Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-12
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MONDAY MORNING. JUNE u, 1926.


,dvices. has been received at New York by the
racket ship Canada, which sailed from Liver
Ipool on the &C Of May. We are still without
news from the Greeks, and the accounts from
The Con,inen, are devoid Of interest. The
English papers are filled with the melancholy
details of riots and bloodshed IN the manuiac-
turing districts.
The starving operative manufacturers, I'M
putting their sufierings to the excess OF nachi-
nerv, have embodied themselves in alarming
mobs. and have almost anuihilated the weaving
machinery in Blackburn, Manchester, Chorley,
Addington, Bolton, Longholme, Edenheid,
ChaddcrtoE, Baccup, and several towns oil NIL
nor importance. In some instances, the rot
ers have numbered twenty thousand in one
body. and in no case haye'the military been a
Die 10 arrest the destruction of property, altho
many lives have been sacrificed.
To such degree had the alarm arisen ior
fear of an attack upon Liverpool by an inturl-
a,ed mob from The interior, that writer In the
Liverpool Albion, of May lst, proposes to raise
a wall around the town, of bales and bags oil
co,,on.---He adds, the use of cotton in forming
walls Of defence was tried at New Orleans du-
ring the late war, and was found OF most essen
,;al service in defending that city against
the assau!,s,o of the British troops. The las'
accounts received at Liverpool from Manches'
ter state in an engagement with the military,
TWENTY-FIVE live, had been lost, and the rioters
were travers:ng the country in whole iamii:es,
men, women and children.
The number Of workmen out Of employ in the
west of Scotland was estimated at $4,000. All
was quiet at Glasgow.
In consequence Of a statement that public
meeting was to be held in London, for the pur-
pose of aiding the sufferers at Blackburn, at
which il was said that the Lord Mayor was to
preside, application was made to him to know
if was the fact. His lordship stated that no
reouisition had been presented to him on the
subject; and intimated that the wants OF the dis
tressed weavers in London, who suffered as Sc
yercly, were, perhaps, even now sufficient 20 oc-
cupv the eXer,ions of the charitable; and he
trusted that the greatest reliance might be
placed on the bencvolence Of the very wealthy
manufacturers Of Lancashire, in relieving the
poor of their own neighborhood, with the ex-
tent Of whose wants they were best acquainted
The King, in addition 10 the donation OF
loooi 10 the distressed of Blackburn, had Civ
en- 5ooL to the unemployed at Rochdale.
A public meeting was to be held on the ID
Of May at Liverpool, to adopt measures to re-
leve the distresses OF the manufacturers and
weavers in the interior Of the country.
The distress in Ireland appears to be little
less severe than that in England meeting
was held in Dublin on the Goth April at which
the Lord Mayor presided, 10 take into consi-
Iteration the disastrous state to which the poor
of that city was reduced. 1t appeared from a
paper read by the Reverend Mr.. Groves that
in the Dublin silk trade there were at that
time unemployed 1850 looms, which had CIV
en- employment 10 $3.50 individuals; Ill the
woo,len trade the idle looms were $50, which
had employed ll,llo individuals; and in the
cotton trade Comparatively new in Dublln)
443 looms were idle, which throw $3.50 IN
dividuals out or work:----altogethe the num-
Der of people unemployed amount to 2l,S56'
Notwithstanding the extreme distress OF the
people Of ireland, no disorderly conduct had
taken place, but regiment had been sent from
Dublin TO Liverpool to defend the latter city ii
necessary, and to suppress the riots in the intc-
rior. 1t is said tina, feelings ofpoltical discon-
tent have had no share in causing the many dis
turbances enumerated, and that the incensed
workmen have no leaders of influence, to direct
their operations, or political demagogues to ex-
cite them The question Of Parliamentary Re-
form was debated on the 27th April, with much
warmth in the House ofCommons. HE mo-
ton was brough, forward by Lord John Russell,
and los, by majority Of 1914
The Duke Of Wellington arrived in London
on the 2Sth April from ST. Petersburgh, but
nothing had transpired concerning his mission,
or his opinions respecting the condition OF Rus
STA. |, is understood that Russia has sent her
ultimatum 10 the Turk, in which he is called
upon to fulfil the treaty, by placing Moldavia
and Wallaoha in the condition therein stipu-