Mr. [Losers, the Hatton Garden Magistrate, died suddenly on Tues-
day nigh. On the mot ring of that day, he went through the business of the oitiee as usual, and returned to Hampstead, where he lived, in
the evening. lie rested on the sofa 1 erore dinner, and, it was sup- posed, fell asleep ; but on a person endeavouring to rouse him, be was found quite dead. Mr. Rogers was sixty-five years of age, and had been a 31agistrate twenty years.
A considerable number of journeymen boot and shoemakers held a meeting on Wednesday evening, at the Mechanics' Institution, to take measures to maintain a " strike " against the masters in the trade. The masters, it seems, are attempting to enforce a reduction of one- third in the wages of their journeymen, which now range from 18s. to 24s. a week. Resolutions were passed pledging the meeting to resist- mice, and recommending a public subscription to assist the parties to the "strike."
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