The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-17 00:00:00

LADY HYDE PARKER.

Mr. PETERSDORFF moved, on behalf of certain cre-
ditors of Lady Hyde Parker, a prisoner in execution
for debt, that she be brought up by rule or order, and
compelled to render a just statement in writing of all
her estate and effects. The learned counsel grounded
his motion upon the 16th sec. of the 32d Geo. 11.,
cap. 28, commonly called the Lord's Act.
Mr. HUMFREY, for Lady Hyde Parker, opposed the
motion on the ground of informality. Rule refused.

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT
OLDHAM, IN LANCASHIRE.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

SEIZURE of the BOOKS and PAPERS and of TWO MEM-
BERS of the TRADES' UNION.

ONE MAN KILLED—TheTWO UNIONISTS RESCUED.

A most lamentable occurrence has taken place at
Oldham, in consequence of the unexpected seizure of
the books and two members of the Trades' Union, on
Monday evening, the 14th inst. It appears that a
Trades' Union meets at a public-house known by the
sign of William the Fourth, and that a meeting took
place at the time and place above stated. Two offi-
cers, of the names of Heywood and Page, it is said,
went to the house in question about half-past six on
Monday evening, and requested admittance, but which
request was of course refused, especially when it was
known who the applicants were. Little further cere-
mony was used, and a forcible entrance was the result,
and a capture made instanter of the books and papers
(some say among the books there were the fragments
of a Bible), along with two members of the Union
and officers of the Society. The news of this seizure,
&c., soon spread far and wide, and the town, on the
mills ceasing work, soon presented an astonishing in-
crease of people. Nothing, however, was attempted
in the way of either intimidation or of insult during
the whole evening ; yet it was plain, even to the
most superficial observer, that something was brewing
in the minds of the multitude, which foreboded
not peace nor yet good-will to man. The
morning of Tuesday, however, was ushered in by a
total cessation of work in many factories, the opera-
tives having, as by instinct, re-assembled so early
as seven in the morning, with the determination, no
doubt, if an opportunity were only afforded, of rescu-
ing their brother members from the illegal clutches
(as they no doubt thought) of the police. This op-
portunity was afforded them soon after ten o'clock ;
and as the route of the captives to Hollenwood (a
place about two miles from Oldham, and the residence
of the Rev. J. Holme, the magistrate) was by the side
of a factory, the populace on passing it were surprised
--astonished, perhaps, would be a better term—by the
discharge of a musket, apparently from the porter at
the lodge of the mill; and this gratuitous folly and
insult was twice or thrice repeated. These reports
brought, as might be expected they would, the knob-
sticks* in the mill to the windows, who, it also ap-
peared, were furnished with arms, and who acted the
very foolish part of the porter in making repeated dis-
charges with blank cartridge. One shot, however,
did not prove like the others, for it took effect, and a
man, an operative spinner, named Bently, was killed
in a moment, and the body now lies at the King Wil-
liam waiting the Coroner's Inquest, viz., that of Mr.
Ferrard, who distinguished himself in 1819. The
multitude, on seeing one of their body fall, appeared
for a short time paralysed; but their courage was not
long dormant ; one individual more bold than the rest
led the way by scaling the palisades, and at this per-
son several muskets, it is asserted, were directed, but
producing no effect, the rest took instant resolution,
and demolished in a few minutes not less than 4,000
or 5,000 panes of glass, and a great number of the
window frames, and a quantity of machinery. Another
party at the same time attacked the dwelling-house of
Mr. Thomson, the occupier of the mill, and which ad-
join each other; every article in which was quickly de-
molished ; even to the scattering the feathers in the
beds to the winds. I must not forget to state, that the
party; not content with simply rescuing their brethren,
assailed their conductors, one of whom they corrected
most severely the other, and the more obnoxious of
the two, they without ceremony, threw over a high
wall, some 12 or 13 feet high from the top of the wall
to the ground beneath, on which he folk He does
not, however, appear to have suffered much injury.
Immediately on these things being completed, there
arrived two troops of Lancers from Manchester, say
about eleven o'clock ; and in the course of another
hour, four companies of infantry (one troop of the
Lancers returned again at three in the afternoon).
Although the military could be of no use in quelling
the disturbance, their presence must have been of im-
portant benefit of allaying, if any existed, the fears and
tapprehensions of the
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if not quite impossible, to find an individual, of what-
ever political creed, to say that he was seriously alarmed.
It is only just to add the general opinion, which is,
that the magistrates have had no hand, direct or other-
wise, in this " untoward" event ; but on the officers
who made the caption rests the sole responsibility. A
day or two will explain this important tragedy. Tit,
inquest will, it is thought, be held on Thursday.

* A term that is given to a class of operatives who work
less than the Track's List, and with which this mill was fillcd,

Lord ROLLE presented a petition froin the Wesleyan
Methodists of Honiton, in the county of Devon, praying
for the better observance of the Sabbath, and complaining
ofthe'beershops, as a cause of its desecration:
Lord WYNFORD said that much of the evil of the
beer-shops arose from their not being under proper ctifitrol;
Id that that would be remedied. if the constables had thei
lower of entering them at all times to see that they were;
peoperly conducted. At present the constables had no such
right. He should only add, that in his opinion, the smaller
public-houses were quite as obnoxious as these beer-shops.
The Earl of MALMESBURY asserted that these beer-
s'iops were the causes of much demoralization among the
lower orders of society, and that this evil was occasioned by
disaffected and riotous men congregating in them.
The Earl of ROSEBERRY presented a petition from
certain Wesleyan Methodists for the better observance of
the Sabbath.