At a newly-erected factory, in Derby, on Thursday week, one
man was killed, and three were dangerously hurt, by the failing-in of a floor in the fourth story of the building. The floor had been supported by a east-iron beam, which broke.
; The Gloucester papers contain an account of a savage outrage, com- mitted, a few days ago, by four boatmen on the person of a young woman whom they got into one of their boats. The particulars are not i fit for publication n our column-, and we defy the most industrious collector of Irish outrages to produce a more brutal or infamous as- sault.
The differences between the masters and operatives of Preston have not been arranged, though the latter are in great distress. The contest at Oldham also coetinues.
At the Tredegar iron-works, on Tuesday, the shed, under which the boiler-makers work, was completely destroyed by lightning. Almost miraculously, not one of twenty workmen labouring under it at the time received even the slightest injury.—Merthyr Guardian.
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