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The iron-trade throughout the country is in rather a depressed state. In some places there are disputes between the miners and the owners as to wages, while the nallers of Dudley have " struck " in consequence of a reduction.
:The wages of labourers through the South and South-east of Beds were lowered to 88. per week some time ago ; and at Meppershall to 78. A further reduction was hinted at, but the labourers in the employment of Bye of the seven farmers in that parish turned out and refused to work under fis. We have not heard the result of this determination.—Bedford Times.
• The Liverpool Albion announces with much rejoicing the favourable termination of the differences between the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests and the Birkenhead Dock Trustees. The settlement is attri- buted to the fair, liberal, and frank spirit which Lord Seymour, the Earl of Carlisle's successor at the Board, has infused into the negotiations. "The Woods and Forests abandon any claim to the South reserve ; simply stipulating that the fore-shore on either side of the great float shall be vested in the frontagers when their wharf-walls are erected. The North reserve is tb continue to belong to the Crown ; who undertake to refund to the Trustees the amount incurred in the building of the river-wall of the (North) reserve, about 20,0001.; this reserve also being reclaimed by the Crown. A most im- portant intimation this is considered by some parties, as it is held to imply an intention on the part of Government to make a sort of Deptford on the Mersey ; but that is, of course, a mere matter of conjecture -at present. With the money repaid by the Crown, as above stated, the river-wall of the South reserve is to be proceeded with ; and, further, a dam is to be made across the mouth of the basin, so that the Crown may at once commence 'walling in the North reserve. On these provisions there necessarily follows the Crown's permission to keep always open the Woodside entrance; and the forfeiture clauses are repealed, as sought by the act applied for last month; there being thus a virtual end put to all connexion with the Crown as re- gards the land-revenue."
• Charlecote Hall in Warwickshire, the locality- of Shakspere's alleged deer- stealing exploit, and residence of his "Justice Shallow," was burglariously entered last week, and a large amount of property carried off;—jewellery, articles of verte, money, a ring the present of Henry the Eighth, a minia- ture of Shalcspere's Sir Thomas Lucy, gold coins, and other property. One of the robbers was subsequently arrested at Birmingham, with part of the property in his possession, and the spoil of other burglaries. This man, Walters, with many aliases, has been committed for trial by the Warwick Magistrates : the sum of 43/. 10e. was found upon him in cash, doubtless part of the money stolen from the hall. Another man has been arrested since.
' Several wilful fires are reported this week. In one case, not wilful, a stack of barley was consumed from the heedlessness of a boy, who lighted some straw with a lucifer-mateh, and the flames caught the stack.
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