The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

We lament to state that letters, dated the 4th October, were
received yesterday at the Colonial Office from Fredericton, New
Brunswick, which announce the melancholy loss of the right
wing of the 96th Regiment of Foot, in going from Halifax to
Bermuda. Lieut.-Colonel llerries had not, fortunately, em-
barked with the right wing.

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The 39th and 79th Regiments of Infantry have completed
their augmentation establishment.

(From the LONDON GAZETTE, Nor. B.]
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Cc.:lnty and
County and City of Gloucester, and of the County and City
of Bristol.
Royal South Gloucester Militia—Humphrey Austin, jttn.,
Esq., to be Captain, vice Lucas resigned.
Royal North Gloucester Militia—Thomas Cox, Gent., to be
Ensign.

TERMINATION OF THE BRADFORD CONTEST.

Our readers will be glad, but not surprised, to
see that this contest is at last terminated, by the
return of the deluded workmen to their occupa-
tion : so must all such combinations end, let but
the masters stand firm and true to themselves.

" LEEDS MERCURY OFFICE, NOY. 7.
" SECOND EDITION.
" The contest between the master manufac-
turers and their workmen, at Bradford, is happily
at end. The good advice given to the men has
been taken. On Saturday, in the afternoon, near-
ly a hundred of the Union men applied to Mr.
Wood, one of the principal spinners in the town,
for work at the old wages ; and this morning the
combers and Iveavers generally followed their ex-
ample. On Saturday, the weekly allowance was
for the most part paid to the turn-outs by the Union
Committee, sitting at the Roebuck inn ; but the
hopeless nature of the contest, as demonstrated
in this paper of the 29th ult., had diminished
the supplies, while the approach of winter was
daily increasing the demands upon their funds,
which could not be answered by a less sum than
twelve or fourteen hundred pounds a week. The
danger of losing their work entirely, by the in-
troduction of machinery, and the arrival of work-
men from other places, had its influence on the
decision. The Committee, bowing to circum-
stances, left the workmen to resume their work ;
and the masters seem disposed to receive as many
of them as they can employ, which may be about
one half the number. The town of Bradford is. in
the meantime, in a state of considerable excitation.
The streets are tilled with groups of workmen,
some of them deliberating upon the course to be
taken, and others reporting the success or failure
of their applications to their former employers.
The inhabitants in general are congratulating each
other very cordially upon the termination of the
contest, and anticipating the revival of that pro-
sperity which for the last '2O years has rendered
Bradford one of the most flourishing and increas-
ing places of its size in the kingdom.—The meet.,
log at Fairweather Green took place this after-
000n,-John Tester in the chair : after some pre-
liminary explanations relating to the conflicting
statements which had been published ou the
subject of the amount of wages earned by
the combers before the strike, the Chairman
announced, that having found that the mas-
ths could not afford to give nu advance of
wages at the price at which manufactured stuff
goods were now selling, a number of the men had
applied for work at the former prices, and some
of them had succeeded ; others, it was hoped,
would be equally fortunate, and those who could
not obtain work would still continue to be paid
the usual allowance from the Union funds. in
conclusion they were congratulated on the recog-
nition of the Union Society by the Masters, so
far as not to require any of their workmen to dis-
own it. With this explanation,and this consolation,
the meeting, which consisted of from 1,200 to
.1,500 workmen, seemed satisfied ; and a vote of
thanks was carried unanimously, on the motion of
Mr. Tester, seconded, by Mr. Walworth, to Mr.
Wood and Messrs. Rand, for the readiness they
had shown to meet the men on the present occa-
sion, and for their liberal conduct towards their
workmen. The meeting dispersed in perfect
good humour at nightfal, it having been pre-
viously announced frtpfn the chair, that no further
meetings would be held at this place."