The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

DISTURBANCES IN THE POTTERIES

Intelligence was received in Birmingham on Thursday, that
Burslem, the metropolis of the Staffordshire Potteries, was in
a state of alarming disturbance. The bad trade and a "turn-
out" among the miners have seriously affected the men em-
ployed in the potteries and iron-works; and Mr. Sparrow, the
owner of very extensive works at Burslem, had just made.
a
reduction of 7d. a week in each man's wages; which, it is
said, will in the aggregate make a difference in his weekly
outlay of £3OO ! That was the immediate cause of the
rioting; and on Wednesday, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Tun-
stal, and Lane End, the chief towns of the Potteries, were
all involved in the disorder. The men who had turned out,
to the number of some thousands, visited the collieries,
iron-works, and potteries, where men were to be found who
had accepted the reduced scale of wages, and in some in-
stances inflicted personal violence upon men whom they
found peaceably engaged at work. At Fenton Park, one
man was thrown into scalding hot water. The force of
the insurgents is computed at 6,000, and it occupied a tract
of land seven miles in extent. Boat-loads of allies were
brought from Bilston and other manufacturing districts of
South Staffordshire. The Yeomanry were called out, and
a troop of the Third Dragoons brought from Birmingham.
On Thursday nearly 700 colliers assembled at Hanley, about
half-past ten in the morning, and were addressed byone of
their leaders, who told them to be peaceable, and not to vio-
late the law : that their objects were to be gained by force of
argument, and not by physical force : that the military had
been- summoned ; (the 12th Regiment of Foot had arrived
from Wheedon ;) hut, that, as long as they were peaceable,
the Riot Act could not be read, and the military could not
interfere : at the same time, they must be firm in. their de-
termination to secure the lawful objects which they had in
'view. After this address, they proceeded to Cheadle, about
fourteen or fifteen miles off, and compelled or induced the
colliers there to desist from work. It is said, that about
10,000 persons have been thrown out of employment. Many
of the potters have been obliged to stop their works for the
want of coal, which would throw about 4,000 out of work.
On Friday morning the Market-place at Hanky was crowded
and every thing continued unsettled in the whole district;
but no further outrage had taken place. It must be ob-
. served, with reference to what has been said above, about no
violence having been used, that it appears the colliers were
all armed with sticks and bludgeons.

BIRMINGHAM, SUNDAY 1 P.M.—Although great fears
were entertained of riots in the neighbourhood of Burslem
yesterday, I am happy to say that the day and night passed
off, in comparison with what was expected, peaceably. The
turn-out workpeople assembled in great numbers, and many
of the country people were lightened of their stocks on their
way to market; but these open robberies committed on the
highway in the li4ht of day are said by spectators to have
been done not only without violence, but with the most per-
fect good humour. In the neighbourhod of Lane-end,
market-carts proceeding to Burslem and Hanley were
regularly stopped and cleared of their contents.
The turn-outs threatened to play the same game with the
butchers' shops last night, and, in fear of such threats being
put into execution, many of the provision tradesmen of the
district closed their establishments. Some few acts of vio-
lence were committed, but the .presence of the troops, the
strength of which has been augmented by the arrival of two
companies of foot from Weedon Barracks, prevented the
execution of a premeditated attack.

Alderman Copeland passed through Birmingham by the 4
o'clock train yesterday afternoon, on his way to London, for
the purpose of soliciting additional military aid from the
Home Secretary, Sir J. Graham. The worthy alderman
stated that the men employed at his own extensive establish-
ment, at Stoke, were perfectly contented ; but that in con-
sequence of the violence of the discontented employment was
in a great degree suspended.
There is little doubt but the temper of the turn-outs ha's
been considerably exasperated by the chartists, the leaders of
whom have done all in their power to prevent an understand-
ing between the masters and men. The voluntary agents of
the Anti-Corn Law League are likewise at work. lam in-
lormed, should to-morrow (Saint Monday) pass off quietly,
there is great probability that the present unsettled, if not
alarming condition of the Pottery districts, will be, at least
for the present, at an end.
Several of the leaders of the crineute have been committed
to Stafford.

IMPORTANT TO CREDITORS UNDER BANRUPT ESTATE

—The commissioners of Bankruptcy are, we are informed,
immediately about to cancel all the dividend cheques now
in the hands of the official assignees, which are above six
months old. New cheques will be issued from time to
time on the applications of the parties entitled ; but as this
may be attended with some difficulty during the long
vacation, and especially while the Accountant's office is
closed, creditors will do well to claim the dividends without
further delay.

EXPERIMENTS AT DEAL.—BURSTING OF ONE OF THE
LARGE GUNS AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.----On Thurs-
day, during the time the experiments with large guns at
long ranges were being carried on, one of Mr. Monk's guns,
a 56 pounder, weighing 97 cwt. burst into four pieces when
the fifth round was fired; and injured, but only in a very
slight degree, five persons, a corporal and two gunners
and drivers of the royal artillery, and two men belonging to
the preventive service who were present as spectators. Cor-
poral Campbell received the greatest injury, having been
cut in the forehead above the eyes, and at first presented an
alarming appearance, but, fortunately, on examination it
proved' to be but of a very trifling nature. At the time the
gun burst, it was calculated there could not have been less
than 700 persons present to witness the firing, and it was
most providential that a great destruction of human life did
not occur in consequence of the accident. No blame
whatever could be attached to the gun or the principle
on which it was constructed, as it stood the original
woof test in the most satisfactory . manner, and had
been fired about one hundred and fifty times since.
So far as the experiments have been made they have proved
satisfactory, but the bursting of this gun has shown that,
to be made with safety, long ranges can only be ob-
tained by a species of ordnance constructed for that *per-
Pose with a greater solidity of metal at the breach. The usual
elevation to which the guns on the present construction are
applicable, varies from one to ten degrees, according to the
range, which affords ample room for recoil; but an eleva-
tion up to 25 degrees, necessary to convey a ball a distance
of upwards of three miles, must be liable to danger, unless
the guns are of the most powerful nature at the breech, as
they have scarcely any recoil, the tendency of the firing at
that elevation being to sink them into the earth. Since the
commencement of the experiments at Deal a number of the
members of the select committee from Woolwich haye been
present at various times to witness them, and the discoveries
which have been made by the talented officers to whom the
measures were entrusted, will prove of great advantage to
the country in the event of their 'application being required
in reality.

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.—It must be gratifying to our
readers, devotedly attached as they are to the family of
George the Third, to know that the illustrious duke who has
lately honoured Bristol vvitli his residence, is not less ex-
emplary in attention to religious duties than exalted in
ststion. He attends every morning the service of the church.
being in
We heard, without surprise, of his. royal ,highness-
this way a worshipper at Redcliff Church to which the
illustrious duke is by the custom of his rad: and _station
usually detained from retiring to rest, this active habit of
"stirring with the lark" gives pleasing. evidence !of his
vigorous constitution.—Bristol Journal.

IRISH LABOURERS AT THE PARIS FORTIFICATIO,.,
Captain Capsicum Cayenne Pepper, in his facetious,boua,
" France Daguerreotyped," tells the following tale, fin
which his veracity is to be held responsible :
multiplicity of labourers required for the fort...eau°
Paris, and the comparative scarcity of French labourers as
compared with the soil which they have to cultivate, occa-
sioned directions to be some time since transmitted to the
French Consul at Dublin to ascertain whether any dispoS-
able number of Irish labourers could be induced to proceed
to Paris, with a certainty of procuring regular employment
for at least a year to come. The result, as may readily be
conceived, was that a number of the finest peasantry'
jumped at the offer as nimbly as salmon-trout at a summer
fly. Under the special superintendence of the consul they
were shipped in disorder and ragged condition for Havre,
felicitating themselves on the gentility of the excursion,
and the unlooked-for opportunity of ' makin' the tower to
France, all as one as the foremost quallity—and that upon
vilvit, and be paid for their pleasurin' into the bargain
Since the memorable period when the immortal hero of the
gridiron, bein' in distress in regard of the atin',' thought a
solitary ` Parley yea Franey ?' a passport to all the mysteries
of the French mind, nothing? more bizarre and provocative of
laughter has been witnessed than the landing of these stray
sons of St. Patrick at Havre, and their journey on foot to
Paris. It was my lot to meet with one of them in the cen-
tre of the Palais Royal at the magnificent Galerie d'Orleans.
There he stood beneath the splendid glass roof, reflected in
a hundred mirrors along the walls, stared at by scores of
moustached loungers, and giggled at by a dozen magasin
.ot-
elore
ns
g strings
trt
11:
zettes in their exquisitely soianeuses toilets ; looking like
Houris in a paradise. Paddy had changed in no respect
costume of his native hills. The corduroy smalls Were
patched and repatched, yet broken, at the knees. The but-
tons enjoyed a sinecure ' for convaynienee,' the
which held the place of knee buckles fluttered down to the
ankle. Like Lord Hamlet, be appeared in tile midst of that
,emporium of fashion,
With his doublet all unbraced,
No hat upon his head,'
but a very stunted and straw-bound eaubeen, with the i
memorial short and blackened pipe stuck on the dexter sidem ;
and to complete his parrallel with
' The glass of fashion and the mould of form,'
Pat had

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' His stockings fouled,
and sinewy leg was thickly
Ungartered, and down-gyvd to his ancle.'
, and that 17is face was
matted n tow
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tl s
aai
id do that
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bespread with some ten days' grOwth of beard of a foxy-
brown
made fas co
tour, that his brogues loosened by the journey were
arund the instep by hay-ropes, that his coat was
of aboriginal blue frieze, and that in his hand lie wielded a
to t I
nePeedensc'arcel
which had been his tirm support for many,
wind up his resemblance to the Danish
rso
Prince, ,
'lle observed of all observers!'
When I first espied him in that attitude of upward gazing,
which, according to philosophers, distinguishes man from the
beast, (a distinguishing characteristic which is
very requisite,) I drew closer to him, impelled by an curiosity, and was no little astonished ata.he
al him
ejaculate:—` :—` Holy Virgin, if that
houses in
Eh, then, it's with glass they thatches their
Paris " nagher.
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sassinate the Archbishop of Lyons' secretary vestry-room
-room
.oi7dTirley .sitoaatieZelndt de
—" We have already mentioned an attempt nbadestatobbainsg-
him with a knife as he was returning to.. the ,
~y _
escape of the assassin. un
after celebrating mass, arid
Sunday last in the same had just officiated at
pistol-shot was fired at the priest who
his
, vestiments ; fortu-
itlecee,,scawanirlioat the same hour, a
the altar, and who was taktin7lanigersonudslyaftweorutnhdeedsu. r -pThe
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nately the clergyman was n?
_,_w.y
author of this attack retired, si" \
d whether it was he who fired
rested. Having lielc; in the affirmative, and at the same
occasioned by the eventahsked_subsideti, was pursued
Hederaeuids
the
the pistol, he replied
i rst bbed the other, and 1 remr t 1
his breast, he added,
with whica -- a t t tl .., 1 0 e that I
weapon 0
He further sa es ii, ie was'nOw a car-
did finish him.
b en formerly a grocer, and failed i
time drawing a knife from
ets reventing him from k • n "use'
eof the pri P keeping his shop
queue
hoo::eTsta.bl.ishment of this institution has been a
open on
trade. Th‘isi,n
Ha PENITENTIARY.---A
car-
penter,
LA noun AT
verya
sseeayseerie;l:ef. necessary conse-
queue . t thes competition with the operat• •
ws
several
earrael givendeser i
pt o_
very serious Ives in and around
to various branches of .
at
understand
so much depres-
tions
Perti''' I
has
, par beent
i felt
ty
• and suffering as the
present, and
bleu
seems to call for the
'deration of the Board of Directors. It is manifest
that there can be no fair competition b
who,
rn i
with means '
himself and h the
of is amily to • subsistence, and one who has
support by the profits of his work.
\Whatever is received for
the produce of thefirst is
saved in the expenditure
of the establishment, and hence
to insure a ready Isae, a cousider,ble deduction is made
from the ordinary s.
the honest o price N e .
. ow this is a great hardship to
p •
eratives ; and we think there cannot be two
opinions that no work productd iu the Penitentiary ought
to be sold
under the prices at which it can he produced by
Courier.
free labour,—Bali

(From the Oxford Herald.)

In a Convocaiion holden on-Saturday, being the last day
of Act Term, the Degree of Doctor in Divinity, by decree
of Convocation, was unanimously conferred upon the follow-
ing gentlemen :

.The Rev. Thomas Parry, M.A., late Fellow of Ballot Col-
lege, nominated to the Bishopric of Barbadoes.
_

The Rev. Daniel Gatewaid Davies, M.A., of Pembroke
College, nominated to the Bishopric of Guiana.

The Rev. Francis Russell Nixon, M.A., late Fellow of St.
John's College, nominated to the Bishopric of Van Diemen's
Land.

In the same Convocation, Walter Augustine Smith, Esq.,
of Trinity College, Cambridge, was admitted ad eundem.
In a Congregation holden at the same time, the following
Degrees were conferred :

BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW.
orge Croke Rowden, Fellow of New College,
MASTERS OF ARTS.

Rev. John Cooper, Fellow of Wadham College.
Lewis Evans, Fellow of Wadham College.
Rev. Edward Wyndham Tufnell, Fellow of Wadham
College.
Rev. Charles Augustus Fowler, Oriel College.
John Hall, Brasenose College.
Rev. James Augustus Hamilton, Balliol College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.

William Everett, Fellow of New College.
Richard Pratt. Postmaster of Merton College
William Lockhart, Exeter College.
George Croxton Shiffner, Christ Church.

The Rev. John Downhall, M.A., formerly of Magdalene
Hall, Chaplain to the Earl of Burlington, and late Curate of
Blidworth and Oxton, Notts, has been presented to the Per-
petual Curacy of St. George, Kidderminster; patron, the
Rev. T. L. Claughton, Vicar of Kidderminster.
The Rev. Robert Powell, 8.A., of Worcester College, late
Curate of St. Paul's, Preston, has been presented to the Per-
petual Curacy of St. Peter's, Blackburn, Lancashire.
The Rev. William Steward Richards, M.A., formerly
Scholar of Jesus College, has been presented to the Rectory
of Terwick, Sussex, vacant by the death of the Rev. C.
Greene.

PROMOTIONS

Rev. Charles Sangster, 8.A., Scholar of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, to be Head Master of the Rochester and
Chatham Classical and Mathematical Institution.

itev. Jas. Gorle, M.A., of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Curate
of Sheldon, Warwickshire, to the Rectory of Whatcote, in
the same county ; patrons, Sir T. A. and Lady Dalrymple.
Rev. Edmund William Hughes, Curate of East Haddon,
Northamptonshire, to the Rectory of Walton-le-Wold, Lin-
colnshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. G. Egremont;
patron, the Lord Chancellor.

Rev. William Ramsden Smith, M.A., of Queen's College,
Cambridge, Curate of Trinity Church, St. Giles-in-the-
Fields, to the Rectory of Hulcott, Bucks, vacant by the
death of the Rev. J. Athon ; patron, the Rev. Stephen
Langston, M.A., of St. Helier's, Jersey.
Rev. Cooke Otway, M.A., to the Curacy of Long Itching-
ton. Warwickshire.

Rev. Beaumont Dixie, M.A., of Emmanuel College, Cam-
bridge, to the Rectory of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire,
vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Burnaby ;
patrons, the Rev. Charles Wright and Sir W. W. Dixie,
Baronet.

Rev. Mark Garft, M.A., of 'Trinity College, Cambridge,
to the Rectory of Stretton, Rutlandshire, vacant by the
death of the Rev. John Lamb ; patron, Sir Gilbert Heath-
cote, Bart.

Rev. Wm. Tison, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of New
Buckenham, Norfolk ; patrons, the Inhabitants.
Rev. T. Edwards, of King's College, London, to be Head
Mathematical Master of the Free Grammar School, Black-

burn, Lancashire.
Rev. Thomas H. Porter, D.D., Curate of St. Peter's, to
the Living of Desertcreight, diocese of Armagh, vacant by
the death of the Rev. Dr. Buck.
Rev. William Attwell, M.A., Curate of St. Mark's, to the
Living of Clonoe, diocese of Armagh, vacant by the death
the Rev. Dr. Buck.
Rev. Richard Gibson, M.A., to the Living of Clondehorka,
diocese of Raphoe, vacant by the promotion of the Rev. W.
A. Butler.

... --.....
Rev. James Armstrong, to the Church at Foss, in the
parish of Dull, in the presbytery of Dunkeld and shire of
Perth.

WHOLESALE PIRACY OF BRITISH WORKS,

(From the Atlas.)

We have received a copy of the following circular from
Mr. Charles Dickens :
"1, Devonshire-terrace,York-gate,Regent's-park,
7th July, 1842.
" You may perhaps be aware that during my stay in Ame-
rica I lost no opportunity of endeavouring to awaken the
public mind to a sense of the unjust and iniquitous state
of the law in that country, in reference to the wholesale
piracy of British works.

" Having been successful in making the subject one of
general discussion in the United States, I carried to
Washington, for presentation in Congress by Mr. Clay, a
petition from the whole body of American authors, earnestly
praying fur the enactment of an international copyright law.
It was signed by Mr. Washington Irving, Mr. Prescott, Mr.
Cooper, and every man who has distinguished himself in the
literature of America ; and has since been referred to a select
committee of the House of Representatives.
" To counteract any effect which might be produced by
that petition, a meeting was held in Boston, which you will
remember is the seat and stronghold of learning and letters
in the United States—at whicka memorial against any change
in the existing state of things fn this respect was agreed to,
with but one dissentient voice. This document, which in-
credible as it may appear to you, was actually forwarded to
Congress, and received, deliberately stated that if English
authors were invested with any control over the republica-
tion of their own books, it would be no longer possible for
American editors to alter and adapt them (as they do ❑ow)
to the American taste!

is memorial was, without loss of time, replied to by
escott, who commented, with the natural indignation
ttleman, and a man of letters, upon its extraordinary
sty. lam satisfied that this brief mention of its tone