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Two candidates are in the field for Sunderland, vacant by Lord Howick's succession to the Peerage—Colonel Thompson, the veteran Free-trader; and Mr. George Hudson, the Railway potentate' a Conservative. Mr. Bagshaw, a Whig, appeared; but he retired, not to divide the Liberal interest.
Some of our largest spinners have been availing themselves, owing to the very low price of the staple, to lay in immense stocks: for instance' we could name one firm at Bury which bee, it is said, at least twelve months' stock on hand, whilst there are many firms who hold from six to nine months' stock. Every spinner will, there is no doubt, who possesses the means, pursue the same prudent course If to the immense quantities in various ports be added the unprecedented stocks in consumers' hands, the district may be said, so far as the cotton-trade is con- cerned, to be well prepared for a storm.—Leeds Mercury.
Nineteen miles of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, from Sheffield to Dun. ford Bridge, was opened for passenger-traffic on Monday week.
At Maidstone, on Thursday, Frederick George Jones, a Customhouse clerk at Rochester, was convicted of forging a receipt to a tradesman's account for 121., and thereby defrauding the Customs. He was sentenced to seven years' trans- portation. The young man was engaged to marry a lady who will be entitled to 8001. a year on attaining her majority.
The Staffordshire Magistrates are engaged in investigating a charge of cruel conduct towards a prisoner, brought against Onions, the Constable of Kingswin- ford. It is alleged, that on the 9th instant he had in his custody, at his own house, a girl fourteen years old, and that he kept her during the night chained to the grate by a handcuff on her wrist, in a back kitchen, with merely a stool to sit upon. The next night, a second girl was handcuffed to the first; but the two prisoners were allowed some bags to he upon, on the floor.
A brute named Bird has been guilty of a most atrocious revenge for a jest at Pontymoil tin-works in Herefordshire. Some girls were singing during the break- fast-hoar, and Bird was annoyed; he threw some water over one of them, and she retaliated in the same way; when he seized a vessel of mnriatic acid and threw the contents over her! The girl is recovering from the injuries she re- ceived, but is much disfigured.
A labourer has had a narrow escape on the railway at Chosen, near Glou- cester. He had been at work, and sat down to rest or to eat his dinner, close to the edge of the rails, and there fell asleep along the ground. While he was in this situation a train passed, and it was feared that the poor fellow was crushed to fragments. On assistance reaching him, it was found that the wheels had passed along his leg and side and cut off a portion of his clothing, but had only grazed or scarified the flesh.
An alarming accident happened on the Great Western Railway, near Bath, on Friday- week. One of the wheels of a timber-carriage, employed in conveying materials for the repairs necessary upon the line, broke when in Salford cutting, between Keynsham and Bath. Shortly after, the two o'clock train from London arrived; and the parties in charge of it not witnessing the accident which had occurred to the timber-train in tune to put on the break, the engine ran into the timber-carriage, and of course made a fracture in it; damage was also done to the engine. The sudden concussion threw most of the passengers from their seats, and some received sundry bruises and scratches. The fireman had his shoulder dislocated. The train was delayed for three hours, causing great alarm at Bristol.
A curious accident occurred at the Edgehill tunnel, on the Liverpool and Man- chester Railway, on Friday week. The train which left Liverpool at half-past five in the evening being too long for the stationary engine at Ecigehill to draw it through the tunnel entire, it was divided into two parts. The first division was drawn up; and the second having just emerged from the tunnel, the porter who held the messenger-rope by which the train Is attached to the great rope passing through the tunnel did not succeed in detaching the messenger-rope from the train at the right moment, so that the second division of the train continued to be impelled forward, and ran upon the first division, causing a great concussion. The porter had his foot very seriously crushed between the buffers of the two end- carriages of the divisions, and several passengers received severe contusions and bruises. Some ladies were taken out and left behind, having been much hurt and alarmed.
A man and a woman have been killed by the falling of their house at East Stan- ford. Some children were dug from the ruins alive.
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