The Sun. — London, England, 1842-08-15 00:00:00

Ems qiw arm' :BiggiNGHA M. FitlpAr --egeerytlting- il4 this dietrict„remairi rsfectly peaceable, and no prospect of :anything-,t ,, thy eon trary. The miners are still all out in therstrefoutitiitte, - district, and the supply ofcoal is consequentiyhourly diminishing. One hundred and.twelve of the 12t1iiioot ' end their officers, passedthrough here this morning at .oeren cl'eloelt from Weedon to Newcastle, to reptiare,scate Rifles who were immediately to proceed to Manchester. All the troops that can be disposed of will be sent down. We have had here all day many exag gerated rumours from Manchester and other places. It is, however, I believe true that the Magistrates were swearing in special ; eonstables at eight o'clock this morning at Congleton ) although no disturbance had taken place. The driver, oi tine omnibus from the Potteries, who ar rived here at four o'clock, says, all was quiet in that district as.he passed throngh. There was a meeting of the wealzers- atMacelestield to demand the prices of 1840. They were met by the masters, who acceded to their demands, and they returned to work. Delegates proceoled:yeeterday from Wednesbury to the four ad joining. c.mnties, to induce the miners in these districts tip join in. the strike It is rumoured at this station that information has lit en received that the mob broke up the railway him., betwien Leeds and Manchester, ind attacked the Bolton sta :ion. QUA ItTIM. VAST SEVEN O'CLOCK.-I).iring the clay the trains of .the Shenletrilway have rua as usual, artier bg..iv.rotored. . PRESTON. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) A meeting was held here on Friday in the Orchard at which it:was determined that the different factories in the town , should' be stopped. Since that the mob has visited . nearly every factory . and machine shop, and they are all now standing still, and the workpeople parading the streets, perfectly quiet and peaceable. With the exception of forcing the doors at the Moss factory, 1 have not tiesird: - of any violence. Every body seems to wonfler what it is to end in. DUNFERMLINE. EDINIi@.O.4II, iaDAY, AUG. 11.—W a deeply regret, to state, that on Mondey and Tue.Sday night, serious riots took ple,e4 : eielonsst..ate weavers of Dunfermline. It appear g A4se e. week or. two ago the proprietors of some of tifegarge stoops in that town, contaming..twenty or thirty - I,:;.ir3e,ittkel seen cause to reduce the wages of their weriptiep e ..xwi .the,., men were much dissatisfied with ; ba,„nde.e . erio.4, nutt:re* took place till Monday night, ahoy e o'elo* -when a large party 2.6. leer bled, moteled. the .peincipal streets Of the town, ex tingnishekibwlemps., and broke., the windows of those who had psoveiVolmoaiuus to there. From thence the) proceeded to the factories, and set fire to tt e looms in one or twqSacterier:, which were consumed, ,though the fl a mes wercitigut:shed before the buildings wore reached. On Tnisdav ,gr.. Sheriff Monteith went over to Dun fermline, and exerted himself strenuously to presery the peace of the town by swearing in special etaistables, bet on Tuesday night the riotOus assemblage again ap peared. broke more witinewt., set itn fire mere leotth-, and broke into the shop of a man named ScOtlind, who, be sides being a partner in one of the tactorn:s, keep grocer and spiritedealer's shop, gutted his shop of its contents, and threw them into the street. We under etsnil, alse, that when the Sheriff was conductingone of the prisoners to prison, the mob set upon the cuustables, wounded several, and rescued the prisoner. ft may be stated &so, as a specimen of the wild justice obtaining among them, that when they were breaking the windows of one of. the inhabitants, wider the impression that he was a partner in a factory, he looked out of the window and told thorn they were mistaken, on which the mob immediately desisted. The Sheriff (Monteith), we understand, made applica tion for ii — military force, and, in consequence, half a treep of the Inniskillen Dragoons proceeded across the Frith yest'etifity meriting ; and, as a report was spread that the n - telt intended to force the gaol, to rescue seve ral of the r:oterS aho were confined there, they were drawn up tt, pr otect it. A heavy shower falling in the act; rnoon , servoi to clear the streets. There wAs a 1.,. a weeting of the weavers in the Abbey Pend, to tiliw in the afternoon, but we have not heard the results. Thing* have a remar',:ably gloomy appearance, and it wo .1d apl;eat that the serious rioting in Dunfermline bad been premeditated. The rioters appear to have been well organised, there not being the slightest misunder standing awing them as to their unlawful proceedings. The appearance of the military among them has cer tainly teutLA to suppress a little outward appearances of aiditional disturbances, but there is evidently a deep rooted determination to commit mischief, and it. is impos sible to predict ulterior proceedings. We regret to state that it is confidently asserted that many wives of the weavers were to be seen encouraging, if not aiding the infuriated mob. Business is at a stand-still, which must necessarily greatly increase the existing distress. OLDHAM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Twelve o'clock, Oldham, August 11, 1842. Snt,—You have already seen the state of things in these districts from the Manchester papers of yester day. Up to this time nothing fresh has taken place. except that the cessation from labour is extending. itself to even the smaller trades. Yesterday morning the operatives of Oldham who had hitherto taken no voluntary part in the proceedings of the surrounding districts, assembled about 2,000 strong at five o'cloek, at. and proceeded to the vacant 'land behind the Albion inn, where they were addressed by several speakers, Who spoke pi . .. their grievances, and the un feeling conduct or 4overnment, and of the unprinci pled clairioxternof the. masters, &c., in attempting to reduce the wages of the people ; and although no fresh reduction had been attempted in Oldham, the speakers contended that if it was submitted to at Ashton and S':alybridge, that it must' certainly come to Oldhanl in a few weeks , and as they were already deep sunk in poverty and misery by low Wages and dear bread, that they could not be much worse off let come what might, and that they had better make a stand at once. A resolution was agreed to not to work any more until they.had. the wages, of 1840, and that they woub; neither work themselves, nor allow any others to work, until this object was attained ; and this they have car ried out to the letter; so that neither cotton mills, hat-manufactories, or coal-works, or any other businesS is going on. The speeches of the various speakers were moderate at all their meeting-. In nearly ll eases the masters have been on the alert, and have immediately stopped their milk on the ap proach of the mob, so that no destruction of property in this town has taken place. lam sorry to say that in Saddle‘vorth one muster did present a blunderbus, and attempted to tire na the mob, but the fire missing. the Mob rushed in a body into the mill, took the bhm det-bussebeat the master very severely, but did no fur ther damage. Large quantities of Specials are being sworn in, 'hut as there are no military nearer than MarieheSter, seven miles off (and there none can be spared), we tar if any irritation was given to the mob, they would oon have the town in, their own hands, but as our people are generally slow to violegce, we trust, we shall escape bloodshed ant) dc" tructloo of property. I may just add that the ope ratises :wear au have a (leap system of organization. and more regularly conduct their business than eve: appeareehbe,thre in the manufacturing districts. In conclusion, allow' me to say something must be done4.fit the middle classes (who have also suffered deeply) appear rather to look on the whole as the dawn or a--change . that may be for the better bn cannot be for the worse.- am your's, most respect fully. e „ , PHILO. TO -THE-EDITOR OF THE SUN. Oldham, Thursd.arevening, 9 o'clock. Sta,—The operatives that left the town this morning, have just'returtied, greatlyinereased in numbers. When they set'clit Oil were 'about 3,000 strong, when they came, in they were about 6,000; so that they made a ,yery i irregular, but, very formidable appear ance. Then- route has been to Shaw, Royston, Rochdale, and Heywood, in all which places they have been. successful in stopping the, mills and various wor k s , w hi c h h as grea tly elated them. At this moment they are assembled in the field be hind the ; ati 1, at a fair estimate, amount tt. 6,000 antOrpwird.s*. The speakers recommend peace. law, anc;l:4 V er t which I hope they will act on. Al the spee4q. con tables are peaeably on duty about our beautiful 3.741,%1'ii-bail; , and most express a deep sym pathy foi:the ;..S.TO military have come as ?et, so that if .therweee disposed for mischief they migh. do it. But thitdeas nut appear to be their wish at present. • A - large, placard, drawn up in very temperate lan guage, Calls .on masters to give the prices of 1840, at the fooref - which is a list - tlf those prices. I asked a master' his 'opinion of the list. He told me there w nothing unreasonable in it, and that the Oldharnixtasters were not much below it ; but that Ashton :and stalybridge were very much under it. But I find that • there are many difficulties in the way of a. nominal uniform price, as there is a great ditterence. in the various kinds of machinery by which it is performed, some being more modern ,and im proved than others; the owners of the best machinery contending- Alit:l - laving. laid out more capital than the owner Ofilie old machinery, he ought not to pay the same iiiireinaf price' to the workman, bebause. (the work.4ban)Wiflltl•:get more on his machinery then he coulk on tile old :machinery of the other Blaster. 1 may juse, ,Ai - that they say they are losing money' every week at the ,price,they do pay, and in proof 0,. this they point out much good machinery that has been idle fur months, so that they think the question will not sulli be settled. An awful gloom hangs over the looks of :41 you me e t, an d dreadful fears for tho toruequenees are entertained by all. This evening the procession consisted of a greater mixture of trades than in the morning, that it becomes not a question of the cotton trade, but of every trade. 'Yours .most respectfully, PIIILO. (dye must take the opportunity of saying that we are Very. miteh obliged to ano th er correspon d ent at Oldhatn.4l)4 (to_ not think it necessary to publish his letter stv.,-tp. Sun.) Lord Charles Manners, ALP., has arrived at Wie,- 141 , 19. The rt4 - 4ible and Gallant Lord purposes to be at . 39,1voirtacttle at the close of October , for the hunting SeUM ALARMING - STATE OF THE COUNTRY. FURTHER PARTICULARS. DISTURBANCES in LANCASHIRE. I • (Abridged from the Manchester Guardian.) The wide-spread and extensively-combined syStem . of outrage and intimidation, the commencement of which-we announced in our publication &Wednesday, is proceeding with rapid strides through the manu facturing districts ; and When this sheet comes into the hands of our readers, this district, the great seat of the cotton . mantifacture of England, instead of pre senting its usual aspect of busy industry, will exhibit the - unusual spectacle of empty-workshops, unproducs tive machinery, and bodies of workmen roaming aboitt the- streets in listless idleness ; and tins night will -Witness some of the hitter consequences of this state of things to the great mass of - :those, who earn their subsistence by-the labour of their hands, and depend upon their weekly wages for a supply of food. Thousands of mothers must to-night send their child ren to bed, without knowing frOm whence the food is to come which mist Sustain life until Monday morn ing. Such is the fiat of a gang of desperate and un principled agitators, who care-nothing for the misery they cause, and who have been enabled to carry their remorseless plans into effect by practising on the cre dulity of their victims. Those who look upon this outbreak as a mere turn out for wages—an attempt to resist a reduction of a - half-penny per piece in weaving calico ; and who suppose that it might be brought to a termination by acceding to the preSent demand, or to any demand for, an advance of wages—fall into a mistake, which ie not only great, but exceedingly dangerous. What is now taking place has not come upon us by surprise. - We._know that it has been agitated for several months past ; that it has, formed the subject of discussion at the-Chartist Sunday meetings which have been held in many parts of the 'district ; and that it is,. in fact, the carrying-out of that fiendish scheme developed by Mr. Feargus O'Connor and other agitators, so Icing ago as October, 1838, under the name of the "sacred week," and the " national holiday," Which was twice or thrice announced in the early part of 1839 ; and which was finalVattempted to be carried into execution on the 12th of 'August in that y ear-a day Which is significantly near the date of the present out break. Indeed, we know, on very good authority, that a leading Chartist, one of the-Very few men of considerable property who belong to that body, said, about two months ago, to a gentleman with . whom 'he was conversing on the state of the country,—" Wait _ August, - and you will then see what Will - hap - pen." What *as then in the mind of the speaker has hap : -ened ; the " sacred week," the " national holiday," is upon - us. The object of it is to drive all the work ins; claSsea out of eniployment, in the hope that, when reduced to utter 'destitution and misery, they will be ready for any desperate enterprises to which designing .men may desire to impel them. Would any advance of. wages . satisfy these men? Oh ! no. Ir any such advance was conceded, it would only , be made , the stepping-stone for' furthers demands. The language of the agitators to the working classes would then be, ' You see your power ; you have gained this point ; and you • can accomplish whatever you please. Do not stop short in your demands." It is with feelings that we can hardly express, that we have seen and heard, in Manchester and elsewhere, attempts to seize upon this melancholy outbreak as an occasion for manifesting mere party spite. At a time when the most strenuous and the united exertions of all men interested in the preservation of order, are Deeded to meet the pressing exigencies of the time, no words of scorn can be strong enough duly to charac terize the conduct of those (if such there are) who can seek to sow disunion, and to paralyze exertion, merely that they may have an opportunity of grafi . fying a contemptible feeling of personal and political rancour. Let us hope that, at all events, such things may be postponed, until they can be indulged in with out serious detriment to the public welfare. Since the preceding remarks on the real nature of the present outbreak were written, we have seen the resolutions passed at the meetings of delegates held at the Sherwood Inn, and at Carpenters' Hall, yesterday. To us, who well knew the real objects of the agita tators, these resolutions convey no information. But to parties who have hitherto, either wilfully or igno rantly, shut their eyes to the truth, we recommend a perusal of those resolutions ; and especially the second, recommending that the present forced cessation of work shall be continued until what is called " the Charter" becomes the law of the land. Disguise it as we may, the - present movement is a rising against the Government and the law.. Call it by what name we please, IT IS, REALLY AN INSURRECTION. • (Abridged from the 111 - Inchester Guardian.) FninAv.---There having been a resumption of work by a number of mills, &c., in various parts of the town ihis morning, there were very large assemblages of people in the streets from an early hour ; and it was pretty obvious that they were not disposed to allow those who -were more inclined to work, to do so in peace. ' ,STOPPAGE OF MILLS AND OTHER- - W 7 OIiK`S. Early in the morning, ; groups of factory hands heman to assemble at the corners of the streets in the ileightourhood of Oxford-road, Garrett-road, London road, .and Great Ancoats-street. About half-past six o'clock, two or three of these groups joined together in Ormond:gtreet, Chorlton-upon-Me llock, and pro ceeded towards Brook-street, where they made the workmen turn out of one or two small shops. They then turned back, and went along Garrett-road to Mr. David Bellhout.Aa's timber-yard, in front of which they drew up, and called upon the men to turn out. few minutes' delay took place, on which the mob threatened to break open the large doors ; but before attack was made, the men were turned out, arnidzt the cheers of the crowd. About half-past eight o'clock, a large party broke into the lead mill of Mr. William Occleshaw, Lee =l-eet, Piccadilly; and, not satisfied with turning the hands out, they * forced open several of the doors inside the mill, and appeared disposed to commit further damage. However, they were prevented by the timely arrival of a body of police, under the com mand of Inspector Lipsett, together with a party of mpeeial constables , and, before the rioters could escape, twelve of them were captured, and conveyed to the Yew Bailey. About eleven o'clock, information being received at the police-office of a considerable assemblage in Lower Mosley. street, Superintendent Sawley proceeded thither on horseback, with a body of police and special constables ; and before they came up with the turn outs, a tall stout Scotchman was seen by the police, apparently heading and directing the mob, waving end beckoning with his hands • and he was at once ecognised as an individual who had been very con spicuous in two or three riotous affairs in Oxford-road, ayid accordingly Mr. Sawley and several of the police kept him in view. Finding the police were near, he rushed down an entry, and concealed himself in a privy, but a policeman followed him there; and he broke away, and ran up Lower Mosley-street and Mosley-street with great speed. Mr. Sawley gal loped after him and turned him, while some of the police and special constables pursued on foot, - and one the latter seized him. lie was conveyed - to the Yew Bailey ; nothing being found in his possession butt penknife, and other small articles. He calls himself James Bruton, and says he is, a mechanic. There is little doubt that he is one of the very few leaders that have been observed during the week. During the forenoon, another man was captured by the police, who calls himself John Varden, and who it is said has been identified as one of the men who'so savagely beat Sergeant Dale and Policemen Bagnall ifid Beattie with a poker. Several other daring attempts were made in the course of the day to turn out workmen employed in shops, and at buildings in the very centre of the . town. BREAKING INTO A BREAD SHOP. hi the afternoon, between three and four Jclock,.a body of young men and lads broke into Mrs. Alar e d'S provision shop, corner of the Dog's-entry, Deans 4, , atc? and carried away several loaves. _ _ _ Shortly afterwards, another party demanded bread, and obtained it at some shops in Camp-field. This morning an excellent arrangement w:as made, viz., the appointment of four young gentleman, active, intelligent men, well mounted, and who had been worn in special constables, to proceed to different quarters of the town, and return every quarter of an hour to the police-offioe to report the state of the dif ferent districts. MEETING OF JOINERS, &c. , Between eleven and twelve o'clock a meeting. of joiners, carpenters, &c., was held in Carpenter's,hall ; there were about 300 or 400 present. The usual re solutions were passed to oppose class legislation, and to demand a fair day's wages for a fair day's work.. It was also announced that they would form put of a procesion to meg Mr.Feargus O'Connor, at Ardwick green, on Tuesday morning. next, the 16th August, the anniversary of the Peterloo meeting. The meet ing terminated about twelve o'clock. We understand that parties of turn-outs: proceeded to the Manchester and Birmingham, and the Man chester and Sheffield Railways, which have a common terminus in Manchester, and stopped some of the t►ains; but they did no material damage to the loco motives. MEETING OF DELEGATES. At.tweiseO'ClOCl: at noon, a meeting of delegates was held at the Sherwood Inn, Tib-street, for the purpose of considering what was best to be done in the present crisis. Two hundred delegates, represent ing the various trades and mill hands of Manchester and its neighbourhood, were preient. James Farrell presided. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted : That we, the delegates representing the various ttaf t;.. of 31 nchester and its vicinities, with delegates from various parts'ofTaileaShiri and Yorkshire, do most . . emphatically declare, that it is our solemn and conscientious conviction that all the evils which afflict society, and which have pro4itrated the interests and energies of the great body of producing classes, arise solely from class legislatlon ; and that the only re medy for the present alarming distress and wide spread dptitution is the itarnediate and unmutilated adoption, and carrying into law,' tht dOcuthent known as the Peoples Charter." . Resolved, secondly :—" That this meeting recom mend the_ people of all trades and callings to forthwith cease work, until the above dOcument becomes the law of the land." • -NDON m ONDATVG- Advt . Ai Gil ST - 5 • 1 1842. - , Joseph Fletcher was eallethto tt)echair. Thi meet ing did nothing. was quiet in the town and -"neighbourhood when our account left. At the termination of this meeting, the shopkeepers , Commttee at once went to their Committee-room, at the Pitt and Nelson, when they agreed to publish the fbllowing address to the operatives : "TO THE 9PEIqATIySS , IOI" ASELTONrENDER-LTNE AND_ IRE NEIGIIBOURIIOOD. The meeting of the deputation appointed to me: i diate between the masters and the workpeople, has taken place this afternoon. The requirements of the people were laid before,them, and were simply, the following :—a desire to establish an uniform rate of wages and time throughout the whole manufacturing districts ; and, with respect to the uniform rate ff . wages, the masters were agreeable, provided such uniformity could be secured, though they feared it would be impracticable. The masters wished the men to return to their work, and enileavour to bring up the other towns to their prices; in doing which, they might rely, on the masters' assistance, stating that they had no disposition to reduce wages ; but, on the contrary, they would rather see an advance of wages than a further irluetion. _ _ _ (Signed on behalf of the Deputation,) "JOS. FLETCHER, Chairman. (Signed on behalf of the Shopkeepers' and Tradestnens' Committee,) " TIE* CARRELL ' Chairman. " JAS., R. HORNER, Hon. Sec. " Committee-room ' Pitt and Nelson, Aug. 12, 1842." We think it right t ) state, in compliance with the wish of the Shopkeepers' Committee, the Ashton operatives have sent pickets round to drive away the people who were mobbing the provision shop:. ' ROCIIDALE, BAUM, AND TODMORDEN. 11 At six o'clock yesterday (Fr morniiz g, a large meeting : was held on Cronkeyshaw Moor. De- 1 legates were sent thenCe to various parts in York 'shire,, also to Caine, Padiharn, &c. A procession of 6,000 individuals went to Bacup, where the hands in the cotton and woollen mills, and various workshops, were compelled to give up work. After holding. :another meeting, the procession marched to Todmor den where the hands in most of the mills had ceased working, and - the others were then stopped. At three o'clock yesterday (Friday) all was quiet in Rochdale ; persons were going to various shops begging for bread, and some demanded money. There is a general re port that all the places of worship are to be stopped on -Sunday; at all the meetings Chartism is introduced, and most of them declare they will have the Charter: —l-IEVWOOII3-: At six o'clock on Friday morning, a large number of factory operatives from Bury entered Eieywood: public meeting, consisting of upwards of 3,000 15er sons, was held .near St. James's Church. The speakers advised the meeting to he peaceable, awl united in obtaining the wages of 1840, and to work only ten hours per day. The procession was formed about seven o'clock, and the party proceeded to Rochdale, forcing all persons to go with them whom they met on the road. At three o'clock in the after noon of yesterday, all was quiet. The whole of the operatives in the mills, and machine and other work shops, were at a complete stand. A few special con stables were sworn in on Thursday evening. MEETING AT CA PESfTEWS HALL. At two o'clock, a still larger meeting of delegates was held at Carpenter's Hall, which was crammed to excess. The meeting was addressed by various speakers, and did not break up until nearly eight o clock. The resolutions agreed to at the previous meeting were unanimously adopted ; and an amend ment, to the effect that they should commence work as soon as the prices of 1840 were granted, was so feebly supported that it fell to the ground. The ge neral feeling of the meeting was, that, even if the masters should agree to the terms proposed, there could be no guarantee for there being adhered to, unless the working classes were invested with the suffrage, so as to give them a voice in the choosing of the law makers. So great was the interest felt with regard to the proceedings of this meeting, that thou sands assembled outside, besieging the doors, and anxiously inquiring as to what was going on within. About four o'clock the assemblage was so large, and assumed so alarming an appearance, that the authoritie deemed it advisable to disperse it, which was effected. MEETING OF TIIE TOWN COUNCIL. This (Friday) afternoon, the Town Council Were convened by the Mayor, at very short notice, on special busintss. The Mayor took the chair. Mr. Alderman Chappell then brought forward a resolu tion, whieh, after some discussion, in the course of which a clause was introduced, expressive of the com miseration felt by the, Council for the distressed state of the poor, was ultimately seconded by Mr. Walter Clark, and unanimously adopted. It was as follows: — "That this Council, whilst deeply commiserating tie distresses under which a large portion rf the work ing classes, have been for some time past and are now suffering; is convinced that .it is of the utmost import ance, that the inhabitants should unequivocally and generally express their disapproval of the illegal and riotous proceedings by which this neighbourhood has been, during the last few days, disgraced ; and that it is incumbent upon the respectable inhabitants gene rally throughout the borough, to co-operate to the ful leit extent posssible with the Magistrates, in aiding them in the maintenance of the peace, and in the preservation of property. • That, with the view of carrrying out the suggestion made in the resolution of the Magis trates, the Aldermen and Councillors of each ward be requested forthwith to convene meetings in their respective wards of the respectable inhabitants, urgently calling upon them to come forward for the purpose of being sworn in as special constables, to assist in the protection of property and the preserva tion of peace in their own wards ; or to take such 'other steps as may be required for obtaining the assist ance in every ward of a large number of the inhabi tants us special constables. We learn that, up to last evening, not fewer than two thomand five hundred special constables have been sworn in, to act within the borough of Manchester only. Four or five hundred more have been sworn in to act for the borough of Salford ; and numbers of the inhabitants of the neighbouring townships have also come forward to enrol themselves as special con stables in their respective localities. tiLME. A band of lads and men, about 70 in number, pa trolled the outskirts of this township, demanding alms at respectable houses. A number of special consta bles pursued them in the direction of the Penitentiary, and dispersed them. MACCLESFIELD. The procession which left Stockport yesterday morning-, was joined, at Poynton and neighbourhood, by parties from Oldham, Ashton, llyde, &c. At Hazel areve, they were joined by numbers of silk weavers; and at Poynton, the colliers were compelled to leave off work, and readily joined the mob. They then proceeded on towards Macclesfield; but, before arriving, they again separated, one party taking the road to Bollington, on arriving at which place the three mills there were im mediately stopped, and the hands turned out. At Mr. Swindle's mill, the boiler fires were put out, and the boilers emptied, by knocking in the plugs. The shopkeepers in the neighbourhood were visited, and asked for bread, which they gave liberally. A shop keeper. named Brooks, gave them two cheeses, a flitch of bacon, and a great quantity ofloaves. ,No outrage was committed. The party then went on to Mac:cles field, on their arrival at which place, all the mills had been stopped by the party that had left them on the way. The silk weavers had all turned out for an ad vance of wages on the previous evening, but none of the stbac.- einc-n, -vrciv a toppeii bete tne - arrivta „r the mob.. All the shops and public -houses were closed; but the crowd had bread given to them from the various chamber windows. The mills having been all stopped, the crowd ; to the number of -12,000 or 14,000, assem bled] on Park-green, and were addressed by various speakers, when it was determined - to stand out, and wait the -directions of the 'confereece, to he held in Manehesteri. on Wednesday next. One of the speak ers told them, that, if they ventured to begin work again, a number of the turn-outs from other places were stopping in Macclesfield all night, some of whom were provided with pigeons, and they would be sent off ; so that the people of Stockport would know in less than half an hour after a mill had resumed work ing, and they would come back and " give it the de vils." He also stated that pigeons would be sent from Bolli ngton ASIITON. In the course of Thursday, the Magistrates of Ashton resolved upon swearing in a number of special constables. A rumour of this determination having got afloat, a deputation from the Shopkeepers' Com mittee waited upon them, and endeavoured to dissuade them from their determination ' or at least to allow, the Shopkeepers' Committee to he excused from serv ino• • but this effort was unsuccessful. In the even ing three hundred summonses were issued. The Com mittee issued the following placard • " UNION IS SIitENGTIII- 1 -The tradesmen and mid dle classes of Ashtbn-under-Lyne and its vicinity, viewing with alarm the distress and agitation now ex isting around them, offer their services as mediators to settle the differences unhappily subsisting between the employers and the employed. To accomplish this object, they have appointed a deputation from their number to wait - on the manufacturers. The object of this deputation will be to induce the employers to take into their serious consideration the wishes of the ope ratives, and, as far as possible, to accede to them. The following gentlemen composed the deputation : Mr. Thomas Kershaw Mr. William Sunderland „ Thomas Travis „ Abel Swann „ .John Spencer „ James Knott, jun. „ Robert Ripley „ John Johnson „ Josepbyletcher „ John Smith. , John . Metcalfe. " Should the peace of the town be broken, it may defeat the object proposed : the Committee, therefore, b , g of the operatives rigorously to preserve the peace ! " Ashton-under-Lyne, August 11, 1842." They also attempted to procure an interview with the mill-owners ; but, not being very suc cessful, they forwarded a copy of the following cir cular to the mill-owners of Ashton, Stalybridge, and D ukinfield : " Cotnmittee-room, Pitt and Nelson. Sir,—We beg to request your attendance at_ a meeting of the spinners and manufacturers of this neighbourhood, to assemble at the Commercial Hotel, on Friday the 12th inst., at 4 o'clock in the afternoon precisely. " A Delegation of Gentlemen from the Com mittee of the,. Tradesmen and - Middle Classes of Althton-under-Lyne and the neighbourhood will then attend, if possible to mediate upon the disputed points between the employers and the employed. We hive adopted this course with a view to preserve the peace of the district, and to induce good feeling amongst' all, classes of the community ; an d, as a friend to these objects, we earnestly solicit your Tttendance. "The following gentlemen will compose the depu • Cation : Mr. Thomas Kershaw, „ Thomas Travis, „ John Spencer, „ Robert Ripley, Joseph Fletcher, „ John Metcalfe. Mr. William Sunderland, „ Abel Swann, „ James Knott, jun. „ John Johnson, „ John Smith. " Yours respeeffilly, "JAS R. HORNER, lion. See. "Ashton-under-Lyne, Aug. 11th, 1842." A meeting of the operatives unconnected with the cotton trade was convened for yesterday morning, in the Charlestown Meeting-room, Ashton; hut for what purpose we did not ascertain. MEETING—CONFERENCE OF MASTERS AND THE DEPUTATION. In pursuance of the invitation contained in the cir cular just quoted, about thirty of the principal em ployers of this neighbourhood assembled in the large room at the Commercial Hotel. Amongst them were observed Messrs. John Whittaker, Oldham Whittaker, John Hyde, Samuel Robinson, John Mellor, George Mellor, Edward Redfern, Samuel Earnshaw, Peter Leigh, Evan Leigh, Thos. Mason, G. Southam, James Ogden, ,T. Dean, Joshua Binns, Samuel Heginbot tom, W. Heginbottom George lleginb o tt om , & c ., &c. W e b e li eve nea rly all the members of the deputation were present, headed by Mr. Travis. Mr- OLDHAM. FRIDAY EYES N G.---At an early hour this M a large mob hell a meeting on Curzon Ground, Old ham ; and; after a person of the name of Yardle. had addressed the crowd respecting the value of labour, the mob went to I•?ochdale, and the Rochdale mob - proceeded to Todmorden, and -stopped all the mills. All the coal miners have struck work, and are stop ping the colliers in the adjacent districts. ROCHDALE & NEIGHBOURHOOD About nine o'clock on Thursday morning, the mob arrived at Oldham-road, on its way to Royton to Rochdale. Many of the factories are situated in this place, on account of its nearness to the canal. Mr. Sutcliffe and Messrs. Hoyle and Livesay 'were iirst summoned to turn out their men, and stop the mills, with which order they complied immediately, as it would have been unavailing to have made any attempt to contend against 5,000 or 6,000 people. INIr. Ash worth, the. Magistrate, met the people here, and tried to stop them in their course, but it was 411 to no purpose. They faithfully promised him not to break the peace, and assured him their object was not plunder. They were willing to work, they said, and that all they wanted was a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. Mr. Brierley was then or dered to stop his mill ; when he asked his visitors what their object was in stopping all their mills, they replied, that they wanted the wages they had in 1840. Here the hands were turned out. The next mill they came to was Mr. Holt's, who had the gates locked, but informed them that he had stopped working. This was not deemed satisfactory, as in all other cases they pulled the plug out of the boiler, and turned the water into the fire. A number of persons immediately climbed over the gates, and knocked out the plug, which would soon extinguish the fire. The mob then went to Mr. Hoyle's corn mill, and informed the men that they must keep at work, as they would want some corn before the next week. They paid the saw-mill company a visit; but, as a high-pressure engine is used here, it was not deemed safe to pull the plug : the fire was put out, and the steam let off by opening the valve. Messrs. Butterworth and Heape, Messrs. Radcliffe, and Mr. Shore's mills were stopped, as well as every other kind of workshop in Oldham-road, when the mob came down into the town, and ordered the men out of the mills of Messrs. Chadwick, Messrs. Kelsall and Bartlemore, Messrs. Lomax, Mr. Robert Kelsall, Messrs. Pagon and Ogden, Messrs. Procter and Brothers, and Mr. Howard. When the mob came do Am Drake-street, itis supposed that they were about 15,000 persons. They were led up by females, eight or ten abreast, singing some lively song, and Mr. Geo. Ashworth, the Magistrate, on horseback, in the midst of the procession, ready to check any excess or breach of the peace that might take place. Messrs. Pilling and Biaerley were the only persons who turned out their men before the mob arrived ; but, as they had not emptied the boilers, a number of men entered the pre mises and pulled out the plugs. - The shopkeepers in various parts of the town gave or threw loaves to .the crowd. Having thus stopped the mills in the town, ,the mob proceeded to Cronkeyshaw, to Mr. John Bright's factory, . and demanded the release , of the hands, which - was complied with. A meet ing was then held en the moor, which was ad• dressed by several individuals ; and it. was resolved, that there should he another meeting on Cronkeyr shave, at seven o'clock 4n the evening, to lay down 21--aaa 'r -Suture_ operatio— . A _nartsaaaaa then di.. missed to Whitworth and Facet, to stop all the mills in that part. The mills. of Messrs. Leach and Tweedale, Healey-hall ; Messrs. Thomas Holland and Son, Tunnicliffe ; and Mr. Charles Haigh's, Broadley, were stopped, and the plugs pulled out. Another party was dismissed to Hooley Clough and Heywood, for-the same purpose. It was intended to go to Bacup;and Burnley. • The shops remained elos:A. all day on Thursday. * Every iron foundry and workshop, where men were employed, received a visit from the "plug dragoons," as they are here called, and had strict injunctions to leave off work. There were a number of men at work at St. Mary's Church ; but they were compelled to. desist as the crowd passed through Cheetham-street. Masons, bricklayers, joiners, mechanics, and every kind of operatives, struck work, and joined the mass of the people as they passed from mill to mill. Every shop was closed ; and remained so; with few exceptions, during Thursday.- Several of the 'provision shops . handed loaves of bread to the mob in the:streets, which they devoured like hungry wolves. , Other shopkeepers collected morey, and gave it to the ringleaders, who immediately went and purchased bread, which they divided amongst their followers. •• In one or two in stances, loaves were taken without leave by some Young lads ; but this conduct was not tolerated by the leaders. Several gentlemen gave them money very liberally, which in all cases was spent in bread for those who had come a great distance. About fifty women went into Tweeddale's Hotel, and were treated with a good dinner and plenty. to drink, for which they were extremely grateful, being at a distance from home. In the afternoon, a man made a wager that he would carry a loaf of bread on a stick, up York shire atreet, without being molested ; but he had ad vanced very few yards before it was carried off by the crowd, and devoured. At 'seven o'clock in the evening, a meeting was held on Cronkeyshaw, near Mr. Bright's old factory. The speakers were Charles Howorth, a mechanic named Ashley, (operatives), two strangers, and Mr. Thomas Livsey. There could not be fewer than 7,000 persons present, one-fourth of whom were females. -One of the - speakers said he never could take part 'against the manufacturers, who were in as bad a Situation' as the workmen. The• landowners had made a law to prevent them exchanging - their goods for corn, whereby they were as much under aristocratic oppression as the poorest man among • them..: He hoped they would do all in their power for the repeal - of the Corn-laws, awl he trusted the middle class would assist them to procure the charter, which would be a remedy for all the evils that the' working man had to complain of. The aristocracy united for the :protection of their land ; let the poor man follow their example, and protect the wages of labour. Sir Robert Peel was intending to prorogue. - Parliament on Friday, in order to go a shooting ; hut, if he was not mistaken, he would have to call them together again very soon to stop shooting. A resolution w as p asse d, that the meeting should adjourn till five o'clock on Friday morning, when the duties of the day would be laid before them. All the speakers, without excep tion, implored them not to commit a breach of the Peace, and by all means to re s p ect the ri ghts of pro perty. He cautioned .them . to beware, as th e y h a d spies amongst ththem.A . blue bottle he said, d resse d as a collier, went with • the - - party on Wednesday, to Shaw, Royton, and Bunage, and, having assisted them in all their proceedings, eame.. and gave infor mation to a Rochdale .Magi trate at night. The meeting broke up at half-past .eight o'clock.--On Friday morning., - there was another gathering at the same place, at five o'clock. • The meeting was com menced •by singing a'.; hymn, when a female ad dressed, in a Very ti ut at ed manner, the assem bled multitude. She - wns a - teetotaller, and ad vised them to shun the ale-house, - and, look to their wives and •families. She conspired , the poor of the land to Christ, who was oeserted in the day of tribulation by the rich and - wealthy of the world, and who chose the poor fisherman of Galilee to preach his doctrines, and to send gl a d tidings into tke . hearts of thousands. The state shepherds, dressed in fine linen, whose object was to fleecethem, never could he considered as the ;epresentatives of the poor. fishermen of old. She went on in this strain for some time. By six o'clock the crowd had - increased to 3,000 or 4,000, when they broke up,, and sot off to Bunn. It is supposed that,. after having pulled out the plugs there, they will return through Todmorden, and accomplish the businessin that place. At eight o'clock on Friday morning,' a party of 500. or 600 - marched into Rochdale frog: Heywood;• but, finding themselves. too late to loin the .Bacup party, they. advanced to Black Pits (tlneemiles from - Rochdale),. a mill beloni7ing to,Mr. -Tamer, of Haslingden, with. the intention of turning cut the hands. During. Thursday n;ght everything vent off very peaceably. 31IDC-LETON. .At half-past seven o'clock, on 'Wednesday evening, a number of silk weavers from Hollinwood and Fails worth arrived in Middleton, and shortly after upwards of a thousand persons assembled in the Market-place. The delegates from the above places said there would be a meeting the day following on White Moss ; and, if the Middleton people did not unite in turning out for the wages given in 1840, they would compel them to give up working. At twelve o'clock on Thursday morning, a large body of men, many of them colliers, arrived from White Moss, where a meeting had been held. They stopped at Messrs. Jackson and Royle's silk mill, turned the steam off, and the hand s wer e ' instantly turned out of the factory. The crowd then proceeded to the dyeworks of Mr. Beattie, and Messrs. Stone and Kemp's silk warehouse, Mr. Gill's cotton mill, =tithe extensive print works of Messrs, Schwabe , and Co. Here, also, the enginas were stopped, the steam turned off, and the hands ceased working. At five o'clock in the evening,. several thousand persons from Heywood, Rochdale, and - other places, entered the town. At Mr. Joseph Fieldiag'S.shop a, latign.qttan tity ofloaves were given. A public meeting. was held'. in the Market-place, when it.was resolved to turnout, and to meet every morning and evening, and remain out until the same prices for silk*aving and, the same wages to other operatives Ns - et - 6'Ft ir6n 'as In 1840. At eight o'clock on 'Friday m6iintig; a .numerous meeting was held in the MarketplaCe; when three silk weavers, named Ward, Snii tines; smd.Ogden, were appointed to go to 'Leigh, and request the .weavers there to join them in the general.,strike. Ward said, ite hoped that particular notice would he taken of every one who worked, and their names given to the Oldham people. A procession was formed at ten o'clock, consistirg of about 2,000 persons ; they marched through Tonge, and went to the extensive bleach works of Messrs. Coates and Co., at Stakehill, where the hands were prevented from Working. Per sons who were met on the road were forced to go with them. Delegates were sent to Bolton and other places. Meetings are to be held every morning and evening. All was peaceable when our reporter left, though all trade was at a stand. BURY. Here, as in every other place in the district, the turn-outs from other towns came in considerable num bers, and went round the mills, factories, and other works, demanding that they should be stopped, and the hands dismissed. This demand was generally complied with at once, and all the establishments of the town and neighbourhood have ceased working ; and the streets are full of idle and discontented people, strolling about in groups, demanding, and of course obtaining bread, &e., from the provision shops. BOLTON. An attempt has been made, which, however, has signally failed, to create a disturbance iii Bolton ; but the inhabitants, particularly the operatives, received a lesson in August, three years ago, that they have not yet forgotten, and are fully aware of the folly and, mischief attendant on a breach of the peace. Several agitators froth neighbouring towns attended on Wed nesday. evening, and, despite the rain, convened a meeting in the New Marketplace, for the purpose of inducing the operatives to make a general turn-out. One speaker, a man from Ashton, was very violent in his language, frequently making use of oaths, and even went the length of saying, that if the people of Bolton did not assist in the turn-out, he would bring the men from Ashton, and give them " a good walloping." The meeting Btljourned to the followiug morning (Thursday), • when a large crowd of persons principally boys and girls, again assembled, and various mills, at several of which they caused the hands to turn out ; hut at the principal mills, Messrs. Ormrod's and Messrs. Bolling's, no notice was taken of them; and at nearly all the others the hands re turned to their work as soon as the crowd had gone away. A few windowi were broken at Messrs. Orm rod's new mill, and . a portion of the gate staved, but no other damage was .done. Yesterday morning (Friday)- they again assem bled at five o'clock, and were addressed by Gillespie, one of the Chartists, who read a resolution from a placard, passed at'a meeting in Manchester, and then advised them to act upon and persevere in securing a turn-out. A yOu ng man naMed ThOmasThompson, from Blackburn, also advised them to proceed to the mills to turn out the hands, and was followed in the same strain by his step-father, .John Holden, also from Blackburn. At this period the Mayor,.Thomas Cul len, Esq., Mr. Boyd, superintendent of police, and several officers, came up, -and having heard the senti ments of the two last speakers, ttook • them into etis-tody, and placed them in the lock-ups, the 'assembled crowd not making the slightest resistance. This somewhat disconcerted their projects, hut, notwithstanding, about 100 lads and girls proceeded to the Temple Mill, and caused it to he stopped. They then went to 1111- Rothwell's mill, in Black - Horse-street, and similar results followed. The erc.wcl then went in the direction of Flash Mill; and Mr. Boyd, having received information of their pro ceedings, sallied out with a body of 2.5 officers, to break up the procession, and tbr some time went in pursuit of them ; at length they were met with at Taylor Field, and any outbreak was prevented. One man, who has since stated his name to be William Chttrriock, a collier out of employment, from ChoileY, threw a large - stone at the police, but was (.bserved by C. J. Darbishire, Esq., one of the Magistrates, who took him.into custody. The two men taken up in the morning' were arraigned in the course of the fore noon ; and it appeared, from • their statements, that they are out of employment, and destitute of means of support. They were reprintalided by the Magistrat es , who subscribed ss - . to enable them to leave the town, and procure scme food. About eleven o'clock, the police and the mob met -at 'Mr. Taylor's mill, Spaw Field; when the police became quite the masters, and dr* . theth, off, taking three-of the ringleaders into custody. WIGAN. FRID IY.—The authorities of this town, appre. hending the arrival of the turn-outs or Chartists, and of consequent disturbances, have sworn in this morn ing several hundred special constables. PRESTON. Fal DA Y, Atm rST .--Another correspondent, whose letter is dated five P.M. Friday evening, states, that every factory in the town is stopped; and that without any act of violence having been com mitted, except in bursting open the doors of the Moss Factory. (From the Sunday Times.) MA:STCHESTER, SATURDA Y EVENING. We are glad to have it in our power to report that the town generally is this morning more tranquil than it has been on any day since the outbreak of the riot. The interruptions to the general tranquillity to-day have hitherto been slight and few in number. This is, doubtless, attributed, in some degree, to the very large number of persons who have, with the ut most promptitude, come forward and enrolled them selves as special constables. At the same time the circumstances that none of the mills, except the Messrs. Bir]ey's and Messrs. Kennedy's, as far as we can learn, have attempted to start work to-day, has no doubt mainly led to this temporiry lull.__ . STOPPAGE OF 'WORKMEN. As early as half-past seven in the morning a mob of the usual character made an onset on the bricklayers and labourers employed at the new buildings in Pool Field (the same as were attacked yesterday), and com pelled them to cease work. A t other buildings in the town ,and neighbourhood, where masons or brick laver4 are employed (includi ng t h e new church in Stratford-roads), the same course of intimidation has been successfully practised. TRADES' MEETING AT THE HALL OF SCIENCE. An ether seditious meeting, under the guise of a meet ing 'of trades delegates, has been held at the Socialists' Hall this morning, at eleven o'clock. There was a . very crowded attendance. A person, whose name we could not learn, -but who was said to be the foreman of Mr. Worrars- dye- works, in Salford, was in the chair. there was a great deal of wrangling in the course of the proceeding., hut ultimately a resolution, pledging the men not to return to work till the people's Charter was obtained,' was carried by a' wut three-f o urths of the _meeting: - - STATE 01 TIE: Up to CA_ houi• - have been less insted by bands of ma:au-len, 01 •11 pretence of asking alms than on either of the preceding days. . Most of the shops keep their shutters up, but open their doors. In the. middle of the town all the shops are_open as usual, and appear to- he doing their regular business. The business of such of the markets held this day has be':n allowed to proceed, we believe, without the slightest interruption. - • OUTRAGE AT WILMSLOW. About noon information reached town of a very daring and riotous attack, which was made yesterday on Mr. Gray's mill, at Quarry-brook, near Wimslow. Near 500 . men came there, and after demanding ad mittance, forced opened the door, and the whole body Marched into the lower part of the mill, and did con .siderable dantage- .before they could be ejected. Our informant states, that they all appeared to he perfectly sober. They then went to the village shops and the. .bai , _ehouses, au.c.l seized all the bread they could lay theirhand'. , on. We have not heard that any of them haVe beensecured.. SATURDAY, ONE O ' CLOCK.—The temporary lull —for we fear it can only prove a temporary one—has given the authorities time to breathe, and to provide more efficiently against any future breach of the pace. Already have more than three thousand constables been sworn in ; and in the out-townships—l3roughton, Cheetham, Chorlton upon-Medlock, Hulme, and Ardwick—the under standing that parties wishing it shall be called upon to serve in their own neighbourhoods only, has had an exceding,ly beneficial effect in inducing respectable householders and tradesmen to come forward and take upon themselves the onerous duties. FURTHER TUN-OUT OF WORKMEN. At the moment we write,,the system of stopping employment has re-commenced in every district, even in the less numerous trades in the very heart of the town, including the engravers' shops, calenderers, &c. Parties are patrolling the neighbourhood of St. George's-road also, and stopping the brick-crofts. Even the wret.led hand-loom weavers in Angel Meadow have been visited. Meetings of the trades are taking place in the different parts of the town, with a view of preventing this : state of things, by enrolling ad ditional members in the unions. RENE WED ATTEMPT TO STOP RAIL WAY COMMUNICATION. FOUR o'Ctocx, P.m.—Since writing the above, further particulars have come to our knowledge, which lead to the conclusion that matters are far from being so pacific as we had hoped. By eight o'clack this morning, another attack was made on the engine house of the Leeds Railway. The hands, chiefly mechanics, who were turned out there yesterday, had not returned to work, and their place had been ac cordingly supplied by others. The mob this morning was numerous and very violent, and they soon com pelled the new hands to desist, and drove them off as fast as they attempted to return. The officers of the . Compeny finding that there was no chance of keepinc , any hands employed in the en gine -shed, accordingly removed the whole of the en gines, &c., which are usually there kept, _to the neigh bourhood of the station, where they are perfectly se cure from any attack. A daring attempt was made, on the same line, to prevent the departure of the mail-train, which leaves the station at eleven o'clock. The arrival of all the down trains, from Leeds, has been regular, but the country is described as in a state of commotion along the whole line. A gentleman who arrived by the train, which comes in at a quarter past one, states that he saw large mobs assembled in the neighbourhood of Hebden-bridge, and learned that all the works had been stopped in that quarter. The Oldham train, which arrived at a quarter to two, came at the proper time, but brings no additional news of importancq from that town ATTEMP TO THROW AN ENGINE OFF THE NORTH UNION LINE.—STATE OF PRESTON. An express engine arrived in Manchester about twelve o'clock, from Preston, bringing a special mes senger from the Magistrates of that town to request military assistance from Manchester. All the wol ks had been stopped, and the riot was raging fearfully. We regret to learn that 'an attempt had been made to throw this engine off the rails. RIOT AT PRESTO M.—THE MOB FIRED UPON. On Saturday morning the mob proceeded, about seven o'clock, to the factories of Mr. F. Sleddon and Messrs. Cateheall ; the former resisted the demands of the assemblage (a majority boys). Soon after eight o'clock the numbers increased, and it was found requisite far the Riot Act to be read two or three times over. In the .middle of Lane-street (the Riot Act being read in it twice) there was no obtaining, order, nor could all the advice given by the Magistracy, &c., present, prevail upon the desperate men to retire, in stead of whieh they commenced a fire of stones, which flew in all . directions with determined resolution, the women bringing aprons and bags full of ammunition. The consequence was that, order was given to fire, there being only 21 of the 72d Regiment in Preston. One man was killed, and three-Or four wounded. Aave n ,,,ezp, 4kiorrawii - co "Manchester for mili tary force. 1 t a quarter past two the same engine (the' North Union), returned with two companies of the 66th Rifles, commanded by Mit'or Mitford, Captain Tp valyn, and three other officers. Two companies of the infantry were promised for the following morning. The Mayor (Samuel Horrocks r Esq.), ,George Jack son,. Esq., 7. Baston, Esq., and other, Magistrates, &c. were present when the firing took place., .The greatest alarm prevails ?or the protection of the town. DEPARTUM OF TROOPS FROM THE METROPOLIS. On Saturday night, after the arrival of the artillery at the Euston-square station, the third battalion of the first Regiment of Foot Guards arrived, consisting of 700 men, under the command of Colonel Honeyman. On coming in sight they were received with groans and shouts by the assembled crowds, and an attempt was made to prevent them entering the gates, the mob at the same time attempting to force an entry into the gates. AI half-past eleven o'clock, the first train, consisting of the horses, cannon, &c., was sent off, a sufficient number of men going with it to prevent an attack on arriving at, its destination. In a quarter of an hour after the, other train started, AN h.cli contained the Guards and Artillerymen, amid the hootings of the mob. Several well known delegates to the late Na tional Convention left London early on Saturday afternoon for IV anchester. It was reported that the railways were in course of being broke up, the Manchester and Bolton being nearly destroyed. Yesterday forenoon at nine o'clock, three pieces of cannon, in addition to those forwarded the previous day, were sent by the railway with the compliment of men, eight officers of the Royal Horse Artillery, which left - Woolwich about six o'clock the same morn ing. During the afternoon, it having been reported that a regiment of foot was to go by the railway, the street in front of the station was again thronged, and by six o'clock the crowd had increased to about 5,000 persons. At that time the 34th Regiment, under th.- command of Lieutenant Colonel Grey, arrived at the' station, w hen they w ere imme diately admitted into the quadrangle. Several of the mob shouted and groaned as the last company,of the Regiment entered the gate. Tns.pector Belle, with a strong body of the S division, assisted to keep a space open for the admission of the regiment', 'Which left Portsmonth that day, having been brought to town by the South Western Railway. The regiment arrived from, Canada about a twelvemonth ag - 0.. • The men, previous to their departure for—Manchester, were served with bread and cheese and porter crl libitum.' --- RIOTS 1 MANCHESTER. (Supplement to Friday Night's Gazette.) A PROCLAMATION. VICTORIA, 11. Whereas in divers parts of Great Britain, great multitudes of lawless and disorderly persons have lately assembled themselves together in It. riotcus and tumultuous manner, and have, with force and violence, entered into certain mines, mills, manufactories, and other places, and have, by threats and intimidation, prevented our good subjects therein employed from following their usual occupations and earning their livelihood. We, therefore, being duly sensible of the mischiev ous consequences which must inevitably ensue, as well to the peace of the kingdom, as to the lives and pro perties of our sub.;ects, from such wicked and illegal practices, if they go unpunished; and being firmly resolved to cause the laws to be put in execution for the punishment of such °Tenders, have thought fit, by the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this Procla.; =Con, hereby strictly commanding all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, and all other Civil Officers whatsoever, within the said United Kingdom, that they do use their utmost endeavours to discover, apprehend, and bring to justice the per sons concerned in the riotous proceedings above mentioned. And, as a further inducement to discover the said offenders, - we do hereby promise and declare, that any persons or persons who shall discover and apprehend, or cause to be discovered and aprehended, the authors, abettors, or perpetrators of any of the out rages obove-mentioned, so that they, or any of them, may be duly convicted thereof, shall he entitled to the sum of Fifty Pounds for each and every person who shall be so convicted, and shall also receive our most gracious pardon for the said offence, in case the person making such di s c over y as a f oresa id s h a ll be liable to be prosecuted for the same. Given at our C our t a t Windsoe, the 13th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and in the sixth year of t)ttr reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. 0 . - 0! ARRIVAL of TEE : A..t AliIA - Liveneooe. SATCR,DAI The fine steamer, Acadia,.Captain Ryrie, arrived in - "'r°''the river toklay at 12 o'clock, after an excellent : 4 e411 passage of nine days fifteen hours from Halifl - rc,Avii, she stilled on the'afternoon of the 3rd, and from Boston _ - on the :Ist... _ . - . 7 ~ . 7 • • • The British Queen arrived at New _ York on the 27th ult. The Great Western - arrived out on the morning of thellOth, after a passage of l 3 days. The Columbia had arrived out after a ten days and a bah! passage—one of the quickest to the west ever_ known. The cotton market was extremely dull dur..• - i e so ing the week preceding the sailing of the packet, and freight were without improvement. The e lktiney. -eee s e - ° Market was heavy, and the rate of Exchange one England 106+ to 106-i. This arrival confirms, we are happy to say, the pre vious intelligence that the settlement of the Boundary , Question is at length completed. The details, pub- a-e lished in all the papers, and criticised with considere able severity in some of 'them, on account of the too - favourable terms said to be conceded to England, are exactly the same as those we published on Saturday. The National Intelligencer of the 29th ult., has the following remarks on the negotiation relative to the North Eastern Boundary : _Lord Ashburton is believed to have held out long ;;f. for the entire Madawaska settlement. But the Maine to Commissioners are said to have been as immovable RS . any four pine stumps on the disputed territory. So Maine, under the arrangement, goes to the river St. ;f": John's. It is' not unlikely, we learn, that the line which the Dutch arbiter decided for, the line of the - V:4 l St. John's and the St. Francis, will be agreed to. But then the Maine gets what the Dutch King did C:e_;l. , not give her, the navigation of the river ; and this trebles the value of all her tall pine trees. West wardly of the St. Francis, England takes a tract of mountain land, untimbercel, and of no earthly value. but- as a boundary. ; and she relinquishes to the United States Rouse's Point, the key of Lake Champ lain, and a large territory heretofore supposed to belong to New York and Vermont, but which turns , out to lie north of the 45th degree of latitude, and is ;e t ; therefore a . part of Canada. It is said to be, ;and probably is, in consequence of this cession, that the United States Government agrees to pay a sum - to e• each of the States of Maine and Massachusetts for the . acres-they have parted with ; not more than a quarter.„-: as much, however, as General Jackson offered to g ive to Maine alone, during his administration, in the year 1832,-. It is thought there are questions of boundary - _ further up, as the Secretary of State has summoned here the Commissioners, &c., who ran the line, .9r, s e endeavoured to, do so, under the treaty of Ghent (hui ,g; ;ie ;;. 1 could not always agree), from the river of e le-; 4 0 Lawrence to the Lake of the Woods ; and it is slip- - 7 5 se e: posed that all remaining questions, in . that far-off world, will be settled. 7 tl of THE NEW TARIFF There—The New Tariff Bill had passed the House of Representatives by a verye ffi l l g eer small majority-116 to 112. - Itwas then sent to the' Senate, and formed the subject of daily. debates there • at the time the packet sailed. A NEW LINER.— Messrs. Grinnell, Mintum, and Co., have, in these dull times, laid down the timbers an ship of thirteen hundred and fifty tons, for their Liverpool - line. This will be the largest of all the packet-ships, and superior in all respects, so far as it is possible to do better than the best of what is past.—Commercial Advertiser. CROPS.—The harvest is expected to be very abute dant. Letters from the South give very flatteries reports of the appearance of the corn and cotton crepes. TILE COLUMBIA.—The Columbia, from Liverpool, made her passage in ten and a half days, being the quickest voyage to the westward on record. . BRAZlL.—lntelligence from Rio Janeiro stat. - • that an insurrection had broken out in the province 0 17 .. • St. Paul's, but that it was thought of little moment, ,f y 7;, and was expected to 'be easily put down. Captain " e e , eo Smiley reports, however, that when he left, on. the eit,P l 20th June, appearances were more alarming. It reported that. a large - body of temps, from 1,800 to 2,200 were within fifty miles of Rio. The Gcverne meet has sent a .force against them, and some skir- ee;; - 0 mishing had taken place. Several persons supposed to he favourable to the rebels had been arrested. A . g;0 1 1 1 , great number of houses, suspected persons had been searched, and all the arms found taken possession of by the Government. The cause of the revolt is sup-• posed to be the dislike the people have for the Primes . J o Minister. HAVANNAIL—The British steamer Teviot, lying" in Ilavannah, took fire on the 14th inst., from s p on taneous combustion of the coal in her lower hold. Th e money and ammunition were got out. The steamer was there , filled with water from engines. The precise damage. to the Teviot was not ascertained, but it is suPP° 4e to he considerable. The Teviot was recently from Vera Cruz. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 3° ', $2OOO Kentucky Bonds • 3205 New York City 7's 2000 Illinois Bonds 25 IMaware and Hudson s9O ds 52 25 Farmers' Trust 350 -- New Jersey, .. . 25 Harlem RR-. DUT-GH-AND FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, AUGUST 11.-If . we may believe & Journal of Bruges the-Belgian pigeons are threatened by the Directors of the French Post-Office. Regular communications :between, .Paris, London, Brussels,. . . Antwerp, Ghent, , Bruges, and other cities, by means .•• of pigeons, are now established, and some of these aerial couriers are daily dispatched in different direc tions after the closing of the Exchange. We r ya assured that the French Post-office authorities intend.. to prosecute these pigeons as the bearers of letters contrary to the law of 27 Prairial, year IX., which gives to the Post-office the monopdly of the convey ance of letters weighing less than one kilogramme (2 lbs.) The Chevalier de Noronha, Portuguese Charge- c 0 d'Affaires in Belgium, has returned to Brussels from Lisbon, after an absence of several months. The most audacious robberies are committed in the country. A few days since some malefactors threshed cole-seed, rye, and wheat, in the open fields in several communes, of the district of Turnhout- The quantit: es carried off were considerable. The ; 4 , villages are in despair at seein g th e ir h arves t c arried off, and are in great fear for the buck NA heat, the oats, „.) the potatoes, &c. which are still to be got in, u n less the - authorities watch the malefactors. ' BRUSSELS, AUG. 12.—We have just learnt that , Colonel de Puy& has arrived at Brussels, with they Deed of Ces,s'on, or Conveyance, of the port. and dis-• trice of Saint Thomas, to the Belgian ColonizatiOri Society, officially ratified by the Legislative Chambers. of Guatimala. • TIIE HAGUE. AUG. 11.—The Population Retur. 0 for the p-ovinee of South Holland, for 1841, are wof published : Births in the Towns, Ma!es Females Births in the Country, Males Females 22,46 5; : .0" Toy; Deaths in the Ton, M 4,525 ales . n F. males :1 - ' Deaths in the Country, Males If Females 15,84 e . ~. 6,425 i Excess of Births . The, Cologne Gazette, o`' August 8, has a letter' • - :•1 from Dusseldorf, which states that his Majesty the' : -'',:;; King of Prussia is to arrive in that city on :-:unday, tl ~4.:, , ,, 28th of this month, by a special train from ElberfeML. Great preparations are making for his reception. Ile camp at Gremlengshausen will be very brilliant- A.luxcli, AUG. 3.—An unlooked-for improveti.teut in the Dag ,, errotype has been made by M. Iser.ring- , . who is now here. He has succeed e d i n produci..ig tile ' 4 images on the plate, not merely in black, but in : ill '-',"' the splendour. of their colours, so that they Tesernb le the mustbeautiful painti ngs . . 1;•••; ~.. DUTCH r 2 UN OS .-AMSTE.RII3I, ACV. 12. ref I t iOneT, bill. - . ../ Actual Debt, ‘2 , 4 per Cent ...... LN 53 ' 4 Jittoolitto 5 per COIL Alnott Svndle,44 per cent.... ........ . Ditto, ditto 3y percent 7 %2 !Vi s Commercial Company, Ai, per cent 143; 44 Ditto (1;335 and 1817) 5 par cent. - Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ...., $9 - 100 - Exchange on pndom, One month ... 1 2 15 Two months ..... .... 12 1 Hamburgb, One month 25 it q • - - - Two months 35 (234 , , ! ,:,t... , : .7- Driteh Payers, Aug. 13 . ---.:`," , , BELGIAN . U Nuz-Bauhasts. Auc. 12. _ . , Actual tient, as, per Cent. -...... ..... 5 . i; .:-. P", 11 , ,thsalild's L. - an. 5 per Cent lO l 7, _ -- 4 ,..ii f.uan A' Thirty Ifillions, t per Cent ---- finer Cent.... . , -. , i -- Thirty.scven- -- - -.- ------(1 410 lOl I s -- Loan of City, I :32,4 per Cent l -2 - 55 .:7-P .4 , idelt•ty of Commerce, 4. 9 per Cent ... , FtS ' dank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ... 73 " ) 4;:tional S.crety .. • F.xceange on Lund.* (shaft) ........_ :: . , —nrussels Parers, Aug. 12. AUSTIO A N i• t) ,Ds —thENNA. Atm. 4 . . • ( ive,er Cents. Metnlhoues tcosr per Cents tsr,e T ,..r Cents .. ............. ...-- -.•,..... - 641 0: '? , -,ok Shares - ...... 1624 -4. PRINCE GEORGE.--The Town Council and the Magistracy of Leeds hive it in contemplation to pre sent. a tribute of loyalty to his Royal Highness during his , residmiee amnntr , t u! , , which will; we understand ter-- minute about the 22d of the resell' month. The etc— ...' prossirn of this feeling will probably be conveyed in a. ~ • loyal and dutiful ntldres , „ A review of PruAsiun troops. ~' upon a magnific,,nt scale, to the amount of 40.000 rworr. is appointed to take place in the nelObourhood of Berliii about the end of this month. or the beginning of t September. which is to be honbured by Prince George , and a great assemblage of ill ustr i ous persona ges. We ' understand that the Prince manifests much interest in . ;•• military exerci:ies, and r:gularly attends the drill of the ... troops which now t21c..6 /lace on ,Wo4 td hint se Moor every morning. m os tly 4 xt/ n di ng to nearly three boars -0:', S'"' ' I .Y " , "r .ing . hi, Royal IlL;ltnes.s . , in romlnt9y, 1: 1 ) , •ivutPm.: 1- 1 :ohlic I St. Q •i::t:n, IV rend , -1:1 1_ 44r ' (•1 . ice at St. .Joiht's Chn t th, iu this - town.---L' ,v Mac uty. ~lll444komile 1 1 - 1 , 44 ei, sear) ar, itid a Qv ; . 1 3 Lon lon o .: • t+7,i rvad, N fly Thi s , t he I; •+•'); t. rta nt p att 7 4 .1 ku . st, 4,5 , and jzfor t. • q riry ( ITI-111 •' ',4balllo uer d‘q li o hi yal °Terlll)«r I Di ,467 , j3OO , •—.. b,200 b., -4 5,4„ idetds. 1 2 v,„ ! 11 25 4 ( 1, 1et " 1) . v 4 ,1 r .t to, I AVI I\l ON