The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-10-25 00:00:00

COMBINATION OF SHIPWRIGHTS.

The shirwrights employed in the building-yard of Meters.
Brocklebank, Whitehaven, have given a specimen of their
gratitude. It is well known that Messrs. Brocklebank have
always been most indulgent and liberal masters. They
never acted upon the system of doing all their work with
apprentices ; they paid their men ISs. per week, when
many paid only 153. ; in slack times they constantly em-
ployed their hands, though to their own loss • and recently
they yielded to a demand of their men, and advanced their
wages to 21s. per week. Of late, however, the combine.
tion mania has got into the yard, and insolence and insub-
ordination have.sinee been the order of the day. Last week
Mr. B. engaged a man recommended to him from Ilarring-
ton, and on Monday morning the new hand went to com-
mence work, but he was not one of the right sort ; the ap.
prentices collected around him, and told him what he had
to expect if he dared to violate the law of the yard, and the
man was so intimidated that he determined upon look;ng
on merely till one of the principals arrived ; but in the
mean time he was seized by the apprentices, mounted upon
a pole, and carrird from place to place, and finally through
part of the town to a public-house, in triumph and de-
ii-ion.

- - After this feat the precious apprentices returned to work,
but they soon determined upon another freak. They
picked out a man whoru they called a scab, not having
exactly conformed to the " Union rules," and this man
they also mounted on a pole, and were taking him through
the town, when they were met by Mr. Brocklebrink, who
ordered them to release their victim, and on refusing, Mr.
B. pressed forward, and was either pulled or knocked
down by one of his own apprentices ; his clothes were
soiled, and his face was bloody ! He instantly went to his
yard and discharged every shipwright employed in it, and
has commencer! proper proceedings to bring the offenders to
justice; on Thursday afternoon the yard remained com-
pletely shut up. On Friday morning the ship carpenters in
the employ of Messrs. Kelsick, Wood, and Sone, Mary-
port, voluntarily left their work, because Messrs. Wood
were so oppressively unreasonable as to refuse their servants
the power of dictating the internal management of the
yard ! Matters are thus coming to a pretty pass. But
nothing else was to have been expected from the plans and
principles promulgated by Mr. Hume. Every kind of
trade lamentably suffers from the same cause, and it is
now become evident that the strong ann of the Legisla-
ture can alone stem the tide of the growing crib—ear/frit
Pat riot.

RIOT OF SEAMEN AT SUNDEILAND.—At the Durham
Michaelmas Sessions, on Wednesday last, Joseph Addy and
George II udspeth were arraigned on an indictment, charging
them with having, on the 3d of August last, riotously and
tumultuously assembled, with several other persons en-
known, on the river Wear, in the harbour of Sunderland,
and then and there in a boat aided and assisted in pre-
venting the ship Busy from proceeding to sea. The
facts of this case, which were fully detailed at the time
when it occurred, being proved in evidence, the Jury
found a verdict of Guilty against both the prisoners.
The Court sentenced them, George Hudspeth to six. aed
Joseph Addy to four months' imprisonment in the House
of Correction, and to be kept to hard labour. Mr. Green-
wood, on the part of John Hall, Turner Wilson, Joseph
Howe, John Fenwick, and John Taylor, also charged with
being engaged in the riot, and who had severally pleaded
guilty, was heard in mitigation of punishment, and called
witnesses, who gave them good characters; after which the
I Court sentenced them—Wilson, Howe, and Hall, to eight,
and Fenwick and Taylor to six months' imprisonment, and
I to be kept to hard labour in the House of Correction, and
to find security for their goad conduct for six months after-
' wards.—Durham Paper.
Re Liototis FANATICISM.—The people of Geneva have
just h. en witnesses of an example of that gloomy delirium
which religious fanaticism produces on weak minds, and
the examples of which become so numerous as to excite the
serious attention of the Government. A.young woman, in-
fatuated by the preaching of the Methodists, and whose
imagination was filled with the superstitious tenors with
which her spititual guiles bad filled her, under the pretext
of operating her conversion, threw herself, in the night of
the Sth, from a window in the fourth story, into the street,
where she was found (lead on the pavement. 4-- This is the
sixth known instance of suicide occasioned at Geneva by
this species of insanity, since the introduction of Method-
ism. A much greater number of persons of both sexes
might be mentioned, whose reason has been troubled by
frequenting the religious assemblies, as they are called, of
our " Momiers." It is to Madame de Krudener, and to
the two Englishmen, Mr. Haldane and Mr. H. Drummond,
that we are chiefly indebted for this scourge, which has
been imported by strangers since the restoration, and 14-3 i
formerly quite unknown in Geneva.—Th ussels Paper.
It is expeeted that the Grand Western Ship Canal wi:l
be commenced at Bridgewater in less than a month.--
Devonshire Freeholder. _ .

The passage between Cork and Liverpool is reduced
very much, indeed so that parties may make an excursion
of pleasure and back in a few days. The Lee, Capt. Col-
ville, has come from Cork to Liverpool in 29 hours !!
RAPID INCREASE OF CONGLETON.—During the last
two years, 432 dwelling-houses have been erected, which
are occupied by an increased population of upwsrds of
2,000 hdividuals. In the same period 13 mills for the ins-
nufacture of silk and one iron foundcry have been built :
and with this inclose of population, regard has also hem
had to the means of their religious instruction, in the
erection of two new places of worship, one by the -1-
dependent Methodists, and the other by the Rowan
Catholics.
THE Coster.--The head of the comet is now ins isible.
but the whole length of the tail may be seen, rear south,
at half-past one o'clock, if the horizon be clear.

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