The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-18 00:00:00

overstocked market. The manufacturers in the neigh-
bourhood of Huddersfield appear to have arrived at the
same conclusion, and have resolved to make fewer pieces
instead of reducing the workmen's wages to nothing. It
is indeed.a matter of polity, for every reduction is a
serious hiss to those who hold large -stocks. We have
heard of an instance which will show the necessity of this
measure; A' loom at Stot-hillock,
,near this town, is
working a 7-8 40 reed cotton broad, 81 piCka in the inch
and 28 yards long, for 2s. out of the warehouse. What
will. remain for, the. journeyman weaver, after paying for
sizing, !winding, Bowen, and looM-rent? The work has
to be taken 3 miles to the warehouse after it is finished.
The •poors'-rate in this town is, we are told, to be ad-
vanced.to ss. in the pound. The collectors state that it
is next .`to impossible to get in the 'old rate, and how they
ill sudeeed with this addition may easily be guassed.—
The rige will be grievously felt- by such as pay heavy
rents, for the means of paying will of course fall off in
proportion to the increase.
We have been informed, that at the meeting lately held
to hear appeals under the Police Act, a woman, the wife
of a crofter who resides in this town, stated as a reason
for exemption from the tax, that her husbtuid earned from
10s. to 14s. per week, out of which one-eighth was deduct-
ed by his masters, because they have not a badger's shop
on the premises!! ! We are assured of the correctness of
this statement by several respectable individuals, and we
must say, if true, it is a most barefaced and villainous spe-
cies of robbery. The system of shops being opened for
the accommodation of workmen seems to be upon the in-
crease; notwithstanding the severe penalties of the Act of
Parliament made to prevent workmen being paid in goods
instead of the current coin of the realm. We are really
very sorry to hear that a large spinning concern in the
neighbourhood, which has always maintained a high cha-
racter' in the town, is giving in to the prevailing practice,
by cotrimencing one of these 30 per cent. poor-impoverish-
ing To say nothing of the injury which the
reply shopkeepers sustain by the adoption of this plan, it
is cruel to reduce the amount of a man's wages, by taking
an extravagant profit on goods which he is compelled to
purchase. With respect to the case above-mentioned, we
refrain publishing the names of the parties; but if another
instance of this abominable practice should come to our
ears, we will assuredly bold up' the principals concerned to
;be knit abhorrence of society.

DOring this week the most alarming reports have been
prevalent of the intention of the populace of the ,sur-
rounding villages to rise and attack their richer neigh-
bours; ,in consequence of which the civil and military
authorities have been upon the alert, but hitherto, hap-
pily,,without any necessity for action. If we may believe
some persons, however, it Would appear that meetings are
regularly held on some' of the neighbouring hills, and that
the poor famishing inhabitants of the villages have their
Ipassions worked upon by:designing wretches, who would
lead:them on to certain destruction, and then laugh at
their folly. -7-Blackburn Mail.
TOYSTOY, NEAR OLDHAM, July 12.-4 report is pre-
velem here thiamorning, that yesterday, at Burnley, a con-
siderable number of people assembled in the streets, to
disperse whom the military were called out, and shOt.two.
I do not know how far the ' report is .true, 'but from the
distress which prevails' among the poor people in that
quarter, in common with other part's of the manufactur-
ingAstricts, I much fear it may he in, some measure car-
rect.—lrakefield and Halifax Journal.
The state of the country in general, and more particw!
larly of the manufacturing districts, is such as to excite
micth anxiety, not unmixed with alarm. So far are the
fresbetiOns of a speedy return of prosperity from being
ulfilled, that affairs appear to become 'Worse and worse
every day, By accounts from all parts of the country, it
appears that the cessation of the dcontud for goods is. con. ,
unually compelling the manufacturers to dismiss additional
numbers of warktnett; .and we,.perceive, from the Bolton
' paper, that five mills-suspendednperations at the end of
1 last Week in that town alone, by which not less than 2,000
wcirkmen were added to the multitudes who are already
' old of employment. Bound up together as the interests
' of the masters and the Workmen are;' it is impossible to
afforo any permanent relief to the latter without some
gait improverhent in the condition of the former. Where
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tens and hundreds of thousands of workmen are Out of
entployment, and consequently destitute of the means of
subsiatenee, the utmost exertion of private charity must
fail to afford adequate relief. It may, indeed, by showing
to the poor that the higher classes sympathize in their dis-
tresses,: serve to excite a feeling of kindness among the
different ranks of society ; but without some mach more
extensive relief, this feeling will be insufficient to prevent
the disordet and tumult Whiehs getat and general distress
inevitably produces. Hoivthis is to be afforded we are
unable to say. We, however, think ' that one thing is
quite obvious—viz., that no time' should. be lost in calling
Parliament together. We are aware that this is not the
ordinary season for assembling Parliament, but neither are
these ordinary times. The embarrassments of the middle
classes, and: the misery of the lower, render an extraor-
dinary remedy absolutely necessary ; and this remedy (if
it can be afforded at all) can only ,beafforded,by the com-

bined power of the nation and, fhb Government collected
in Parliament.—Leeds Mercury;
The difficulty of finding labour' for the poor will 'Create
a great drain upon the parochial rates luring the ap-
proaching winter. The society for affording relief to the
unemployed poor in Leeds ha's been, under the necessity of
(wining to the resolution not to relieve more than once any
poor family. resjdent here, whose settlement is within 30
miles of this place, that has not made application to the
parish for relieC—Leeds Illercury. .
HUDDERSFIELD.;—The dietress iri this district continues
undiminished, we fear that we might add, has-increased;
and though 5001., in additiOn to Looot. before transmitted
by the society in London, has been this week received
from the society, the sum in hand
,at .present is scarcely
equal to three weekis' supply.
_-The account of receipts
and expenditure stands thus :
Amount of money subscribed in• Huddersfield and
the neighbourhood - -
First grant from the London Society
Second grant (this week) -

- £2,161
- 1,000
500

£3,667
2,787

Disbursements in 9 weeks to 10,709 persons

In bsml - - - - £BBO
The Huddersfield district includes the parishes of Hud-
dersfield, Almondbury, Kirkburton, iiirlcheaton, and
Mirfield, comprehending a population of 100,000 souls.
On Monday last a meeting of the unemployed work-
men of Aldmonbury and the neighbourhood, convened by
public advertisement, took place•on Almondbury-bank, for
the purpose of " taking into consideration the present un-
paralleled distress of the labouring classes, told the best
method of making their case known, and of obtaining re-
lief." From 1,500 to 9,000 persons were present. A
number of resolutions were passed, expressive of their
distressed situation, the most unportant of which was one
to memorialize the 'Earl' of Harewood, Lord Lieutenant of
the West Riding of Yorkshire, to make their caseknown,
that some means may be adopted to relieve their present
calamities. Tile conduct of the people was perfectly
peaceable.il A deep gloom pervaded the WIW m
IC assebiY)
even hope, which conie4 to all, seemed almost ex-
tingushed. •

InoN TtlAnx.,-At the Shropshire and Staffordshire
iron-masters) quarter- days, last week, the noMilol prices
were the same as the 'previous quarter. The demand,
however, was very
liletted• Many furnaces have been
blown out in Wales and Inland during the last quarter,,
and
both
the
make etut "'llea manufactured iron has been
considerably lessened.
&reduction of fifty per cent. has.
taken place-on the everage Picea of the present, com Pared
with last year ; and the price of t.,00 has, agrespotulingly
declined. The trade, however, on the whole, has cer-
Wilily maintained itself, and met the difficulties and dis-
tresses of the last two quarters much better than was an-