Lord Wharncliffe writes to the Tunes to describe the precautions
• taken by the magistrate to prevent further rioting at Thorncliffe, the seat of Messrs. Newton, Chambers, and Co.'s mining works, now a scene almost of civil war. On the evening of Friday, the 21st, the day of an attack on the works, in which the houses of the non-unionists were wrecked and their clothing destroyed, he sent fifty men of H.111's 22nd and two officers to the spot, and on the 24th fifty more, now lodged in the Workman's Hall, Chapellton. The long street of two miles is therefore effectually protected, and the non-unionists so far safe, but Lord Wharncliffe cannot even imagine how long the troops will have to remain. The difficulty now is, we imagine, that if the Unionists yield there is no place for them, as Messrs. Newton cannot desert the new men who have risked so much. The whole affair is one more argument for those Courts of Conciliation which alone can prevent workmen from thinking every reduction of wages an unnecessary attack upon their comfort. This is, we believe, their real effect, that men and masters alike are heard by impartial on-lookers, and' so come to understand one another.
