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The iron and coal miners of Wednesbury have Struck work, in conse- quence of the masters reducing wages 3d. a day. The former rate of pay- ment was 48. The employers-have been led to this proceeding by the pro- spect of a fall in prices; the stock of iron continually accumulating, and there being a general feeling that the present high price cannot be main- tained.
An institution has lately been established at West Bromwich by G. S. Kenrick, Esq., the objects of which are to furnish the working classes with a place of resort in their leisure hours, and means for innocent recreation; to diffuse general and useful knowledge among the people; • and to aid their desire to improve their tastes and habits. It consists of a library, reading, news, and class-rooms; and the subscription is but one penny per week. Lectures on important subjects will be occasionally delivered; and the read- ing-room is furnished with two daily and several London weekly news- papers, the best periodicals, and the local papers.—Birmingham Gazette.
The planting in the new Parks at Manchester is proceeding very satis- factorily: the backward state of the weather, however, has retarded the sowing, and the grounds will not be opened to the public so soon as was expected.
A labourer was killed on Saturday oat the Great Western Railway, between Southall and West Drayton. He was passing over the rails with two horses as a train came up: the horses he got safely off the line; but some sudden panic seems to have seized him, and he did not move clear of the engine, the buffer of which struck him dead.
On the night of the 16th ultimo, at half-past twelve, when relieving sentinels on board the Raleigh, 50, lying in the Pinop ileach, the sentinel in the fore-chan- nel fell into the water. The alarm, "A man overboard !" was immediately given, and reached the ears of the Test Lieutenant of the Raleigh, Mr. Tatham, in bed at the time: he instantly sprang on deck in his night-shirt, and precipitated himself off the gangway into the river. Although an intense fog pre- vailed at the time, and the weather was very cold, at the peril of his own life he succeeded in saving the marine, but was much exhausted when he got on board. The sentinel was very nearly drowned when Mr. Tatham saved him.—Hampshire Telegraph.
The Harriet, a Danish West Indiaman, bound from St. Croix to Copenhagen, has been run down at night, off Beachy Head, by the Seringapatam outward- bound East Indiaman. The crew of the Harriet had time to escape to the Eng- lish vessel before their own ship foundered; and, fortunately, though the Seringa- patam was much damaged, it did not make any water, but was enabled to return to Blackwell. The disaster would seem to have been caused by the Danish vessel steering a wrong course, passing under the bows of the Seringapatam.
Read, the young man who was tried for the murder of Tranter, an old farmer of Berkeswell, but acquitted, is now committed for the robbery of Tranter's house. Various articles belonging to the old man have been traced to him.
Two men, strangers to each other, and apparently decent people, met at the Tivoli Gardens, Margate, one night last week, on the occasion of some society's anniversary; one of them, Sutton, grew boisterous, and on his return home through a lane, he set upon Price, a carrier, demanding his money—probably in joke. A struggle ensued, and lasted long; in the course of which the carrier beat his assailant's head on the ground upon some stones; he then ran to the high- road and called out to two passengers that a man had attempted to rob him, and that he had beaten him in self-defence. Sutton died a few hours after. A Co- roner's Jury has returned a verdict of" Manslaughter" against Price, considering that he used unnerPssary violence.
Charles Waterton, Esq., of Walton Hall, has determined to destroy the game within his park. This is an effectual mode of putting an end to poaching.— Wakefield Journal.
Mr. Rawlinson, relieving-officer for the Cartmel district, has forty-two paupers who reside in the parish whose united age amount to 3,362 years, the average age being eighty years each: the oldest is eighty-eight, and the youngest seventy- five.—Manchester Examiner.
The Manchester Courier tells a strange story of a boy, near Liverpool, having vomited a living animal of the lizard kind, about seven inches long. The boy swallowed the creature in drinking from a brook eighteen months ago: ever since, he has suffered much, continually growing worse, until at length he threw up the reptile; and he has now greatly recovered.
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