Star.
London, England, 1830-12-10 00:00:00

ST.ITE OF THE COUNTRY.

The alarmists and rumour-mongers of the Stock Exchange, and its
purlieus, have been for this last day or two talking of the excessively
gloomy appearance of things in Lancashire, and frightening all the old
ladies out of their wits by anticipation of mobs, mischiefs, and
dreadful disorders about to take place In that and the adjoining
county. Unfortunately for these anticipators, hOweve.r, and fortu-
nately for the old ladies, the following appears to have been the only
" coming event" which cast such a gloomy shadow before it; at all
events the Manchester and Liverpool papers received last night make
no mention of any other, nor do they seem to attach much import.
once to this.

( Frost the Manchester Mercury.)
A very numerous meeting of the labouring classes in Ashton-under-
Lyne, and the neighbourhood, was held on Saturday last, it Dukin.
field, to consider the propriety of accepting or rejecting the list of prices
for spinning offered by the owners of factories in Ashton, Stalybridge,
DukhiSeld, and Alossley. The meeting was held on a piece of vacant
ground near the Buck Inn, which forms a sort of natural amphi-
theatre, in the centre of which a cart was placed, by way of hustings,
on which the chairman and the speakers took their stations. After a
very long discussion, in the course of which nine or ten persons deli.
vexed their opinions (some of them in exceedingly violent and inflam-
matory language), it was resolved—we believe, unanimously—that the
list proposed by the masters should be rejected, and that the men
should all turn out at the end of the present week. Upwards of ten
thousand persons are stated to have been present. Several tri-coloured
flags were displayed on the occasion, and, after the proceedings had
terminated, several pistols were discharged. Indeed, it is stated that a
considerable number of the persons who attended the meeting were
armed, some with firearms, and others with formidable bludgeons.
No violence, however. was committed ; and the people separated
quietly. We understand that several mills are already at a stand, the
men having'gone to the meeting without the permission of their em-
ployers, who consequently refused to allow them to return to their work
ycaterd..y morning.

NEAR 11.ClIESTER DEC. 7.—Lars Wednesday night, tottween 11
Ond 12 o'clock, we vie4realkd'ont of our beds el a report that Swing'sl
mob was about paying oi ambit. When 1 got up 1. heardthe mob war
'at ateriton.hill. near Witteanton. and thet of the formes elf -
neighbourhood had gone to join o
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that tha liteh had tleerinYed three threih"_,; stead's cheaper. krharter, an easier, a more convenient,
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bseli Orbirti' i4ncrelagkoaharjootio andlillielt be as speedily as
hire .latter trefoil;' big. a .liti4l"ealisat 'Ate a lain
ihe'farmers refused to employ them. The , 4§ &aging, D.C.
iscd. Had the Kentishmen acted with The petition has been signed by Illr. Monk and en
imencement f the disturbances with them, amen of the Deighheerhood.