Cbc Catuttrn.
THE aspect of the country, so far as its politics are concerned, is tranquil. Almost all the counties have now met and expressed their continued attachment to the Bill. Essex, which met on Saturday, was the last which will probably assemble in this part of the kingdom, un- less some unforeseen accident occur to thwart its progress. The people now rest in quiet expectation. On the new Bill, the Birmingham Union has passed its approving fiat : Mr. -Inwood thinks it better than the old. So does Mr. Cobbett,—whom we place with the worthy "head of the Union, not because they generally agree, but because they generally differ. The fires, if we may believe the Kent Herald, di- minish in number; and for the most gratifying reason—the labourers are better paid. The Cholera has not ceased, but its front is smoothed, and its motions are languid. In some of the mining districts, there are turn-outs ; accidents which, if they indicate that present labour is less in demand, indicate also that there is in the hands of the workmen a fund of accumulated labour which enables them to dispense with em- ployment. Trade is everywhere miserably dull ; partly from common causes, but perhaps more from the uncertainty which all men have felt respecting the fate of the Great Measure. The foreign quaran- tines have hitherto done little, from their partial nature.
In more than one parish in Wiltshire, the farmers have come to a resolution of apportioning the unemployed labourers among the rate- payers, so that the whole of them shall be employed at reasonable wages during the winter. There has been a considerable increase in the demand for calico piece-goods and prints at Manchester, during the last two or three weeks.—Blackburn Gazelle.
"In cons ce," says the Birmingham Journal, "of the late Act of Parliament forthe abolition of the truck system, there was a meeting held 'by the nail-masters on Tuesday last, when the wages were ad-
vanced 10 per cent. Thus, 50,000 distressed nail-forgers have found relief from this salutary measure."—[ If wages:rise in conseqUelice of the Truck Bill, then is the miracle of the tongue an everyday sound not worth listening to.]
The whole establishment of that part of the Aberdare Iron Works formerly. managed by the Messrs. Scale is to be discontinued; the last furnace is now blowing out.—Monnioutlishire Merlin.
The heavy gales of last week occasioned such a tremendous swell of the sea at Weymouth, that the waves rolled over the Esplanade, from one extremity to the other.
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