The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-12 00:00:00

COMBINATIONS.

The necessity of caution applies to every bra" :
of legislation ; and it applies, in an especial man
ner, to every hasty interference with those-sta-
tutes and customs, with which either the interests
of a number of parties, or the feelings and Pr,e-
jadices of a great number of individuals, are the
the
laws connected. Thus, for instance, i" the
laws relative to employer and workman in
manufacturing districts, it is no easy
matter sn to st
interfere as to be eminently useful. At fit
sight, and looking merely at the abstract O°
that
of right, one would be very apt to supP"se t
the same regulations that apply to ordinary to
those parties ought to be left to common law--
co;
a.
tute, either commanding the master to pal a veto
tracts, and that there should be no particular stro
tain sum in wages, or forbidding the workman _r
wages were allowed him. But when
cease from his employment, unless an increase
g'
s
mines the subject a little more closely, one ed
one fia_f
that here the common law for the regulation ue.
contracts will not apply, because that law Pile
that the parties are upon an equality', vi
here there is no equality in the case. The w°r•ry
of ma
whose the
e hands,
fc
whoseo!st i constitutes thead
es his ;ro dpsyr,tro
and
only th
far more independent of chances and circa
stances than his employer, who has, probahlPeVii
pended hundred of thousands in the purchase
laud, the erection of buildings, and the coustrao
tion of machinery, for the purpose of carrying a,
his manufacture, all which would be of c°m,.//el;
ratively little value, if, whenever it suited tlibio
caprice, or their imaginary advantage,
workmen were to desist from their labour.
o,v
In this case, the inequality between the bo
parties renders it necessary that he wbat
not only has his property at stake, if,
whose property not merely adds, and adds large
eerttes
n°
to the general wealth of the country, brit fi
d by.
those men in subsistence, should be proteete,i, of
some peculiar law answering to the peculiarh-e„,
the circumstances. At the same time it is est er
tial that this protecting law for the ernlll°lie
should not turn the balance in his favour a stager,'
jot—should not give him a single tittle of [Pavia,
by the exercise of which he can in any vol
der
press any one person in his employment. 1°.5
terrnine what this protection should be, r.
matter of very nice inquiry ; and it is an incluse,
which is rendered exceedingly difficult in °o/
ouence of the sources whence practical inf°toll
tion—the only information that is at all use(„io
such a subject—can be drawn. If inquir;tion
made among the employers only, the infermtioo:'
will learn too much to their side of the ouesiv No;
it
and if it is made among the employed
will again .lean too much to their side' rofig
only this, for it will vary with every •Bwhicli
'
species of manufacture. In those branches
lion jS
are so simple, as that little or CO instruc no
.„"' 1, or
required iti order to perform them, 11 •
otre
check upon the workmen will be re-' prey
whereas, in those which re* tedious aP_5,0,..
ticeships and long experience,
tial for the employer will, at the risk of 01 fob,
.5
capital, be much greater. Upon this
Wis 01;0
ject, evidence to a considerable extent seoiott
before the House of Commons in tb' e
vide"
1824. An act, founded upon that e passe
combination with liberal principles, `c"
did -deci
during that session ; but no sooner
1„ crow
ment meet, than they found their table 000-
' with petitions, so that there was no 81t4ee fresh
but to appoint a new committee, exarilintio!
evidence, and return to the work of legisla
(Session rf Parliament, 1825;)
the security:4ot

ti at "s.
BELZONI.—We are sorry to (Part' -1 dipp-k
„,b , net
BELZONI is at present in a situation of great e"'"sl no, g
and that the valuable collections made by her late littsb3 be lo!.
exhibiting in Leicestsr-square, will, in all probabiligP#4.:,
to her for ever, if some assistance is not immediately emit(
her, her, to enable her to discharge a claim of comparative Y •
magnitude.
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At the funeral ceremony performed 9 ew,004,1'
back at Ruel, whitlic; the remains of die Empress J05_A5'1,34,,'.
had been translated, and deposited in a monument rain, e do./
children, the following circumstance took place :--ilt.,n," iglit-,
of the ceremonies, an ex-Officer of Cavalry and ay'—nied frd
the Legion of Honour, clad in deep mourning, au/title:o
wards the tomb, holding in his hand a copy of the „olisP,a,"e
Historiques stir l'lmperatrice Josephine, splendiclll '' d pig
white satin. He stated, that Mademoiselle Lenorirlingoillor,
cholro, Voi
famous fortune-teller,) the author of the work, had
to place upon the monument the copy of the Nemliorefo,
that he had been refused permission to do so by t.he Aries tf 4
#uel.• and the intendant of Malmaison, these funct-orl to ol;:os
mg him that,they had been expressly commanded,qo
in
any thing to appear upon the monument but the
contained in the Royal ordinance.

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SARIZIED fte..i.dit• •
On Thursday last at Gateshead C'hurch, by' the "-to ;AP, Ati,.
Rector, Mr. Charles 111 ilner, cf Newcastle-tipon-VIT cos,.
eldest Daughter of Thomas Featherstone, Esq. 0' twor
House, in the County of Durham, and of Nevicss f,
Tyne.. • 17' To
Boelle'dertile
On the 10th inst , at St rkTicholas' Church,'
.of
Lewis, Esq. surgeon, to Maria, eldest daughter
Mr. W. Clarke, of the same place.

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bfE tool
.. On Monday evening last, Mr. David Lewis, of
Inn, St. Clement's Panes, Solicitor, and many Ye'ir deCeF .
with the Exchequer Office, Somerset House. The 0t,...
was very highly respected by the profession• ,evia,stle-oPitotO
~4 At his house in Northumberland-street. -, it, the_ore
xYne, on the sth ft a fe.w days, ills
or, for not
year of his age, John Frye Esq., Land-Survey.:_,,, ag,Fott
than 50 years, Mr. Fryer had been most estensi Vtbe :4.‘,.ity
oin the surveying and viiluation of landed propqq,l",„o eri,Pae.,
,fi England ; and in all his professional avocatic!Titv, ofool.
g_.:singuished by his activity,. Intelligency, Prfa
in'ost'.o,
cisionb Sind and `affectionate to his family,e7
.._ thet.J., ,
table to his friends. The, loss of such andman, V., ree
dtse
nesso of.. years,i,
viii; of cannot but be deeply :ego/I.e
3rairl.,Ylo
:saturday, the Btlr inst.„ Anne, w"d
of Brunswick-Douse, Aid'
On the 3d - . • V‘ allis t ate t
dreth, C. Mile-end-road. ~, ssq.,o.. oe
inst. at Lieorge Mark ... , _ie,
_..
-fiette'i
ambridge;hire, Mr.' Jalliet; 111`% nini,
Strand., in the 57th year f his age. .. lc pear egg., liro'--.
On Th .1 L WO WIC , . _ p
ursuay, tue 6th inst., till; .wharnoi.,
' Jenetta, daughter of 'the late am
Dudmaston Shropshire.• 0)-10
At hishouse at Croydon, 111 r• Thomashpsirerine..7 Sighll
On irj
Ho 111°ndav, the 10th inst., at ..is.cta . 0 eoto
House Wraih- John fleet STti of rtfr ' .
At at,- answw,
J.
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