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-Two strikes are reported. The ship-painters of Liverpool turned out for 58. a day instead of 4s. 4d. ; some of the masters have granted the increase. The stone-masons of York have struck for '278. a week in place of 24a. ; the masters resist the demand. Three American rogues are in custody, who have been carrying on a very successful system of robbing lodgers in hotels. Kingston and Branch were arrested at Manchester, and Howard on board a mad-steamer at Liverpool —he was about to carry 600/. of plunder to America. The three appear to have frequented the best hotels on the Continent and in England, and to have skilfully entered the bedrooms and robbed the occupants during the night. The Manchester Magistrates have committed Kingston and Branch for robberies at Manchester; Howard was forwarded to London.
A gang of eight ruffians, masked and armed, have broken into the house of Mr. Hodglunson, a farmer at Heighten Fields,. Derbyshire, on the borders of Yorkshire, assaulted the inmates, and carried ofi' much plunder. Only one man has yet been arrested—he was recognized by the crape on his face having been blown aside by a gust of wind while he held a candle in his hand : he formerly worked for Mr. Hodgkinson.
A little boy has died at Leeds from cruel treatment by his mother. To extract alms, she exhibited him in the streets as an extraordinary instance of deformity—a trunk and head with no limbs : some women, doubting the truth of the deformity, seized the child, undressed him, and found the arms and legs bound tightly to the body—the legs bent up on the chest ! They had been so for a long time, and when the bandages were unloosed the limbs would not resume their natural position. The poor child died intim workhouse. The mother had been previously sent to prison as a vagrant. Mr. Montagu Scott, a Brighton Magistrate, has effectually checked a railway card-sharper, by sending him to prison for three months for gam- bling " a public ilace." He cheated a lad out of thirty shillings in a railway-carriage, and another passenger had him arrested. A solicitor urged that the carriage was not " a public place," but Mr. Scott overruled the objection.
Mrs. Goodyear has been killed, and Mrs. Carrol badly hart, at Stockport -station, by attempting to cross the line as an engine and tender ap- proached : a porter had just before enjoined them not to cross till the engine had passed.
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