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Provincial Occurrences : Scotland and Ireland. 



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their daily bread ; and that their earnings 

 have lately dreadfully failed, and reduced 

 them to seek parochial aid, owing to Pillow 

 Lace not being worn by the nobility, and 

 having become unfashionable. 



OXFORDSHIRE Many very serious 

 acts of riot and devastation having during 

 the last week taken place on the Otmoor 

 enclosures, the magistrates came to the re- 

 solution of calling in a military force to the 

 aid of the civil power, and on Saturday a 

 detachment of Yeomanry Cavalry marched 

 into Islip. On Sunday, appearances be- 

 coming alarming, application was made by 

 the civil authorities for a reinforcement, and 

 a considerable body of the same regiment 

 was marched during the day to that neigh- 

 bourhood. The same night the whole force, 

 commanded by Lord Churchill, and under 

 the orders of the High Sheriff, accompanied 

 by some of the neighbouring magistrates, 

 patroled Otmoor till daylight. A few hours 

 later, reports were received that a large as- 

 semblage of people were actually engaged 

 in destroying the fences, &c. The regi- 

 ment was immediately marched to the spot ; 

 and the Riot Act having been read, they 

 succeeded in capturing a considerable num- 

 ber of the rioters, who were sent off to 

 Oxford by the magistrates, under an escort 

 of yeomanry, but were rescued by a des- 

 perate attack of the mob on their way to the 

 castle. Some of them who had escaped 

 have been since recaptured, and tranquil- 

 lity has been established. Oxford Paper, 

 Sept. 11. 



SCOTLAND In the weaving trade 

 work is very plentiful, and the looms are 

 generally taken up ; but in no former period 

 were the prices ever known to continue so 

 long in such a depressed state. Coloured 

 work of all sorts, much of which is for the 

 home-market, predominates now over all 

 others, and is the only branch in the trade 

 in which there may be said to be much life. 



When compared with the October 



prices of 1827, the rate of paying is found 

 to have suffered a large reduction ; and a 

 very slight glance at the prices shews evi- 

 dently the tremendous effort necessary to 

 earn even a bare subsistence. The most 

 expert tradesman in the prime of life will 

 scarce exceed on an average 10s. a week ; 

 and even then, from morning till night, he 

 must be almost as constant and durable as 

 the machine he has to compete with. From 

 that downwards to half-a-crown a week may 

 be stated as the usual run of weavers' wages ; 

 and the average, after deducting loom-rent 

 and other items, may fairly be struck at 5s. 

 a week. Within these three months, co- 

 loured work has risen from eight to ten per 

 cent., while in the light way there has been 

 no advance. A number of the light weavers 

 have for some time been making their own 

 work in preference to taking out work from 

 the regular warehouses, and after purchas- 



ing materials at a poor market, are making 

 better prices. Glasgow Chronicle. 



IP.ELAND A meeting has been re- 

 cently held in Dublin for congratulating the 

 citizens of Paris on the late Revolution, 

 when several resolutions were entered into 

 for that purpose; the Earl ofWestmeath 

 was in the chair. 



The elections have terminated. There 

 has been more change in the representatives 

 than has occurred at any election since the 

 union. In Leinster, which returns 32 mem- 

 bers, there are 12 new men. Munster re- 

 turns 20 members, of whom 6 are strangers. 

 Connaught returns 12 representatives, 

 amongst whom 4 are new. Ulster, 26, 

 including 10 new members. There are, 

 therefore, 32 new members more than 

 one-third of the entire. The new members, 

 generally speaking, are ultra-Liberals, or 

 ultra-Tories. Eight Catholics have been 

 returned for counties, and one for the city 

 of Cork. Among them the most singular 

 was the return of Mr. Wyse for Tipperary. 

 The old candidates had been both advocates 

 of Emancipation, and Mr. Hutchinson is the 

 representative and heir to the titles of the 

 late Lord Donoughmore, who for 20 years 

 almost was chosen by the Catholics of Ire- 

 land to present their petitions to the House 

 of Lords. Yet has he been thrown out, 

 though his uncle, the present Earl, holds 

 large possessions in the county, is a man of 

 immense wealth, and very liberal politics. 

 It was not so much against the late member 

 the constituents pointed their hostility, as 

 against the aristocracy and squirearchy of 

 the county by whom he was supported: 

 the people being resolved to make them 

 feel their importance ; in short, a revolution 

 is going on in Ireland silently but surely. 

 The upper ranks are losing their influence 

 rapidly. The democracy having learned 

 the secret of their strength, are resolved to 

 profit by the knowledge they have acquired, 

 and to meet at the next election the aristo- 

 cracy foot to foot. As to the absentees, 

 their influence is entirely gone. At 

 Antrim, when the burgesses were about 

 to leave the room, three cheers were vo- 

 ciferously given for the French Revolu- 

 tion ! ! ! 



O'Connel has commenced a Series of 

 Letters to the People of Ireland, the pur- 

 pose of which is the Repeal of the Union ; 

 Roman Catholic Emancipation being, in 

 his estimation, only a preliminary measure 

 to the objects contemplated by him and his 

 associated spirits ! " In the history of 

 mankind," he says, " there seldom has 

 been exhibited such a pure, fearless, disin- 

 terested, and animated spirit of patriotism, 

 as has shone forth in Ireland of late years, 

 and in particular during the late elections 



I do affirm, that the conduct of the 



Irish electors exceeds in patriotism that of the 

 French, considering that they (the French !) 

 had the protection of the ballot !" 



