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

MEETING OF DELEGATES.

At.tweiseO'ClOCl: at noon, a meeting of delegates
was held at the Sherwood Inn, Tib-street, for the
purpose of considering what was best to be done in
the present crisis. Two hundred delegates, represent-
ing the various trades and mill hands of Manchester
and its neighbourhood, were preient. James Farrell
presided. The following resolutions were unanimously
adopted :
That we, the delegates representing the various

ttaf t;.. of 31 nchester and its vicinities, with delegates
from various parts'ofTaileaShiri and Yorkshire, do
most.. emphatically declare, that it is our solemn and
conscientious conviction that all the evils which afflict
society, and which have pro4itrated the interests and
energies of the great body of producing classes, arise
solely from class legislatlon ; and that the only re-
medy for the present alarming distress and wide-
spread dptitution is the itarnediate and unmutilated
adoption, and carrying into law,' tht dOcuthent known
as the Peoples Charter." .
Resolved, secondly :—" That this meeting recom-
mend the_ people of all trades and callings to forthwith
cease work, until the above dOcument becomes the
law of the land."

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1 1842.

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Joseph Fletcher was eallethto tt)echair. Thi meet-
ing did nothing.
was quiet in the town and -"neighbourhood
when our account left.

At the termination of this meeting, the shopkeepers,
Commttee at once went to their Committee-room,
at the Pitt and Nelson, when they agreed to publish
the fbllowing address to the operatives :
"TO THE 9PEIqATIySS,IOI" ASELTONrENDER-LTNE AND_

IRE NEIGIIBOURIIOOD.
The meeting of the deputation appointed to me: i
diate between the masters and the workpeople, has
taken place this afternoon. The requirements of the
people were laid before,them, and were simply, the
following :—a desire to establish an uniform rate of
wages and time throughout the whole manufacturing
districts ; and, with respect to the uniform rate ff.
wages, the masters were agreeable, provided such
uniformity could be secured, though they feared it
would be impracticable. The masters wished the
men to return to their work, and enileavour to bring
up the other towns to their prices; in doing which,
they might rely, on the masters' assistance, stating
that they had no disposition to reduce wages ; but, on
the contrary, they would rather see an advance of
wages than a further irluetion.
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(Signed on behalf of the Deputation,)
"JOS. FLETCHER, Chairman.
(Signed on behalf of the Shopkeepers' and
Tradestnens' Committee,)
" TIE* CARRELL' Chairman.
" JAS., R. HORNER, Hon. Sec.
" Committee-room' Pitt and Nelson, Aug. 12, 1842."
We think it right t ) state, in compliance with the
wish of the Shopkeepers' Committee, the Ashton
operatives have sent pickets round to drive away the
people who were mobbing the provision shop:.

' ROCIIDALE, BAUM, AND TODMORDEN.
11At six o'clock yesterday (Fr morniizg, a
large meeting:was held on Cronkeyshaw Moor. De- 1
legates were sent thenCe to various parts in York-
'shire,, also to Caine, Padiharn, &c. A procession of
6,000 individuals went to Bacup, where the hands in
the cotton and woollen mills, and various workshops,
were compelled to give up work. After holding.
:another meeting, the procession marched to Todmor-
den where the hands in most of the mills had ceased
working, and-the others were then stopped. At three
o'clock yesterday (Friday) all was quiet in Rochdale ;
persons were going to various shops begging for bread,
and some demanded money. There is a general re-
port that all the places of worship are to be stopped on
-Sunday; at all the meetings Chartism is introduced,
and most of them declare they will have the Charter:
—l-IEVWOOII3-:

At six o'clock on Friday morning, a large number
of factory operatives from Bury entered Eieywood:
public meeting, consisting of upwards of 3,000 15er-
sons, was held
.near St. James's Church. The
speakers advised the meeting to he peaceable, awl
united in obtaining the wages of 1840, and to work
only ten hours per day. The procession was formed
about seven o'clock, and the party proceeded to
Rochdale, forcing all persons to go with them whom
they met on the road. At three o'clock in the after-
noon of yesterday, all was quiet. The whole of the
operatives in the mills, and machine and other work-
shops, were at a complete stand. A few special con-
stables were sworn in on Thursday evening.