Star.
London, England, 1820-02-15 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LOND'ON.

'VUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, IV2*.

THE FpNDS.
IPltla Of STOOKS THIS DAT AT ONO O'CLOCK
per Cent. Reduced 68% SS 64%
3 per Cent. Consols 611% 1/4
5 per Cent. 775(1
4 per Cent. 8744 44
S per Cent. Navy 102% 10$
Bank Leong Annuities 1111/4 •
India' Bonds 14s. pc. •
New Annuities 68- '
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 2s. 3s. pr.
Consols for Acct. 6844 K.

We are greatly concerned to learn that the disturb-
ances which have lately taken place atDewsbury, Bat-
ley, and other places in Yorkshire, have been of so se-
rious k nature as to threaten the public peace., We learn
by our letters from that quarter, that not only at the
places above named, but at Heckmondwike, Hang-
ing-Neaton, and Churchill, bands of workmen have
way-laid journeymen working at what they call un-
der-prices, aad their employers, and done some of
them much flersonal injury. On Thursday evening
last a body of about two hundred attacked the pre-
mises of Messrs. Nitwit'. and Son, near Dewsbury,
and forced the workmen employed there to desist
from their, labours, by breaking the windows and
even beating in some of the window frames with
showers of stones.

So sudden are the movements of-these prirties,
that there is hardly a possibility of guarding against,
their attack's. In this respect, their operations are
npt unlike those of the bad men, who, some years ago,
under the name of Luddite:, perpetrated 'eo. many►
mischiefs in the counties of Leicestershire, Notting.
hamshire, and-Derbyshire ; and we greatly fear *tire'
the public quiet will not be restored till some of the
infatuated people shall have brought themselves to
the same ignominious end.
We have. always advocated the cause of the work-
ing classes, maintaining that their wages ought to be
competent at least to their sustenance ; but we al.'
ways have reprobated, and will continue to repro-
bate, such unprincipled proceedings as not only ex-
pose the property of individuals to destructidn, but
their persons and lives to danger, and tend to put the
public peace in jeopardy.

Blind and infatuated men ! can ye not see the
impolicy, the folly, the danger of listening to those
wicked individuals, by whom ye suffer yourselves to
be excited to such acts of Outrage and violence ?
Who will have coolness enough to attend to your just
claims, when they see you shut your own eyes to the
claims of common justice and humanity ? Who will
interest themselves in endeavours to have your mise-
ries mitigated, by securing for you the fair reward:
of industry, when they see you destroying the labours
of your fellow-workmen, with so little feeling for the'
privations to which you thereby subject them and
their helpless families ?
Avoid those wicked incendiaries who mislead you.

If you wish the Parishes, and the community gene-
rally, to interest themselves in such a manner, in fa.,
your of the working classes, as to secure for ese*ryi-
employed workman an adequate remuneration in'
wages, you are, by your conduct, doing every thing
in your power to harden their hearts against you, and
leave you, without either sympathy or aid, to the in-
terested mercy of your task-masters. Who can Continue
'to plead your cause, when you alarm every one for
their ern safety ?—when you break down those
mounds, which can alone preveht the mischiefs of an
overwhelming torrent of misrule, confusion, and de-
struction? Who tan defend your cause when you shew
yourselves so stupid, so worthless, and wicked? None!
It is impossible any one can ; for the first thing to
be looked after by all good men is public peace and
safety, and private security ; and those who daringly
violate these, or put them in danger, muselso dealt
with as an enemy. Do not deceive yourselves. Com-
miseration for your sufferings must not for a moment
stand in competition with public duty. While you
pursue your present lice of conduct, you place your-
selves in opposition (not to your employers—not to
your fellow-workmen, but) to every friend of justice
and humanity—to every one who loves order and
due subordination—to every well constituted and