Star.
London, England, 1818-08-24 00:00:00

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Ths diarett renew bet (Ittc! I" • •
•114 of
Manchester and their netters still reiii.Xin hi Af;flff
quo. A sort bf counter-statetent to. ihatink!e bY
the spinners', has been put.ntit by the inaiiefs;
but do the authority of one bf the Neikipap6 Oitit
tern of Manchester. In this paper it is asserted, thai
instead of 18s. or 19s. a week, the average €• wage!
paid to the mea spinners in Manchester, ficim th 6
Ist of January last to the middle of June, Wheel
they turned out, was upwards Of Sls. and foi bbyg
and gill spit-inn!, ppteards of 17s: clear of all
charges and dedncons whatever." We should hate
thought this statorient much more satisfactory; if
it had .been confirmed by the names of a number
of Master Cotton-tpillit•rs of knoWn Ch:tritete•.—
But perhaps they did na think it necesssary
swer an anonymous add.-ess in any other than in sip
demi-official and anonymous way, and we have
reason to suppose, that the paragraph in the Main=
chester paper is substantially correct, for since its
appearance, the fact has been communicated to us
by a Gentleman on whose veracity v.e can rely, that
the average of nineteen mills, where men are em-
ployed, has been taken, and that their clear weekly
earnings, for the last sir months, have been found td
be 91s. a week, while the earnings of the boys and
girls; in thirteen other mills, have been found td
amount to 17r. weekly.—LPe.ls Mercurp, A1g.22 •

MANCHESTER, AUCA,T '242.
The Spinners have paraded again this week in pub-
lic procession. Some of them have made strenuous
efforts to return to their lawful ererlos men's, and
have received. every assistance. from the Voike for
that laudable purpose, but they have met with serious
opposition in the attempt; in consequence of which,
there is an offer cf twenty guineas reward on convic-
tion of the offenders. The proprietors of one large
factory have arranged with their work people, so that
they re-commenced business on Monday.,—,-On the
same day, a meeting of a large body of Colliers was
held at Kersal Moor, who came to some resolutions
on the subject cf an advance of Wages. The meet-
' i,l was conducted in regular form, and certain indite
viduals made speeches on the occasion:

THE TALE OP MYSTERY.—The investigation into
the mysterious death of the West Riding Clothier,.
forty years ago, as mentioned some days ago, has had
no satisfactory result. As we have already stated;
the self-accuser, whose name is Joseph Royston, and
whose residence is at Morton Banks, near Bingleft
set out on Friday, sennight, along with Mr. Slater
the son of the de:eased, and the constable of Yeadou‘
for York. On the Saturday morning, they proceeded
to Cottingwrith, a village on the banks of the Der-
went, where the remains of the senior Slater were said
to be deposited. At this place diligent search was
made, and all the proper enquiries institute.: a ith4
out success. Royston, whose conduct is as unaccoun-
table as it is suspidotts, led them from place to places
and at length said that the body was interred in the
church-yard. That nothing might be left undone
which seemed likely to cast light upon this ielysterious
affair, the Clergyman at this place was applied to, unck
the register was carefully searched, but no traces of
such a burial could be found in it. Ptafiled their
endeavours, the party returned to their respEctird
homes, on the Sunday, and on Thursday last Royston
was taken before MAJOR FEartAND, Esq. one of the
Magistrates of this P.iding, at Bingley, where he un-
derwent a long examination in the presence of the
parties to whom he had at first declared that he
,g killed Slater 40 years ago, and buried him in the
corner of a corn field." Though the conduct of this
unhappy man has in it sufficient to excite violent
suspicions of his guilt, the,evidence against him rests
mainly on his own confession, and the Magistrate
very properly judging..that under such circumstances
lie would not be justtned in committing him fer trial,
ordered him for the p resent to be discharged.

EKECUTlON.—,ll'illianz Warner, Thomas Ward, and
Thomas Ir. Maw, convicted, on their own confessirm,
at Warwick Assizes, of assaulting and robbing Mr.
Grccnway, cf Nuneaton, on the King's highway in
that parish, we're, on Friday sennight, ccecuted in
front of the County Gaol, at Warwick. Their bodies,
after having been suspended the usual time, were
taken down, and, in the course of the afternoon, in-
terred in the church-yard of St:Mary. These uni-or,
nitrate men (neither of whom had reached his '2oth
year), from the time of their conviction, sheaved the
strongest symptoms of remorse and contrition, and
died, to all appearance, sincere penitents. They were
born of parents, Nrho,,e circumstances would not per-
mit them to give their ill-fated rasping the smallest
education ; and when the Ordinary of the Prison firm
visited ti-em, ho found them destitute of religions
knowledge—scarcely sensible even of the existence
of a SUPREME licat:o, and a future state after death.
. A few days previous to their eseetitic.n, bm.:ever,
they were (through the indefatigable exertions cf the
Rev. H. LAUGH 4 RNL) made truly sensible cf their
situation, and ultimately brought to such a state of
mind as to enable them to sustain their :as: cont-liet
with firmness and resignation.