Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-09-08
FOREEGE We Tvs.
ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA
FIFTEEN DAYS LATER FROM ENG
LAND


ICapt. Lott, arrived at Boston on Frioay
morning last, at quarter before five o.
clock, from Halifax and Liverpool. She
left Liverpool on the afternoon of the 18Th
ult., and brings London and Liverpool
advices to that date.
The political news by this arrival IS not
OF much importance. Parliament was
prorogued by the Queen in person on the
18th ult. Although cotton maintained us
business was not so BRISK as we
were led to suppose BY previous aoVlces
Il would be, in consequence oil serious
disturbances in Manchester, and otner OF
the manufacturing districts. The labor.
ng classes seem urged by want to acts OF
desperation, and it is possible that the
riots will not be queIled and tranquility
restored without some sangulnary con-
Ac,s between the people and the military.
The weather had been remarkably fine
in England. Two weeks Of glorious sun
shine had ripened the crops, and enabled
the farmers 10 get them in in good order.
The barley and wheat crops were large.
All accounts agree that the crops gener-
ally were good-above the average.
The Duke of Wellington had been ap.
pointed commander in chief IN the room
Of Lord Hill, whose state OF health has un.
fitted him for business.
ALARMING RIOTS.
There have been some very serious
riots among the workmen in the Manu-
featuring and Mining Districts Of England
and Scotland. The Golfers at Airdrie,
Cosatbridge, and the other coal districts
q the neghborhood of Glasgow, have
nearly all turned out for higher wages.
A year ago they earned As. day; they
now earn Is. Sd. to Is. cd. The labor
ers who earned las. week, now obtain
only SIS.
At Manchester the mob were dispersed
several times by the military and police,
but they succeeded in turning out the
hands employed in mills, lighthouses and
workshops. Whilst one portion of the
mob engaged the attention of the military
at one point, another portion were active
ly engaged ia effecting their object in
other quarters.
At Penlkton. the hands employed in the
Victoria Mills repulsed the mob. At Ac'
crington the rioters were more successful.
They took complete possession of the
town, and stopped all the mills, turning
out the hands. The working classes OF
Blackburn held meeting, and passed re-
solutions to turn out for the wages OF
1910. In Halifax, MARBLE, Yorkshire,
Wigan, Rochdale, Haywood, Middleton,
Bury, Bolton, and the adjacent districts
the rioters have stopped all the works,
and levied contributions of bread, provi-
sions, &c. Meetings have been held in
these districts, at all of which chartism
was introduced. The streets were con.
tinually crowded with idle and discomfort
ed people.
A Cabinet Council had been held, and
Royal proclamation issued, offering re
wards for the conviction Of the authors
abettors or perpetrators of the outrages.
FRANCE.
The remains of the late Duke of Or
lrans were taken from the Cathedral oil
Notre Dame, for interment at Dreux,
on Thursday. The cortege was less i'm
posing than on their translation" from
Neuily TO Notre Dame, but was still
pompo1s. The four princes, his brothers,
considerable number Of military atten.
dants. and large body Of the clergy fol.
lowed ; the whole escorted by two squad
rons of cavalry. The Uniuerse states that
IA report was current in Paris on Wednes-
day afternoon, that more than sixty per-
sons had been arrested, who were engag'
ed in conspiracy to carry oil the King 5
four sons on their passage from Paris to
Dreux.
The Chamber of Deputies had assem-
bled and organized. On the 9th the Pre-
sident of The Council laid before the Cham
Der of Deputies the Regency bill, which
he introduced by an interesting speech,
explanatory of the principles on which il
IS based The Bill fixes the age al
which the King altains his majority al
eighteen. From the moment oithe kings
death, if the successor be under age. the
prince nearest the throne, in the order oil
succession established by the charter Of
1880, and 81 years of age, is to be in
vested with the regency, during the whole
period of the minority. The full and en-.
tire exercise of the royal authority in the
name of the king under age, is to belong
to the Regent. The sate-keeping and
guardianship ofthe king whilst under age
is to belong to the Queen or Princess his
mother, if not married again, and in faul
thereof, to his grandmother, if not mar
RED again.
n The committee to whom the bill was
Preferred, reported unanimously in favor o
IT., and there was no doubt but that I
would pass the Chambers.
SPAIN.
/ The affairs Of Spain continue much dis
furbed by internal connections. Ths
ministry are engaged in various project;
IF political reform. The authorities haC
been able to quel all the conspracl es tina
lad been discovered.
4 AT Madrid, on the LIST August, Mr.
Washington Irving, Minister of the Unit
fd States. aud Mr.. Albuquerque, Charge
PAffaires of Brazil, presented their ere.
RENTALS to the Regent.
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