Ebt Vrobintes.
The Hants Independent has "good reason to believe," notwithstanding the contradiction given to the rumour, that Mr. Compton is about to retire from the representation of South Hants.
A public meeting of about two hundred factory operatives in the Huhu district of Manchester was held at Manchester on Tuesday, to consider the beat means of maintaining the Ten-hours Act, and of putting down the organized evasion of it by relays. Resolutions in this sense were unaio. mously adopted.
The Corporation of Leicester has availed itself of the powers; given to corporations by a late act, of disbursing public money within certain limits in establishing town museums, to purchase a building for the.deposit therein of the museum belonging to the Leicester Literary Society. The new building will admit of-scientific enlargement and classification. At s public meeting held on Monday for the purpose, the Literary .Society form- ally transferred its Museum to the Corporation to .beeheld in trust for the public. Lord John Manners took part in the ceremony, and made an elo- quent speech upon science and literature.
There was a fatal explosion of fire-damp at Great Bridge, near Dudley, an Tuesday morning, soon after sixty-eight colliers had descended to work. In the course of the morning, six corpses were got up, and fifty-four living people, many dreadfully mangled; six boys, still in the pit, were thought to have perished.
A soldier has been killed on the railway near Ely, by jumping from the window of a carriage while the train was in motion.
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