The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
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COMBINATIOIa IN SCOTLAND.
THE COLLIERS.
The prompt manner in which the combined *Alias were
• rooted out at Calder Coal Works bas disown their lades
Ito terrible consternation. A general ineeting of aboet
~300 of the combined body was held on Friday last, inn
sand-fiehlnear Tolleross, when it was decretel, in order to
prevent there being any. increase ti the supply of coals
from the number of new hands that have so onexpeetedly
been thrown into the Market, that the colliers who adhere
the combination in the_other coal-pits at raskine, tamed
it the quantity of coals they put out to six carts a weet,
nine shillings of wages.
The wages a collier can make at present being front
s. 3d. to la. 6d. an hour, they not only do not go more
than three or four days a week to their work, but when
they do go, it is only fur a few houra, seldom the length of
; and when there are two or three in a family, the half
them,enly work that day, the others sitting and looking
them, 'never casting their costs. It was proposed at owe,
the late meetings of the colliers (and which will4ter
.oubt he tried to be carried into effect), to counteract tits
effect of new hands being brought in, that all the colliers
all the asasociated works shall restrict their outputs.
proportion as the outputs by the new hands increase; so
at no more coals shall be pat out, whatever moans-mar
used to increase the quatitity. This is practised so far
. present, that whenever the stock of coals at any colliery
tmounts to about three days' output, they are ordered in-
ntly to restrict their quantity till the stock is sold elf-
.is is a daily occurrence.
The injury done to the iron trade of Scotland by the col-.
Teri combination is strikingly evident from the fact that
'•• year there is fully a fourth less iron made in this
entry, solely in consequence of the want of coals, and the
went interruptions rendering it unsafe for the iron-rnas-,
to prepare iron-stone, &c.; and several of the blast
furnaces have consequently remained vacant: Iron is very
srce at present, from the great demand. Pig-iron, No. 1,
. at 101.10 s. a ton, and is not to be bad.. Om areep-
!cations from all parts of the kingdom for nfgeiron ; and
(though the price has been lowered a little ie. Wales, it is
-ing to the rivalry of the leading iron-Masters. The COD-
Iption of pig-iron in Great Britain last yeb was 600,000
: of this quantity, Scotland supplied thirty-five thou-
id tons. It is understood that the make this year will
be above five hundred thousand tons. In Scotland
T are seven iren-works. At Calder iron-ivorks Mere •
four blast furnaces: in Wilsontown, two; in Carron,.
-; Clyde, two: Shotts, one; Clelland, two; hluirkirk,
tree ; Devon, two. These furnaces make, ou an average,
1 tons of iron a week each, when working.
The great wages which the colliers have made so great
exertions to gain have been very far from a benefit to than..
In various places, ever since the repeal of the combination
laws, they have been almost constantly in a state of semi-
intoxication, while their wives and families have been much
worse off than when wages were far lower.
The manner in which the colliers exercise their authority
over their humble masters may he judged of from a late
incident. A manufacturer in Glasgow had ordered a hun-
dred tons from Ayrshire, but when the colliers there learned
the destination, they intimated their determination not to
interfere with the Lanarkshire colliers, and insisted that.
the hundred tons should be sent elsewhere; and they
were obeyed.—Glasgow Chronicle.
-7E WEAVERS.
• beginning to feel the advantage of
and usurped authority of the lead-, ,
Dunng the last ten days, some of
in town have given oat a number
manufacturers have advanced the
twee* front taster-thing to we - • •
mere are wanted t dt-fsaey'firrftelis
a new sort of fabric: ;The: trorrik....
widatg sciouye , :set trea.reet van
and they are wefred with.either st
',pry in -hreaddemccordhig •,to the
purpose*. which , ate intended. Varp, about mini-..
ber SO, is put into il,too reed, and'heing svel)ed 'tiara ' -,
four to Sire shots ovetieriew, the biely of the cloth as stroregvi
looks well, and is meeting a reailly wale in the London '
market. • An 1,800 11-8 is paid 10d. an ell for weawug, .
but nothing,is allevieflefor windin ' the 4silk. There ails
in several ases
still some vacant loomsi ; in Pollokshaws,
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for instance, there are nearly one u:ndT•ed, but those hK
whom they were occupied, either, during the rOpripi the.
combination, left the place, or fell into tome other. ..tie..
went. —lbid. i '
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RECOVERY OF THE CHRISTIANA-HRIG‘ , ~,
OFF MARGATE. ' • . '
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The Messrs. Bells and their companions, by intlefatign.a
ble perseverance and industry, have at length succeeded Ira -
recovering from the bed of the ocean,.after having been.
submerged eleven months, the brig laden with about Itil
pieces of brandy, which was sunk on the Margate Salida.
Several ineffectual attempts had been made tolift the vessel,
by inserting powerful screws in the deck, but the super- _
incumbent means were at first insufficient to rare it bodily.
and in two or three instances the deck gave, from which
circumstance may be attributed the escape of several pieces-
A chain subsequently was drawn under the keel, tint•the
wreck wts so firmly docked in the sand, thartlfis resound
failed; until another, and more powerful one, capable of..
sustaining the weight, was procured : when at last the
hidden treasure, after several months' close application by
the crew, gratified their sight by appearing on the snakes '
of the water, with about 160 pieces still remaining in her
hold.
It is a remarkable circumstance, that the whole of this '
undertaking was completed without the aid of a diving= •
' bell. The method resorted to was, by having on the deck •
of the vessel employed, what is termed a " Jack in the.
box," through which the screws and other snitrunseets
were dropped: and by this simple contrivance—it is no
more than an upright box—the men were enabled to work •
with safety. The length of time the spirit has been im-
mersed, has not in the least diminished its flavour, awing
to the soundness and thickness of the battoms in which it
is contained. It is now statedlo be the intention of the
Messrs. Bells to purchase the diving-bell and *dates of
the Dutch Government, the same as was lately ellepkeyed •
in an attempt to restore the precious cargo of the Janne"
frigate.-lentiA CArtrnicie.

In the town of Madbury, New Hampshire, resides a
man named Israel Tibbeta, whose bulk far exceeds thit of
die famed Daniel 2.aknbert. Ills weight is aSS perunk.
He is about ail feet high, and was not at 'alt ems/edit
when young.
A Captain lately, at Brighton, leaped his hone over ra4s ,
at the top of the Cliff, where there was scarce room tor the
horse to stand, and afterwards told a friend that he sue...
posed that there was not another man in the kingdom would '
do the like. " Yes," saki his Mend, " there are twenty
in Bedlam." . .
MET co a.—A bout eight o'clock on Sunday evening, a
very large and brilliant meteor shot from the northern part
of the horizon upwards to the centre of the hemisphere. It
appeared at first in that part of the heavens then occupied
by the direction stars of Ursa Major. It described a die-
lance apparently of atiout six or eight yards, and its pto- -
great was marked by a train of sparks such as ustiany saw
company a rocket, and precede its buratinp
FLATTkIIIY.—A beggerman. on his rounds in &popular.
parish in Ayrshire, took the !iberty of rapping at the cloae
'of the beat house in. it. It so happened that the only do-
emetic in the house was the cook, who Jail her own more
immediate business to open the door. :teeing that it was sr,
beggar man who had disturbed. her) she very ar!gpily
tirn leave the house, asd go mid work; " Ott; said Ott ,
rtberlunzie, " I suppose if !maim. I titann ; but he**
gang, I canna help saying,; that I lame war 'jeep. so_ boav it
(foot) in a' coif or car-nein': " Yried,oo *Mat that..
I mid that, grade man," said thq.maiWiaa lady et alp *mow -•
ping-pan,
_" money >as theoht tAskeetodrionte bey pox ,
die, an' I will celarie 4:e a disci."
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