The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-26 00:00:00

HEATON PARK RACES.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23.—The Stanley Handicap Stakes
of 10 soya. each, h. ft. AF.

Colonel Russell named Orthodox, aged 1
Mr. M. Stanley's Herbert Lacy, 4 yr•s 2
A Gold Cup, value 100 sovs. and a subscription of 10
sovs. each, for all ages. St. Leger Course.
Arr. M. Stanley's Dr. Faustus, aged 1
Lord Wil!ma's Arachne, aged ... 2
Captain Lock's Massaniello, 4 yrs S
The Heaton Park Stakes of 15 soya. each, five ft. One
mile and a half.

Mr. Giffard named Granby, 6 yra
Mr. 11. Grosvenor named Orthodox, aged
Sweepstakes of 10 aovs. each, five ft.:with 20 added by the
Club. Once round.

Mr. White named Mr. Fry, 5 yrs • 1
Mr. M. Stanley's Gamecock, aged

OUTRAGEOUS PROCEEDINGS OF THE
COVENTRY WEAVERS AT NUNEATON.

(From the Coventry Observer.)

A Mr. J. F. Taylor, foreman to Messrs. Banks, rib-
bon-manufacturers, of this city (Coventry), having some
business with one of the ribbon-weavers at Nuneaton, wa•
in his house, when a mob of 500 or 600 persons assem-
blsd in the street, using the most dreadful threats and im-
precations. The people in the house immediately locked
the door, but it was soon burst open, and the rioters
rushing up stairs, where Mr. Taylor had gone for safety,
seized him, and after threatening to cut him down with a
bill-hook, forced him down stairs, by jumping on him as
he stood across the landing. They then kicked Mr. Tay-
lor most severely, and dragged him out of the house, to
place him on an ass, brought for the occasion. The un-
fortunate man when put on the ass, with his face towards
the tail, was pelted with filth of every description, his
clothes were torn to pieces, and he was twice knocked off
the ass to the ground. Finally, these rioters were pro-
ceeding with Mr. Taylor to a brook, to throw him in,
When he was fortunately rescued by the chief constable.
We have heard that the alleged cause of this outrage was,
not that the prices of Messrs. Banks were lower than
others, but a report that Mr. Taylor had reported to the
parish officers of Nuneaton that some of the persons re-
ceiving relief might obtain employment. Mr. Taylor, we
are sorry to say, has received considerable injury, and is
compelled to have surgical assistance.
On Tuesday morning, the weavers mustered strongly in
the Market-place; from whence they proceeded through
the town, calling on all their brother artizans to " strike ;"
with which request most of them complied. In the course
of the day, a meeting was announced by the public crier,
to take place at the Castle Inn, at six o'clock, at which the
manufacturers and undertakers were requested to attend.
A considerable number assembled, and Mr. W. Hood, a
respectable manufacturer, was unaniumusly called to the
chair. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting, and re-
commended :the weavers to be peaceable and orderly in
their conduct, in which case only they could hope for as-
sistance. The following list of prices was then adopted,
and a committee of twelve persons formed, to collect sub-
triptions for the most distressed among the operatives
EIGHT LEISH SATINS.-rER GROSS.
161 2ss. 21d 365.
ISd 28s. 30d 445.
20d 31s. 40d 565.

Bif 16s.
10d lBs.
12d 20s.
14d 225.

16d 2Bs.
20d 325.

20d 225.
24d 28s.

ORIENTALS.
24d 365. I 40d 565.
30d 445.
LUTESTRINGS.
30d 365. I 40d 425.

10d

PADS.

....20s. 114 d 325.

SATIN GAUZES.

16d 945. 24d 389. 30d 465.
20d 30.4 I

GAUZE LETS 2s. per gross extra; Tyres, 4s. ditto;
Five Leish Satins and Loves, 2s. ditto.

On Wednesday a number of weavers collected, and pro-
ceeded from the Market.plice to Bulkington, and from
thence to Bedworth, increasing every mile, and at each
place they made a stand at every shop, and enjoined the
hands not to do another stroke, till the wages were ad-
justed ; which was universally complied with. In the
evening the Bedworth masters and men had a meeting at
the Swan public-house, where it was arranged that the
Bedworth and Nuneaton masters should proceed on Thurs-
day to Coventry, and endeavour to come to an arrange-
ment with the Coventry Manufacturers.
In the evening, at Nuneaton, a general meeting of the
inhabitants took place, when the following note was read
from the foreman of Mr. Eyre, the occupier of the Bed-
worth Mill Factory :
" Gentlemen, I undertake, in the absence of Mr. Eyre,
to agree to any price which will be in future paid by the
other masters; indeed we have not at any time paid at the
mill so low a rate of wages as most of the men have been
working for.