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The Leeds petition to the House of Commons in favour of the Vote by Ballot, received, in live days, 11.079 signatures. The sheets were withdrawn last Saturday evening. The avidity with which this docu- ment has been signed proves the strong sense entertained in this town of the necessity of the ballot, to protect the purity and independence of the voters, and to guard against the tyranny or corruption of un- principled i fel i yid oats. —Leeds Afercary.
A Coroner's Jury was surninoned at Oldham yesterday week, to in- quire into the circumstances attending the death of James Bentley, who was shot in the riot at Mr. Thompsoti's mill. Mr. Fernand, the Coroner, refused admission to the newspaper reporters ; the evidence, therefore, has not been published ; but the whole of Friday. Saturday, Monday, and part of Tuesday, was occupied in receiving it. The Jury remained together for twenty-seven hours before agreeing to it verdict ; and at length, on Wednesday, returned one of Alanshilighter against John Drawn), and James Isherwood, who were seen with fire- arms in the mill. The conduct of the constables who seized the Unionists at their meeting, which was the beginning of the disturbance, will be examined into by the Police Commissioners. The amount of damage done to Mr. Thompson's property is very considerable : the cost of repairing the windows alone is estimated at between 501)1. and WO/. It appears that the original cause of offence to the workmen by Mr. Thompson, was not the lowering of wages, for lie paid the same as his neighbours, but the introduction of a new description of reel into his premises.
For several days, numerous meetings of the operatives were held, to consider whether they should return to their work. At the date of the last accounts, many had done so ; and it was expected that nearly ull would follow their example before the end of the week. The masters generally agree to give them the seine wages as before the strike.
The strike of the Derby operatives is at an end, as far as those belonging to the silk trade are concerned. Their funds fell short on Saturday night, and since, applications for work at the factories have been nume- rous. The baffled workmen now express great sorrow for their con.. duct.
The Brighton unions have recently received an anonymous donation of 125 sovereigns towards their support.
The Trades Union delegates are at present actively engaged in in- ducing the tradesmen in Plymouth and Devouport to join their body. Eight hundred members have been already enrolled, but no strike has taken place hitherto.
A church-rate has just been laid at Coningsby of Is. in the pound, restrospectively for nine years I—Stamford Mercury.
Four men were hanged at Chester on Saturday last ; two for cuttirg and maiming with intent to kill, one for attempting to shoot Mr. Wilkinson, the mill owner at Staley, and the other for the murder of a young woman near Stockport.
The man who shot Mr. Ashton, of Hyde, a few years since, has been discovered. A convict who was sentenced to death at the last Chester Assizes, but who has since been respited during his Majesty's pleasure, is stated to have declared that a man with whom lie was ac- quainted was the actual murderer of Mr. Ashton. Two persons have been apprehended in Oldham this week, arid are now in custody.— Bolton Chronicle.
Yesterday week, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Deane junior, of May's Farm, Benson, Oxford, was returning home from Wallingterd market, he was attacked on Crowmarsh Hill by three men, who pulled him off his horse and robbed him of bank-notes and sovereigns to the amount of 3.4. also a gold watch, gold chain, and seals, with which they escaped.
A fire broke out at the Rev. J. Fitzmore Hulsey's Gaddesden, on the 15th instant, occasioned by brewing. One wing of the house and a great portion of the furniture were destroyed. The damage is to the amount of upwards of 2,0001.—Berks Herald.
A destructive fire happened on the 16th instant in the woollen fac- tory belonging to Mr. James Scholefield, Rochdale, called Buckley Mill. The building, which is severity yards lung and three stories high, was principally filled with machinery : in a very short time it was entirely consumed.
One day last week, as a lady's carriage was ascending the bill on the Park Road (near Liverpool), a man deliberately took n, his own child (a girl of eleven years of age) and threw her among the horses ! The
coachman fortunately drew up before the wheels had touched her ; but her arm and betel d are greatly injured by a kick from one of the horses. The man (said to be insane) was immediately taken into custody.— Liverpool Albion.
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