port; but about 40 of them were re-conducted to Manchester, and added to their other unfortunate companions; others were furnished with secure accommodations in Stockport. Most of them were provided with knapsacks, &c. containing blankets and other articles. Upon the examination of some of these travelling equipages, two unusually large knives were discovered. We shall desist from entering further at present into the cases of these characters, as they will probably hereafter be the subject of high judicial inquiry. The military preparations were under the direction of Sir John Byng, the commander of the district, who arrived in Manchester on Sunday. A party of the 54th regiment of foot were present, to render their assistance. No particular act of outrage or intemperance has yet reached our ears; and we cannot help feeling highly indebted to the judicious and salutary interposition of the respective authorities, for the satisfactory result of this day's transactions. Macclesfield Courier-Office, March 10.-On Sunday morning the magistrates of Manchester deeming it necessary to strengthen the military force in that neighbourhood, in consequence of the declared intent of some thousands of the population to proceed in person to Carlton House with a petition to the Regent, forwarded expresses to the several troops of the Prince Regent's Regiment of Cheshire yeomanry cavalry, requiring their immediate aid. The same evening five troops marched into Manchester, and the remaining three troops were disposed in Stockport and Macclesfield, to prevent the suspected progress of the petitioners in that direction. Early on Monday morning the streets of Manchester were crowded by thousands, of whom a great part were prepared with blankets and bundles for the march to London by the activity of the magistrates, however, and the military at their disposal, every one most active in haranguing the multitude, all who had the appearance and character of ringleaders, were arrested and imprisoned on the spot. This cautionary measure, for the possibility of which we are indebted to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, disorganized the plans of the petitioners to such an extent, that a few thousands only, who eluded by obscure passages the vigilance of the soldiers, succeeded in penetrating to the bridge of Stockport, and here they were encountered by a troop of the life guards, and a troop of the Macclesfield squadron of the Prince Regent's yeomanry. No attempt was made to force the bridge, but many threw themselves into the river, and crossed it wherever it was fordable. This circumstance, added to another, that the streets of Stockport were literally wedged full of the inhabitants of the vicinity, constrained the troops to withdraw from the bridge, over which of course the petitioners had afterwards a free passage. In the thoroughfare of the town, however, all those who had prepared themselves with the necessaries of a march (commonly.comprising a blanket and a few days' provision) were arrested, partly by the laudable activity of the Stockport police, and partly by the alertness of the military force; and were in the course of the day dispatched under escort to the New Bailey Prison at Manchester. The persons apprehended might be 200 in number: one individual was so severely wounded that his life is despaired of. Not more than 500, out of the many thousands assembled in the morning, penetrated so far as Macclesfield, where a troop of the yeomanry had remained to provide against such a contingency; and we have authority, on which we can rely, for positively stating, that no more than 20 persons proceeded from Macclesfield into the adjoining county of Staffordshire. Nothing could be more wretched and pitiable than the appearance of the few who reached this town; some actually fainting from weariness; and all of them without baggage, or any apparent resource, with which to proceed 20 miles further towards London. 15. Batavia. According to accounts of three weeks' date received from Banjoewangie, the mountain of Idjeng, about 24 leagues from that place, has been burning since the middle of January, and its effects have spread alarm and distress among the inhabitants of the surrounding country. During the night of the 23d of January a violent explosion took place. Vast columns of fire, smoke, and burning matter, then began unceasingly to ascend, accompanied with noise like thunder or the firing of heavy artillery. From the mountain all the way to Banjoewangie, an immense quantity of ashes, stones, and sulphur, cover the sur rounding country, destroying the vegetation, and laying waste a great number of rice-fields, the crops on which were some in a most promising state, and others quite ripe. The explosions shook the ground all the way to Banjoewangie. The atmosphere was so filled with ashes and the vapour of sulphur, that respiration was extremely difficult, and for some days there was scarcely any daylight at Banjoewangie. Thegreater part of the birds have died; and it is said that the fish in the rivers are also all dead. Large trees and pieces of rock detached from the mountain rolled down with a dreadful noise, and destroyed cottages, bridges, and every thing that stood in their way; оссаsioning also such inundations that in some places the river rose 14 feet above the usual height. The roads are consequently covered with water, and rendered impassable. The unfortunate inhabitants fied from all quarters towards the coast and towards Banjoewangie. Accounts of a posterior date are more tranquillizing. For some days the people of Banjoewangie had observed no more fire from the mountain, but still saw an immense quantity of smoke ascending, and the atmosphere continued loaded with sulphurous vapour and fine ashes. The inundations also continued, and fears are entertained that a great scarcity must follow. Many of the inhabitants suffer from indisposition, occasioned, it is thought, by drinking the impure water, which is every where filled with ashes. Severe coughing is also a general complaint, in consequence of the strong sulphurous vapours. A great mortality prevails among the cattle. sulconceived In the district of Gabang, belonging to the residency of Cheribon, a hill sunk down on the 27th of February, and eight families were buried alive with it. There had long been a chasm in this hill, which being enlarged by the rain, probably occasioned a separation to take place. During the night of the 4th of this month, a similar sinking occurred in the district of Talaga, in consequence of which several houses with their inhabitants were buried. A recently cultivated rice-field and the half of an upland plantation were also destroyed. 20. A sect of Christians, deviating from the Greek church, has sprung up in the south eastern parts of the Russian empire, and a rescript has been issued by the Emperor Alexander, containing directions for its treatment. The converts to the new faith are said to have been already driven from their homes, and placed in an insulated situation in order to prevent proselytism. They are called Duchoboozi: and the rescript, which is addressed to the military governor of Cherson, is to the following effect : The sect having been removed from the Ukraine to the circle of Melitsholsk, in the Tauris, in consequence of the blameable way of life imputed to them, and to prevent their opinions from spread ing, and they having petitioned for protection from oppression, the Governor is directed to consider the motives of this removal, which is said to have been ordered by the Emperor, with a view at once to protect the sect from improper mortifications, and to stop the spreading of their opinions: and the Government, not having received for many years any complaints fron one side or the other, or other reports of disorders, had every reason to suppose that the measures adopted were sufficient. "The departure of this sect from the true faith of the Græco-Russian Church is stated to be a deviation founded on some erroneous representations of the true worship, and of the spirit of Christianity; but as they are not without religion, for they seek for what is divine, though not with a right understanding, it does not become a Christian Government to employ harsh and cruel means, torture, exile, &c. to bring back to the bosom of the church those who have gone astray. The doctrine of the Redeemer, who came into the world to save the sinner, can. not, it is said, be spread by constraint and punishment; cannot serve for the oppression of those who are to be led back into the paths of truth. All the measures of severity exhausted upon the Duchoboozi, in the course of 30 years, up to 1801, were not able to extirpate this sect, and only increased the numberof its adherents. They are, therefore, in future to be protected from unmerited insults on account of the difference of their faith. By being removed to another settlement they would again be placed in a hard situation, and be punished on a mere complaint, without examination. "The colony is therefore recommended to the special superintendence and particular care of the Governor; who, without regarding false allegations or pre conceived opinion, is to examine who are not yet convicted of any into all the local circumstances; bad intention, or any crime." their way of life; their conduct; and take care of them, as an impartial Governor who studies the good of those who are confided to his eare. The fate of these settlers must be permanently secured: they must feel that they are under the protection of the laws: and then, but not before, his Imperial Majesty says, "We may expect "from them attachment and love " to the magistrates." But, it is added, if these sectaries "seek to "draw away others from the esta"blished church, and to injure "them with their own religious "notions, then the energy of the "law must be exerted against "such violators of it, and such "illegal conduct must be checked." But even then it is not allowable, that, on account of one or more criminals who are convicted of a violation of the law, the whole colony, which has had no share in it, should be made responsible. Such complaints and accusations require a careful examination, from whom the complaint comes, and what may be the motives of it. Thus the two Duchoboozi named in your representation, who after their return to the true church, accused this society of various transgressions, and deposed to their blameable way of life, may have done this out of malice or revenge : perhaps they were excluded from the society for crimes, or deserted it from a contentious and inimical spirit. Such mere complaints, which deserve altogether no attention, must never induce the adopțion of severe measures, which may be followed by the arrest, imprisonment, and torture, of those APRIL. 7. Friday morning as the steampacket from Norwich to Yarmouth was pushing from its moorings, the vessel blew up; eight persons were killed; seven had almost every limb broken; the whole were thrown in different directions, and to a considerable distance. Of the seven taken to the hospital, there is not the least chance of two living. (From the Norwich Paper.) One of those unfortunate accidents which attend even the best arranged establishments, that carry with them a certain, though remote, danger, occurred here yesterday morning; and we state the extensive calamity with much acute pain. The horrible spectacle of eight mangled carcasses is yet before our eyes. These are the miserable victims of the bursting of the steam-boiler in the packet which sails from the Foundry bridge. Just after the boat had started, it had not gone twenty yards when the tremendous explosion took place. The vessel was rent to atoms, so that little remains entire, from the stern to the engine-room, except the keel and the flooring. Twenty-two passengers appear to have been on board. The bodies of eight are found, five men and three women; one child yet missing; and six have been sent to the hospital in a wounded state: six escaped unhurt. Of these last, one man was standing over the boiler when the explosion happened, It is said Major Mason was another, whose clothes were torn by the shock, but who was otherwise uninjured. The third was an infant, two months old, and the little innocent was discovered at the bottom of the vessel in a profound sleep, after. the removal of the dreadful wreck. At this moment the Coroner's inquest is sitting, and we have only time to subjoin the names of the dead: James Squires, of Gorleston; - Marcon, a linen-draper; - Butler, of Pockthorpe; Wm. Nicholson, the steersman of the boat; Mrs. Smith, who lived near the Norfolk and Norwich hospital; Eliza Stephens, of Yarmouth; a man unknown, in a sailor's dress, from Lynn, apparently between 50 and 60, with his legs torn off; a young woman, name unknown, who stated that she had been to Hingham for relief. The infant was her child! The following statement, given in the same paper, shews the causes which must have produced the accident: The boiler is a cylindrical vessel, lying fore and aft the vessel, about 8 feet long, and 4 feet in diameter, made of wrought iron, excepting one end, which lay towards the stem of the vessel, and is of cast iron. In consequence of the stress of steam being greater than the boiler was capable of sustaining, the cast-iron part of the boiler gave way, and flew in a direction towards the stem of the vessel; on which taking place, a stress immediately falls on the boiler itself, to throw it out of its situation, the stress depending on the magnitude of the orifice occasioned by the fracture, and consequently it was thrown in an horizontal direction, out of the stern of the vessel, sweeping all before it in its passage, to a distance of about fifteen yards; at the same time that the concussion of the air and steam completely unroofed the vessel from one end to the other. 11. Lausanne. -The annual meeting of the General Benevolent Society will take place at Zurich on the 22d and 23d instant. Never since its institution have there been such multiplied and urgent calls for its assistance. In several of the eastern cantons of Switzeriand want is at its height; and scarcity, joined with unwholesomeness of food, has caused a great number of deaths. Measures for restraining the exportation of corn and potatoes from one canton to another have become general; and governments, which were for a long time averse to recognize principles contrary to a free commerce, stipulated in the federal act, have been forced to follow that example set them by others, of which they had disapproved. The government of Zurich is in such circumstances as to be obliged to refuse to their neighbours of St. Gall, Thurgovia, Glaris, and Zug, the exportation of potatoes. It was permitted till now, but several parts of the canton have not a sufficient supply for planting their fields. The frightful state to which the canton of Glaris is reduced, which only lately displayed industry, comfort, and happiness, is described in the work of the Minister Heer. At the present time no labouring person, however industrious, can earn more than four kreutzers a day. It is frightful to see with what |