The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-03 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE, COMBINATIONS, 4c.

(From the Glasgow eltrolicle of Saturday.]
We are sorry to mate that no improvement in trade his yet taken
place in this city. The Lanark carriers, who left for that town veil.
terday afternoon, had not a fourth part of the webs they were ac-
customed to carry when trade was brisk. About three fourths of
the wearer" in Lanark are idle.
The cause of free labour, we rejoice to say, is generally extend-
ing. Lord Eight, who some time ago turned off every combined
@oilier from his pits in Fifeshire, and replaced them by unassociated
cid-tiers, hearing through the medium of our paper of the success of
Lf r. Dunlop, wrote a letter this week to that public-spirited gentle.
nisa;com pit nenting him on the excellent course he had pursued. and
requeeino his advieo respecting the introduction of a portion of
labourers into his pits. Ills Lot ship has also sent his manager to
in select the hest hands that offer ; and they will be 's-
oared of at least one year's work.
Air. Dunlop, we are happy to say, is now completely beyond
the teach of the colliers' combination. The energetic measures
which he adopted, from the first commencement of the contest, to
regain the uncontrolled command of his works, have been attended
sotarthe most signal success. This week the new ow lmen hare
displayed; in a striking manner. the tacility with which this over-
Indted etude may be acquired. In the Glen pit, where are fifty
nine new hands, the average out-put ".day has been between 70
and CO carte, and the seams have been wrought iii so perfect a
manner, as to astonish the regular colliers who are engaged in
teaching the new hands. l'he furnaces can now be fully supplied
is i di the requisite supply of fuel, and all the various departments of
tire IY.,a-works are carrying on with the greatest regularity and de-
epen:lr t there are now none of those hatertuptions or disarrange.
meats to business which ensued whenever a fresh edict came from
the 'grand committee to restrict the out-put of coals. The stock
A boa is decreasing. in cinsequente of orders from the English
drnarkrt ; and every thing pronitsca a happy change in the circum-
ma stes of those workmen who have been so fortunate as to change
their employment. CamLcirie pit is now working without any
gusrd. Yesterday, at ore o'clock. some of the labourers had an
'nand-pat of above a cart of coals each, being the second day they
ern handled a pick. There is no guard at the pit, the oversnian
tittle/leg he will rely on the courage of his new hands, and the
protection of the laws of the country. llama:on-fury pit is duirg
teetonely cell with tmassociated colliers; and they have ex.
rierced no molestation from the old colliers, since the hanging
ewtl.burning of the effigy of the oversman mentioned in our last.
'Jo the meat time the depopulated appearance of the houses in the
neightteurhond of Clyde Iron-Mores is giving place to a most
sigtee.ible change. Time squares of houses are rapidly filling
tolls the families of the industrious and peaceable workmen ;
and a remark rble contrast in their habits and demeanour is
observable from that of their late occupants. 'f!,e guard have
now sr sadirons duty, in escorting, from various quarters,
'tits elms with the furn Pure of the new hands. Vented'',
• a aihnber of famlies, with their furniture, arrived from Ai-drie•
sin ter a proper escort, to peotect them from molestation. The re.
psi ere unesociated colliers have been pouring in this week for work
from a great distance; and Air. Dunlop has bad at least two thou-
ss-d applications from workmen of every description during the last
ter dye Now that tire iron-works can be supplied with coal. it
is intended to give the public the benefit of the seasonable redue.
tion which has been effected in price, by working the sale pits, on
on extensive scale, with the new hands- The combination may
new be enneidered an fairly broken up. By the loth of *lay, there
will not be a pit working on the banks of the Nintikimad Canal but
It/ tile reduced price. the collies' having all received warning to
thin effect. The funds of the combination, from the heavy drains
wine to prevent the iatroduction of free labour Into the works,
are now completely exhausted. The condoned collier. at Clyde
Poi-Works WITS fifteen pound* in wear to th combination
lies try
when they were ordered to strike work; and scarcely
a is men of the four hundred unemployed have got wink,
litt that they are dependant on the dimity ot their brethren. In
diet.: desperate circumstances, a general roosting ass called this

week, when it was resolved still to stand out, and to send delegates
imploring assistance from Ayrshire and the Lothians, as they were
gOe unable to maintain the combined whom the free labourers
were displacing. This application is considered as an expiring
efort, and its certain failure will be followed by the final disso-
lution of this mischievous confederacy, by which the public have
suffered mote than from any government tax imposed on them.
The roads in the vicinity of Clyde Iron-%i orks continue to be in.
tested with parties of idle men, who scrutinize minutely the appear.
once of those who pass by them ; but they know too well the con-
sequences to offer any direct molestation; though the women and
children continue to insult every person whom they suspect to be
in quest of employment at the pita.
Another instance of the foolish spirit which actuates the com.
bined colliers was evinced on Thursday. In the afternoon, some
of them came to the guard at Clyde Iron Works, and wished the
constables to apprehend a man whom they stated to be a deserter.
The accused is an unassociatcd collier, and has given mortal of.
fence by working at present to Mr. Dunlop. The constables re-
pited they must have better authority than their mere assertion be-
fre they acted, and refused to accompany them. In the evening
a crowd was collected about the hous,t where the new collier lived,
and some of the combined requested a lancer who was passing to
come in and seize the pretended &setter. The lancer went into the
house, where the collier immediately showed him his regular dis.
charge from the army as unfit for service, and the lancer departed
satisfied. Still this would-not please his enemies. A party of them
came in to a Justice of the Peace in to—n, and imposed so far
upon him as to obtain a warrant for a serjeant and twelve men to
proceed (rota the barracks to apprehend this said deserter. The
soldiers arrived at one o'clock yestenlay morning at Toilette's, when
the man showed his discharge, and the soldiers were so dis-
pleased at the goose-chase, that they took the three informers into
custody, and confined them in the barracks. Yesterday they were
brought before the Justice who had granted the warrant, who fined
the three informers in one pound each, reserving to the injured man'
the power of prosecution for damages, and Mr. Dunlop the right
of prosecuting criminally this molestation of one of his new work-
men. Pitiful actions of this kind show how desperate the combined
are become, and to what expedients they would resott to remove
the free labourers.
As a proof that the commercial distress has not as yet arrived at
such a pitch as to prevent the union of the sexes, it may be noticed,
that la,t Sabbath a great•grandmother, in the village of Condorrat,
was proclaimed in the pariah church, as was also her son-in-law.
e ate authorised to state, that the hoard of Trade has, for the
present, dispensed with the Orders in Council relative to quaran.
tote, in so far as they require that vessels from the West Indies
and the continent of America, having cotton on board, shall be
liable to perform quarantine, unless affidavits by the shippers of the
cotton abroad shall be produced that it is not the growth of Africa,
Turkey, the Levant, &c.