The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-17 00:00:00

LEEDS.

TUESDAY EYENING.—I regret to state that matters
are hourly getting worse in this neighbourhood. To-
day, about eleven o'clock, a large party of persons
went in a body to Bruntclitfethorn, distant about six
miles from here, and attacked the extensive manu-
factory of Messrs. James Ellis and Sons, and turned
out the whole of the hands, amounting to between six
and seven hundred persons ; also those of Messrs.
Hagues and Cook, Dewsbury. Where they have
gone to since I have not been able accurately to
learn ; but there are large gatherings of people, many
of them strangers, in the neighbourhood of Gomersai,
Dewsbury, and Babley Carr.
A daring attack was made by the mob this morning,
near to the Elland station, on a detachment of the
17th Lancers, who had just conveyed a number of
prisoners from Halifax to Elland (the railway sta-
tion), who had been committed to Wakefield
House of Correction. Two of the Lancers were
severely beaten, one of them having his eye
completely knocked out, and I understand the lives
of both are despaired of. The sword of the com-
manding officer was broken in such a manner as to
be entirely useless, and another was forwarded him
from Leeds this afternoon. This place is quiet, but
we are under serious apprehensions that it will not
remain so many hours longer. His Royal Highness
Prince George continues in hourly communication
with the Magistrates, and is to be seen very frequently
riding between the barracks and the Court-house, and
at the railway station.
The Magistrates have just issued the accompanying
proclamation.:—
" PUBLIC NOTICE AND CAUTION.
" Whereas, the present disturbed state of the sur-
rounding district calls for the adoption of the strongest
measures for the preservation of the public peace.
" We, the undersigned respectively, Magistrates of
the borough of Leeds, deem it our duty publicly to
make known that all assemblages of persons in con-
siderable numbers, haVing a manifest tendency to
endanger the public peace, and to excite the fears of
her Majesty's peaceable subjects, are illegal, whatever
may be their avowed object, and wherever held, and
notwithstanding they may not at the time be attended
with acts of open violence :
" And we hereby declare our full determination to
use all the means in our power to prevent and repress,
and, if necessary, forcibly to put down and disperse
the same. And we further caution all peaceable and
well-disposed persons against joining in, or being
present at, any meetings of this description, as they
will thereby bring themselves into peril, and incur
the consequences of the measures which may be
adopted for the preservation of the public peace.
" WILLIAM IAWSON, Mayor.
" Thomas Benyon. Edward Grace.
Jno. Clapham. Richard Bramley.
Griffith `'Wright. Hamer Stansfell
James Holdtorth. Darnton Lupton.
George Goodman. William Smith.
Ralph Markland. William Cadman.
Jos. Robt. Atkinson.
" Court-house, Leeds, Aug. 16, 1842."
The Earl of Cardigan, -Lieut.-Colonel of the 11th
Hussars, left Leeds by the half-past one o'clock train
this afternoon for Todmorden, where, I understand,
he was at three intending to proceed to Colne and
Burnley.
ONE O'CLOCK, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.—AII is peace-
able here yet, but there is a strong rumour that we
are to be visited to-morrow with parties from Lanca-
shire, and the more western part of this county, to
force the mills to cease work. If they come, they will
meet with a determined opposition from the inhabi-
tants of the town generally. News has just reached
us that at Bradford the mills are being stopped, and
there is a great disturbance. At Halifax and Hud-
dersfield all works were stopped yesterday. At both
places an affray took place between the military and
the mob. Several were wounded at Huddersfield,
and eighteen of the ringleaders of the riotous taken
into custody. At Halifax one or two were wounded
and several taken.

HUDDERSFIELD.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
CHAPEL-MILD, AUG. 15, ELEVEN, A.M.—All kinds
of trading operations are now at a stand. The shops
and public-houses are closed, and indeed every place
of any moment is fastened up. The military, fifty
Lancers, who arrived yesterday from Leeds, are gal-
-ILPing through the streets in the direction of Armi-
tage-bridge, where it is said a large body of men
have arrived from Ashton-under-Lyne, and that di-
rection, and are going to stop the works of -- Ar-
mitage, Esq., woollen cloth manufacturer, whose men
resumed their labours this morning, after eing forced
to give them up on Saturday, from the interposition
Lnd threats of the Lancashire turn-outs.