Star.
London, England, 1826-12-26 00:00:00

FURTHER OUTRAGES AT OLDHAM.

We regret to state that another most audacious and
violent outrage has been committed by the turn-out
spinners in the neighbourhood of Oldham, under cir-
cumstances more extraordinary even than those of the
acts of violence we have already enumerated. About
a fortnight ago, the spinners of Mr; Daniel Nield, of
Shaw Edge, about two miles from Oldham, demanded
an advance of wages, which Mr. Nield refused to give,
alleging that he gave as much as the other masters in
the neighbourhood, and could not afford to give more.
The men, not satisfied with these reasons, left him in a
body ; and Mr. Nield, not being able, from the system
of intimidation resorted to by the turn-out spinners to
procure other spinners, set several of his own children
to work upon part of the mules, and was thus enabled
to keep those machines, and part of his other machinery,
in employment. The turn-outs, however, the very men
who, a year or two ago, were complaining that they
were precluded by the Combination Laws from having
a fair market for their labour, did not, it seems, choose
to arow a man to employ his own sons and daughters
as he pleased; for on Tuesday evening last several hun-
dreds of them assembled at a public house at Green-
acres Moor, and of these, sixty or seventy proceeded
to Mr. Nield's factory, into which a number of them
forced their way ; some of whom secured the door of
the card-room, which is on the ground floor, whilst
others went up the staircase into the spinning rooms, and
there abused every person they found, and drove them
all from their wark. They more particularly ill-used
the piecers, in order, we suppose, to deter them from
-coming again to their work ; threatening, if they did
so, that they (the turn-outs) would return, and treat
them so that they could not work. The greater part
of the men who went into the mill were armed
with bludgeons; and all the workpeople who did
not make their escape another way, were obliged
to go down the staircase, and face the crowd of
turn-outs at the door, where they had to run the
gauntlet, and were very severely beaten. Besides
ill-treating the hands, the turn-outs did some damage
to the machinery, and several lighted candles were
thrown under the mules, and left blazing on the floor.
In their retreat from the mill, they took great precau-
tions to prevent any one from recognizing them. Se.
veral persons who were in the road with lights, were
ordered to extinguish them ; and one person, who did
not readily obey the mandate, was pelted with stones,
but fortunately did not sustain any injury. We are
sorry to add, that these precautions were but too suc-
cessful ; none of the rioters having been identified,
either by Mr. Nield's workpeople, or by the people
of the neighbourhood. On the following night, ano-
ther outrage was committed by some of this party,
on the person of a man employed by Messrs. Col-
linge and Lancashire. lie was sitting in his house,
after the mill had stopped, when seven men, armed
with bludgeons, suddenly entered, one of whom
immediately commenced striking him about the head.
upon which the man seized the fire poker, and by its
assistance, together with loud cries of murder, he suc-
ceeded in getting quit of the men, but not until he had
received some severe blows.—Manchester Guardsan.

At a General Ordination of the Lord Bishop of Cut-
CHESTER, held in the Cathedral Church of Chichester,
on the 21st inst. the following were ordained :
PRIEST/S.—David Robinson, M.A. Queen's College, Oxford;
Richard Green, B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Henry
John Eliman, S.C.L. Wadham College, Oxford; John William
Henry Marshall, B.A. St. John's College. Cambridge; Thomas
Hornby. B.A. Christ Church, Oxford; Edward Langdale, 13. A.
Jesus College, Cambridge; Nath. Best, B.A. Balliol College, Ox-
fbrd ; Thomas Moore Foskett, 13. A. Exeter College, Wend ; Jar.
P. Rhoades, B.A. Wadham College, Oxford; and Wm. Hall, St.
Peter's College, Cambridge.
DILACONS• Henry Fearun, B. A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge;
Cecil James Green, B, A. Pembroke College, Cambridge; George
Wells, B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford; William Sergison, B.A.
Brasen-note College, Oxford; John Littler, M.A. St. Peter's
College. Cambridge ; and Charles Hardy, B.A. Christ's College,
Cambridge.
Sunday se'nnight, the Archbishop of York ordained 14 Priests
and 15 Deacons. at his Chapel, Bishopthorpe.
The Earl of Oxford has presented the Rev. William Bowne
of Kentchurch, to the Perpetual Curacy of Kenderchurch, Here-
fordshire; vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr. Griffiths.
The Bishop of London has presented the Rev. Thomas Atwood,
M.A. Trinity College, to the Perpetual Curacy of Hammersmith.