The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-24 00:00:00

COMBINATION LAWS.

(From the Bolton Chronicle.)
,The following is a short analysis of the last Combina-
tion Act, by which it will be seen in a concise and coin-
prehensive view what, to avoid its penal enactments, the
workmen ought not to do, and what, for the protection of
their own interests, they may do :-
1. Forcing, or attempting to force, any workman to depart from ;
tie hiring, before tAle end of the term for which he has hired.
2. To return any work in an unforielted state.
• S. Preventing, or endeavouring to prevent, any worionan from
hiring himself or going to work.
4. Compelling, or endeavouring to. compel, any person to be--
long to any club or union.
b. Or to contribute money, or to pay any fine to any club or

G. Or; to pay any contribution or line because be-did not be-'
lung, to, any club or union.
7. Or because be aid not comply wide the rules or orders of
any club or union.
'B, 'Forcing, or endeavouring to force, any master to alter his
mode of carrying on his business.
9. Forcing or .entleavouring to force any matter to limit the
number of his apprentices.
10. Forcing or endeavouring to enforce any master to limit the
number or description of his workmen.,
Any man who shall, by " violence, threat, intimidation,
molestation, or obstruction," do, or endeavour to do, any
of these ten things, may be sent to the tread-mill for any
time not exceeding three months.
Workmen may hove societies or unions, may .contribute
money for trade purposes, may give that money to whom
they please; may contribute towards the Maintenance of
men-who arc out of employment, _either from striking or
from slackness of trade ; may have committees and dele-
gates, may make terms with their employers, in every thing
with respect to trade, may work, or refuse to work, With
any man, or any number, or any description of men, or with
apprentices,,: provided they " molest no one, obstruct no
,one, commit no violence on -property or on persons, and
neither. .threaten.nor intimidate any one."

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VIOLENT ExPLOSION Or A GASOMETER.
Abott't six o'clock on Saturday evening, the aeon et
with t;te gas works attached to the factory of John Marshall,
M. p,, ef,tuate in Water-lane, in title town, exploded, and,' ''a
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sorry to oar, caused considerable injury to the building in wrehr'e
was enclosed, and to the engineers upon the spot. The' followinglymit
are the particulate of this unfortunate occurrence: Th t gaso-
meter, meter, which it Opable of holding SAO cubic feet of ig-- *Cs
Oared ,in a buildinj sufficiently large to admit of an inteagr'nal
passages a yard wide, !pond it. This passage is about three yards
Et,----in the grounds and ii Ascended by a flight of steps from with-
out. The gasometer is hunt: in the centre, and the middle space
below the level of the passage ,i 9 a pit tilled with, water. Above
the water' is- tile top of a pipe ,Whicit conveys; the gas from the
condenser to the gasometer. It had become necessary to cleanse
this pipe, and part of the water was drawn off for the purpose,
but While James Harrison, a man not perfectly acquainted with the
autt,e:.e
_ti!
~laitiweo.rnk!l.:itanremoving the cover' of the pipe, he held
"igis7tw"Triluid i'LLikitliy
rus; whichhand,
from the aides of the gasometer, and
h. !far,
jrnt:ttirree'O:::lot_wver4t.:(stthaer,eling on the flags above. Having
blow:oTie ,V,
.„ e,.ieLzitl %hlt e4l' the covering, anti threw
'tool
roof
of9l:veausvii'i drive:
in, winch(i fell on an adjoining stable,
the stable tilled with : Pub-
iiieb, to such an extent, that it aalltlwitit diffiCult , .
catid he extricated. Jamis :moat, „,.. ' Y a ifuroe inside i
bands And face, and wee at firm, considered in burnt rut his
an their hand:
since emnsiderably recovered. jobjma Wilson, wir but h"
ittrtley,
and James jfatrison, were also burnt
escapenif o
bat are in a fair Way of rec°"ty' . The 14eterhsltheirs fromattl facerit ,
fell on the outside and broke down the top Step, or lau *
of the
stairs, anti the men the ground. —Louis lidelilosiutii t'
conequently, in making
place, 14 from the doorway eto
EXTRAORDINARY CI ROVMSTANCII!---thi-w,.-ri'
4. .„
trocity, and shishmight
tanna
natality ite'rtnight .a ease of great a a
have been attended with the most f t,tiseey, at Garton,
ttenesat, occur-
red at a public-holm kept by Mies 44
the new road to Hyde. A large pan of broth was boa.
on
lug on the fire in . the tap-resat, and,
when it oats tal" oft;
the broth was observed to have a peculiar colour and taste. This
excited suspicion, and it and the meat (mutton) Were examined,
and they were found to be strongly inwregnated with arsenic!
If the broth bad been taken by the family, which consists of Miss
,Stanney and a number of smaller brothers and sisters, and the
eervants, the consequences might, anti most probably would, lave
as, in liror and extent any thing that was ever heard of ;
as, besides the family, a number of drovers (it being the Nian-
cheatr cattle market) and eartern are in the habit of calling, and,
,of course, getting something to eat in the house ; nut all the per -
loos might have been poisoned; Na light has yet been thrown
upon this mysterious and atrocious action, mi. has any thing yet
toccurred to fix suspicion upon any person, a* on yqy webonloy
a great number of etrangera generally call at the bouse,-.4lan-
chiller /Arad,