The Northern Liberator of Newcastle contains a long account of
a meeting at Sunderland, to consider the case of the Glasgow cotton- spinners, in prison on a charge of conspiracy and murder. Much sym- pathy appears to be excited in the North on behalf of the prisoners ; whose case, on the face of it, is one of much hardship. The post- ponement of the trial wears out the spirits and the funds of the pri- soners; though ut the same time it may be true that the delay is necessary for the purpose of eventual justice.
The movement against the Poor-law seems to gather strength in Lan- cashire and Cheshire. Meetings have been held in Macclesfield, Con- gleton, Stockport, Blackburn, and Oldham, to petition fur its repeal. A club-hou:e is about to be estublished in Hull, under the title of the Union Club, similar to the London club-houses. It is to be formed of gentlemen of all parties, and politics are to be excluded.
Several persons who have had their children baptized at the Church of England have been fined by the Corporation Magistrates in the sum of 2. 6(1. each, for neglecting to register the names and sexes of their ehildren within forty. one days after their birth with the Superintendent Registrar. —Derby Mercury.
In consequence of the combination of coal-factors in London to prevent a free side of coals, and the long time that vessels sent from Cumberland have to wait for their turn of sale, the shipowners of the ports in Cumberland have laid up their vessels for the winter, in pre. Terence to incurring the ruinous expense of this most unjust practice. — esonberland racquet.
Property, worth 1,8001.—consisting of corn, barley, and out-buildings, telonging to the Reverend H. Morrice and Mrs. Bowman, at Ashwell, in Hertfordshire—was consumed by an incendiary fire 011 Tuesday week.
On Wednesday week, an affray occurred on Box Moor. Mr. Price, of Piceott's End, with a Police Constable, attempted to apprehend
a boatman in the act of carrying off some peas, the property of Mr.
Price. The boatman made a desperate resistance; and both Mr. Price and the Policeman were repeatedly plunged into the water. They had, however, partially succeeded in handcuffing him, when his wife, armed with a hatchet, and another boatman came up ; and the woman struck the officer a violent blow with the hatchet, which if his
hat had not bean protected with whalebone strips, must have proved
fatal. After a severe struggle, the prisoner was rescued, amid the cheers and shouts of the bystanders, consisting of a set of wretched
hardened depredators, who have long infested the Moor. Warrants were immediately issued against the three offenders ; who were cap- tured the same night at Berkhampstead, and committed for trial.
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