Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-06-13

VIII prevent those unfortunate men /. ON iroceedin,
10 any further acts of violence
just as our paper was going to press. we have
been avoured with the following letter:
Manchester, Friday morning . O'Clock Yes.
'erday night there considerable assemblage in
! ST. Georges Fields"
g Tie mill of Hugh Beaver, was attacked, and
all the looms in it destroyed The mob attempted
to set fire TO the building, but it was fre-proo., and
| only the books in The counting hou,e and some
matters OF less nionient were destroyed"
, Surely something beyond the ordinary mode OF
conveying troops into these districts should be re-
sorted TO.
we hear that nj the moment when the mob were
DESTROYING the powcrloom factory, in the town o.!
Manchester, there Were not than 200 foot
and 500 horse in the midst OF that vas, population
We lear both the government and the local au-
'horities have been supiue
No,hin. but the most vigorous exeriions and
great force Ill the manufactures of Ian
cSshne IRON destruction, ard the population from
a vast Increase of even its present i.i-ery.
SGch was the desperation Of he mob a, ChadIe.-
ton, that after the los Of lives, part Of the ma
chinery no, having been destroyed. they returned
and completed the work OF ruin Mr.. Hutchinson',
mill. within a mile of Bury, destroyed before
the military from Bury could come up.
Tho London Glade and Traveller, of the 10Th,
says, The riots and distress in The manufacturing,
districts assume every day more and more alarm
ing aspect. The arrivals of this morning bring usa
irightiul account of outrages and death The mil
itary force quite inadequate TO the protection
of property and tie rioters have displayed :,
contempt 10 danger OF which there have been
among nobs no recent examples, aud which suf-
hcen,ly shows their excitement ard despair. a
glance At the country IL which this commoiion
pi evals, shows Us that much larger force
than Is now stationed thrre could have very little
effect, if the distress and turbulence were as it l.
feared it may be become universal"
The same paper, says, &C when the latest in
tellisence from Manchester, came away, an ex-
press had arrived from Hyde, and il was immedi-
aely reported that, in an engagement with the mil
itary, 20 lives had been lost, and the rioters were
trayersing the country in whole families, men,
women and children
The accounts from Glasgow are that every thing
was tranquil; there was. however, much distress,
and the numbers in the west of Scotland out oil
work were estimated at 90 900 men.
The Irish papers contain an account of a meet
ing in Dublin, 10 consider Of the means Of re-
lievins the distress which now prevails among
the manufacturing classes residing in the liberties
OF that city. From statement submitted 10 the
meeting, 1t would appear, " thai, in The silk trade,
there are at present unemployed 1860 looms,
which had afforded employment to 62S0 indivd-
uals; in the woolen trade $50 looms idle, and
ii, Ito persons unemployed; in the cotton trade,
poy thus, the total number Of looms idle
amounts to 1888, and the entire Number OF per-
sons unemployed is 1856"
Letters received in London on the 2Sth from
Havre, state the arrival there from the United
States OF IL ships with 10000 bags of cotton;
the largest arrival, in tide, that ever took
place.