The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-26 00:00:00

CARDIFF.

SUNDAY, HALF-PAST SEVEN, A.M.—The excitemen
continues to increase here, and accounts are reaching us
hourly of the unsettled state of the hills. The magistrates
are on the alert, and are making every preparation to put
down the disturbances which it is very evident they antici-
pate. Much alarm has been created by.these movements,
and several families have left the place for Bristol and else-
where. The magistrates have obtained the presence of an
additional company of soldiers, and expresses have been sent
for further military aid. As I told you in my last, it was
determined to go to Dowlais ; and accordingly the miners
and colliers met to the number of about 1,600 or 1,800, in
the square ; and; a man named Miles having been called to
preside over them, they marched two-and-two to Dowlais
Great Pond, to meet the workmen belonging to the Rhymny
and Tredegar Works, whom they expected to join them.
Mr. Homfray, of Tredegar, and the proprietors of the
Rhymny Works, fortunately succeeded in preventing their
workmen from joining the mob, which consisted of the
workmen at the Cyfartha and Plymouth Works, together
with some from the Pen-y-Darren Works (Mr. Alderman
Thompson's). After remaining about Dowlais for some
hours, the mob returned to Merthyr between two and three
o'clock ; and Miles having addressed them, and appointed
another meeting for six o'clock in the evening, at Penrylge-
reg, on the mountaid, Mr. Crawshaw, with a view to the
putting an end to the disturbed state of the town, and to
prevent the meeting on the mountain, sent the public
town-crier round to summon a meeting of the workmen in
his employ who were inclined to go to work, to meet him
and his agent. At the appointed hour, about 1,300 of his
workmen met him ; and, after his addressing them on the
impropriety of their conduct in leaving their work, a large
number promised to return to their work in the morning.
It was thought that this course would have restored order,
and would have been the means of preventing the meeting on
the mountain. Much, however, to the surprise of the
authorities, a very large meeting was held on the mountain
at the very time that Mr. Crawshay was addressing the
meeting in the town, the mountain meeting being swollen
by numbers of workmen from Aberdare. At this meeting
much indignation was expressed at, and threats were held
out to any who might return to their work. It was resolved
that they should to-morrow apply to the relieving officer,
and demand relief ; that the market this day should not be
disturbed •, and it was stated, that, if the government could
not now be overturned, the state of the country would be
ten times worse than over ; and that, if they withdrew from
the banks, in gold, all their deposits for clubs, &c., and
resolved not to go to work until the people's charter became
the law of the land, they would be sure of success. It was
also resolved to hold another meeting on the mountain at
four o'clock on Saturday.
Groups of idlers haie been parading the streets all the day;
and already they have begun to make forcible demands for
bread, &c., in the outskirts of the town.
The announced meeting was held on the mountain at four
in the afternoon, when not fewer than between 2,000 and
3,000 of the workmen assembled ; there were also several
women present. They determined on not returning to
work, and on preventing the others who were willing from
doing so. They also agreed that their emissaries should
induce the puddlers not to light the fires on Monday morn-
ing, which would (if they were successful) effectually put a
stop to every kind of labour at the works.