Star.
London, England, 1825-10-26 00:00:00

COMBINATIONS OF SHIPWRIGHTS.

The shipwrights employed in the bailding-yard of
Messrs. Btocklebank, IVhitehaven, have given a speci-
men of their gratitude. It is well known that Nlessi s B.
never acted upon the system of duing all their work
with apprentices; they paid their men 18s.per week,when
many paid only 15s. In slack times they constantly
employed their hands, though to their own loss; and
recenly they yielded to a demand of their men, and
advanced their wages to 21s. per week. Of lite, how-
ever, the combination mania has got into the yar3, and
insolence and insubordination have since been the order
of the day. Last week Mr. Brocklebank engaged a
man, recommended to him from Harrington, and on
Monday morning the new hand went to commence work,
but he was not one of the right sort ; the apprentices
collected around hiar, and told him what he had to
expect it he dared to violate the law of the yard, and the
man was so intimida,ed that he determined upon
looking on merely till one of the principals at rived ; but
in the meantime he was seized by the apprentices,
mounted upon a pole, and carried from place to place;
and finally, through part of the town to a public-house,
in triumph and derision. After this feat the precious
apprentices returned to work, but they soon determined
upon another freak. They picked out a man whom
they called a scab, not having exactly conformed to the
" Union rules," and this mate they also mounteJ on a
pole, and were tiking.him through the vwn, when they
were met by Mr. Brocklebank, who ordered them to re-
lease their victim, and on refusing, Mr. Brocklebank
pressed forward, and was either pulled or knocked down
by one of hii own apprentices; his clothes were soiled
and his face was bloody ! He instantly went to his
yard and discharged every shipwright employed in it,
and has commenced proper proceedings to bring the
offenders to justice. On Thursday afternoon the yard
remained completely shut up. On Friday morning the
ship carpenters, in the employ of Messrs. Kelsick, Wood,
and Sons, Maryport, voluntarily left their work, because
Messrs. Wood were so oppressively unreasonable as to
refuse their servants the power of dictating the internal
management of the yard! Matters ate thus coming to
a pretty pass.—Carlisle Patriot.

POLICE LvTELLIUE,NCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Roszaav air w Szavaar.— Timothy Gibson, an apprentice to Mr.
Robert Carter, of Nu. 3, George-yard, Lombard-street,
►bip-
broker, was charged with having robbed his master.
Andrew Rutherford stated, that he had charge of the petty
cash, and the monies necessary for such disbursements were kept
in a tia box, of which Mr. Carter aud witness alone had keys.—
Witness often had missed cash, and could never account for the
loss: At half-past live o'clock on Wednesday, the 19th day of
October, having missed two sovereigns and some silver which he
bad marked, he asked the prisoner to give him change of a sove-
reign ? The prisoner replied, that he bad not so much.silver, but
km witness 7s. 6d. which Mr. Carter found had been marked,
aud claimed as his own.
Forrester, the officer, found upon the prisoner one sovereign,
which was also marked.—The prisoner was remanded.