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A county meeting for the Eastern division of Kent is to be held on Monday, to take into consideration Lord Althorp's Tithe Bill. The Kent Herald says—" It is arranged by the leaders of the Liberal party, that a proposition for the total abolition of tithes will be submitted to the meeting, either as a substantive motion, or as an amendment on any proposal in support of Lord Althorp's bill."
A Court-martial has been sitting during the week at Sheerness, on Captain Hugh Pigot, late of the Barham ; who is charged by Lieute- nant Walker, late of the Albion steam-vessel, with ignorance of his profession, tyranny, and cruelty, while on the Mediterranean station. A great deal of evidence has been given, and it is not known how much longer the investigation will last. Lieutenant Walker appears is court in plain clothes, because lie says he has been long on huff-pay, and a new style of uniform has been prescribed since he purchased his last suit. This, Sir Richard King, the President, considers a high mark of disre- spect to the Court.
The Newmarket Second Spring Meeting was held on Tuesday. The company was not very numerous, nor the running during the week particularly interesting.
A large body of the Leeds manufacturers have determined to employ no workmen who will not sign a declaration that they do not belong to any Trades Union. A correspondent of the Standard says-11
" Thu resolution was promptly acted on. On Friday, several firms who usually pay their wages on that day, gave their men notice of the declaration they would be re- quired to sign. Others gave 11w same notice on Sat unlay ; and the rest, who had joined the associated masters previously. gave their men the option of signing or leasing their work on Monday morning. The consequence is, several thousands of hands have already been thrown out of employ, very few indeed having signed the deelaration ; and of those who have signed, scarcely on it was believed, a as a member or the t relent at the time the declaration was promulgated. (in Monday at noon, between seven and eight thousand person; assembled on Woodhouse Moor, about a mile from the town; and after their names had been called over iu shops, they were addressed by two or three of their fellows, who militated them to be firm in their refusal to sign the declara- tion, as conduct themselves during the struggle with order and decorum, and take taro that the enemy did not trepan them into a breach of the peace."
On Thursday sennight, the tube of the Trevethick steam-engine burst ; threw down in large fragments great part of the cylinders of the engine, scattered in all directions the roofs of several buildings be- longing to the works, and shook it considerable number of the houses around. Two men were at work in a shed adjacent ; the roof of which, made of iron, fell upon them, and they were taken out dreadfully scalded, and nearly in a state of suffocation.—Merthyr Guardian.
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