A troop of the Seventh Hussars and First Dragoon Guards
reached Huddersfield on Sunday week, from Leeds Barracks, to he ready in case of an outbreak on Monday at the meeting of Guardians, the day ap- pointed for choosing Relieving-officers for the Union. A squadron of the Third Dragoon Guards from Manchester also arrived on Monday, on their route to Leeds, and remained over Wednesday, the day of the Chartists' meeting at 13errybrow ; so that the Hussars and First Dra- goons were relieved, and returned to Leeds on Tuesday. All external violence was suppressed.—Leeds Mercury. [The persons elected as Guardians of the Poor under the new law are all violently opposed to it.]
At midnight on Wednesday, about forty special constables assembled, by summons, at the White Hart Inn, Todmorden, and proceeded to Lumbutts and Makinholes, where they took six individuals into custody on charges arising out of the late riots. On Thursday, the prisoners were brought before the Magistrates ; and, four of them being identi- fied, they were committed to York Castle. One of them was an over- looker of corders at Messrs. Fielden's factory at Ltunbutts.—IVIMichester Paper.
The Leed9 Mercury says that the passage from Mr. OVonnor's Bury speech, about a" torch" being a "silent monitor," and " worth a thou- sand speeches," was quoted from the Manchester Guardian.
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