The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-19 00:00:00

COMBINATION-THE TRADES.

The tradesmen are rejoicing in the fact that eleven of their
number who were tried at the Commission for combination
have been acquitted.
John Flynn, James Beckett, Charles Neale, Thomas Boy-
lan, William Robinson, Hugh M'Guire, Michael Groves,
Thomas Jesson, John Lightfoot, Edward May, and Robert
M'Entire, were placed at the bar charged in an indictment
for unlawfully conspiring to injure John Kelly, a silk manu-
facturer, in his property and calling ; they were also indicted
for intimidating or otherwise inducing ,three men, named
Abraham Flint, Michael Barber, and Afichael Baily, to the
end that they might leave the employment of the said Kelly.
The indictment contained twenty-seven counts.
After the examination of witnesses, Baron Foster summed
up, and having charged the Jury, they retired for a few mo-
ments, and returned a verdict of not guilty.
TIPPERARY ELECTION.

The Tipperary election is fixed for this day week (the
24th), and Mr. Sheil will be re-elected without opposition,
as far as I have yet learned. It is just possible that some
Tory with money to throw away may yet be persuaded to
take the field, but be will not hare the slightest chance of
success. Tipperary will be proud to send Richard Sheil again
to I).aliament.

THE JUDGES.
I saw a statement in some of your contemporaries, that se-
veral of the Irish Judges had declined going circuit ; the fact
is not so : all the Judges, with the exception of the Chief
Baron, are determined to take the field as usual, though,
Heaven knows I some of them are by age and infirmities fitter
for retirement.

D UI3LIN-THURSDAY.

(FROM On OWN e 0 RIO S ON DENT.)
COMBINATION.

Eleven silk weavers were this day tried at the Commission
in:Green-street, for haring, in August last, conspired to in-
jure a cabinet manufacturer named Kelly. The trial excited
greet interest, and the Court was occupied from an early hour
by citizens anxious to know the result. It appeared from the
evidence that nine of the parties indicted attended a meeting
of their trade several times in the month of August, at which
meeting a discussion took place relative to the merits of Kelly
as a manufacturer. It did not appear clearly whether any re-
solution condemnatory of his manufacture was actually passed,
but it was admitted on all sides, that his manufacture was
condemned es discreditable to the trade. It further appeared
that, subsequent to their meetings, two operatir:s who worked
for Kelly, had their silk and looms injured by vitriJl, or sonic
such corrosive liquid ; and that Kelly sustained damage, to
the amount of nearly fifty pounds, by sUoll injury, It also
appeared that, previous to the act of injury m:ntioned, a young
man, apprentice to one of tit• said operatives, was warned by
two of the traversers, that it would be unsafe for him to con-
tinue in the house of his master, It did not appear, how-
ever, that either of these two persons woro at the meetings of
silk weavers held in August. The Jury, after ten minutes
deliberation, returned a verdict of—Not Guilty, which was re-
ceived with a shout of applause by a considerable portion of
the auditory.

I have not time to comment on the result, further than
that the subject has created considerable interest among all
classes of society, since O'Connell has been exerting himself
to put down combination. The persons charged on this occa-
sion appeared very respectable in their ataton of life; and
counsel for t 4 cfown 4isploled; that thp objet of the pro-
secution was not punishment, btit to teach the community that
mischiefs do accrue from certain cerphinations not illegal in
their original institlitioil,

Sir Eardley Wilmot is confined to his room by a
severe attack of influenza 4114 could not atto to his dutica in
Parliament last