Star.
London, England, 1818-09-11 00:00:00

MANCHESTER.

Order and regular habits, we are happr to Say,
may be considered as again established in Manche*
ter.-'thanks to the unceasing labours, constant per-
severance, and considerate attention of the Magis-
trates ; whose zeal and prudence cannot be too highly
estimated : and, mat we not add, thanks to the good
sense of the labouring class themselves, whose better
principles, inducing them to listen to the good coun-
cils of those who laboured to turn them from evil,
have at length prevailed ?—But can we promise the
continuance of peace in that populous district? This
we think must now depend on the conduct of the
Employers. The people have returned to their em-
ployment, in the hope that the masters will take their
case speedily into consideration, and of themselves
make them a proper remuneration for their labours.
Is this to be measured by pitting the labourers
against each other on a descending scale of wages ?
—There is a minimum below which regular wages'
cannot descend. The labourer is worthy of his hire;
but he is defrauded when attempts are made to pay
him with less than is necessary for his sustenance. In
every such ease the man must either waste out his
existence, and descend into a promotive glavey or
others Must support him ; but neither of these, can
be endured by the community.

We pretend not to ascertain what is the minimum
of wages that may support the workman, but, what-
eves that may be, his wages should never be lets,
because he cannot live on less, without either stealing
or becoming a burthen to his neighbours. He should
enjoy every increase of wages produced by increased
demand for labour ; but when this demand ceases,
' and a reduction necessarily follows, it should never
descend lower than the minimum necessary for his
sustenance. All profits derived from a farther reduc-
tion are a robbery of the workman, and an act of
injustice to the rest of the commud:ty.
We learn by some of our Private Letters that great
as have been the sufferin,ln of the workmen, abso-,
lute want of means to subsist any longer has not been
the cause of their return to employment. They have
had no less a sum than four thousand five kindred
pounds transmitted to them from various societies of
workmen throughout the kingdom ! In consequence
some of them still continue to hold out, and pa-
rade the streets of Manchester in small patties.--
-In fact there is at this moment a difference among
them as. to the best means to be pursued to obtain
what they call justice from their employers. The
majority, influenced by the good counsel given. to,
them by the Magistrates, and the hopes that The
masters will not delay to consider their case as soon
as the Factories resurae their operations, have resol-
ved to make the trial : while others are for persever-
ing with the present turn-out, till necessity—an abso-
lute want of labourers—compels the masters to accede

to such an increase of wages as may suffice for their

From present appearances; and the general feeling
of the majority, it is, we think, exceedingly probable
that a few days will restore perfect order. But will
it continue ? We fear not, if the Masters withhold
from the men such a remuneration for their labour

as the wants of nature imperiously deniand.--
Good use should be made of the present mo-
ments, and we doubt not that those worthy indi-
viduals whose interference and advice to the work-
men have produced such a happy result, and who
must be well acquainted with every past of the
case, will have equal reason to congratulate them •
selves on the effects which their counsel may produce
cm the Employers. Should their advice fail to in-
duce the Masters to accede to what reason and just
principles may recommend, the present returning
quiet will, we fear, prove to be only a temporary
cessation of a storm which, at no very distant period,
may again break forth with greater fury :

PRIVATE LETTERS.
MANCHESTER, S

" I am happy to state, that since I last wrote, the
town and its vicinity have remained perfectly tran-
quil. Most of the principal Manufacturers, both in
this and the neighbouring towns, have agreed to
advance the wages of the Weavers ; and, in conse-
quence, by far the greater part of that useful and in•
dustrious body have resumed their labours. A sub-
scription has been set on foot, for the relief of those
whose employers refuse to increase their wages,
and who are consequently still compelled to remain
inactive.

" This morning the Spinners belonging tO the ex-
tensive factory of T. Ilouldsworth, Esq. M.P. went
again to their wonted labour, as did those of Messrs.
Greenway, and some others, after having been idle
upw‘akds of fourteen weeks ; and it is generally sup-
posed that by Monday next, the great body of them
will have resumed their labour. No positive pro-
mise of any specific advance has been made to them,
but they have gone in under an implied understand-
ing that their grievances are to be taken into early
consideration by their employers, and something done
to meet their wishes. Should this not be the case,
there is too much reason to fear another and a more
obstinate struggle, at no very distant period ; for, in
the present instance, they have been compelled to
succumb through their want; and, with Shakes-
peare's Apothecary they may individually exclaim—.
' It is my poverty, and not my will,' which forces me
to yield.
.. It is to be hoped that the masters generally will

1:4 guided by a mare liberal spirit tovrards those they
employ, and thus p 1 eat a recurrence of Abase scenes
which have outraged gad disgraced both this and
other parts of the kingdonf. The Game is only smo-
thered, and may be rekindled wfth greater fury, if
the expectations of these deserving dusts are not in
some measure realized. Nothing sickens and irri-
tates the human mind so much as hope too long de-
land. lam informed, that a general turn-out of the'
Weavers and Spinners throughout this and the neigh-
bouring counties, as well as all the manufacturing
towns between this and Kendal, was arranged for
Monday next; but in consequence of what has taken
place here, the measure, I am happy to say, has been
adjourned sine die.

" Every precaution is taken here to preserve the
public peace. Parties of Police officers and Military
parade the town and its outskirts ; and, in addition
to the 6th Carabineers, 13th Dragoons, and 95th
Foot, in our barracks, large bodies of Military are
stationed at all the towns in the vicinity.—Most de-
voutly do I hope that all this military array may
prove useless I"

ANOTMER LETTER-SAME DATE.

gs An attempt was made .n Wednesday morning,
by about thirty of the most turbulent of the Tune-
'of*, to prevent Mr. Gray's Spinners from returning

to their employment ; but, by a spirited resistance
on the part of the Spinners themselves, the assailants
were not only foiled in their attempt, but three of
their most active leaders, Jose:, natant, and Brog-
an, were seized. They were immediately carried
before a Magistrate, and there being no want of evi-
dence, they were, for want of bail, committed to
prison, for a violent assault upon Thomas Williams
and others.

" Our town begins to assume an aspect of coming
tranquillity, and the police officers are now able to
enjoy more repose than the arduous duties they have
been engaged in, night and day, for some little time
past, has allowed them. If no unforeseen events
take place, we may hope that the close of this week
will terminate all tumult and discordant sentiments
between the Spinners and their Masters.
" The aspect which this plaCe now presents, con-
trasted with the circumstances in which we have been
placed for many weeks, can hardly be described.
Indeed it cannot be conceived but by those who have
experienced what it is to be placed for a long period
in a state of constant alarm and apprehension. No-
thing can exceed the sensations now produced by the
change of scene. The countenance of every one you
meet exhibits feelings of satisfaction, and, as it were,
mutual congratulation : nor is this confined to the
working people only, whose privations during the,
struggle have been dreadful ; it pervades every class,
for there were feir intleed who seam free from they
pains produced by cruel forebodings of expected
mischief; the extent of which could be anticipated
by none."

Johnson' Drummond, and Balky, who were ap-
prehended at Manchester, and- taken to Chester,
traversed the indictments against them, and then put
off their trials. They were re-committed till they.
should find bail, themselves in E. 500 each, and two
sureties in £9OO, upon each indictment. Four more
persons were indicted,viz. War. Tempk, Chas. Bow't on,
John Gooch, and John Sevendak, w-ho also traversed,
and whose dials are consequently put off. Bail was
required, themselves in £2OO, and sureties in £lOO.
Edward Wynne has been committed to Lancaster
Castle for three months, for having combined, with
divers others, to raise their wages, they being em-
ployed as cotton-spinners.
Sunday, the 2Sd of last month, the ship Sophia
sailed from Guernsey, for the United States of Ame-
rica, with 90 passengers on board, all English artisans.
Friday last Thomas Potter, of Loughborough, in
the County of Leicestershire, frame-smith, was fully
committed by the Mayor for trial to Lancaster Castle,
for being about to go to America with machinery
for making bobbin or twist lace or net ; and six boxes
of machinery, of different sorts and uses, were seized
by the police.officers at the inn where Potter resided
in that town. Nine or ten other persons from Lough-
bro' and the neighbourhood, some of them artificers,
were about to embark ; but upon Potter's being taken
into custody, they all fled.

Lincoln's Inn Hall is now undergoing the tedious)
process of another repair. It was last year Gothicized,'
to assimilate with the adjoining Court of the Vice-
Chancellor. It is now to have a roof in the perfect anti-
Gothic stile, resembling that of an old English barn.
The fine Gothic portico, and the other decorations
of the Temple Hall are now completed, and, they are
ki.ifle2ly creditable to the taste of SMIRK; the architect.
bar reliff of the horse, the armorial distinction
of the Society, is admirably executed, possessing all
the vigour and spirit of the animal, as sculptured in
some of the Elgin Marbles.

At a Meeting of the Magistrates at Hickes Hall,
yesterday, Mr. Sugary was elected Surveyor for the
County of Middlesex.

CLaeninwELL Semiotic—Mr. Hunt attended the
Sessions House, at Clerkenwell, this day, in order
to try Mr. Dowling's indictment, but the practice
of the Court being, that if a Bill is found it cannot
be tried at the same Sessions, be pleaded, traversed,
and entered it first on the list, to be tried the first
day of next Sessions, which begins the 26th day of
October.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY.
ST. LEDGER STAKES.
4.5 to 20 eget. Reveller, (taken).
• to 1 apt. Getavisna (taken).
10 to 1 apt. Torchbearer.
11 to 1 agst. Tamborine (taken).
15 to 1 apt. Sister to William.
14 to 1 apt. Beggar Girl (taken).
20 to I apt. Lightning.
PA) to 5 ag%t. Lochhwar.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCL

PENZANCE, salralastn 19.
Sailei the DRAKZ and the DOLPHIN cutters, on
cruize. •

PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBgR 9.
Came in his Majesty's ship Cvays, from Ireland.
PMl's lOUTH,SEPTEMBERIa
Wind N.N.E.— Arriv ed the Gaitrox gun-brig,
from St. Helena; and the CONFIANCE, from a cruier.
The three Russian frigates, under the command cf
Commodore RATMANOIF, from Cronstadt,,bound to
Cadiz, last from the Downs, have anchored in St.
Helen's Roads...—Sailed the Morningfield, CAMERON,
for London ; and the Fortitude, AnrsTrn,- for Ems-
worth.—Came into harbour three colliers, from Sun..-

HARWICH, SEPTE:IIITI II 10.

Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the ship United Brothers,
MoticK, in ballast, from London to Frederickst4(ir,
having been on shore on the Shipwash Sand, and
was brought in here by two salvage smacks; also
the Prince of Orange packet, with a mail, &c. from
Holland ; and the Jane packet, with a mail, &c. from
Gottenburgh.
DOVER, SEPTICAIBER io.
Arrived this morning the Lord Duncan packet,
from Ostend, with a mail and passengers.—Sailed
this day the Lord Duncan packet. Captain HAIM,.
TON ; and the Leopold, Captain Roosts', for Calais,
with passengers.—Arrived in the Roads this day a
Dutch frigate from Port Mahon, bound to Flushing.

DEAL, SEPTEMBER to.
Wind N.—Remain in the Downs wind-bound, the
Generous Planter, THORP, from Jamaica. Arrived
and remain wind-bound, the Admiral Cockburn,
BRIGGS, from Bengal, Sm. Snake, WILLIAMS, from
the River Plate ; Ann, Brows, from North `Carolina.
Passed through the Downs his Majesty's ship PHASTON,
from Leith, for Portsmouth.—Came down from the
River and sailed, the Aldebaran, BORDEN, for Vir.
ginia ; Reward, REES, for the ,South• Seas ; and Sky-
Lark, POOLEY, for Sierra Leone.

GRAVESEND, SEPTEMBER 10.
Arrived the Sarah Margaretta, NichoLsw; Jane,Spenee; end
William, Milne, from Bremen ; Agnes, Smith, from Jersey;
Leda, Stewart, from the Cape; Activf., Langdoo, from Messina;
Amphitrite, Dawson, from Montreal; Nautilus, Adiand, from
Grenada; Marquis Wellington, —, from ditto: Neptune,
Borsley, from Cadiz; Oporto, Colley, from Oporto; Thais,
Appleby;from Tenerifre ;'and Ocean, Johnson, from Batavia.—
Sailed the Harriett, Skilless, for Demerara ; Ann, Bossier, for
Cadiz; Aurora, }latch, for Seville ; Annesley, —...., for Bout-
dean: ; Golden Grove, Steel, for Hambnrgh ; and a few others.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, SEPTEMBER 10.
8111/1 ENTZII4O LIIMMUIS.—The Louisa, Warmacher, from
Stettin; New Union, Hodges, from Jersey; General Alurray,
Allen, from Antwerp ; Prince of Sexe.Coboutg, 1,-old, from
Rotterdam ; Canadian Packet, Reimer, from Quebec ; 13erser.
Ladd, from Rotterdam; Jonge Martinius. De Mol, from Rut.
terdam ; . Wilhelmina, l'ickbreuner, from Rotterdam; Zephyr,
Lumsden, from Petersburgh ; Amity, Seagnll, froni Mend;
Britannia, Jackson, from Silver-Eel, Britnma, from Won
cum ; Betsey Caine,, Wilionfrom Gottenburg; Whitby, Scott,
from Quebec ; eraigie,Watson, from Riga; Mary, Smith, from
Archangel ; Vier Gebroeders, Prins, from Amsterdatit ; Vrovir
Petina, Mulder, from Rotterdam ; Virhildelsum, Aster ; Ann.
Scott; and Vier Gebroeden, De Vries, from Amsterdam; Lo-
rina, Ards, from Hamburgh ; Ewuretta, Prode, from Dittos
Straits; Joenge Isaac. De Waardt, from Antwerp; Hems,
lans, from Calais • Harlequin, Lee, from Jersey; Manor Sr,.
pns, from Ostend; Harmonic, Verioop, from Rotterdam ;
Henry. Kirton, from Archangel ; Lord Nelson Donkin, tom
Gottenburg; Vrow avenue, Vander Wosde,_ind View Sien
garotte, Pot, from Groningen ; Minerva, Masterman, from
Havre • Drie Gebroeders, Edits, from Groningen; Harmony,
Creswell, from Bremen; Albion, Sharp, from Archangel ; En-
terprise, Harnlyn, from Grenada; Furguson, Capps, from
Opurto ; Balfour, Gunson. front Tobago; Betsey and Ann,
Haigh, from Archangel; Symmetry, Yule, from Amsterdam;
George. Arle, from Calcutta ; Laurel, Jones, from —.— ;
Tae-
mas, Bell, front St. Vincent's; Kingston, Barlow, from Cal..
ante and the Capt of Good Hope; Fortitude, Man, and Bee,
Gibson, from Hamburgh.

Owrirease.--Jasper,-Gray, for Elsineur and S'. Petersburgb ;
Betsey, Evans, for Dublin; Lark, Boxer, for Rotterdam; 1.t..
nelope, Lucas, for —; Royal Eagle, Gibbs, for Lisbon;
Mary and Sally, Adams, for Gibraltar and Malaga; Etoik de
Matin, Le Roy, for Caen ; St. Antonius de Poke, Perak-
hove, for Antwerp ; Prince of Waterloo, Page, for Ostend;
and Denison, Harrison, for Elsineur and Peteraburgb.
LIVERPOOL, SEPTEMBER 9.
We have the melancholy task to record a most
dreadful catastrophe which took place last week on
our coast by shipwreck. The Sine, Captain N. DOAK,
sailed from this port on Monday last, for Boston,
having on board 34. passengers ; and on Thursday
night, about eight o'clock, struck on the Flatters, on
the Welch coast, near the Skerries Light-house, and
in about an hour the vessel went down, and 13 of the
passengers were drowned ; the rest of them and the
crew were saved by a pilot-boat which fortunately
happened to be nrar at the moment. Not a single
article either belonging to the ship or passengers was
saved. Amongst the passengers saved is a boy about
14 years of age, who has lost both his parents by this
distressing event. We have made every endeavour
to get a list of the persons lost, but the Captain does
not recollect the names of any of them, and the only
list which he had of them was on board the vessel.
The crew and passengers saved were afterwards put
on board the Mary and Sally, from Salem, and ar-
rived here on Friday. About ten o'clock on the night
previous to this fatal occurrence, the Sine run down
the brig Dash, from Bangor for London, when un-
fortunately three of the crew were drowned ; the
others (two) were saved by the Sine, and were on
board when that vessel was wrecked. Great praise,
'we are informed, is due to the people on board the
pilot boat, for their active exertions in rescuing the
:persons on board the Sine from their perilous situation.