The Sun.
London, England, 1806-05-27 00:00:00

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COMPINATTON OF TAYLORS.

Tußt.t.c-Orvien, MARtgonot.Tou-S-ritzET.----It is-
general-y known that di:sturbatices have recently
iken plaCe amongst the Journeymen TaylOrs, in
consequence of Masters continuing to 'employ wo-
141CII in the lighter b6tklies of the trade. In-some
shops the females have been entirely excluded by
the :Taylors, whilst n -others a general strike is
threatened unless their demands ate complied with.
The' foPowing ' seven persons IPin. Gill, Tha.
.]*:g on, 'pward Hinton, John 111‘Carty, Janzes
Titoilipson, Tahu Lewis, and John Harwood, were
`chaged 1,;-' Mr. Train, Taylor, No. 12,, .oolden-
)
!:.itiare., with conspiring together to
.prevent him
dram employing a women of the name df Jacks.—
.The. Prosecutor stated, that the VefendantS, who
"vere'all of them employed in his shop, applied to
Monday the-11th instant, to discharge Miss
Jacks from his service, or a strike would be the con-
sequence. Hintop and Gill we're the Delegates, and
tliey Wereinformei by Igr. Trail, that he did not
to the woman if-they could procure‘ a
'l!ttfficierit. mitrib4 Rf bands to do his bUsineSs.=—
They retired to their boards, and on the Wednesday
'morning, on coming to work,'they saw Jacks, who
was -a relation of :gr. Traill's 'Wife, doing sot-nettling
to a waitcOat in the private shop, when after finish-
ing the work they had in hand, the whole Of them
strua that eveninw. , Mr. Traill, procured warrants,
`and they were tarcthl into custody on Saturday.
Mr. KNArr, Counsel for the Defendants, describ-
ed the taylors as-ii'very Useful body of then, but no
man was more avelv to combinations than himself.
He however had an objetßion to take, which arose
froM the construction of the. A& of Parliament, in
the first part of the third section, which provided
against combinations:The words are, " Everyjour-
ncyrnan, manufaaurer, workman, or other person,
who shall combine together," Sz.c. .The Learned
Counsel's argnment was, that the Legislature, in
framing the.A6l, never had in contemplation the fe-
naie sex. lie quoted several /Ws to substantiate
the objection, particularly that which provides against
'embezzlement, where it had been decided by one of-
-the Judges, that the female sex were not designated.
'The objeeliOn, however, was over-ruled by the
'Court.

The Magistrate was Of opinion, that the present
'was. vely pernicious combination, although the
Taylors, generally speAking, 'ere men qUietly dis-
posed, ond seldom to be met with wasting their
time in public-houses, like many journeymen of
Other trades. It always happened that combinations
existed when masters were pressed to get tbeir'buSi-
ness clone, and such was the case in the 'pres'ent in-
stance. Mr. Trail begged that, provided the men
,r;ere sensible of their error, they might be
.pardon-
ed,- as they all had families .depending on them for
support. The Magistrate, however, felt it a duty
incumbent on him to make an example of the Pe-
fendants, as the only method of 'putting a stop to
the combinations which. existed in other shops. .He
would, however, mitigate the punishment, in Con-
sidcration of what had been offered -by the Counsel
in their behalf,- and the sentiments delivered by the
master. The Defendants were severally ordered to be
committed to Tuthill-fields Bridewell fur six

POLICE OFFICE, HATroN-GARDEN.—Yesterday
Dennis Curby Was charged, upon the oath of Mr.
I loby, salesman in Holborn; with coming into his
shop and bargaining for a watch, when he.tendered
the price of it in shillings which were rejeaed as
being bad silver. He offered to part, with them at
Bd. a-piece,-saying they cost him tod. a-piece in Li -
merick and other places he travelled through in Ire-
land, and conceived.* metal to be pure and unadul-
terated; that the obje6t of his buying the watch,was
tomake.a profit on it by selling it again to some raw
recruit. The Solicitor of the Alint having examined
the counterfeit money,,-pronounced them to be all
had, and that they were-probably manutathired in
England.; he was therefore fully committed for trial.

HALL.—Yesterday Thomas and Margaret
Sullivan, the.man and his ),vile charged with robbing
I\furtor,h Doyle of 14 guineas and a half, taken out
of his box in the room—and a like sum found by,
\Golf, the Officer, in a box in the apartments of the
Prisoners, were again examined ; but one of.the
suspeaed accomplices having- absconded; they were
remanded.

Tuesday last Margaretunnirigham, found guilty
at the last Perth Circuit of poisoning her husband,
but Who pleaded pregnancy, was taken to Edinburgh
and .edturnifted to the Tolbooth,- her ease being. cer- •
tified to the kligh.Court.of Justiciary. John Skin--
ner, who was indiaed-albng with 'Cunningham.for
the above crime, but who, was outlawed for not op-
ikaring, has since been apprehended.
Owing to the cold on the night of Wednesday
sell:light, several hundreds of the swallow tribe,
-called Martin's, had clung to the toll-table againit
the Turnpike li-ouse' at Wballey, in Yorkshire :
those it&ain had Others covering • them four or five
in thickness, all of whom seemed to he in a torpid
state : several dozens were stroked off the 'board,
and those taken up appeared completely lifele;s, un,
till about seven o'clock on Thursday morning; when
the. sun's warmth caused re-animation, and they
gradually moved Of' to the water-side, a distance of -
about 30 yards : a short time afterwards they be,
gm to skim the surface of,the water, and fly with
the usual vigour of those birds.
Uii Wednesday evening, between seven and eight
o'clock, wjiile a boy about ten 'years of age, and a
girl (his sister), about four, were playing at the
'south wall of the New Pock at Leith, near the
pump,-they both unfortunately fell in. There was
at the time eight feet water in the Dock. The girl
was saved by 06' active humanity of Capt. Nash,
of the Impass Service, Who fastened a rope round
his body, and got down. just-in time to save her.—
The brother long held, a firm grasp of her ; and as
she was.below. him, she was of course all that time
under water. Two men went down to relieve the .
boy from his perilous -situation, but failed in the
attempt ; when James brow, a private in the Ar-
gyleshire Militia; suffered .himself to he suspended
a rope, chin-deep, caught the boy by the •foot,
when he was just disappearing, and succeeded in
his life. • • !