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London, England, 1842-08-23 00:00:00

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LONDON:
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1842.

Every word which inculcates and encou-
rages mutual good feeling, and especially which
serves to inspire respect for the suffering work-
men of the manufacturing districts, now deserves
to be recorded in every journal of the empire.
We quote with pleasure, therefore, in another
place, the testimony of the Manchester Times to
the general good conduct of the Turn-outs. To
some delightful words from Lord FRANCIS EGER-
TON we must give a more prominent place, as we
cannot allow them wholly to pass by without a
comment. What we quote will speak for itself,
but we omit the latter part of the Noble Lord's
letter, which speaks rather the language o
wounded and angry vanity than of the good and
calm feelings of a reflecting and wise man:—

tress that existed among their body, but advised atm to
persist in their refusal to work. In the meantime, a mes-
esager had been despatched to Manchester to apprise the
authorities of their proceedings and intentions.
Determined to act with spirit and effect, the two Ge-
nerals, Sir Thomas Arbuthnot and Sir William Warre,
and Staffs, Colonel Wemyss, and Messrs. Wankley and
Wood, County Magistrates, with Captain Burke and
two companies of the Ist Dragoons, two field-pieces of
the Royal Horse Artillery, and two companies of the
Grenadier Guards, accompanied by fifty of the police
force and two omnibuses, left Manchester at noon for
the locality of the rioters. They proceeded out of the
Regent's-road, in the direction of Pendleton,-aud were
guided in the track of the rioters, and came in sight of
them in a field close to the Bury high-road, when the
Generals and Staff with ten dragoons, immediately
started off in advance. One look at the red-coats was
quite sufficient ; no fox ever showed a greater desire
for the security of his person than did these gentry on
breaking cover ; nor did ever a guerilla band take so
many roads to safety. At the words "gallop—charge,"
the colliers gave leg-bail, setting off in all directions
scampering over hedges, climbing gates, running
through bushes, leaping ditches, swimming the
canal, and wading the river. But the dragoons were
on them, and there was no chance of escape, and
less disposition to resist. The Generals and Staff pur-
sued a party to the Bury and Bolton Canal, across
which a barge was laid, with a plank to communicate
with the opposite bank ; but in the scrambling to get
over the plank gave way, and about a dozen were im-
mersed in the water. The dragoons made for a bridge
at a little distance, and were in time to cut off their
escape, and to capture nine, two of whom were so ex-
hausted by the sousing they had in the canal, that they
could not walk. They were handed over to the police,
who handcuffed them, and conducted them to an omni-
bus. The Staff then forded the river Irwell, and pro-
ceeded to Henley, thence to Whitfield Church, got out
on the Bury new road, and rode up to a tract of moss
or bog. Here they found four men, who, on being
questioned, said they were pigeon-flying to Oldham ;
but the General, suspicious of their veracity, ordered
them into custody.
_

During this-time the remainder of the detachments
had not been idle. Dividing themselves, they made a
wide circuit, sweeping round in fine style, and driving
as it were the mob into dozens, making them prisoners,
and handing them to the police.
The detachment returned to Manchester about four
o'clock, having fifty-seven prisoners, whom they safely
lodged in the New Bailey.
One or two such examples as this, and intimidation
will soon be at an end. There was no one the least hurt
in the capture.
Two Generals and their Staffs found employ-
ment and amusement in galloping ,down a few
poor colliers who, though they met at Kersall
Moor, and talked of persisting in their refusal to
work, are not accused of rioting or doing mischief
to any body. Let them speak and spout, and
their hearts will be relieved without burning
down houses, or embruing their hands in
blood. Stop them from speaking, and you make
them assassins. It is so gallant, too, in armed
Generals, attended by an armed Staff, and fol-
lowed by armed dragoons, mounted on heavy
horses, with two pieces of artillery, to ride down
English colliers, that it is worthy of an ex-
press to London to tell of it We regret to see
the—we dare not call it what it deserves to be
called—but it certainly is not courageous con-
duct of the Generals and their Staffs, and of the
police, now that the danger is for the present blown
over—now that the people are returning to their
work of their own accord—and now that the
combination is, by the fine weather and the abun-
dant harvest, effectually broken up. We
regret such conduct more than we can tell, be-
cause if anything can stir the bile and the blood
of the people, make them spiteful and re-
vengeful, it is this sort of hunting them by
Generals and their Staffs for amusement. If the
Turn-out become a great and organised political
insurrection by Christmas, we shall be indebted
for it to such bright achevements as that re-
corded by the Correspondent of the Standard.

It will be seen from our report that a number
of persons gathered on and about Kennington
Common yesterday, notwithstanding a warning
to the contrary, stuck about the neighbourhood
by the police. We inquire not into the legality
of the warning, or into its propriety, and we
presume not to defend the conduct of those who
went thither. At the same time their offence
might have been visited by a more appropriate
and orderly punishment than' was inflicted by
the police.
Instead of guarding all the avenues to the
Common, and preventing persons occupying it—
instead of occupying the Conunon as they might,
it seems that the police allowed the crowd to
collect, a table to be placed on the Common, a
Chairman to be appointed, and speeches to be
commenced, which were stopped short by a fu-
rious assault of the police when they began tc
refer to that body. A party of mounted
it seems, armed with heavy cutlasses, and
a party of police on foot, armed with their blud-
geons, galloped and rushed in on the crowd,
knocking down all who stood in their way, and
inflicting on several persons severe injuries and
wounds. One of the Inspectors is described as
taunting the people to a combat by using such
language as this, " Come on you devils, we are
ready for you." Similar words we are positively
assured were several times repeated, as if there
were a kind of drunken desire to provoke a
quarrel in which the armed host was sure to
be victorious. The whole conduct of the police,
with the language of the Inspectors, seems to us
for better calculated to ensure a breach of the
peace than to prevent it.

We forbear at present from making any
further comments on this proceeding, but if it
be desired to fill the land with bloody outrages,
if some men, now that they cannot carry on war
abroad are desirous to engage in that royal past-
time at home, they cannot fall on any method
to attain their desire superior to that we have
described in the present and in another article.
For our parts, we think peace and harmony ex-
tremely desirable for a commercial community,
and we will do our best equally to hold up to
public reprobation any stupid violence of the
Turn-outs, and any wanton violence of the
soldiery and the police.

From all the mining and manufucturing districts
the accounts continue to be of the most encouraging
character; and from all we can gather on the subject,
the disturbances would seem to have subsided, quite as
much from the returning good sense of the Turn-outs,
as from the efforts of the civil and military force em-
ployed against them. Considering how much positive
destitution has had to do with the matter; that for months
and months past the prospects of the operatives have
been as deplorable as it was possible to be; that Chartist
agents have been incessantly at work to impress on their
minds the absolute necessity of their agitating for the
five points of the Charter, as being the only means
they had left of bettering their condition ;----considering
these things, and considering also that Parliament has
broken up without providing any measure for
their immediate relief, but, on the contrary, has left
them to the mercy of the chapter of accidents, and the
benevolence of Providence ;—considering all these
things, we cannot but repeat our conviction that the
Turn-outs have exercised an extraordinary degree of
forbearance, and proved that they are a very different I
class of men from those reckless, ignorant mobs who,
in the early days of HUNT, were so constantly bent
on mischief.

We trust, under these circumstances, that Govern-
ment will make a point of regarding their case with
lenity, and studiously bear in mind that they had
more than one opportunity of throwing the whole
north of England into a state of absolute
anarchy, but refrained from doing so, from
that lingering sense of justice and honesty which
seems never to have wholly deserted them, even in the
most desperate crisis of the outbreak. It is something
new in English history to see thousands and thousands
of half-starved operatives marching through towns
and villages, and in most cases studiously refraining
from plunder, but contenting themselves with prevent-
ing their fellow-operatives from working at, what they
imagined to be, inadequate prices. A " fair day's
Ir.i,ges for a fair day's work" appears, in the majority
of instances, to have been the sum total of their de-
mands; and if they endeavoured to procure this—
their undoubted right—in a manner which the laws of
the land forbid, let not the illegality of their proceed-
ings be visited on them too severely, but let mercy
temper: justice—for this is one of those rare
cases where to be most merciful is to be
most just. We are quite aware that the
dignity of the law must be vindicated, and that
those who transgress its behests must pay the penalty
of their transgression ; the safety of the social system
requires that such should be the case; but we do
hope and believe that the law will pot: be vindicated

on the principle of Terrorism, for it is a most erroneous
principle, however warmly patronised by the CASTLE-
REAGH and SIDMOUTU school of politicians, and never
yet produced the desired effect. It is not by visiting them
with severe measures of retribution, that Government•
will prevent the working-classes from engaging in
future outbreaks, for hunger and desperation set all
personal apprehensions at defiance ; this desirable
object must be accomplished by promptly and im-
partially inquiring into their condition, with a:view to
provide an adequate remedy for the grievances under
which they may be labouring.

The French Chamber of Deputies, after three days'
discussion, passed the Regency Bill on Saturday
evening by a majority of 216, there being for the
Bill 310 votes, and against it 94. This Bill, differing
materially from the Regency Bills passed by the
British Parliament, makes the right to the Regency,
like that to the Throne, hereditary, and enacts that
the Prince nearest to the Throne, in the male line of
the House of ORLEANS, being 21 years of age, shall
be REGENT of the FRENCH. The Duke of NEMOURS
of course will, by the passing of this Bill, become the
Regent apparent, and in case of his death the right
will descend to his next brother, and so on in regular
succession without any legislative enactment. There
may be some advantage in this regulation, from the
fact that it will to a certain extent prevent agitation
or Parliamentary, discussions on contingencies si-
milar to that which has caused such general
sorrow in France ; but these will be more than
counterbalanced by other grave and probable cir-
cumstances. In this country, for instance, there
would be serious objections to a law by which
the King of HANovErt would become Regent, in the
event of the QUEEN'S death, and in the case of Spain,
the objection would be still greater, for the Regent
would be Don CARLOS, who claimed a right to the
throne, and involved that country in civil
war to assert his alleged rights. Should France be
placed in similar circumstances, a special law would
be necessary, and dangerous animosities might be ex-
cited, which, but for this hereditary claim, would not
have existed. The great majority of the speakers,
however, did not seem to dread any contingency of
this sort, and consequently voted for the Bill as origi-
nally introduced. M. num made a most remarkable
speech at the conclusion of the debate, which naturally
roused the ire of his old friends on the Left. Sir
R. PEEL, in fact, could not have made a more Con-
servative speech, or one calculated to give a higher
idea of the British Constitution. "My object," said
he, "is to approach and resemble the strongly or-
ganised monarchy of England, that admirable pro-
duct of time and experience." An outline of
the speeches made on the occasion will be
found in another part of the paper. By
accounts received this day, we learn that the schism
between M. TRIERS and his friends has caused great
excitement in Paris. The Opposition Journals com-
plain bitterly of the openness and harshness with
which this singular personage reflected on the dan-
gerous principles which he once professed, and are
still retained by those who chose him for leader. A
coalition Ministry is not at all improbable.
'There is no other news of any importance whatever.
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