the exception of a conflict at Priory mill, betwixt the turnouts and the police, arising from a forcible attempt; being made to enter the factory, the day passed over without any serious breaches of the peace, the manu- factories in the easterly part of the town remaining at work till the usual time in the evening. The magistrates found it necessary to take instant measures for the preservation of the peace: a great number of special constables were sworn in as quickly as possible, and a detachment of the First Dragoon Guards arrived from Manchester. Although the Oldham turnouts resumed work the following day, they held an open air meeting the same evening on Curzon-ground, and suffered themselves to be prevailed upon by a number of agitators from Ashton, to pass resolutions pledging the operatives to cease working until the same rate of wages was paid as was customary in 1840. In pursuance of these extraordinary resolutions, the turnouts assembled at an early hour on the 10th of August, and by visiting all the factories throughout the surrounding country, in formidable and menacing array, succeeded in obtaining for a time, a general cessation from labour. This singular movement rapidly extended through all parts of the manufacturing district, and for several weeks nearly every description of manual occupation was abandoned, under the delusive hope that by such proceedings the condition of the operatives would be effectually amended. Large open air meetings, conducted in the most peaceable manner, were held in the mornings and evenings of each day, at which numerous operatives delivered their opinions on the alleged wrongs of labour, and the various proposed remedies, social and political, for effecting such changes as were deemed desirable. On the 15th of August, a vast majority of the tuinouts resolved to cease working until they had obtained a complete radical reform of the House of Commons. On the 17th of the same month, a number of horse and foot soldiers from Manchester were quartered in the town for a few hours in aid of the civil