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

MIDDLETON.

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 givi. in .1840, they would compel them to
give up working. At twelve o'clock on Thursday
morning, a largo 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 hands were
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, and the extensive print works of Messrs. Schwabe
:;cud Cc; Here, also, the engines 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 Fielding's shop a large quan-
ofloaves were given. A public meeting was held
.1 the Market-place, when it was resolved to turn out,
Ti(l to meet every morning and evening, and remain
out until the same • prices for silk weaving and the
sari-iv wages to other operatives were given as in 1840.
At eight o'clock on Friday morning, a numerous
-met ting was held in the Market-place, when three
silk weavers, named Ward, Smithies, and Ogden, were
appointed to go to Leigh, and request the weavers
there to join them in the general strike. Ward said,
he- hoped that particular notice would be taken of
every one who worked, and their names given to the
Oltihain people. A proce3sion was formed at ten
consistirg of about 2,000 persons ;. they
T/1:1!•,.1,.,1 through Tonge, and went to the extensive
;,lc works of Messrs. Coates and Co., at Stakehill,
4, be hands were prevented from working. Per-
\\'l,') were met on the road were forced to go with
• . elegatez were sent to Bolton and other places.
e!in:--,.; are to be held every morning and evening.
ii. wn poaceable when our reporter left, though all
trad wa:-: at a stand.

(From the Sunday Times.)
MANCHESTER, SATURDAY EVENING.

We are glad to have it in our power to report that
the town generally is this morning more tranquil
than it been on any day since the outbreak o 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 huge number of persons who have, with the ut-
most promptitude, come forward and enrolled them-
selves as special constables. At t4e same time the
circumstances that none of the mills, except the
3‘.dessra. Birley'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 temporary lull.
STOPPAGE OF WORKMEN.

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 tnem to cease work. t other buildings in the
town and neighbourhood, where masons or brick-
layers are employed (including the new church in
Stratford-roads), the same course of intimidation has
been successfully practised.
TRADES' MEETING AT TIIE HALL OF

SCIENCE.

Another seditious meeting, under the guise of a meet-
ing of trades' delegates, has been held at the Socialists'
hail 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. Worral's dye. works, in Salford, was in the chair.
There was a great deal of wrangling in the course of
the proceeding, but ultimately a resolution, pledging
the men not to return to work till the people's Charter
was obtained, was carried by a'.out three-fourths of
the meeting.
STATE OF THE SUBURBS.

Up to the hour at which we write the out-towns
have been less infested by bands of marauders, on the
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 be doing their
regular business. The business of such of the markets
held this day has been 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 damage before they could be ejected. Our
informant states, that they all appeared to be perfectly
sober. They then went to the village shops and the
bakehouses, and seized all the bread they could lay
their hands on. We have not heard that any of them
have been secured.

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 peace. Already have more than
three thousand constables been sworn in ; and in the
out-townships—Broughton, Cheetham, Chorlton-
upon-Aledlock, Hulme, and Ardwick—the, under-
standing that parties wishing it shall be called upon
to serve in their own neighbourhoods only, has had
an excedingly beneficial effect in inducing respectable
householders and tradesmen to come forward and
take upon themselves the onerous duties.