The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-10-06 00:00:00

COMBINATIONS.

The state of the trade in Barnsley is worthy of remark.
The weavers, soon after the passing of the Combination
Bill, formed an union, a committee of which regulated all
their movements. For more than the last fonr months
they have been urging an advance of wages; hut as the
masters are divided in opinion upon its expediency, some
being favourable and others adverse, the weavers are try-
ing the experiment of SHELVING them by piece-meal.
One of the principal manufacturers, who was the first
singled out, having at length yielded to some compromise,
they have now declared against another, but whet will be
the result cannot yet be ascertained. Be it what it may,
however, it is some satisfaction to reflect that the trade of
the town still goes on, without any one (excepting the
party against whom the opposition is directed) being at all
sensible that so formidable a phalanx exists, whose whole
force is levelled against a single house. It cannot be con-
cealed, that considerable injury must be there experienced,
and every well wisher of the town must lament that some
general steps are not taken to put an end to a division
which, to one not immediately involved, does not seem of
that desperate character in Barnsley which might be ad-
mitted in other quarters.
The IVAl:field Chronicle says, that the Associated Mas-
ters have at length offered something tangible for the public
to fottn an opinion upon, relative to the state of wages
prior to the turn out. We are glad cf this, because, when
facts begin to be stated, the parties must at length (as a
lawyer would say) come to put the point in issue, viz. the
reasonableness of the complaints and demands of the work-
men, which we think they have never yet given the public
sufficient data to form an opinion. upon, and which appears
to be very material towards approaching the termination of
the contest. NotwithStanding the indecisive and temro-
rising conducCof the spinners and manufacturers of Keigh-
ley, the masters at Bingley have resolved to adopt tl:e re-
solutions of the Bradford and Halifax Association, relative
to requiring their work-people to sign a written disavowal
of any connection with the Union.
Ott this subject, too, the Tyne lifcreitry says, a hand-
bill has been posted about the streets of' this town within
the last few days, addressed " to those of the inhabitants
of Newcastle and its vicinity, who are friendly to the cause
of the Bradford wool-combers and stuff-weavers." The

object in view is plainly to induce persons to contribute to
the support of the wool•combers and weavers, so as to
enable them to keep their masters at defiance. We are
not told the cause of their differences, though we are sorry
to say we believe some of the Trades' Unions of Newcastle
already arc in the habit of forwarding subscriptions to
them ; but we should hope they will see the mischievous
tendency of such a system, instead of increasing their con-
tributions.

An Order in Co—uncil has reached the Custom-house,
making the duty on tobacco permanent at 3s. per pound.
The new Act, which takes place on the Sth of January, is,
in respect to the tobacco duty, annulled.
THE Tea Tans.—Among the domestic Companies
which have lately been projected, none appears more likely
to unite the two desiderata—profit to the subscribers and
utility to the public, than the United Kingdom Tea
Agency Company, which is now, we understand, in a
MUM of completion. The business of this Company will
consist in supplying grocers, in town and country, with tea
direct from the India House: no adulteration, therefore,
ma be practised, unless it be by the retail grocer, and the
consumer will always know on whom to lay the blame.
Another advantage will be, that should this Company suc-
ceed, we may expect to get tea lower in price at tennis.
per lb. without lessening the profit of the grocer, who will
not have to bear the burden of the expensive establishment
of the wholesale tea-dealer, and who, by means of the Tea
Book now published by the East India Company, instead
of depending upon partial interested, may himself select
the teas best suited-to his-customer!.

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