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

THE POTTERIES.

SATURDAY.—The neighbourhood was greatly ex-
cited during the day, but fortunately the arrival of
fresh troops tended to allay the apprehensions of
tumult entertained by the well-disposed in the Pottery
districts—a district which is suffering less than any
other manufacturing district in the midland or northern
counties. It is a remarkable oversight, that the north
portion of the interior of the kingdom is without any
barracks between Manchester and Birmingham,
though it is mostly covered
with a dense manufac-
turing populaion. Staffordshire, leaning on Bir-
mingham, with its districts of mines and manufac-
tures, extending from Dudley to Walsall, and
comprehending an area of ten miles by fourteen, throws
a population of 100,000 persons into that chaos of mid •
land agitation. In the north of the county, a similar
area in extent and population connects itself by Con-
gleton and Macclesfield; on the Manchester line of
manufactures. From east to west—that is, from the
borders of Derbyshire to those of Salop, about 35 miles,
the county is essentially agricultural, as is the chief
eastern length of the county from Cheadle to Lich-
field, and the west from the vicinity of Dudley to
Newcastle. There is evidently the want of a bar-
rack establishment at some central point in this
county, as the line of railway by which it is traversed
bears 10 miles on the west of the district of Stoke-
upon-Trent, which might be given to flames and
ashes before any military assistance could be obtained
in either direction. The population of the Potteries,
occupying an irregular line of eight miles in length,
may be estimated at 80,000.

WARWICKSHIRE.
TURN OUT OF THE COLLIERS.

COVENTRY, SATURDAY.—The "turn out" of the
colliers is now assuming a very serious aspect, and lm
spread itself into almost every ramification of the dis-
trict. This is principally owing to the continual agi-
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certain emissaries from the National Charter Associa-
tion. In South Staffordshire there is 'no prospect of
a speedy settlement of the question of
wages, and even
though the masters should consent to a compromise, it
is to be feared that the leaders would dissuade the men
from acquiescence. Indeed, many of them have -
the Charter shall have been established as the law of
the
ex-
pressedian adetermination not to return to labour until
a.
Not content stoppage of the works
in their own district, they have at length proceeded to
the mining districts in Warwickshire, and have by
sundry threats
and
with
inducements persuaded the men at
the Bedworth and Foleshill collieries to follow their
example, and turn out for an increase
theentire
of wages.
Bedworth is a straggling village c
ontaining a popu-
lation of about 3,000, and situated about five miles
from Coventry, and three from Nuneaton. The
greater part of the inhabitants are dependent on the
mines for their subsistence, and it is a fact, which
even the colliers admit, that they have less reason to
complain of the amount of their wages than those in
Staffordshire. Indeed, their whole grievance appears
to consist in this. The pits are so liable to be in-
undated with water, that much tune is occupied daily
in rendering them safe for the miners to descend, and
accordingly the men are ostensibly engaged fourteen 1
hours a day, though their actual_ labour does not ex-
tend over eight or nine. For this they receive al
daily remuneration of three shillings, and, at all
events, have had no reason to complain of short work
for many months past.
As was very natural, when the works in Stafford-
shire were delayed for want of coal, the !nesters
betook themselves to the nearest collieries avail-
able for their assistance. Those of Bedworth
and Foleshill were reso.ted I.
-0, and the "turn•
out" colliers having obtaincd cognizance of the cir-
cumstance, determined to put a stop to it. a deputation, Accord-
ingly, on Friday night _eputation, consisting of six
of their order, and accompanied by the firebrand
O'Neill, visited these honest and contented sons of la-
bour, and after expostulating with them to no effect,
for some time, they then expressed the determination
of the men in Staffordshire to prevent them working,
unless they demanded the same wages for the same
amount of labour as they had done. This had its de-
sired effect, Kid as early
as
four o'clock this morning