The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-23 00:00:00

COMBINATION IN SCOTLAND.

The combination which has for some time existed in the
west of Scotland, under the title of " the Weavers' Associ-
ation," can scarcely be said now to exist. Its deluded
members are dropping off every day, and there is dread at
head-quarters that there will not even he enough of pennies
collected to pay the functionaries who presided over the de-
lusion. A respectable weaver at the east end of Callow-
gate, who had bee:. so far misled as to contribute to the
maintenance in idleness of the functionaries in question,
and to lose much time, to no purpose, in attending meet-
ings, began at length to perceive, what was already suffi-
ciently ovious to most others, that no benefit was accruing
from the association. He had been for some time working
a coarse web, paid according to the combination price, at
Which he could not earn above Gs. a week, and he applied
to one of the committee men of the Association, to know
what he was to do. The committee-man told him that he
considered the Association at an end ; it had quite failed in
what it had attempted ; and his best plan was to take out
a web at the best price he could get. The weaver, thus at
'liberty, took out a firm web, at a small reduction from the
combination price, at which he will be able to earn Iss.
a-week. Nothing can better illustrate the folly of attend-
ing to the misleading secretary trumpery than the fact.
that whenever a weaver is at liberty to act for himself,
instead of making Gs. a-week, according to the association
rules, he is, by following his own good sense, earning ISs.
a-week.

Our readers will recollect that at the last Assizes, the
Judges recommended to the Sheriff and other authorities,
to use their utmost exertions, in every quarter of the king-
dom, to find out those persons who were then outlawed for
assaulting and intimidating the peaceful workmen. On
Thursday last Capt. Hamilton, superintendant of the Cal-
ton police, succeeded in apprehending a cotton-spinner,
outlawed at last Assizes. He was charged with assault,
and discharging, or attempting to discharge, loaded fire-
arms, with intent to murder. He was taken in the public-
house of a discarded spinning-master in Mile-end, where
he was drinking with a number of cotton-spinners. He
came away peaceably on a loaded pistol being presented to
his breast, and his companions were so overawed that they
offered no resistance. He has been lodged is Glasgow gaol.
—Glasgow Chronicle.

RIOT •T TUG CALTON GAOL.-1 considerable alarm
was excited yesterday, in consequence of the sudden move-
ment of a party of the 17th regiment, to quell a disturb-
ance among the prisoners in the Calton gaol. Various ru-
mours having gone abroad, we have been at considerable
pains to ascertain the true state of the case ; and, although
an examination is still going on. our readers and the pub-
lic may rest assured that the following is the actual occur-
rence :—Some of the convicts, by great ingenuity, contrived
to break into the cell of, and rob, a poor man, who has
been long an inmate of the prison. A search was resisted
on the part of the convicts, and the debtors were called to
assist the officers of justice. This was considered a great
breach of decorum, and a violent attack was commenced
upon the debtors. A recent delivery of coals gave the as-
sailants the command of a large supply of missiles, which
they burled at the debtors and turnkeys, who were soon
discomfited, with a few slight bruises. The convicts, once
infuriated, proceeded to demolish some of the gates, to
enable them to get together in greater force ; and, as the
thing was so sudden, the military were, with great pro-
priety, called in, when the convicts immediately submit-
ted, and were all strongly ironed, and shut up in their
cells. Most of the stolen articles have been recovered ;
but there was not the slightest intention to break prison,
though such a report was current all over the town. Cap-
tain Young, the governor of the gaol, returned yesterday
morning, at fire o'clock, from Leadburn, on the Peebles
road, where he had apprehended two of the convicts who
escaped some weeks ago.—Fdinburgh Observer, Sept. 20.
MUTINY or CONTICTS.—The name of the man who was
shot in the late attempt to escape from the hulk at Kings-
town was Cullen. He was one of the persons convicted
and sentenced at the Commission for the assault on Mr.
Butterworth. Three others of the. convicts leaped Over-
board, one of whom swam towards the yacht, conceiving it
to he the land. He was picked up and sent back to the
convict vessel. The second became exhausted in his ex-
i ertions to gain the shore, and having cried out for assist-
ance, he was taken into a boat, and transmittal to his old
quarters. The third, a man named Kilbride. who was
concerned in the robbery of the Donnybrook church,
I gained the land, and has escaped for the present.—Dublin
Evening Post.

Great numbers of pitmen belonging to the different col-
lieries in this neighbourhood, have been engaged to go to
Wales, where it appears several pits ate now about to he
opened. Thera are two causes to which this is attributed ;
these men having long been in the habit of bringing tip
their sons to follow their own avocation, the market has
been overstocked, and several remained either partially em-
ployed only, or not employed at all. The other reason is,
that in Wales almost double their present rate of wages is
givcn.-7'yne Merest-y.