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and Min Somenrille.

; Mr. Hunt, whose voice In some
I's j Mr. Davies, a pupil of Lanais ;

mble ; Mrs. Hill, of Bath ; and Mr.
With the following old Performers:
hens, Miu Brunton, Mr.. Faucit,
s; Young, C. Kemble, Maeready,
ton, Emery, Terry, Farley, Duruset,
e, Lupino, Grimaldi, &c. &c.

his Olympic Theatre with such
DOWTON, KNrQHT, POPS, and
me.

isturday night, a newfarce, in
ara and Actors, was brought
. is a production of a light but
The story runs thus: David
a musical dramatic amateur,
Bustle (HARLEY), a PrOYIR-
Nho engages to conduct Dulcet's
Elderberry (BARTLEY) is a plain
d from business, perfectly un-
trical affairs. He has a ward,
(Miss Love), who elopes with
dramatic amusements. They.
busy in forming his corps of
vhom are ;Ong (WRENCH), a
Derry icitannsus), a heavy
Mary Gonerill (Mrs. PINCOTT),
and the separate wife of Wing.
'ILKINSON), an old Charity Boy,
Bustle. The thief business of
Elderberry's search for his ward
he modes by which Dulcet and
him, the oddities arising from
ie performers to the Manager,
w of trin,r aid his wife to re.
2mea and- Juliet, and the con.
Mifffincap of much labour and
are several incidents which are
crous; such as Old Elderberry's
ager's, among a set of actors,
!yen whose language, mixed up
quota ions, stage jokes, and al-
n the least understand. !n the
songs were introduced, in which
nate in some imitations of Daft-
' particularly so in two or three
'arts; and Mrs. PINCOTT Was
of a dramatic Tragedy Actress.
tnd Miss Hardacre carry their
f the Piece is to shew the Actors
the mere Amateurs, and aka..
nclusion, that their exertions will
many amateurs. When the air.'
Quoa of the nsaiority was deci-
he repetition of the Piece. The
ustice to the light and fanciful
particularly Messrs. HARLEY,
'LEY, and !qrs. PINCOTT. Some
; but as a laughable tun-
a ‘s.ll no doubt have a run of
very good audience.

MANCHESTER OOTTON st•LYNXItit

MANCHESTER, AUGUST 29.

The peace of the town is now infringed upon to
serious degree by the conduct of these men, and of
those persons who are under the influence of their
feelings. Every morning and evening during this
week there have been disturbances, created by the
hostile acts of the unemployed against work-people
who would willingly pursue their business. The lat-
ter have been assaulted by the former, and undergone
every inconvenience that their opponents could de-
vise, accompanied also by no small degree of personal
danger. They have been attacked with stones and
mud ; in consequence of such proceedings, the Magis-
tracy, Boroughreeve, and Constables, with their Offi-
cers, have been constantly harassed by most unplea-
sant duty, and the military have on several occasions
been from necessity called out to assist in the irk-
some labour. The Special Constables have not been
remiss on the occasion.

In addition to the above enormities, several most
respectable Gentlemen, employers in the Spinning
branch, hare been surrounded in the streets, hooted,
and grossly insulted by large mobs of women, boys,
and men ; chiefly, however, of the former; to such
a pitch of ingratitude are their ignorant minds raise
by the stimulations of the older turn-outs. The sol-
diers are insulted whilst on their painful duty, and
the Peace Officers have been wounded, and deprived
of their staves of office. Such is the present. state of
things, that one factory has found it necessary to
have armed soldiers stationed within it. Yesterday
' a body of Spinners marched in regular rank and file,
in the open day, armed with bludgeons, to a large
factory, and loudly demanded that that at work
should he turned out. This was not complied with ;
but before the military could be got to the place the
rioters had decamped. At a subsequent part of the'
day, Mr. NORRIS, our Police Magistrate, felt it ne-
cessary to read the Riot Act, the pressure of an im•
mense multitude upon the Officers of the town and
upon the military became so serious, accompanied
by gross insults of manner and language. ,In some
factories the masters are under the necessity of sup-
plying the people they have at work with bedding,
and they sleep where they are employed.
Many disturbers of the peace have been taken into
custody, but unfortunately the worst characters have
yet escaped, they are so cautious and crafty. It is
understood that the Treasurer to the combined men
has this week decamped, and taken with him a con-
siderable sum of their stock of cash.

It has been judged necessary, under these circum-
stances, that some means should be taken to make a
more substantial provision for the security of the in-
habitants and of the town. A Meeting was therefore
convened yesterday of the principal residents, to de-
vise a suitable plan for this very necessary and impor-
tant object. Matters are now got to such a pitch,
through the refractoriness of some, and the, eonse-
Opent distress of others, for many families, we un-
derstand, are destitute of the necessaries of life, that it
is probable outrages will increase rather than diminish.
The law, with all its terrors, must therefore interpose.
This becomes the more necessary, as the body of the
idle and dissolute is expected to be augmented by the
accession of men in other occupations who are strik-'
ins for an advance of wages. Indeed the baneful I
principle of Combination is making deep progress,
and it is only by firmness, and farther legislative
provisions, that its career can be effectually checked.
The men who were committed on the charge of
unlawful combination, are still in custody for want
of bail. Their trial is traversed till next Assizes.

FROM THE LEEDS MERCURY.

The Mawr Cotton-weavers in some parts of Lan-
cashire as well as in Scotland, deriving wisdom from.
the diventions of others, have at length made an ad-
vance of 10 per cent. on the price of weaving. And
most assuredly the best way to avert the evils of
combinations, is to listen in time to the reasonable
claims of the labouring classes, and to endeavour to
place them in a situation of humble comfort and
contentment.

1•ROM TIIE PRESTON CHRONICLE.
The 'Manufacturers of this town have this week
raised the prices of weaving one shilling per cut, or
about ten per cent. on the sort of goods most gene-
rally manufactured in this neighbourhood.
This is an example worthy of imitation, for, as we
have already stated, the clear weekly earnings of the
men weavers of Lancashire, previous to this advance,
did not exceed eight shillings per week ! Is that a
prosperous or natural state of society, where the bead
lof a family cannot, by a whole week's hard labour,
obtain the price of a bushel of wheat?
The following letter, which was received a few
days since by the gentleman to whom it is addressed,
and upon the orthography of which a studied igno-
rance is engrafted, conveying considerable informa-
tion, with whatever design it was penned, or however
wild the notions of the author of it may be as to the
practicability of the ideas which he says are entertained
by the parties to whom he is unlawfully attached:
" Mrs. Polard i send this leter to you to let you no that the
epiners and whevers are coming out in August in all the nabering
towns and vileges round a bout Manchester and in a boat a for-
duet the are determined to go to logerheds if that the do not get
there prise and the colehers will gine then and you may depend
that it will be a desperet day for it is there cry that the whil weed
the masters you may depend that yout I wright to you Is crow
praps you may laugh when may letter you do reed but by G—d•it
his a fact and that you whit see and messy a high hid that day wil
trembeling be whe are no reformers and that you shet see for the
reformers hofered ous SOL per week as lung as wee stop bed in the
street bout whe refused and tould them plump and plain that with
reformers wee wed hay nothing to do and so whith that the took
there mosey and devided it back and whe never meene to have any
thing to do whith them bout there whit be a desperit day and that
yo wit see for all the men that has tornd bout year are retermined
to have there prise her heals dy for the say that it is rich a wile
since that there was a den in this cunterey that you think that the
dare dow nothink bout you may depend that there will be a dow
for there is you and Kenedy Mama Berley and Naulsworth &c.
that are picked at the most of any and the say whot the cannot
born the will blew and i dow fermeley belive that the will dow it
L for i never its an may life sau men se resolut in all the whole body
togethei you maydepend that there will be a fight for there prise for
i my self as i was conuning over a croft lest in the night i saw a
whole croud of men noing non of them I did not stop to here what
the had to say bout what supprised me was what i nu 3 glittering
things which startid me for doun in Newtowne i have often times
herd tell of pikes or pikes but never in my life saw ane before this
night then i sau s i will represent them as much as i can.•—The
colleors metin is on Canemore on Monday next and the wayvere
are retermined to have 7s. per pound more and all Engleancrs
working clan of men are retennined to have more prise or dy
for as soon as the spinners gees in all other traids will cons bout—
for the have made a younloa in every traid and hove ry traid is nar.
at this present time paying money to the spinners for i no of a fat
that the 'pipers paid £35 sterling for delicate* that went in the
• Mine pikes ars dolionste4 on the letter, of differint kinds.

coatery t tolissisting tither tralcis to stop in sad to 'my to !beta
webs the was oat t►+t the aught nand the Mager the delimit
that goes la the coatery as Is. per days—and so ao more at pre-
Lint, train your most hobedaat serrant—iThe signature is ob-
scured by the wafer.]
" Rr Mr. Jarlathan Piaui, Groat Atwoata-streft.
litigant Factory Tout Rom iLutclisskr."

The subjoined Circulars are stated in a Sunday
Paper, to have been addressed on Wednesday last to
the Secretary of a Benefit Society in London :
(71431111 D cravat-se.)
" Dzartirstris—Two Delegates from Manchester having aP.
rived in London at the request of the different trades in that
town and neighbourhood, to solicit your kind assistance and sup.
port, and in forming a union of the operative workmen, me.
chalks, and artisans, of the United Kingdom, to support each
ether in an difficulties which may occur between them and their
employers, for the mutual benefit of the labouring people. They
do hereby request that you will send ade ate from your trade
the White Lion, Wych-street, Strand, on Friday evening nest,
at eight o'clock, where every information will be given.
" London, August 26, 1818."

-•(XIANUSCILIPT ATTACHED TO THE MOM)
" Gammas—As the Cotton Spinners of Manchester are in
the greatest digress, In consequence of the long contest with
their employers, any aid you may render them will be gratefully
received, and at any future period punctually returned, if re-
quired.—Your's, SWVIIIMUS."