The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-22 00:00:00

SHIPWRIGHTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
St a—ln the early part of December last I was permitted,
through the medium of your columns, to invite public atten-
tion to a subject possessing peculiar claims on general con-
sideration, viz. " the Policy of the late Repeal of the Combine-
" tion Laws, and the practical effects that have resulted from
" that repeal, as far as they have hitherto developed themselves."
And although the remarks I then ventured to offer, had peculiar
reference to one department of British industry, yet, as I
have reason to conclude that an extension of the inquiry would
prove similar results to have ensued among almost every class
of our manufacturing population, I shall, I trust, need no apo-
logy for recurring to the subject, seven with those who may be
least disposed to consider the Ship-wrights as a body of suffi-

dent importance to attract public interest, or to justify general

conclusions.

Frorn.the tendency of many questions proposed to intelligent
witnesses examined before the Cotnrnittee of the House of
Commons, whose report produced the repeal of the Combina-
tion Laws, from the words of the Report itself, and from the.
arguments employed in the discussion of the question, by the ad.
vocates for the repeal, I am equally justified in concluding that
the conviction of those who originated and supported the mea-
sure was, that the laws prohibiting combination had been the
CAUSE of " mutual irritation and distrust," and had actually
lsd to those combinations they were designed to prevent ; from
this conviction resulted the inference that their removal would
allay that irritation and distrust, and the consequent and ex-
pressed expectation that combination would thenceforward
cease ! Let us inquire how far the experiment has demonstrated
the correctness of this conclusion.
Distinguished from many other classes of Mechanics as a
body, by the general sobriety of their habits, and correctness
of their moral conduct, as much as by the personal ac-
tivity and strength, requisite for and consequent on their la-
borious occupation, the Shipwrights of London have of course,
like other descriptions of workmen, been engaged in occa-
sional disputes with their employers.—But for a period of
more than twenty years no general suspension of work of
any long continuance has occurred, their ditference3 have been
unmarked by those demonstrations of exasperated feeling, and
of intemperate violence by which the artizans in many trades
have been disgraced, and no instance has, I believe,
taken place in which punishment has been inflicted for any
breach of those laws, the partial severity of which has been so
loudly denounced. Yet it is not pretended that during that
period no combination has existed among them. When im-

may. think necessary for the performance of the work required
by the'masters. In the assertion of thiS monstrous claim, one
strike has already taken place. Delegates are at this moment
travelling over the country, and have already occasioned the
Shipwrights of Whitby and Scarbro' to strike! Ample funds
are collected by a subscription of one shilling per week from
each member, and a triumphant expectation is avowed of
bringing the Masters to their own, the Shipwrights, terms !
But the recital of these facts has already occasioned me to in-
trude so largely on your columns,, that I must reserve for a fu-
ture Letter all comment on the causes that have led to, and the
probable consequences that may result from them. I would
only repeat, such was the state of this trade under the exis-
tence of the Combination Laws ; such is its condition since
their repeal !

I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
London, Feb.2l, 1825.. VERAX.

LONDON INrOIITIIEIIN RAI L-RoAn.--The Direc,

tors of this Company have issued Circtilars to the applicants
for Shares, stating that in consequence of the Bill to be brought
into Parliament by the LORD CHANCELLOR, which is to have
a retrospective operation as far as the meeting of Parliament,
they do not deem it proper to issue further Shares until his
Lordship's plan be more fully detailed.

VALENTINES, A NONY MO US LETTERS, &c.-A
gentleman, much annoyed by the expellee io which•he wal.p❑t
M receiving by post different artick.s of the above description,
applied to the Post-office for redress. From the following
reply, it appears that persons put to such useless expellee are
not without remedy:—

" General Post-offu :e.
" Sir—We can give no general instructions as to the return
of the postage on letters which the. parties open, but if you will
send to me any which you conceive to havk been improperly
addressed to you, we shall be the better enabled to judge what
redress can be afforded. .

" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) "F. FREleplls'G, Secretary."

His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK was
so much recovered yesterday as to be able to ride out in his ca-
briolet in the course of the afternoon, and to pay a visit to the
King at his Palace in Pall-mall. His Royal Ilighnes was
visited yesterday by the Princess Sophia.
The Maquis WELLEsLEY, we regret to hear,
was so severely indisposed with a cold, as to be obliged to post-
pone a Council appointed to be held at Dublin Castle, on
Thursday last.
The Pit Est DENT of lIAYTI has ordered the LP-
gislative Body of that Republic to be convoked
for the 10th of January, on account of urgent
circumstances.

• pelled by a sense of danger or of injury, real or imaginary, Several Captains of Cornish mines have lately
they have frequently acted strongly and simultaneously.— accepted situations in the Mexican mines, at sa-
The power of combination has, therefore, existed, when sup-
lanes, we hear, of from 7001. to 10001. per gear
posed necessity for its exertion called it into action, and has We understand that the large ship the Gaunt-
.ceased with the occasion which I have ever considered could Inis has quitted her moorings at Blacktvall, and
alone justify it—the resistance of unjust aggression. Under has gone down to Nortlitleet to be docked.
this system, though the Shipwright of London has, from deli-
We regret to learn, that the venerable Dr.
ciency of employment, deeply partaken of the difficulty-and dia_ PARR, who continues at his Vicarage of Hatton,
tress from which our labouring population have but recently is in such a state as to leave scarcely any hope of
his recovery.
emerged, his wages have never been reduced below five shil- lit consequence of the expected success of the
lings per day, and from the prevailing practice of piece- measures ewdeiitline( Franceistl for
thatthe
work, a tolerable workman, when employed, could generally earn tie-int el) debt,ropjvernsimilarm e proceeding eil.rdoiinLiasl con 4 trc-
templated on the part of die understand
Government. six or seven !—But with the repeal of the Combination Laws
Ineaerrii cai,i7latitzshtearte
per
contractt fore new loan at 75, in a stoeli
A NEW ERA HAS ARISEN ; new sentiments pervade all minds.
Unity of action ia no longer regarded as the legitimate means of applied to the takingiourt co
nf
;11 et 11 lei a producerthe existing sli il ,r. whichs
peris to
o-nbte
transferring
bonds, the holdets of which will have the option' of
opposing oppression, but as the obvious and legalized step, for
isslefloiervt(j qtar-t
eiTliZeasintnoleunntttoo;7lilee,:,3, perm cent. sock, or ofti being
the attainment of power ! Hence, the extensive association, praaindsoefralritgpatitr.
pose will be between 3 and 4 millions ; anck edgiuti
the aspiring claim of the bold, the restless anti the discon-
svru rea brlaeptitoaltttse
pofrupslulitie ficr
oclrastsbeenitrtaiiin views wholly fa-
tented ; the regular organization ; the collection of extensive
this measure is completed, it is expected thaf )IvieerrieTtecntti.on-Toff'
funds; finally, the surrender of the right 'of individual action,
itheirus s
ia publicl,,u debtsia
unit
naa similar manner will be attempted by
and the establishment of the unlimited controul of the few overAustria,ent
ilsVihnegt,lolerrtasnutcceasssf,tadnorinrget,Jhme
the physical force of the many. With this mighty engine at very attempt at this moment
tihtatunfo;,tetarrus
eexis(t of any interruption to the general tran-luil-
command the struggle commences, not fur righti, but for
power. Animosities are excited; envy, hatred and malice, ]sty of
L the. 133.t)11.Decemb at C'
and all uncharitableness, are engendered, and tyranny, the in South America, 3lr. WI LI. za,m DeAyrisß o n raNl:stoll,ra geagl 1a I
5 je,
was known
wConsult?,f the e
Government
detrrwbulerhinbtelnlio-
sure concomitant of power, vested in hands unconscious of its
duties, and unaccustomed to its exercise, subverts the princi- gain; and as a merchant of sgaremae neneitercorrizsie
means successful in what is regarded as the szi'mmunt bonyunz,
plea of social order, and endangers the existence of the social
nyeaamrselyo,ittalcirtieuiirnetentof wealth. Having spent several
fabric, That this picture is not overcharged, I shall now en, South America, during the early struggle
dcavour to prove. ' for liberty, his "Memoirs of the Mexican 'Revolution," (pub-
lished' about two years ago), furnish one of the most interesting
No sooner had the Bill repealing the laws in question re• pictures of the events connected with the passibn scenes in that
ceivedthe Royal Assent, than a general feeling of indefinite country that can be submitted to the leader." The Spanish
Government alleging that he had interfered improperly in poli-
tical pervaded all classes of the manufacturing popula, aseiric.?,:reetestdetilfand sent to Spain as a state-pri-
tion. Among the Shipwrights this feeling soon assumed a do- luckilystnenaella.fatitiseiietiisneasca, or in all probability his
finite conviction, that the opportunity was now afforded for ob- Spanish dungeon.
days '.vould have een ended
taining, by effectual and universal combination any object they 110111511) Me lIDELI.-The following letter, COM-
irnatia7illlngehharaslll).eartscul;rars of
ianother murder ccOcrnit-
could desire to gain. A Meeting was soon held, an Association mter nuieut:muCazirtT
tuCy'huruonuinclee—uf
"Aylesbury, Feb. '2O :—I have t
formed, a Committee of 34 appointed, and on the 16th of Au-
tthuroyse horrid deeds which so often stain the pages of our his-
gust last a Society was formally established, which soon in- was committed last night, about Il o'clock,
eluded in its members every individual Shipwright of the Port on the person of a fine young man named Morris, at Aston
aCilnyteouna,
one
tfthe half way from hence to .Tring and not
of London. Having elected as Secretary a long distinguished twoffeplawceerewluiletrle
ithe_two. old persons, Ed-
champion, whose principles, whatever they might be in ward Needle milt
hisl
Ivisited the#, spot this morning, and a esaaewd
tilt aboutixtiwy ouf yearstie ago.e .
morals, had notoriously . involied the most decided ceased.
considerableruat bruise on one of the temples,
freedom in religion, and the most violent democracy also on the cheeerek, aan tieti
mortal wound is on tile baek of tsheerrlllesaTiuchnilrutneide,n,bnuatutil2
e
in politics, and who no doubt considered a liberal salary,
Nalerrgce(ctiliewpitriiineliLaln), Rceoeinves,.and Coker, are recta. tody here,
and distinguished situation, preferable to the toil of la,
athenemmmiutruderriil,Tle t weapon
borious industry ; delegates were dispatched to every Outport supposed to have been used was
of the Kingdom, and the Society soon added to its list almost feet long.
and
Ttwoic::eortf our Magistrates, (Sir John Dashwood King,
cWcitttehneded at the Magistrates'
every Shipwright throughout the Country ; and as an induce.. Cham"ber this morning,n Browne,
The Coroner's Inquest will.be held to-morr uw , depositionsaud itilleppriuvl)tfiee.
meet to those in Iles MAJESTY'S DOCK YARDS, to enrol
willreexpaumrtiengtgn take place on
the village; Molrririendesday. It is commonly
themselves in THE UNION, a pledge was given, that if dis-a had_ given
.informati.on to
the Lord of the Manor. that
charged from the Public Service,: either a guinea per week Allen had been guilty of oftences
agZsot,trluleEgiatme laws.
should be allowed, Olt EMPLOYMENT PROVIDED FOR TIIE3I ALLEGED" Alunts•n OF 'A
A ' IrE
_IN ST.
.
BY THE COMMITTEE ; this pledge has been punctually re- GILES'S.—The above neighbourhood- has been thrown into agi-
tation again, in consequence of the reported murder of Nary
deemed ! The avowed object of this Society is, to use its own Coleman; a woman who cohabited x' i• , Richard Hawes, who
words, " for the mutual support of each other on the just right resides.in St. Giles s- It is. said lie to
returned home the other
cc evening,el when,l arlerfthVngl some high words with her, lie heat
of a seven year's servitude, and a scale of prices founded on the
w afterwards found in
" principles of equity between masters and men." Its natural ther vrioemenn,tkkeatt;ingeat the
mouth,noascee.anhe
suir,geon was sent for, but sbe expired soo I agerneaillyawdeeasd.wAas
tendency soon developed itself. It was stated to the Ship-
ofta '.lltair?ltaocircouusntht-teaentdi•euxilrerin„Tilicr ?ire '. E. ComArrr, Esq.,
builders, that the Committee of Shipwrights were engagednw.as remanded until the
in the formation of a book of prices, in which they have been result of the Coroner's inquest be known.
SIIOCKING OccuartExcE.—llachel fltitli of
employed for some months, without any communication with
oldhstoonsh-undeetzkinei neglected her
some
child of about seven 'years
the Master Builders. But, in the interim, a system of harass-ittiwaas
?they founeftitittleleneighbnurs going into
ing demand for alteration of' prices has been successive- the room where it
tually
mother
part of the blanket which covered
t infant f:Nte had a e
ly and continually practised in EVERY Dock Yard. in the unnatu-
ral
emusthoyyvib,ays fi3ltiirn.dirlreiwntkoinngthaet a japuubtivic-house and taken in-
River, and on the slightest refusal of implicit compli- to
died on AVednesday afternoon, and. the wretchedcons lr'ehres childt
ra n
al l em. 0 t
ance, an immediate and universal STRIKE has ensued. By
degrees, objections to the controul of the Masters, as to the eeelttli
61 herself r-.)eultfhwbiotlii
iaeshabnetkreerci4i.e!'slAntleie lock-ups." Inquests were
Coroner,
Died by
theil
employment of their men, were advanced, and on the agitation case of the child, the Jury found a verilicCtoor;')
e
neglect ^f,
' Itnn"thtahteoflvatget of
woman the
towards it byy the
of every question, an entire suspension of work took placeevuetrdict was " Lunacy."
-till the permanent sitting Committee could be consulted, whose mother."suppusiu g
that the dread of punishment, together with horror
i • anti remorse, must have caused mental derangernent.—(Man-
dicta have always been implicitly obeyed !—Proceeding as •
chester Courier. )
~ . .
they acquired strength, on the discharge of a workman 'fro
from ALARMING 11 II; F..-Tills mor •
rung, about three
one establishment for alleged inCapacity, five hundred men j . '4; broke"
o'clock, a Aire out at the I 1,
louse of i Ir.
instantly struck, and not an individual would return till the -in " .ci
BIRNIE bookseller, alert-lane, Covent-
man was restored,
At
drestored too in the way most insulting Garden, which it entirely destroyed, with till
to his employer! length the mask is entirely thrown off: the furniture, and a valuable collection of iiool's
Wages have become an. object of minor importance. A tone of The Peacock Tavern adjoining is very much i'U.
dictation anddefiance is assumed. The mastersare publielY vill- ittred ; arid so rapid were the flames that M- , r.
fled, arida system of regular annoyance and degradation pursued 8111NIE .and the inmates were .
Obliged to escape
towards them and a claim isnow o
, Penlyavowed that the Commit- out of the windows in great confusion, but I utp-
tee, the imperizem i.r;i imperio, shall have the positive right ofsend- 41
pily no lives were lost. Mr. 13IltNIE) we regret
ing to any establishment as many and such individuals as they to hear) is but partially insured.