarily, affects
the town trade. Placards issuing from the better
and mote influential older of workmen, cautioning
the less reflecting of their comrades against combination
and violence, have been very widely circlulated, and
attendeJ by tl e best eff cti. All the accounts brought
into Manchester this day, by those who attended the
market, concur in affirming the tranquillity of the
neighbouring dis ticts. These ate still daily augmen-
tations to the military lotce, but these precautionary
arrangements appear no longer necessary. They Wier:
maintain excellent discipline, and have really acted with
great forb,•arance, unler cticum.stances calculated to
arouse men's tempers.

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MANCIIMXR, TUMMY NIGHT.
The sensation produced by the breaking of power
looms having a good deal subsided, nothing is now
talked of here but the badness of trade, and the distress
of the people. Indeed, much as has been said upon this
latter subject, it is far, very far, from being exhausted.
or adequately described. Many of the more cat efal and
industrious weavers, who a few months ago were in a
state of comparative comfort and plenty, are now re-
duced to a state of wretchedness quite indescribabl .
These pt.or people had laboured ha. d—they had " risen
early, and gone to bed late, and eaten the bread of cat e-
fulness," and by this most praiseworthy conduct, they
had contrived to get their little abodes decently fur-
nished, and, themselves comfortably clothed. But the
"hard times," as they express it, came; the price
of their labour from little was reduced to less, till
at last they had Ito labour to perform. Then every
spare article of wearing apparel belonging to them-
selves and children was pawned or sold ; and at length
their household furniture ; the feather btid and the chest
of drawers, upon the possession of which they SQ much
prided themselves, followed toeir clothes, and left their
dwellings desolate and naked. Unable to keep posses-
sion of their houses, many of them jo'ned together, arid
took a singje room, where several families are now
huddled together, in a state of extreme wretchedness,
the very idea of which is enough to harrow up the soul
of inhumanity itself. I have heard of a daughter, whose
mi.ther is lying—not on a bed, for that has been disposed
1 of—but who is lying its the last stage of sickness, who
has been obliged to strip the shift from the body of her
almost dying parent, for the purpose of procuring her
something to moisten her parched lips ! This is no ima-
ginary case, and would to Goo I could say that it was
a solitary one!
Bad as the condition of the weavers is in Manchester
and oiler large towns, I am informed that it is much
worse in the country villa,;e4. In the remote and moon'
tainous districts of the county, the sufferings of the poor
are, comparatively, unknown. The distress experienced
by the inhabitants of such places as Colne and Padihant is
beyond description. At these villages nearly all the
inhabitants are poor ; and, of those who do not actually
labour for their bread, the great majority ate salving
so severely under the pressure of the times that they
are able to afford but very ti ailing relief to their star wing
neighbours. In the vicinity of Padiharn a great pro-
portion of that once happy and industrious population
ate actually turned beggars; and the roads, for miles
round, are crowded with pale and ghastly wretches,
reduced almost to the last state of starvatii n, who, w ith
tears and supplications, eagerly solicit the charitable
assistance cf the passing traveller.
The potatoe sellers, calculating upon an • increased
demand, in consequence of the extensive subscription
going en, have raised the price of that article to' Ms. a
load. A seller yesterday in t! e Stockport mat ket, lam
told, thought proper to ask 12s. a load ; ter which the
mob thought prol er to empty his sacks, and pelt him
out of the market with his own potatoes. ~.
The market fur manufactured goods to day has been exceedingly
dull The demand for twist has been rather brisk. It is evident
that the stir in the ntarket last Tuesday arose from the desire of the
London buyers to gut their goods of before the stoppage of the
cmnaL—The town and rseigbisciurbood.continues perfectly transtiii.

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