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Sidebottem, ao auctioneer, recommended that they should
go to the masters and ask for the wages of 1840, but they
hissed him down ; there were many navigators present from
the Sheffield and Manchester Railway. Booth said they were
in great distress, but they might do if they chose as the
Mayor of Stockport said, "Go to the stores and help I
em-
selves." He said he did not advise them so, but when a
great man like the Mayor of Stockport said, so they might
please themselves. A rush was then made towards a pro-
vision shop, but one of the navigators stopped them.
Witness saw a large crowd the same day at the rail-

Rit none of the de-

ttended a meeting
nd Cartledge

way, and a great noise was made,
fendants were there. On the 14th I
on Mottram Moor, when Wild, Candle
were present. Wild recommended the meeting to be true
for the Charter, and gave notice for two other meetings,
one for Wednesday, when they would go in procession to
Manchester. Was at a meeting on Mottram Moor, on the
15th, when John Leech and Moorhouse were present. Leech
spoke, and alluded to the large sums of money which it took
to support the Queen,which, he said, came out of the pockets
of the poor, and requested them to remain true until the
Charter became the law of the land. Attended a meet-
ing at half-past seven o'clock the following evening. Saw
Booth and Moorhouse there. Booth spoke, and also read a
large placard, which spoke of the expen-e her Majesty was
to poor people, and what large quantities of wines and spirits
she drank, what large numbers of sheep, lambs, and fat ouen
she eat, and that she cost the poor peopyearly £160,000.
Moorhouse gave notice of a meeting the following morning,
which I attended. Moorhouse was chairman, and Landlet,
John Leech, and Booth were rresent. An excavator got on
to the waggons, and said he wished them to turn out, and, in
five minutes, all the navigators would be out. A man, who
said he was a delegate from Manchester, next spoke, and said
he was sent to inform the people of Hyde that the delegates
assembled were 340 for the Charter and 18 against it, for the
scale of wages of 1840, and all the middle and higher classes
were for the Charter, except the steel-hearted manufacturers.
[The Queen's proclamation was then put in, which warned
the people from holding or attending illegal meetings.]
Witness continued.—He said Candlet next atidressed the
meeting, and said he did not care a straw for the Queen's pro-
clamation which be read. In eight days' time bayonets
would be of no use, for delegates were going about turning
all out except the millers and reapers ( f corn, but, in fact,
they were all nearly out, then what would be the use of the
military or special constables. But as he must be in Man-
chester by nine o'clock, he must conclude by telling them
that, as he was in the hall last night, Mr. Beswick, superin-
tendent of police, came in, and said, in the present disturbed
state of the town, and tbat then magistrates came iu and
gave them ten minutes to disperse, but in five minutes they
were all gone, and he exhorted them to continue true for the
battle was partly won. John Leech next addressed them,
and said he_ was a member of the Great National Conference,
but he had to meet M'Douall at eleven o'clock, and he would
bring him to Hyde, and in eight weeks' time they would have
a fixed rate of wages. and the charter would be the law of
Johnseven in
Leech t h e
was evening. ning
the land. Attended a meeting on the 13th, at half-past
Moorhouse
ledhoruasiewasiii
againstt shopkeepers,bechair,and
present.iV He
and told bow much money had been spent by the spinner's
union, and not one penny for the charter. He said—does
not my friend from Glossop tell you that there are plenty of
persons well armed in Glossop-dale with bludgeons, and
what would the police and red-coated gentry do then ?
Nothing. He would continue to agitate, for the aristocracy
of this country was bad, and without alteration it would be
worse. During all this time the mills about Ashton and
Hyde were standing still. The placard, headed " from the
executive council,' was posted from the 14th to the 19th
of August, and ordered it to be pulled down.
Cross-examined by Mr. F. O'Connor.—l did not produce
the book at the time Moorhouse was before the magistrates.
The witness explained that the reason was, they were obliged
to remove the prisoners immediately from Hyde to Stock-
port, and the magistrates went over there and committed
them. Never heard of there being any distress in Ashton or
the neighbourhood. After Leech left the town on the 20th
there was no more disturbance. Leech said he was going to
Manchester as a delegate, and to see M'Douall, but he did
not say anything about what occurred at the meeting on the
16th. There was an interleneation in the book respecting
the transactions on the 7th Anont, whit h witness stated he
had made on the day after the entry in the book. John
Leech lived at Hyde, and took an active part in all political
questions, but witness did not know that Leech was a stren-
uous opponent of the Anti-Corn-Law League.
The witness was then cross-examined by Mr. DUNDAS at
some length respecting some alterations which had been made
in the book, from which he read a rep drt of the proceedings
at the meetings he had spoken of, but, with one exception, he
swore to having made the alterations either the same day or
the following morning.
The Court then adjourned at twenty minutes past five into
the Crown Court, where his lordship disposed of two or three
criminal cases.

THURSDAY.
This morning, at nine o'clock, Mr. Baron ROLFE took his
seat on the bench ; and, shortly afterwards, the Right Hon.
Sir James Graham, who is subpcened by Mr. O'Connor as
a witness, entered court and took his seat on the bench.
Mr. O'Connor renewed his application for all the witnesses
to be out of court except the one under examination, as many
had that morning arrived, and were not aware of the order
made the previous day; he, however, did not wish this to
extend to the Right Hon. Secretary for the Home Depart-

went.
The examination of the witnesses was then resumed by
the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who called
Joseph Saddler, police-officer at Stockport, who spoke to
the facts which occurred in that town on the 11th of August;
and the Governor of the Workhouse spoke to the attack on
that building on the same day, when some food and money
were stolen, and the windows and doors were shattered.
William Morris, stated, that, at the meeting in Stockport,
on the day mentioned, Dr. Doyle and John Leech were an-
nounced as speakers. Resolutions were put to the people
wetber they would cease working until they got an advance
of
wages or until the Charter was carried, and the latter was
adopted.
James Carrington said he was present at the meeting at
Marple, on the 15th August, and saw Doyle present. A per-
son named Taylor was in the chair. Doyle spoke, and ad-
vised the people not to work until they got the Charter.
After the meeting the mob moved on, and witness deposed to
several outrages committed by them on the way. He was
cross-examined by Mr. Connor, and stete I that great com-
plaints were made about the reduction of wages.
Abraham Longson, one of the Siockvor:. police, was Prend
-
sent at a meeting in Waterloo-road, on the 15th Angust
b, a
the witness deposed to much violent languag used y theeece
defendant Pilling, and several other speakers, with ref
to wages and the Charter. Joseph Damson and Wright
was present, the latter was elected a delegate.
at a Witnesmeet-
s
then read his notes of a speech made by Wright,
ing of the 17th, complaining that he could not find the de-
legates in Manchester for some tine, because their meetings
were dangerous. The meeting was concluded for the wages
and the Charter."' The witness deposed to other smaller
meetings, and the speeches of different defendants.
On cross-examination, witness said Ite.wrote his notes
from memory, and could carry a speech of three-qtlittlers of
an hour long in his bead.
John Robinson Scott, another Ableconstae, deposed to violent
language made use of by defendants,
at different meetings, Taylor was appointed a delegate. The
meetings were in favor of going for the Charter, and nothing
but the Charter. Hoyle, at another meeting, said there was
a majority of the delegates of 200 to 50, who were resolved
to go for the Charter, and not alone on the wages question.
Witness read at great length his notes of various speeches.
Silvester Faraday, another police-officer, saw 2,000 people
enter Bacup on Thursday, the 12th of August, armed with
sticks, who stopped the mills, and turned ont the hands.
They called on them to come out in a menacing way, and
brandished their sticks. The mob then went about the town
demanding provisions. Saw the executive address posted on
the walls on Saturday, 20th August.
Wm. Bently, police-constable, Rochdale, saw the executive
address posted there on the 17th. The hands turned out on
the Ilth, and the Queen's proclamation was issued on the
15th. The hands returned to work on the 20th:
James Buckley, of Stalybridge, deposed to various par-
ticulars of the meeting on Mottram-moor on the 7th of
mAuganr
rte,
aadlraeardeysnglinvtieonnintoevoideenecffect Mthoaotrthhoeupsee,ntphle should chair-
give over work till they had got a fair day's vvages for a fair
leit:eqsiserns.teee's,
day's work, also till the Cbarter was the law of the land.
gmteheetiinrg
held
John Leach, John Crossley, and Wm. Stevenson spnookevioin.
favour of the resolution. Robert Wild, of Mottram, was
and
there. The witness then described the stopping of
various
6 Ait-
gates. The
mvmeoinl
blese
wentawt
was
sS tuatsoleydbDr; i
adakgneedn,
fitbbeuel
dtr,e
set
nxh except ey pbt
rak
Ashton,
on their wa
stopped all the mills. They created alarm by runo from
y
kplianc,ectornpslsalceey,, sahnodutipn
after-
wards. Aitkin blackguarded the people for d •
igllinangdadbdrarensdsiedhian
doing as they
had done. Witness then described other proceedings of the
mob in stopping mills. Crossley interfered to prevent some
lads breaking down the door of a factory.
The trial was proceeding when our parcel left Lancaster.

ORDINATION AT CHESTER ON SUNDAY

DEACONS.
Oxford.

Charles Kilshaw Dean, B.A
Joh n Riga, B.A .
Charles Wilson Heston, B.A
Cambridge.

Queen's College.
New Inn Hall.
Jesus College.

Jonathan Appleton,B.A - Catharine Hall.
Thomas Masse Catharine Hall.
Massey • •
Philip Thompson, B.A Catherine Hall.
Wm. Ashforth Cartledge, B.A St. John's College.
William Clayton Green, B.A Clare Hall.
Lingham, 8.A...
Samuel Gideon Fred. Parry, B.A Trinity College.
Thomas Crossland, B.A. Sidney Sussex Coll
JCohhanrle Fentimans John Graham
Graham Jones, B.A Clare Hall.

Dublin

John Jervis, B.A Trinity College.
Robert Francis Jones Shea, M. A Trinity College
Gust. Adolph. G. T. Warner, B.E Trinity College
St. Bee's.

William Hughes,
Thomas Sabine
Richard White

St. Bee's
St. Bee's
St. Bee's

PRIESTS

Cambridge.
Henry Briant, B.A. ................ Queen's College.
Hugh Johnson Hindlev, S.C.L ..... Queen's College.
David Shaboe, B.A. ............... . . Queen's Col
Queen's Coll egelege.
Edward Whitley, B.A . Catharine H
............. .
Matthew Isaac Finch, B.A .......... all.
John Griffith, B.A. ................ Christ's College.
Vicesitnus Lush, B.A. .............. Corpus Christi Col
John W. McKinley Millman, 8.A... St. John's College.
George Henry Stevens, B.A. ....... John's College.
.. Trinity College.

John Richardson, B.A.

Durham.
University College
Edwin Clennell L.Blenkinsop ...
St. Bee's, '
Michael Heron Maxwell ...... . ..... St. Bees.
____...—.............—.

•••••
Cape of Good Hope papers to the 25th December have ar-
rived, and they contain the fact of the passing by the legisla-
ture of an act for tbe construction of a hard road across the
Cape Flats, to communicate with Table Bay. For this con-
venience the colonists are to be taxed ; and not only against
this, but also against the construction of the road itself on
the principle about to be adopted, have memorials been pre-
ef aPbaar t-
pared. Should these prove unavailing, the threat is held out
of an appeal to the borne government on the subject. Thus
are the people of the Cape at variance about the carrying out
so clamorous,
and which they have so often pressed upon the attention of
of a project for which they have all along been
placecali
foonah thee
Ifrontierp c ci
a i
tom
oi n
in
p thelTaint
n t shapeon
parliament as a boon that would increase their social condition
and comfort. No news had been received from Natal, and
tbo
of the settleas. The distress in Caffreland, the result
late destructive drought, was extreme, but n of the
rnigtinhainlgagbgardestasioknento
nevertheless 'n
subordination had not been manifested, and the • I '
the sufferers is represented as highly exemplary. Patience of
been administered from the funds of the
rains bad fallen in the neighbourhood of Albany, there - ''
la cialindu ,_ Were
boundary! and thereby in a nu once eepond the
of the native population. allure alleviate the auff •
ennge
• t