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A correspondent of time Leamington Spa Courier gives the following analysis of the Warwickshire .Anti-Reform address—" Out of about 800 names appended to the address, the following- gite maybe skimmed off—three resident noblemen, includir°es the Lord Lieutenant of the county, whose name is first on the list ;baronets, nil; country squires, 11.--the first name among these gentlemen having appeared to the re- quisition for the first county meeting; clergymen ;54—this portion of society in Warwickshire having distinguished itself by unremitting ex- ertions against the cause of liberty and reform. Among the signatures to the address are 10 magistrates not parsons."
Bath is named as the place where, to save expense in the attendance of witnesses, the es officio information will be tried against the Mayor and Magistrates of. Bristol.—Bristol Mercury. .
The Bristol Anti-Reform address absolutely received the incredible number of 2,000.sig,natures !
Orders have -been issued by the authorities • at Liverpool to prevent papermakers' rags. beine;collected in that town, for fear of the cholera being Spread through that medium. The Post-office packets are pro- hibited from carrying paupers and dealers in old clothes from Port Pa-
trick to Donaghadee. . . . . . This week we are sorry to announce that a very bad spirit has dis- covered itself among a great body of the hand-loom weavers, several respectable persons having been so dreadfully beaten and ill-treated, that the lives of some are despaired of. Large bands of these deluded men have perambulated the town, visiting the houses of the various weavers, whom they suspected to be working at under prices and com-
teilelecd them, by force, to pull the warps from the looms, and take them to their employers.—Manchester Courier. A dreadful accident happened at Bilston on Thursday morning. About ten o'clock, the boiler attached to the screw-manufactory of Messrs. Hawkesfords burst. The boiler was placed close to a part of the manufactory; and at the time of explosion there were in the build- ing about fifty persons at work, men, women, and children ; it was im- mediately filled with the steam, and all that were in it, with a few ex- ceptions' were more or less scalded. Some of the windows being knocked out, by that means the sufferers were enabled to get out of them , and then conveyed to the ground by ladders. There were about one hundred and fifty persons also employed in other parts of the factory. The sight at the factory, a few minutes after the accident, was appal- ling : women from all parts of the town came running, shrieking for the safety of their children, and all eyes were eagerly cast up at the win- dows as the poor sufferers were got through them ; some covered with the dust and steam so as to be scarcely recognized, and others, who had been bruised, with the blood soaked in their garments. The roof of the factory soon fell in. The engineer died from the injuries he received shortly after the accident, and two employed in the factory have died since.
An appalling murder took place on Saturday evening last, in the -neighbourhood of Nuneaton. The murdered woman, whose name was Green, was a native of Nuneaton, a single woman, and lived in a small house at the top of Abbey Street, together with five of her own illegitimate children. For the last three years, she had been cohabit- ing with a man named John Danks, by whom she had one child in 1829, and against whom she had affiliated another three weeks since, and of which she was eight months advanced in pregnancy. Danks was a married man, and various quarrels had ensued between his wife and Green. On the evening of Saturday last, as it is reported, Denim :went to the house of Green, and having called her out, they proceeded across a field to the rear of the wretched woman's dwelling, and in the direction of a hovel belonging to Mr. Astley. Bed-time arrived, and Green not returning home, a search was made for her in the neighbour- hood by her daughter ; but nothing was heard of her until the follow- ing morning, about eight o'clock, when the body was found in a field, within twenty yards of the above-mentioned hovel, weltering in blood, the head being nearly severed from the body. The alarm having been given, Danks was arrested, and, on examination, conveyed to War- wick gaol, to take his trial for the offence. It is stated that he has made a full confession of his guilt.—Birmingham Journal.
A melancholy accident occurred at Bury on Saturday morning. Mr. Thomas Fison, brewer, of Calvert Street, was gauging a vat of vine- gar, when he slipped in and was drowned. He has left a widow and rime children.
On the 21st March, a party of smugglers attempted to run a cargo, at three A. 53., on the station next to St. Leonard's, Hastings. The affray was desperate, but the courage of the revenue men secured the boat and a hundred and sixty tubs of spirits, at the expense, however, of two lives : one was shot dead on the spot, and two others carried to their towers in a dying state.
All the men convicted at Gloucester of the riot in the Forest of Dean have been restored to their families, with the exception of 'Wil- liam James, and it is said that he will shortly be enlarged.—Monmouth Merlin.
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