Star.
London, England, 1829-08-19 00:00:00

STOCKPORT, AUGUST 13.

The long and distressing turn-out of our operatives
still continues partially. The spinnerb seem u determined as ever
not to return to work at the reduced rate of wages. It is otherwise
with the dressers and weavers. The spinners have funds from which
each receives a few shining' weekly ; the other two branches have
none • consequently all the weavers and dressers who can obtain
employment are gone to work. There are vast numbers of these
who cannot meet with employment, and their distress is, in many
instances, as great as human nature can sustain. In many of the
mills, where all the spinners are at work, more dressers and wea-
vers could be employed ; but it appears, that so binding are the
conditions of the masters combination, that no one is to be em-
ployed who has not a discharge from his last employer; and this
is almost universally refused to those who turned out against the
reduction. We know one person of acknowledged good chancier,
very superior intellect, and an excellent workman, who, upon ap-
plying to his employer for his work again, was told that none in
their employ had been more highly esteemed than he • but as be
had been amongst the turn-outs, he should neither be employed
in this town nor in any of the surrounding towns ; and that he
might, with his family, leave the town and country as soon as he
pleased. These facts, we learn, with scores of a similar kind, will
be proved in the place where they ought to be known. How are
starving families, who have not means to emigrate from one parish
to another, to leave the country? Is it to be borer, that em-
ployers should have power, whenever a man or woman refuses to
comply with their conditions, to inflict the punishment of perpe-
tual banishment upon them? To banish • few and starve others,
are means too desperate to be adopted for the purpose of terrifying
people, by example, to submit in future to reductions of wages.
Absolute hunger, and hope cut off, will drive the sufferers to that
desperation which is stronger than the terrors of death—a state in
which they can neither reason nor be reasoned with. It is in vain,
after we have, by attempting to starve people by wholesale, pro-
voked acts of madness and indiscriminate cruelty, to attach all that
Marna to the victims, which is chiefly attributable to the tormentors.
One extraordinary anomaly is worthy of attention in the history of
this contest of masters and operatives ; while the starving or expa-
triating conspiracy just described exists in unconquerable or unop-
posed vigour, some operatives are to be brought before our Magis-
trates this day (Thursday) on a charge of conspiring and attempting
to induce other operatives to leave the town—.a town where hun-
dreds can obtain no employ I AU these lamentable and remorseless
animosities, which distract us, were produced by,thc Hyde manu-
facturers. The masters of Stockport are saints to them ; nor Is it
to be doubted, that nearly all of which we complain was batched
there. Shortly after the repeal of the combination laws, which very
few masters here regretted, the masters of Hyde took the alarm ;
met at the White Bear Inn, and formed a combination; the object
of which was never lost sight of, till, by underpaying their hands,
and underselling our manufacturers and others, the latter began to
think eta remedy ; to accomplish which, they unfortunately con-
nected themselves with the Sons of Mammon at Hyde, site. Never
till then was there a document for the relinquishment of liberty pre-
sented to our operatives to sign; nor a system adopted for the pro-
scription and bani,binent of operatives, who disoblige any of the
combined employers: never was them a book for that purpose
printed and kept amongst masters, containing the names of thou-
sands, who. by these means, were compelled to return to the em-
ployers they had left with due notice. We hope the particulars
will not make any of the Hyde masters angry, because we have
them from a gentleman who was at the meeting.--Menckater and
Seford.ideoreieer.

The Marquis of DOU RA eldest son of his Grace the
Doke of Winans:ow, has joined the depot of the 60th Regiment,
of which he Is Captain, in Portsmouth.
ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.—A. Mimi:imn, of Sainte-
Caloasbeles Vienne, in France, has recently, while digginfoun-
datives In some part of his ed. diwoverd several interesting
Roman relics. Among than were two hathing-rowns, beautifully
ggspg.up with white marble, and pipes of baked ear* to convey
tbe beat. It is presumed that these remains belonged to a mag-
seam residence, which was pillaged and destroyed dialog an
option of the barbarians of the North. Near the same spot Mtflt
end several fragments of statues, of ergulake workmanship, and
write states 01 HYPO, io the Aseet style of Greek sotaftare,
Ramer than life. . .