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You haye said, your !nen did strike in IOU: hied Ind the it.
nit of that ?-4 resisted with a full determination to mar my
factory to steed altateether, than to give way ta their client t they
remained out about etx Una,. During this puled, every.
Was made on the part of those who tuned out, to prevent tbs=
were weledieposeil from working. I believe the ramie of then
were not inclined to turn out, but the majority were deterndned not
to suffer ant person, no matter whether mason or bricklayer, or
smith, or any other am*, which I carry on within myself, to work
or repair the factory. I might have gone on repairing my factory
while it was suueling combination, but they Would not suffer
any millwright or meelumc of any description to work; if they
attempt, dto repair, fhiy met with insult. I was anxious, if I could
not be fishing, at I:alt,to be mending my pets i but those mew were
way-laid and assaulted, Ind in several intense irm much hurt,
so snitch so indeed, that the remainder were deterred from working.
Wire you able to being any injustice ?—1 dfd not; they got tired,
they were starred, in fact, into submission • all their funds wen
exhausted ; and then it was a matter of difficulty hot they 'shoal
del in, we whodsurld enter fit. They were awere, that whoever
should enter drat 'aorta be enacted t that wild be the ism:-
table result. la this difficulty they as led to a biotin churn,-
steam, and they maul Ms advice. hays be, "Boys gets Uwe
l•eard the factory-bell nag rioniine, now, ond lids fr the lad
fiw welts, and troatd not 40 to work; I will pee it WNW
me is a moment ; you will assemble 104ttOrrOW lignitym= fie
factory gates. and let those ihat am o UTOIIDI6 peek . ere
nett the ,antes iw."-.-Excitt.ctsT !" They innue=laitleed
upon this expedient, and met in veer cerisiderable about .
the gaise, and those, who were Wed& psdkel the sinew lb ; and
they en I. murk teller shelter in neer directive.
What induced you to make girt reddctiun in the Mg, Nat wow
in consequence of a very large purchase of Wad I bed Abel in-
duced to make, to preserve them theme'. of erpkrythent 8 law
the wad was fast going out of the Country, and thiamin it noes.
vary to auks a 'peculation ; and that It V. tisaisemile as I had
put myself to groat expense and ineoneenkmat, they seireld base •
part of the burden j this redualou mws holy 11Waikyks*Inseure.
You in feet succeeded that time peditit ftikellsbnaidellf--Yell.
althoueltehen were soma few remammilliwit, thrmililligivellgashoo
and inntd.ln
Did yeti attempt to pet the terableatials thielt M emseation
agandeyeet men et that time P-1 did not; I Aqui hniti=
sot to work, and single out these chinches Chit
that I had mason to believe were at the buts. rill Bileheffeks
end I ridded toy concern of nen at my owe ammeamet, set .0
any partiedist time.; ohm I lied mon to find MAN tat at
opportunity of sayf de not want say more of year week, and,
firy
got dd of there ie by degrees.
You tucceedal in talus tot, without having TOCOUNIS 10 the
lona . Ich now exist ?—Yrecissly so.
Mammy eipow esammoor terueb, eft mot Meidewslug two oe
three marked indisidata ?-4tio
Tin combination is net lin ',Seri'e: at that ?—They Uwe use st Mak
he dread ; thew ko.to 1 am a aeaded character.
Have you had, sine that paiod In ISIS, any other no
about wages?L-I'es, a alight differnce about six ninths ago.
Was that on the part of the men, wishing wham's' increase,
of,yoli wishing to reduce ?.—I undenitOod, after the ams.ont at Mr.
W thane's factory, and after the. Messt4t. Willow bad 2000101 ID
the wishes of their men,. that it was the determination of say
men also to turn out on the untie Twine. I finial it newmaary
to che-le this iii Me told • the moment heard of it I ran down to
Uelbri, and I ordered the watehnias fee the night to turn out
the haemployed through the night (they work day and eight in
I part of the works) at an early hone, endure to sot% any hook Nor
any supeleterekm, even to enter the works without my empress
directions. lie did so; he turned cut them= at an early hour Ihe
did not ring the bell as usual, which liar as one., thing. The
people assembled, the works were dark and perfectly silent ; they
were astonished of coarse • they assembled mend the gates ; and
when I thought I had unneeded is electing a little pante I sent a
note, Raying, that I uedeesteod their intention was to make an alte-
ration in the rate of wages ; if they had any thing to sayto me, I
would be happy to see a deputation of that body, that ta, of the
weavers, spinners, and slabbers • that the deputation might wait
upon me at eight o'clock, and accordingly they amenshird is 111010
nun hers lid sent down a deputation of nine. I ought to MN Mee,
they were objecting to my employing the ass of a Itheurer man
apprentice to the mules. When th', waited upon me they Oa*
that they eontd not Mink of woven' with this labowrer's son e they
also had some objection to the wages, but that they would waive
limy objection they had on the score of warn, but they mad nie
thank of working with thin boy. I told them, I concaved it was •
I bed rruscipk on which they were proceeding, that thew of a bi.
boe•er, merely because he happened to be the son of a labourer,
r'.euld not have work as well as the son of a tradesman (white:
they call themselves) ; they said they mad not think of k, it was
contrary to their rides, and begged I would not insist upon it. I
told them, that f eertukty mist insist inn any thing I cotereived
to be right ; then they begged I would put what I said 0700 paper,
and they would lay it before the body. I did so, and they leek is
up to the body, and there was artery stonny discussion snit ; they
mold be heard a mile of, they were :wing tofight. But at length a
deputation of about twenty tour came down, and they stillobjeeted
in the most divided way misty employing this bayl toid thee.
I
must and would employ the boy, awal whomsoever I ewes; but with
regard to him, if they would go to Shaw, the buperintendat of the
spinners, they would find 1 had written a note to him a few days
back, that might satiety them that he would not be employed is
that particular business ; but I reserved to myself the right of 010.
ploying him at any future time. They went to Shaw, and feud
the note I had written„ldesiring that the boy might wet be employed
in that particular branch ; they asse• and 'expressed tbeb pea.
1 tide, rid thr glair ended there.
Are those two differences the only two that hen taken plisse be-
tween you and your workmen P—Yea, ef any Went.
.-- Ilibeploresebstbasiesseeellei udikeemmumemetwat le dits.C.embi.
nation Laws ?—Certainly.
What ix tour opinion of the erect of the Combhwition laws ?
I consider them as quite inoperative, exeept so tar as they relate w
the regulation of the wort.
What do you mean by the regulation of the work 9—For in.
stance, if 1 have a journeyman weaving a mere of cloth, ;went, s
when he hits got half-way through that piece, he may turn out to
, drink : and if I scold him excessively, he may take it into has head
to run away; then, under the existing law, I should immediately
put that man in Neweate.
Is that by the Combination I.w, or by any other Act ?—I do not
know ; I have not read the Combination Laws.
If you had the power of c impelling your men to finish any con-
tract, or any work they had begun, do you conceive that that is
ample power to you, to enable you to carry on your work ?
I do.
It will be desirable that that power should be summary?.—
Certainly.

I/o you see any evils likely to arise fmm the total repeal of the
Combination laws, as they are called, in Ireland, if a summary
power of enforcing the completion of contracts is left ?-2:o far as
I understand them I do nut; I contrite they are totally M-
ary-I/tilt.
Have you any oproetunity of Fisting how the combinations of
one class of workmen operate against another, in peeventing them
from working, unleia at particular rates ?—There is in Ireland what
is called an Union of Teaks ; and it is the practice of the trades,
1 believe, generally to support those trades that aro out of employ-
ment. For instance, I have no doubt but the last witness, lir.
N'illans, would state that his own hail received a very considerable
sum front the pitper manufeeturers. I know it to be a fact, that
they did receive a considerable sum, I believe a hundred pounds at
once, from the paper makers in Liability
Is it usual when ore trade strike*, to receive assistance from
other trade*. to maintain them it—l have reason to believe it is.
Do you consider that there combinations of the men have any
effect in keeping wages higher thau they otherwise would be ?
No doubt.
Do you not consider that wages would rise and fall, according ro
the state in which the trade was 7—No ; it is no matter how lade
work you lave...they will have their wages in either case.
You are alluding to the present notes?—Yes.
have you not stated, that you have yourself succeeded in rethia.
log the wages ?—Duly for a temporary purpose, about two
months ; further I did not attempt it.
Do you not conceive, if masters and men were left at perfect
freedom to make what bargain they pleased, as to the rate of wages
and hours of working, that in conr.e of time they would find their
level 7 Fes; is torero, of time it is natera to suppose the free( oe`
eircientstoriees would regmbile the 'natter. An employee would date
reason with himself: •• I cannot *find to pay mime wages than a err.
min sum ; if I give more I come to the market undo disadvantages
which Must be ruinous to inyaelt."
You have stated, that you consider the Combination Laws te
have been altogether inoperative?—Precisely so.
Then they can have no effect upon the rate of wages IP—I do
not conceive they can.
Is not the rate of wages to neantifhetnrers in Ireland, genteelly
much higher than the rate paid to the ordinary labourers is the
ealentry?—Cousiderably higher ; the diference between the UMW-
ticturing and mechanical labour, and the lateen of the peaserd, or
the rude labour of the country, is vete; considerable, prodigiobs.
State the proportion between the pay of yoke litNrais ere, and that
of the peasant I—From Shier or
.1; one to one, on an average.
Your men have all the advantages of cheap food ; how do you ac-
count for th:: difference ?—I have thready said, that we have, at
times, prelusion' much cheaper than you have, and you have foot
sometimes much cheaper than we have ; anal that is from the s -
muluuteous exportations from Ireland. The state of the fern s, e
is arch, sometimes, Niue 111,y moat tell their cora to poet their rear
and the corn goes from every port of Ireland, and the markets a
Liverpool are glutted ; th. rt the pikes in Liverpool and Mat
cheater, and the manufacturing towns in England, sic much low :e
than with us ; for what has a tendency to depress the price of es
vat this side of the water, enhances it on the otht r.
(To be tor:timid. )

The Board of Ilealth of Philadelphia report the dean
of SS persons in that city, from the loth to the 11th
inst. ; among them are eight of the typhus fever.—
l'allodiam.
Tits OUTCASTS.—Such ham been the influence of tie
popular Scotch novels, that not merely their style has be..w.
imitated by foreign romance writers, but the hist wy of OW,
nwn country has been ransacked by them, in order to MA
a period that has not already been seized on, for the display
of their genius. Thus we find the Baronerade la Nor e
Borgne has constructed an interesting Tale, called 1".•
Outcasts," out of some striking events that happened its CA-
early part of the reign of Elizabeth, and in which the
hapless Lady Jane Grey figures ass principal character.
The subject is well chosen, and, as the translation is spi -
rited and elegant, there is good reason to expect it wil/to
nearly as popular as its prototypes.