te Vroulurto.
The Morunouthabire colliers are about to resume work, submitting to that reductio. n of wages "found necessary from the state of the coal- market." In the Staffordshire colliery district the state of things is very unsettled and unsatisfactory, with frequent disputes between men awl masters, and "strikes" of the former, The 4ainmakers of Cradle,' have turned out; and six hundred gun-lock filers are lying idle at Dar- laston. It is stated that a. Government contract has been taken for 50,000 looks ; the contractors have agreed to furnish them at a very low price; but they want to get a good profit themselves, and so attempt to reduce wage's. Last September, the filers suffered a reduction of 10 per cent on their earnings; the present scheme would be something like 25 per cent additional reduction : hence the "strike."
A boy only seven years of age has committed suicide in the Trent at New- ark. On several occasions he had threatened to drown himself, saying his mother had flogged him ; last week he told his companions that a boy had hit him, and he would drown himself. He walked into the river till the water covered him, and then the stream swept him away. He was known to have had some strange ways," but was not supposed to be of weak in- tellect. The Coroner's Jury found that Vie deceased, "being an infant, and not having discernment between good and evil, did drown himself."
In a. prize-fight near Nottingham, Brown, aged twenty-two, has been killed by Hall, aged only seventeen.
There was a very violent thunderstorm at Oxford on Wednesday sonnight- " heavier than has ever occurred in the recollection of the oldest in h sbirants." The lightning did some damages and several persons were struck down by it, but no one was seriously hurt.
A_portion of the handsome timber viaduct over Vie Esk on the Whiteliaven and Furness Railway was burnt last week. lho manner in which the fire
originated baffles conjecture : it was stopped by pulling down a portion of the bridge.; altogether, a length of sixty yards was destroyed.
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