Star.
London, England, 1819-07-19 00:00:00

DEWSBURY.

We have been surprised to read in the Leeds News-
papers of Monday and Thatidey last, (as copied in
the STAR of Saturdayl that The principal houses in
the Woollen Manufacture, at Dewsbury, had acceded
to the regulations al'itdiatiec of. price, andliiirnatioti
in quantity 'or 'wolf; th have-Been the -object*
sought for 411044 classes,,- in entering into
the " UniCnt,",etuX tbitill is now, trarrnony and peace.
These repiesenbitioes, we ham* the hist anihority for
saying, are,ektrernely at variance with the fact. So
far, frees'the differences iniiingheen' adjusted, the
combitiation.o' in full operation at, Dewsbury, and
has extended to the neighbOuring district of Heck-
Imondwike, Batley, &c. where the men have all struck
for an advance of wages. The whole of the blanket
trade is in consequence in a state of stagnation, and
" it remains to be Seen," says our correspondent," whe-
ther the prices demanded can be afforded to be given,
or whether this adiance will drive the trade to places
where the combination does not exist."—" The
sum demanded," he adds, " is an advance of about
10 per cent. on the manufactured goods ; and at the
former rate of wages, the workmen earned from IGs.
to 265. per week, for eleven hours work daily. In con.
sequence of this state of things, and the depressed si-
tuation of trade, Messrs. Halliley, Son, and Brook;
of Dewsbury, the largest Blanket 'Manufacturers in

-England, have resolved to shut up, their Mill ; and
at the close of the present week they will finally
peed their operations,•"

We learn that the object of the a.bove-ntentione,
" Union" is Ist, to advance the price of labour—an
2dly, to ensure constant employment. And the met
proposed for effecting these objects are, Ist, to dim;
nish the hours of labour—and 4dly, to restrict th
weekly earnings of the workmen, to a sum not e,
ceeding from a guinea to Lis. a-week. This sum,;
is supposed, would, at the advanced prices, be th,
tamed by eight hours labour in a day, and the sa;
ply of goods, the projectors imagine, would, in cs
sequence, be reduced to a level with the de mar,
whereby better prices would be obtained both in 4
home and in foreign markets.—Leeds Mercury.

WAKErtELD.

Monday evening, some Radical Reformers tnet,
the Elephant and Castle, Wakefield, for the pecfmed
object of deciding upon the propriety of hold:n,
Public Meeting in that place. The number of the.
assembled was contemptible, to say nothing of ti
characters and situation in life. Mr. Petre appe
amongst them, but a violent disagreement of opinic
taking place between him and some others of thei,
Reformers, the Meeting broke up after a warm alter,
cation, without settling any of the objects for whit
it had been called. A vote of censure was pas*4
upon several persons, as tinsrljaced cowards, for net
making their appearacce amongst them. As fax;
the evidence of this Meeting may be relied upon,'
cause of these•Nßa‘lical Reformers has yet made b:
little progress in Wakefield.

ef ANC litST F. It, JULY 17.

c, A deputation from the Female Reformers
Blackburn, paid a visit to this town on Nlonclayla.
They paraded different parts of the town, but par
cularly the neighbourhood of Newtown, in them
tume which made such an impression on the la
Blackburn Meeting. They afterwards attended
Meeting of Female Reformers, at the Union Rom
in George-Legh-street. We are informed that
this Meeting, Mrs. I—, Mrs. W—, and other ka.
dical Amazons, harangued the audience on them
topics, and at considerable length.—Might not tron
be better employed ?"

GLASGOW.

EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED RUT

" I have lately had an opportunity of seeing a:t
of the district returns, which are already made c.
respecting the state of the operative weavers, and
have made a few extracts for your information.
4. Anderston ha., 1042 looms ; of that nu%
them are 314 idle. There are also 335 harnesses
up ; thisreof coarse, has thrown idle as many dr,
boys, which, taking weavers, windeas, and draw-607i
together, the total idle will amount to nearly 700.
Ausierston alone.

" There are in the district of Clyde, Bell and
bago-streeth Calton, 570 looms ; and, from a I
correct return, there are of that number 132 idle,
the hands going about for want of work ; besi,
there are 29, whose gross earnings are between
and 7s. a-week ; 37 ss. and 6s. ditto ; 93 4s. and,
ditto ; 41 3s. and 4s. ditto ; 10 .`"N. and 3s. ditto.—
From the above gross earnings must be deduc:2,l
loom•rent, beaming and twisting, candle, &c. and
other items, which will average 2s. a-week thew:
round. Hence it must be evident that the net Ir
lance over is by no means adequ tte to provide ?
workmen in the most ordinary necessaries of life.
" Amongst the idle hands, there are many'
of families, who have no other means of suF
whatever but what arises from their industry; and
from that circumstance, I hope it will not so
your Readers when I state that they and their

lies are in a state of almost actual starvation ;
cases of extreme distress have come to my lo
ledge. There seems to be nothing doing to tel
the distress, though thousands be aboblutely starvi:
hunger is most urgent in its cravings, and words
not sooth it. Hunger, indeed, will make a man
and every one knows that, if a great many nu
were once to break loose, it is very hard to say
night be the consequences."

MEETING AT POLLOCKSHAWS, NEAR GLASGI

Last week a Public Meeting of the Inhabitant,
this place was held for the purpose of devising
plan for the support of the unemployed Wea,
One of the speakers stated, that he knew of famt
that had actually been withopt any thing to eat'
'some days. A Committee was appointed to take
the names of those who are idle, and ordered tp'
'pare a Meinorial upon the subject, and present
the Magistrates. It was directed that they shor.l4l
ticularly .press upon the consideration of the NlaE
trates the great number of Weavers who are r:erkiT
for no more than 4s. a week ; that out of 900 leer
70 arc entirely idle, with their proportion of %
and weft-winders ; that during the last twenty-0
years, every succeeding dullness has reduced
wages of the Weilters at least nine per cent.; tl
since the sweeping dullness of 1816, they have
struggling for a bare existence; and, lastly, the atr
lute necessity which exists of opening a vent fori
overstock of hands that produces such a depre,
in wages. •

WP.AVF.RS.
EXTRACT ruts A LETTER TO THE PRINTER Cr
MANCHESTER GAZETTE, SUBcCRIBED " A %lAN
cuesTEn, NIA NETACTERER."

- .
" if the present rate of wages is to he continued th:c
comir.g winter, how many thousands must be added te:':.
of th4Le ultcatly IV of work, whu Ire 'jut

not set bill matt. fiv is Informed, 01 T.:ttclay '
.olerwn, n ,the Let three weeks, has travelled.
tent part of Vottsbire, teat it is computed, that
;Inaiisani‘ men, women,. and children, ate nut ut
AI thousands of these are calico weavers, and can.
1 by their Wands and relatives, whose best ezer. ,
produ•:e more than frontlet," to sit shillings per
iapposed, on a moderate calculation, that, in 1..m-
-thouruid persons are in a similar situation with
re neighbours. Instead of keeping up the price of
waking two pieces in lieu of three, (in times like
met is eom?elled, from the low wages he receives,
re piece‘, and thus the markets are overstocked in-
. relieved by three filks less being produced. And
vatting actors in tats scene of commercial tragedy?
:mane: humane feeling? No: it is Mu men
11 ,crotch of small means anti long credit, and who,
t:JAI:eh and secure the gond ppinion of those
11-ve recourse to forcing sales week after week,
.isoence per piece from the weaver this time, and
woe, till the opulent manufacturer is compelled, in
tee, to act in the same way. Be it known to all
the honour of the Mmehester )isastacturera,
cing of %cages never commenced with them. They
ou their weavers, at the &Mt rate of wages, in
w.. 11 as good; but when the cotton manufactory
spread in different directions, and men of slender
.d ia it, a few flat months could not he got over
iezourft to the praeuces above alluded to."

oF WAGES NOF CAUSED BY DECLINE
OF TRADE.

rs that during the year 1816, the weekly
of cotton amounted to 6,650 bags per

that during the year 1817, the weekly

amounted to 7,650 bags, sheering an in:.
eAK) bags per week. And during the year

w;:ti;e,y consumpt►on amounted to 7,980
chewing an average increase of 330
week more than the preceding year.
to the Parlianuntary Iteturns,, %he Ex-.
iniaLed goods are as follows:
(Yeats ended als
1918. 1819. Increase.

£298,673 I £433,902 I 5135,229

.v on printed goods being aid. on the su-
square• yard, the above amount of duty
iat '2.080,434 yards were printed in 1818,
33,230 yards in 1619, being upw4rds of Alias
it yards more than the preceding.
it is evident that the gradual and systema.
ice of reducing the wages of labour, which
'ailed during the last three years, must not be
to a want of trade ; and it is difficult to
Lhat this great increase in the manufacture
ive been kept up for such a length of time, if
1 not tkeen a very extensive real denumd *nor•
rmerly. The question may be asked, Is it a
roue of circum•.:ances, or ► concurrence ofopi-
wag Cie wanufactureis, wlLch has brought
re w ages of weaving below the level of sub.

'day night Lord GiltAsaw.tat left town for
:e. Ills Lordship will travel with the greatest
ion till he reaches Boroughbridge, a distance
hundred miles. It is supposed that his Lord-
;one to take the command of his Yeomanry
in consequence of a Reform Meeting to be
Leal: this day.

sequence of an Official intimation from Load
irn, the Secretary of State for the Home De-
Sit, Earl FirzwlLLsass, the Lord Lieutenant
West Riding of Yorkshire, left Milton Abbey
arly part of last week, and has arrived at his
Yorkshire.

mentioned in oar Paper of Friday, I.b.pt the
Jury, at the Cheshire Quarter Sessions, had
True Bill of India:tient against Sir CHARLES
.EY and Mr. lIARRisos. The following is a
'thc Bill:

)1! THE BILL OF INDICTMENT AGAINST SIR
'II.IELES WOLEELEY AND MR. I4ARRISON.

ES/i/Re.—The Jurors of cur LOT d the King upon
;h present, that Sir C. Vi'oiseley, late of Stockport, in the
Chester, Bart. and J. I Larrison late of the same place,
bta, being persons of a turbulent and seditious dispo-
sviilk‘i:dly and maliciously devising, and intending to'
imult nd insurrection, both in this realm, on the 28th
int., in the 59th year of the reign of George 111. of the
4r.gdoms of Great Britain and Ireland King, at Stock-
;laid, in the said County, together with divers other
co the Jurors aforesaid unknown, to the number of 500
earth' with force and arms unlawfully did assemble and
together to disturb the public peace ; and being so assem-
ther, did, by seditious speeches and discourses, and by
Awful and dishonest means, then and there endeavour
and stir up the people of this realm to hatred and cots-
! the Government and Constitution thereof, as by law
-d, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws,
it example of all others in the like case Offending, and
he peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown, and
And the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid,
set present, that the said C. W. and J. H. fogither with
other persons to the Jurors afuresild unknown, on the
and year aforesaid, at Stockport aforesaid, in the said
with force of arms unlawfully did conspire, combine,
crate, and agree together, to disturb the public peace of
/dons, and to incite and stir up the people to hatred and
t of the Government aid Constitution thereof, as by
dished, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his
the evil example of all other's in the like case offend-
s:a:list the peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown,
it r. (Signed) " JOHN HOBNIS.
Proecentcr.

'MAC ROZIN*,UN, High Constable."
'roe Copy of an Indictment preferred and found agair.st
lea Wokeley, Hart. and Joseph Hani.on, Schoolmaster,
[tamer Sessims holden for the County of Chester, at
rd, on Tuesday, thei3th day of July, Isl 9.
;ned) " HENRY NOTTS, Clerk of the Peace."
Baronet was, in consequence, taken ipto cns-
immediately after the funeral of his mother,
►nvcyed to Knutsford. Major C4Litrwiticorri
Ipanied him. He was brought into Court about
Ist ten on Thursday morning, and pleaded
uilty. The Court then informed him that he
:hied to bail, and that they should require for
I:•carance two sureties in 250/. each, and himself
W. Bail not being at hand, he was ordered to
yiniitted tin he could obtain such sureties, who
►e resident householders in Cheshire. It is very ,
)1e Sir CHABLE, will remove the inquiry into
iperior Court, in which case the trial will come

on at the next Assize;. Sir CHARM!! is about forty:
five years of age, nearly five feat nine inches high.
The County of Chester being a Palatine, with Jura
Regalia and its own proper Exchequer, it is required
that the bail should have property tangible within
the jurisdiction of the Court. The Baronet has, we
understand, since found the bail required, and re-
turned with the venerable Major to Wolseley Hall,
Parson HARRISON is not yet in custody.
There are already six thousand Special Constables
sworn-in before the Aldermen of the City of London,
to preserve the peace of the Metropolis on Wednes.
day next. The arrangements made at the Office of
the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for
the same purpose, are on a most extensive scale.

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