Preparations are making at Manchester for stamping newspapers under the
authority of Government.— Sun. LWhy should not the Stamp- Distributors in every principal town be empowered to stamp news- papers ? It seems quite unnecessary, as well as inconvenient, to compel the publishers of country journals to employ London stationers to procure their stamped paper.] An eminent London firm of engineers has received orders for the execution of two steam-engines of two hundred horse power, for the huge steam-vessel now building in Bristol for Transatlantic com- munication, and which it is expected will be completed in the course of the ensuing summer. That now erecting at Liverpool, for the same voyage, will only contain one of two bundled and seventy horse power. It is said that the expenses of a lawsuit respecting a window in Snig Lane, Prescot, tried on Monday at Liverpool, will be nearly 500/. ; and that the value of the house, and window into the bargain, is short of 50/. There was in this ease a complete cloud of witnesses ; and the result is said to have produced a sensation amongst the parties interested which has not been equalled in Prescot since the battle of Waterloo.
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