17 JUNE 1837, Page 8

On Monday week, a meeting of 10,000 persons was held

in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, when inflammatory speeches against the Poor-law were delivered. After the meeting, a body of rioters broke open the Workhouse at Huddersfield, where Mr. Power and Revans, the Poor-law Commissioners, were in conference with the Guardians of the Poor, who had assembled to elect a clerk. The mob would in all probability have murdered Mr. Power, if they could have laid hold of him. Richard Gustier was the leading person at the meeting. He tried to restrain the rioters, but they became perfectly unmanageable, and (lid not separate till they found that Mr. Power .and Mr. Revisits had escaped.

At the sale of the Boston Corporation plate the prices obtained were enormous. The articles sold, having been gifts by the noble and wealthy families in the neighbourhood, were anxiously sought after by their descendants. The price expected for these antiquities us about 840/. ; they fetched 584/., being upwards of twenty-two shillings an ounce, exclusive of auctiotoduty.—Lincoln Gazette.

At a meeting held in Brighton on ‘Yednesday, it was stated by Mr. Henry Faithful, that, through the interference of Sir Samuel Whalley, an arrangement had been made by the five competing Companies for a new railway, which is proposed to start from the Church Street ter- minus, by Het:field to Capel, where it divides into two ; one going to the Nine Elms at Vauxhall, the other to London Bridge.—Brividon Gazette.

The depressed state of trade has not extended its baneful influence over the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the number of passengers who traversed it, dining the first thee months of this year, being greater by 10,000, than during the first three months of 1836.—Licerpeol Chronicle.

The day on which the Grand Junction Railway will be thrown open for public travelling is now fixed—Tuesday, the 4th July ; when the journey between Liverpool and Birmingham, and vice versa, mill be performed in live hours, or in little less than half the time it now occu- pies, as sell as half the expense, exclusive of fees paid to coachmen and guards.