The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-27 00:00:00

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LONDON:
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1542'

Notwithstanding the additional outbreak
aac
Chard and Dundee, we trust that the disturb:
is at an end ; at least all present danger is Oer
The rising price of manufactured goods, and i),te
falling price of food, irspiring both masters Or
men with hope, have contributed most poteutlY
to restore peace. But now that the danger
presses no longer, parties and persons, luin"„e'
diately or remotely connected with the quests"'
begin hotly to criminate and accuse each othe;
One says the Magistrates ought at once to 10%
stopped the people from Ashton and Staler
bridge, when they proposed to march into Ivia::
chester ; and another launches out into bold
vective against the dilatoriness of the
merit. We will not follow the footstePs
ss
our Contemporaries. The Goveremeut
dispatched a gentleman to Manchester, t° 1":0
quire into the origin of the turn-out, ond ini
for I",
all the proceedings connected with it.
Report of the proximate causes of
progress of this extensive and extraordinari:ts
surrection we shall wait ; but to inibrin ns
remote and primary causes, we. need 00t
GREGORY'S assistance. On that point our °.lO,
nion is already formed, and Mr. GaEocigi 5 1
vestigations are not likely to shake it. • 'tad
To say one word in defence of the Whig ``rid
Anti-Corn-law Magistrates of Manchester'
the rise a.n.u,
of the Tory Ministers, whose promPtitudefbat
have already applauded, we must obierve that
the Manchester Magistrates had no right t° stop
men coming from Ashton to Manchester said
had committed no offence. The Magistrate,
tiv
not want a row, and therefore they Prude:af••
did not begin one. Though Manchester Wa- the
terwards the head-quarters of the Turn-outs,,rri,
wisdom of the Magistrates in not provoking 'toy
tation by interference before it was obsulabes..
e
called for, is proved by the fact that iu .11un or
ter very little destruction was effected. .590
the Ministers not sending troops enutih' de"
speedily enough, why their defence, and theerned
fence of every man accused of being eln'e, was
with it, is, that such an extensive outbrea oces
wholly unforeseen. For all ordinary oceurrebood
there were troops enough in !the neighb°lll.9me
of Manchester; and when the turn-out be
almost instantaneously general, the
hesitate'l
alight well hesitate, if they did f
force
The
before diminishing the military
the metropolis by a single nitill.l the
general and spontaneous
thattu r turn-out -tohuet nature
tbe fact
mseaenniufskettouriuns; dei°snitrbici
RION
pretty well supplied with troops, and
very speedily sent, a full justification of the 1:0t
nisters,. as members of the Executive Guvernvirillig
against the hasty accusations of some sr
to e
journals. They were quite ready enough
ploy the soldiery. districts
with -
usiy
ut it 15
were previover
As to the primary cause of the turn"°",-; ner-
undoubtedly to be. found in the deep and nwr
IVY
vading discontent of the working-classes' f the
are studiously excluded from the benefit °
round
Constitution, and at the same time are gretito,
down to the most extreme poverty and des
the
tion. In this condition it has happened, fr°l'3try,
balanced state of political parties in the to
that appeals have been very generally lutI„e00,
them for support. The Tories have formed Lon,
them
sought aid,p when the Whigs were in office, u,
The
servative o erative societies, and continua .
interOk
appealing to the working-classes.
of the people is deeply involved in the Poor-13b7
and on that point especially they were Plade
the Tories to feel themselves of great importace '
and were excited against the Whiffs. The Wine!'
on their part, appealed to the people for suprr"
that they might get cheap food. The Antiorill;
law League made continual efforts, and ner
as often failed, to obtain their co.operati°.e
for the repeal of the Corn-late. O n
accounts, putting aside any flattery from their
,
all thel
own Press, the working classes had formed
notion, in conjunction with their great disco"-
tent, that they were, politically speakiog, veAr,fl
powerful. They were therefore generally rea""
to exhibit their power; and from these generally
when a beginning was given the turn-out,
became general and spontaneous.
We beg it may be remembered that Ice assig°
neither praise nor blame to any party; WP