The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-01 00:00:00

COLLIERS' CO.3IBINA7'ION IN SCOTLAND.

It gives us great pleasure to mention, that the new col.
Hers at Ca111:r works ars exceeding the expectations de.:
were funned of them. The public-spirited proprietors hare
this week thwarted, in the most effectual manner, an at-
tempt or the Combination to injure them at Govan. A de-
cree was issued, enjoining the colliers there to week enly
three full days in a fortnight. When the mandate was
carried into effect, the proprietors made a complaint to the
Justices against two of the delinquents. The colliers, it
appeared, were bound to work ten full days in the fortnight,
and, in case of leaving the wet k, to give a fot Might's none..
The colliers, without any notice, gave up putting out, ex-
c.•pt for three days' work in the fortnight. The prisoners
contended that they were at perfect liberty to work or DO!,
,jet in they inclined. 'f he inmplaint agrinat the colliers
was brought under the Act 4th Geo. IV. c. 31, which gives
power to Justices, when any servant shall not fulfil his
contract, or be guilty of any other misconduct or misde-
meanor in the execution thereof, to commit every such
person to the House of Correction, and to be held at hard
labour for a period not exceeding three months. One of
the colliers had absented himself for ten days consecutively
from hie work ; and the other for repeated absence, and
not working the usual hours since the last pay. 't he firs:
collier admitted the ten days'. absence, but stated that he
had returned to his work three days before the case came
on for trial. In the case of the other, it appeared that his
recent absence and diminution of labour arose from a gene-
ral orderof the brand Committee. The Justice tested that
such conduct could not be tolerated, and that they were
bound to abide by the ordinary rules of the colliery;
having wilfully departed from these regnlatione -and com-
mitted a misdemeanor stub es was eswompli:ted by the
Act, they were sentenced each to forty slays' hard labour in
Brillewell. At Paisley two persons employed at the Goren
Colliery were coneicud.of a similar offence: the Justices
found that the defendants were bound to prcduce ten full
days' work, if in health, and on no account to absent them-
selves from work without the consent of their employer; they
were sentenced to, one ,enonth'e hard labour its Beideocii'
It is to be hoped that these examples will have a salutary
effect on the deluded colliers. The proprietors eminentee
merit the warmest thanks of the community for theif me-
ri!orious conduct, in so undauntedly pushing this destruc-
tive combination.—Ciltetgetut (7ereniek.

The Hope Jamaica packet arrived yesterday with letters
to the 19th September, which brimthe satisfactory
ligcnce that the island had escaped hurricanes up to that
date ; the packet sailed early in I.llc morning of the
The crate ate reported to be very fiat,. The papers we bay:
recniettil contain nothing of interest. We have ro sr2:o
for extracts to-day.
THE COTTON Mansev.—A leler from Beaufil t, Sod'
Natolina, of the 231 ult., says, " The prospect el cet'-'l
in this neighbourhood is deplorable. Vest ern r• •
ilea of the ravages of the caterpillst within the lvt mond%
They will in five days completely consinne a fie!! of 6001
80 acres, leaving noting green behind them, will Vipl irg
the stock of evety thing but :he grown pods. The la' h
is covered with them, and you cannotsput your lout (.0"
without trestlinc: on them. The crop
with sot nit
equal the last, and may not amount to one half of it."
In tinny parts of' the Continent the horvs sr. 1, t to tvl
a kind of cake, which keeps them in good w0r1,•;.7 o
dition at one half the expense attendlog the usual anoe=
feeding.