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BRADFORD COMI3ERS AND *RAM&
The " personal discussions" between the masters and
the men at Bradford, seem, as we apprehended, to have
led to no satisfactory results. The dialogue. indeed,
between Mr. Rand, one of the firm with whom Tester
worked, and this operative agitator, is instructive, for
he exposes some of the objects of the Unions. The
primary one, he says, is an advance of wages ; the ner,
an equalization, or that all artisans and mechanics
should have the same. He also declares th it the

"Unions" are so connected, that the workmen in one
town can effect a turn-out for advance of wages in an-
other; and he adds, after declining to state how this
effect may be produced, that it is the determination of
workmen to attempt an equalization of wages in all
towns in this part of the country. There is every reaso
to believe that this attempt will be made, and that the
subscriptions received by the Bradford " Turn-outs"
are referable to such an understanding among the dif-
ferent trades. Upon the ultimate consequences of pur-
suing a general system of combination, Tester is ex-
ceedingly cavalier. According to him, " Manufac-
turers must only now give up one sort of manufactures,
and turn to another,' then they must or:ly " lose thtir
capital," and last, they must only " rest still," so that
war between themasters arid men is to be. carriei on

od internecionem. The tailors at Bradford, we have
been informfd, boas•ed when the combers and weaver-
sty tick, that they should hereafter follow their example,
and obtain 2/. per week each, for working tan hours,
a-day. It is, ho Never, but fair to mention, that many
of the comber., and weavers, hare long since repented
of the coutte they adopted, but still have held out'
through great privations, rather than yield the prin-
ciple contended for. When these proceedings shall end,
we cannot conceive. The following letter gives mall
hope of a speedy reconciliation :

" Bradford, Aug. 24, 182 S.

" No alteration has taken place since last week in the affairs of
the masters and workmen. The masters have had no further meet-
ings, but the men met as usual, on Monday last, at Pairweather-
green, and the weekly allowance to the men was increased from 64.
to Is. and by this it appears that their funds improve progressively."

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CLERICAL INT,ELLIGENCE,
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Thursdaysennight, a "ash was moderated to the It
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Church, Edinburgh, in . of the Rev. Dr. Gordo% tow
ulster of that Church, in room of the Rev. Mr, Grey, Senninel to
St. Mary's Church, at Bellevue.
The first United Associate Congreption of Allay have given a
unanimous call to Mr. Peter M.Dowal, Preacher of the Gospel,
to he colleague and successor to their Pastor, the Rev. Mr. kluekersie.
The Rev. William filoore, M.A. of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, has been licensed, by the Bishop of Lincoln, to the perpe-
tual Curacy of Spalding, void by the resignation of the Rev. Dr.
Johnson.
The Rev. Mr. Cockburn, to be a Prebenl of Winchester, in the
room of 1)r. Hook, now Dean of Worcester.
The Rev. John Davies, Rector of St. Clement's, Worcester, to
be Chaplain to the House of Industry in that city.