The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-07-28 00:00:00

LETTING OP rns CUSTOM-110M DOCfS,
DUBLIN.

Considerable.interest was t xcitrd among the mercantile
gentlemen of Dublin, on Thursday last, by the puttitp
up to public letting the Custom-house Quays, Hod,
Warehouses, &c., of that city. The Hon. Mr. Le 14,,e-
Trench, one of the Commissioners, Mr. Waller, the t 4.,.
licitor to the Revenue, and other principal officers, havie.
taken their seats, Mr. Winstanley, a re-pectable Londe:.
auctioneer, read the conditions of the sale, and after ob.
serving upon the advantages to an active intelligent lesst‘c
becoming the tenant, he then stuted that if any further
I information was required by gentlemen beyond what was
!mentioned in the printed statements, he was ready to
I afford it.

Mr. Rao env inquired, whowas to pay the Dock-ttaster,
ffie gatekeepers, and to light the concerns ?
Mr. WINSTANT.PY replied, that the lessees would, of
course, provide their own officers, the Commissioners pre.
serving the right as At present existing for the execution
of the necessary duties by the officers of the Revenge.
The lighting would be done by the lessees at their own
expense.
' The bidding was then proceeded on ; the tirineipai
bidder's were Mr. Carroll, Linen hall ; Mr. Scored, br9-
tiler to the Assistant Snretary of the Customs; Mr J..-
sph Pim, and Mr. Brophy.
The contest was between Mr. Carroll and Mr. Scove::
The latter gentleman was declared the highest bidder.
6,020/. per annum, for a term of seven, fourtecr, cr
twentv-one years, at his option. The bidding co:- -
menee'd at 1,000/., and continued for half an hour, no ad-
vance lets than twenty pounds. The price is considered a
fair one.

Mr. Winstanley conducted the business in a very gen.
t7emanly and business-like manner.

COMBINA TION.

Dt:eux.
On Saturday morning. between three and four o'clock, peace.
office?' Oilioughly m'ai Cox repaired to Rathfarnham, and sec.
ceeded in apprehending two paper-makers, named Thomas Smi:h
aid John Spleane, against whom informations were lodged be
Joseph 11111, which charged them, that on Thursday, while the
deponent was in the milljard of Mr. Pickering, the said two men,
with others, violently beat and &moulted him, for being at work at
Mr. Pickering's. The two prisoners, after an examination before
the .Magistrates, were ordered to stand committed for trial at the
next Commission.

Michael Murray, one of the same trade. was brought before the
Magistrates, when it appeared, that on Friday, as a party of police
were escorting several Scotchnten, paper-makers, into town from
Mr. Pickering's, to protect them from violence, the parry was fol.
lowed by the prisoner ; and the Scotchmen perceiving him, informed
the police of the circumstance, stating that they apprehended he
was following to ascertain where they (the Scotehmen) might stop
in town. in order to give information to the body, and have then
"slated." The police, therefore, desired Murray several times to
return, and not follow them ; but his threats and insolence were so
often repeated, and his persevercnce in following so determined,
that the police took him into custody, and brought him before the
Magistrates.
1 he prisoner assured the Magistrate that it was not the police he
threatened but the Scotchmem

To a question from why he had threatened the
Scotchmen ? he replied, " because they worked the machinery at
Golden-bridge, to be sure." Upon which the 31agistrates, uncial
the authority of the new Act, committed the prisoner for three
moults' confinement and hard labour at the tread-mill, for using
threatening and violent language to deter the persons stated from
following their employment.
Four other paper-makers' against whom informations were,svorn
for having used violent and threatening language on Thursday,
during the riot at Mr. Pickering's mill, as stated in our paper of
Saturday. were elmo committed for three months to hard labour st
the tread-mill.—Fran ton's Journal.

CORK, JULY 23.
The meeting convened by the Mayor, SheriftS. and Magistrates
of this City, on the subject of combination, and for adopting the
necessary measures for the suppression of the spirit which had beeo
manifested by the attack on Messrs. Payne's residence on Wearies-
day
.night last, was held yesterday at the City Court-house ; it was
respectably, but not numerously attended.
His Worship the Mayor baying taken the Chair, briefly stated
the occasion of the meeting, and the outrage which had been com-
mitted, and the reason there was to apprehend that the spirit bad
extended amongst a large proportion of the tradesmenywhith of
course it would ba necessary to adopt measures to suppress. Since
the meeting, however, had been called, he was gratified in stating,
such information had been received as led to the hope that the
tradesmen would return to their duty, and that they would not put.
sue the same illegal course. Under these circumstances, 9a ten-saltation with the Magistrates; it bad been considered advisable to
adjonm the present meeting to a future day, should any occasion
cad for it; at the same time to declare that watchful care slieuld
be used to protect all persona from any aggression on the part of
the tradesmen.
The meeting generally appeared to concur in the observations
which his Worship had expressed, and in the opinion of the 31s-
. gis:rates with whom he had consulted.
31e. John Bennett observed, that it should be remembered by
the tradesmen, independent of the impropriety of such proceedings,
of which they must themselves be conscious, that all losses sus-
rained from similar outrages would be levied upon the city, already
very heavily burdened, and that they would themselves be subject
to a portion of the amount. After a few further observations of a
similar nature, and enforcing his advice upon the tradesmen to re-
turn to peaceful habits, the meeting was adjourned.

SINGULAR Arm-it:KT.—A dreadful accident, occr.sione‘l
in a most singular manner, occurred yesterday, at I o'clock,
at the engine factory of Mr. Payne, Greenwich. A young
man, named Zachariah K Maley, beiug employed to cleanse
a flew, covered himself, excepting his bead, arms, and
hands, with tow, to keep off the soot, and which, he un-
fortunately set on fire, by going too near a lighted candle
rhe had in the flue with him, and was instantly shrouded
in flames, which the confined nature of the place prevented
being extinguished until his face and arms were burnt in a
manner too dreadful for description. Ile was conveyed in
a caravan to St. Thomas's Hospital, in extreme agony.
where he lingers in a most deplorable and dangerous con-
dition.

Cntrr, DROrprNG.—On Tuesday night an inffint, about
one month old, was placed by its onnatural parent at the
entrance into Wheeler's-yard, in Park-stmt, near the
Borough Market,. A man who happtnd to have been
passing by at one o'clock in the morning, heard the cries of
a child, and on proceeding to the above place discovered
the infant lying on .the ground, wrapped up in an old
flannel patticoat. The child was conveyed to St. Saviour's
‘Vorkhonse, where it now remains, and the parish officers
have offered a reward for the apprehension of its unr&.ural
parent.