Yje 'pettator, Sprit Otb, 1853
THE movement for an advance of wages continues to spread. Large numbers of people employed in the woollen-manufacture at Batley, Dewsbury, and other adjacent places, struck for an increase. Some of the masters who had orders on hand immediately acceded to the demand; hilt others have stood out. . . . The Barnstaple carpenters ask for an increase of threepence a day. At Manchester the porters of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashire Railway Companies have asked for an increase of 15 per cent. . . . The Sunderland shipwrights say they must have 5s. a day in future—an advance of 6d. over the recent rise. . . .
The shipwrights of Bristol, and the men employed at several large factories, have struck. In some cases their demands have been agreed to. The workmen talk of forming a " union."
The birth of another Prince gives additional interest to our Court record. Nearly to the last moment Queen Victoria continued to appear in public. . . . The news was made known to the town by the firing of -the Park and Towers guns. At three o'clock a Privy Council was held, and it was ordered that a form of thanksgiving for the Queen's safe delivery, to be prepared by the Archbishop of Canterbury, should be used in all the churches on Sunday next.
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