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London, England, 1842-08-22 00:00:00

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LONDON:
MONLDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1842.

We learn with satisfaction from Manchester and its
neighbourhood that the people are ,returning rapidly
to their work. Notwithstanding the threatening ap-
pearances in some othei quarters we are steadfast in our
hopes that the crisis is over, and that we may look day
after day for a return of tranquillity and the resump-
tion of useful labour. To this speedy termination of
what has been a very alarming, not to say, terrific,
turn out, the abundant harvest, with the prospect
which, that affords, has contributed, we believe, quite
as much, as the energetic measures of the Ministers.
Had the circtimstances been different, had there been
no strong temptation to return to work, the restora-
tion of tranquillity would have been a much more diffi-
cult task. The view we have already taken on this
subject- has been so well expressed by Mr. B. HEY-
WOOD, a gentleman long known for his philanthrophy
—we may almost call him, we believe, the BIRK-
BECK of his district—that we beg leave to transcribe
it. In an affectionate letter, addressed to the work-
ing men of Manchester, he says—
I believe you to be men of sense, intelligence, and
right feeling ; and not even the sad events which are
going on around us, have been able to shake my confi-
dence in you. I have felt deeply for you in your long
season of distress ; you have been sorely tried, and
have borne patiently sufferings almost beyond human
endurance.

How stands the matter with you ? By an unlooked-for
movement you have been driven from your work, and
are called upon not to return to it again until you have
secured higher wages, and obtained the People's Char-
ter. At the very moment when better times seems to be
at hand, and trade to be reviving, and when, by the
blessing of Providence, a good harvest appears to be in
store for you, bringing with them, as they assuredly
kvould do, both higher wages and cheaper food ; at the
moment when, from long distress, your resources must
be exhausted, you have been thrown out of work, and
told that, by a suspension of labour, your condition will
most speedily be bettered.
The workmen have seen, as well as Mr. HEYWOOD,
that better times are at hand, thanks to the beneficence
of the ALMIGUTY, and the patience of the people them-
selves, but no thanks to our heartless rulers, who
have indeed praised that patience, buthaVe obstinately
and wantonly refused to relieVe the deepest distress
that ever was inflicted on a people by the legislation
;of a so-called paternal Government. Now,:however,
that the storm has subsided for the present, be the
cause of the lull what it may, the question arises how
the people are to be treated. To enable the public
and the Government to form a just and a kind opinion
on the subject, let us at once remind them that the
Turn-outs have, in fact, had at their mercy
the bulk of the property of the great towns of the
north, and that they have committed comparatively
very few outrages. Not less, we believe, than half a
million • of persons have been involved in these com•
motions ; they have perambulated the country for ten
days, and they have in the manufacturing districts
been guilty of few or no acts of robbery or personal
violence beyond . those necessary for obtaining their
object of stopping the mills. •
Our columns (says the Leeds Mercury) are filled with
particulars of the strangest and wildest Holiday-Insur-
rection that has ever been attempted,—an Insurrection
conducted in the name of "peace, law, and order !"—an
Insurrection the most extensive, yet in some respects they
most harmless, known in the modern history of Eng-
land,—an Insurrection more foolish than wicked in the
dupes who have caught the contagion, but we fear much
more wicked than foolish in the leaders who planned it.
We rejoice (adds that journal) to perceive—and we
mention it to the credit of the bulk of the turn-outs--
that there has been so wonderful an abstinence from all
violence but that required to suspend labour."'They have
not injured machinery, nor damaged work 7 nor plun-
dered counting-houses or warehouses. In Lancashire
and Yorkshire, at least, the mischief done by so exten-
sive an insurrection is incredibly small ; and the absence
of all cruelty, of all malice, and of all rapine (except in
some cases a kind of half-begging, half-taking, to sup-
ply the immediate cravings of hunger), is one of the
most 'astonishing things we ever kn ,w, and speaks wel
for the hearts of a population who nave suffered so mucl
distress.

In the same Journal is a letter, dated Barton, near
Manchester, Aug. 17, of which this is an extract :
AUGUST 17:4Vire are here almost as tranquil as in the
purely agricultural districts. All that we see of the
public agitation is to be found in bands of men, women,
and children, assembling in small bodies, and visiting
the farmers to excite their charity and obtain their bene-
volence. I will give you a specimen :—We had here
yesterday one of these bands, consisting of about forty
persons, the half of whom were children, and .the other
half men and women, about hi equal numbers. Their
conduct and demeanour was perfectly respectful and or-
derly.
They said that they came to ask for advice and
assistance; that they were in grew, distress; that some of
them had been ordered to leave their work by the turn-outs,
and others could not obtain work froth the warehouses be-
cause their masters refused to give out weaving till the dis-
putes weresettled. Others seemed to be voluntary turn-outs.
The answer returned to this application was, that their
situation was much to be pitied—that they had no doubt
great cause of complaint from the high price of pro.
visions, and the low rate of their wages ; but that these

were evils that were not to be remedied by such con-
duct as had lately, taken place at Manchester. This
advice they received with no rudeness or ill-temper, and

they retired without a single expression of incivility or
disrespect.
It is remarkable that whatever interruption has been
g;ven .by the turn-outs to other kinds of labour, none
whatever has been interposed in the way of the hus-
bandman, at this important crisis of the harvest ; nor
have I heard of any depredations committed in the way
of plunder, or of wantonness upon the crops. The
bands of men that are passing from place to place have
no arms, at least none visible, except that many of them
carry a kind of rustic walking stick ; they avoid stu-
diously marching in anything like military order, and
they have a sort of police of their own, to whom they
confide the preservation of the peace.
Now, considering the situation of these people, their
great and long-endured distress, tantalized with the
sight of property that would relieve their wants, we
agree with the Leeds Mercury, that the general con-
duct of the Turn-outs speaks well for their hearts
and their morals. They have been beguiled—perhaps
they are in error ; they have been grievously mis-
taken—and so has, in our estimation, Sir R. PEEL
been, without being exposed to their severe tempta-
tion to go astray; they have foolishly expected to
better their condition by throwing themselves out of
work, but beyond this unfortunate delusion, their con-
duct has rarely been censurable. Such people deserve
to be treated with great consideration, even with great
kindness by the Government, and we should hope
that their temporary aberration will not be thought
to call for either temporary severity or the permanent
establishment of a military tyranny. Let Sir R. PEEL
not listen to the demands of factious writers, or timid
men of property, who are at any time ready to sacrifice
the public liberties to their own selfish and fancied
security, but let him do justice and deal generously
and confidently with the intelligent men of the North,
and the Government will have no reason to repent of
departing from the hackneyed and always mischievou
employment of severity.

The Turn-outs have displayed not only great for-
bearance but great power. They have startled the
country from end to end. They have already put the
Government on its metal. Ireland and the agricul-
tural districts, no very safe places, have been left un-
guarded with troops to collect a large army in Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire. The funds have been shook,bu-
siness has been suspended, pi operty has been alarmed,
and a repetition of such a turmoil may not pass
so lightly away. It is impossible but that railway
engineers, railway guards, police, shopkeepers, and a
great body ofmen not now connected with the Turn-outs
must deeply sympathise with them and be driven to
side with them if they be treated with harshness. To
enforce the law with rigour, which, by the people, is
somewhat despised as a mere tool of a class or a party,
to stretch it beyond its ordinary line, to do which w
see a disposition in some Magistrates, will only irritate
the masses and provoke greater and more fatal insur-
rections than the present. The system of terror has
long been tried both here and abroad, and has led in-
variably from bad to worse. From public meetings
untimely suppressed have grown partial risings like
that at Newport, and from partial risings, successfully,
indeed, put down by the strong hand, while nothing
was done to conciliate the people, have sprung a
general insurrection. Our people, we have said
before, and we insist on it now, cannot be governed
by terror, they cannot be coerced into obedience to an
unjust system by a military force, and there is no safe
alternative for the Government, but to treat them with
kindness and confidence, and begin as speedily as pos-
sible to undo its own acts of injustice.

Some uneasiness was occasioned on Friday in town
by a report that a party of rioters had attacked
Drayton Manor, but the latest accounts received
from thence, and dated Friday evening, show that
the report was utterly without foundation. Not the
slightest symptoms of an attack had been manifested;
indeed, all was quiet in the neighbourhood, and con-
tinued so up to the period when the last ac-
counts came away. From other quarters the intelligence
is nearly equally encouraging, The Potteries, where
some of the most serious disturbances took place, ex-
hibit everywhere indications of returning order, and,
indeed, generally throughout the disturbed districts,
matters are wearing a more cheering aspect than they
have worn for the last ten days or a fortnight. To be
sure, attempts were made on Thursday, at Leicester,
to get up a riot, and in the dusk of the evening a large
mob assembled in the market-place, where they were
addressed, in most inflammatory language, by one of
their chosen orators ; but the activity of the civil au-
thorities soon dispersed them, and since then the town
has remained perfectly quiet. At Nottingham, a
similar attempt at disturbance was made on Friday by
a Chartist lecturer from Stockport, who addressed the
mob in the most valiant terms, observing that he
would fearlessly do his duty, even "if a dungeon was
the result," and would " exercise his right while he
had a tongue to speak and an arm to raise." Un-
luckily, while the orator was thus boasting of his
perfect readiness to become a martyr in the
cause of patriotism, a body of police made their
appearance, which occasioned a total and instanta-
neous eclipse of his courage ; and he disappeared from
the meeting with a speed that must have greatly pe'-
plexed and disconcerted all those who, but the moment
before, had been applauding the boldness and disin-
terestedness of his sentiments. With these two ex-
ceptions, there have been no fresh outbreaks, or
attempts at outbreak, in any of the mining or
manufacturing districts. The good sense of the
Turn-outs seems at length to have convinced them
that nothing is to be got by setting order and decorum
at defiance, and that their sole chance of bettering
their condition consists in their keeping strictly
within the limits of the law. Meantime the late
serious disturbances—for nothing can well be more
serious than the aspect they assumed about a week
since—will not be without a beneficial effect, if they
shall serve to impress upon Government the necessity of
legislating henceforth for the interEsts of the many, in-
stead of the privileged few. Sir R. PEEL must now
we should conceive, be persuaded .that he can no
longer with safety consult the feelings and prejudices
of party, but must be guided in all his remedial
schemes by a consideration of what is due to, and
what is wanted by, the community at large. It
is not by making one timid, hesitating step,
in the right direction—as in the instances
of the Corn-law Bill and the Tariff—that he can hope
to restore peace and prosperity to the country; he
must advance boldly and promptly forward, careless
whether the Monopolists walk side by side with him
or not. We look upon the late outbreaks in the
North, as ominous signs of the times, which no Mi-
nister—no matter how overwhelming be the majority
that he can command in the House of Commons—
can neglect, without endangering the very fabric o
society.

The Paris Papers have been received. They
are altogether destitute of political news, except that
the debate on the Regency Bill had been opened in
the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, when the fol-
loWing took place :
M. Ledru Rollin began the debate, who opposed it on
the principle of its being necessary, in his opinion, that
the nation should sanction it through the medium of a
constituent assembly. M. Hello, who succeeded M.
Ledru Rollin, said, that he should not follow
him in hi 3 subtle theories about the alleged
rights of the nation, but maintained that the
present Legislature had full power to pass such a
law. M. de la Rochejacquelin, who spoke next, began
by entering into a sort of protest against the legitimacy
of the reigning dynasty, which, he said, had been seated
on the Throne by a victorious popular insurrection,' and
a Chamber only consisting of 219 Members. This
declaration excited loud murmurs in the Assemby,
and AL Larochejacquelin, refusing to retract the
offensive expressions, was twice called to order by
the President, and ultimately compelled to quit the
tribune, without being able to conclude his speech.
A tier the uproar occasioned by M. Larochejaquelin's
ords had subsided, M. Schuzenberger read a manu-
script discourse in favour of the Bill, and was succeeded
by M. Lamartine, who advocated the right of the Duchess
of Orleans to be the Regent of the Count de Paris, and
was still speaking when the despatch left.
Sub.;oined are extracts :
The Council of Admiralty has just adopted, with
some modifications, the plans of M. Bernard for the
works of defence and improvement of the port of Algiers,
as recommended by the mixed Commission which had
been appointed on that subject.—Galignani's .Messenger,
Aug. 18.
The Courrier Francais observes on this subject—=' It
is difficult to comprehend the conduct of the Ministry.
A month
ago it thought M. Bernard's plan impracti-
cable, as in fact it is, without incurring an expense out
of all proportion to the result that may be expected from
it. Marshal Soult even sent to Algiers M. Parrel, the
engineer, with instructions to execute the plan which he
had proposed, which is an efficacious and not expensive
plan. Is this decision revoked ? Is M. Parrel, after
being preferred to M. Bernard, to be abandoned in his
turn ? Is spending time in giving orders and counter
orders the way to carry on the Administration ?"—Le
Commerce, Aug. 18.
The Madrid Journals publish the text of a law pro-
mulgated at the Carraccas, in virtue of which the mortal
remains of Simon Bolivar, the Chief of the Independence

of South America, are to be removed from Santa
Maria, where they lie at prsent, to the metropolitan
church of Carraccas. The anniversary of the funeral
is to be henceforward a day of public mourning, and
the statue of Bolivar is to occupy an honourable place
in the Parliament House.

The Prince of Leiningen arrived at Cologne on the
12th, on board one of the Cologne Company's steamers.
He continued his journey the next day for London,
whore he is going on a visit to his august mother, the
Duchess of. Kent.

BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, AUG. 18.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents.... 119 60... 119 60... 119 50... 119 60

3 Per Cents 78 60... 7i 65... 78
,60... 78 60
Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5047 50...5047 50...5047 50...5047 50
Belgian Bank 775 ... 775 ... 775 ... 775
Belgian Fives 1840' lO3 ... 1031 ... 103 .... 1031
Spanish Active 2ll ... 221 ... 21i ... 21i
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES,

St. Germain B4O ... 840 ... 840 ... 840
Versailles, R.B ...... 290 ... 290 ... 290 ... 290

L.B 9l 25... 91 25... 90 ... 91 25
Rouen
Orleans. 560 ... 560 ... 560 ... 560
Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 25... 201 25... 200 ... 200