The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-27 00:00:00

COMBINATION.

At the last Rotheram Sessions, G. Elmsall,
C. Musgreave, S. Labron, S. Goodison, T. Wilson, H. Shaw,
and W. Nicholson, were charged with a riot, and assaulting J.
Whittaker and H. Barrowclough, on the 6th of June last._
There had been a turn-out of the shoemakers of Barnsley,
and the prosecutors were in the habit of going from 'Wake-
field to work at Barnsley for Mr. Dodsworth, who had a
shop at either town, every monday morning, and returning,
on the Saturday evening. On the morning in question,
the prosecutor, in company with a man named Fordham,
were met by the defendants anti a number of others, at the
Ship Inn, about a mile. from Barnsley, on which the mob
set up a shout, calling them B/uck Sheep and Scabs. Whit-
taker ran off, but was followed by the mob, who, on overtaking
him, beat him severely with a bludgeon, broke his head, gave
him a black eye, and kicked him dreadfully on the body, threa-
tening to kill him and pull his liver out, and made him promise
never to go to Barnsley again during the turn-out, without a
card from the Turn-out ; at the same time observing,
that they had set watches at every entrance to the town, •so
that they could not go in without being detected. The prosecu-
tore, Barrowdough and Fodhant, met with similar treatment.
The prisoners said the attack was merely made in their own de-
fence. The Jury, without retiring, found the prisoners Guilty.
Wilson, Nicholson, and ntw, the three persons who actually
committed the offence, were sentenced to nine months, and
Musgreave, Labron, and Gof;dison, to six months' imprison-
ment in Waktfial House of Correction. Eimsall did not take'
his trial along wild the prisoners, but was excused on a sur-
geon's- certificate. He is to be tried at the next Sheffield Ses-
sioll.3.

BRADFORD COMBER AND WEAVERS.
'The " personal discussions" between the masters and the
mien at Bradford seem, as we apprehend, to have led to no sa-
tisfactory results. The dialogue, indeed, between Mr. Rand,
one of the firm with whom Tester worked, and this operative
agitator, is instructive, foi he exposes some of the objects
of the Unions. The primary one, he says, is an advance of
wages ; the next, an equalization, or that all artisans and me.
charles should have the same. He also declares that the
" Unions" are so connected, that the workmen in one _town
can effect a turn tr.'t for an advance of wages, in another; and
lie adds, after declining to state how this effect may be produced,
that it is the determination of workmen to attempt an equali-
zation of wages in all towns in this part of the country. There
is every reason to believe that this attempt will be made;
and that the subscriptions received by the Bradford turn-outs
are referable to such an understandings among the different
trades.. Upon the ultiniate consequences of pursuing a ge-
neral system of combination, Tester is exceedingly cavalier.—
According to him, " Manufacturers, must only now give up
one sort of manufactures, and turn to another," then they must
only " lose their capital," and last they must only " rest still,"
so that war between the masters and men is to be carried on
Dui internecionem. The tailors at Bradford,' we have been in.
formed, boasted when the combers and weavers struck, that they
should hereafter follow their example, and obtain 21. per week, for
working ten hours a-day. It is, however, bnt fair to mention,
that many of the combers and weavers have long since repented
of the course they adopted, but still have held out through great
privations, rather than yield the principle contended for. When
these proceedings shall end, we cannot conceive. The follow-
ink letter from our correspondent gives small hope of a speedy
reconciliation
" BRADFORD, AUG. 24.—0 alteration has taken place
t since last week in the affairs of the masters and workmen. The
masters have had no further meetings, hut the men met, as
usual, on Monday last, at Fairweather.green, and the weekly
allowance to the men was increased from 6s. to 75., and by this
it appears that their fund* improve progressively......(Leeds
Juteiligencer.)