The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-22 00:00:00

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LONDON:
MOND4Y MORNINS, 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 other 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 ae the energetic measures of the Ministers.
Had the circtnnstances 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. Hn-r7
WOOD, a gentleman long known for his philanthrophy
—we may almost call him, we believe, the BIRK-
DECK 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
would do, both higher wages and cheaper food ; at the
mown it when, from long distress, your resources must
be exhausted, you have been thrown out of work, and
told than, by a suspension of labour, your condition will
most s.?eedily be bettered.
The workmen have seen, as well as Mr. HEYWOOD,
that bet tor times are at hand, thanks to the beneficence
of the A t 4 MIGHTY, and the patience of the people them-
selves, bu t no thanks to our heartless rulers, who
have indeeu 1 praised that patience, but have obstinately
and wanton ly refused to relieve the deepest distress
• that ever was inflicted on a people
.by the legislation
of a so-cal led 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
~:pn the subject, let us at once remind them that the

is,Tur n-outs have, in fact, had at their mercy
',the 'bulk of the property of the great towns of the
'tUirt'i, and that they have committed comparatively
very few outrages. Not less, we believe, than half a
4•111illion• of persons have been involved in these corn-
, motions ; they have perambulated the country for ten
fr,days, and they have inn the manufacturing districts
been guilty of few or no acts of robbery or personal
violence beyond those necessary for obtaining their
object o:stopping the mills.
Our N ,lumps (says the Leeds Mercury) are filled with
partiegle rs of the strangest and wildest Holulay-Insur-
rectionAl tat has ever been attempted,—an Insurrection
condieto 1 in the name of "peace, law, and 'order !"—an
InsuLrect ion the most extensive, yet in some respects the
most hart nless, known in the modern history of Eng-
land,—an Insurrection more foolish than wicked in the
dupes whop have caught the contagion, but we fear much
more wie iced than foolish in the leaders who planned it.
We re)oice (adds that journal) to perceive—and we
metrtion 1.: to the credit of the bulk of the turn-outs—
that there kilts been so wonderful an abstinence from all
violence but that required to suspend labour.:They have
not injured machinery, nor damaged work, nor plun-
ders d 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 < (aes a kind of half-begging, half-taking, to sup-
ply thi immediate cravings of hunger), is one of the
most as, tonish4ng things we ever knew, and speaks well
for the A earts o,` a population who have suffered so much
distress..

In the same Jou.
"nal is a letter, dated Barton, near
Mulches ter, Aug. 17; a which this is an extract :

UGUST 17.—We are Igre almost as tranquil as in the
purely agricultural distrids- All that we see of the
public agitation is to be fourtd in bands of men, women,
and'• children, assembling in Wall bodies, and visiting
the :farmers to excite their charity And obtain their bene-
voiet ce. I will give you a specimen :—We had here
'Tsui day one of these bands, consisting of about forty
persieu the half of whom were dc hildr9n, and the other
.half an 6 n and women, about in equal numbers. Their
cone tact ,and demeanour was per_rectly respectful and or-
, derl I:hey said that they came. to ask for advice and
assis tome e; that they were in great d• evens; that some of
them mad ordered to leave their Nyack b-v,the turn-outs,
.and '*hers c 'uld not obtain work from the warehouses be-
cause.' their ma'sters refused to give out weaving till the dis-
putesiwere settle Others seemed to bevvoluntary turn-outs.
The A nswer rete tned to this application was, that their
situati, on was muchqo be pitied—that they had no doubt
from th igh price of ro-
great ause of plaint
visiona ,c and thecom low' sate of their wages ; but that these
were e vils that were,. hot to be remeeted by such con-
duct at ; had lately takeu place at Manchester. This
advi' ;they received with no rudeness or ill-temper, and

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they retired without a single expression of incivility or
disrespect.
It is remarks that whatever interruption has been
given by the t -outs to other kinds of labour, none
3,
whatever has n 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
ajree 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—perhapa
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 tempts,-
tion to go astray ; they have foolishly expected to
better their condition by throwing themselves out of
work, but beyond this unfortu:nate delusion, their eor.
duct has rarely been censurable. Stich people deserve
to be treated with great consideration, elreii with great
kindness by the Government, and we should hope
that their temporary aberration will not be thotight
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
1
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 mischievous
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 shoken,bu-
siness has been suspended, property 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 of men 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 we
nee 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.

EXPENSE OF COMMISSIONS.--By the Parliamentary
Paper, No. 449, it appears that the cost of Commis-
sions, appointed within the last few yew's, to prose-
cute various inquiries, and carry on new branches of
tho Administration, has been no less than 1,128,6261.
Of this sum the Poor-law Commission has absorbed
359,1181., exclusive of 6,5651., the cost of the Com-
mission for the inquiry into the operation of the old
Poor-laws. 'The Commissioners for inquiring into
public charities have cost the country, since 1831,
79,3671. The expense of the Commission to inquire
into the best system of railways for Ireland, the Re-
port of which remains a dead letter, was 24,8421. No
less than 140,722/. has been expended on the Com-
mission for settling the claims of the slave-owners ;
and 20,414/. has been swallowed up by a Commission
to adjudicate on claims of British subjects on the
French, Spanish, and Danish Governments.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITI, SATURDAY EVENING._

The general opinion held in the City upon the sub-
ject of the outbreak in the North is, that as far as
present consequences are concerned, nothing more is
to be feared ; much gloominess, however, hangs over
the future, but chiefly as far as the men themselves
are concerned. Business is now apparently about to
recommence in the usual track, the exhibition by
daylight last evening through the principal thorough-
fares of a number of boys and girls, having taught
the citizens exactly the danger they have to fear.
The Money Market became heavy at the close of
business, occasioned partially by some sales, and by
the intelligence from the North of Europe, published
in the second edition of The Sun. This corroborates
a piece of intelligence which appeared some days since,
of an attempt having been made on the life of the
Emperor of Russia, by means- of instruments con-
cealed in a chair. Consols left off at 91i sellers for
the Account ; Bank Stock, 170 171 ; India Stock,
250 251; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51
prem.
The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian,
1014 1021 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52
521 ; the Five per Cents., 1011 1024; Danish, 82i
833- ; and Brazilian, 65 66.
The quotation for Mexican was 34+ for Money, and
35 for Time.

Business in Shares concluded very dull—London
and Birmingham were, 180 182, ex div. ; Bir-
mingham and Gloucester, 48 49 ; Great Western,
87 88 ; the Half Shares, 62 62i ; South Western,
624 63 ; North Midland, 56 58 ; the New Shares,
27* 28* ; South Eastern and Dover, 21f 22*; Eastern
Counties, 9* 9i ; Northern and Eastern, 38i 39, ex
inf.; Blackwall, 8i 9* ; and Brighton, 331 33* per
share.

The Weekly Average of the Liabilities and Assets of
the Bank of England, during the twelve weeks ending
the 13th inst., when compared with that for a like
period terminating the 16th ult., gives the following
results :

LIABILITIES.
Circulation, now £18,952,000
~, last time 18,279,000
Increase 673,000

Deposits, now
... last time 8,565,000
Increase 765,000

Increase in Liabilities £1,438,000
ASSETS.
Securities, now £22,525,000
... last time 21,713,000
Increase.—
Bullion, now £ 8,496,000
last time 7,818,000
Increase 678,000

....... .... A:1,490,000