Early next year, the London and Birmingham Railway will be
open as far as Stoney Stratford, and also at the Birmingham end as far as Rugby ; making in the whole seventy-seven miles completed.
There was a very heavy fall of snow in the North on Friday and Saturday last.
The Leeds Intelligencer says that the hand-loom weavers in Lanca- shire and Yorkshire are in a state of deplorable distress. An able- bodied man only earns from 4s. to 5s. a week by working sixteen hours a day.
The Loughborough Telegraph gives an account of a serious riot, is the neighbourhood of Sheepshead and Loughborough, in Leicester- shire. About four hundred men collected at the Sheepshead Work- house on Tuesday week, while Mr. Earp, the Relieving-officer was distributing their allowance of bread to the inmates. They attacked the lad who brought the bread from the person who supplied it by con- tract. He drove off to Belton ; the mob followed, and Ire took refuge in the yard of one of the Guardians. They broke his cart in pieces, and threw the loaves into the street. Then they returned to Sheepshead ; and their numbers being increased to about a thousand, they smashed the windows and -demolished the furniture of the workhouse. The Constables, who interfered, were beaten off with stones. Mr. Dawson, a Magistrate, and the persons who aided him in rescuing the Relieving. officer, were severely pelted. The military were sent for from Not- tingham, but the rioters dispersed before their arrival. There is at present great distress among the workers in lace and hosiery in Leices- tershire : according to the Loughborough paper, a very trying time has been selected for the introduction of the new Poor-law into that district.
Twenty-seven men and boys lost their lives in a coal-pit belonging to Lord Ravensworth near Workington, on Wednesday week, by an explosion of gas.
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