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Goodwood Races commenced on Tuesday; but the rival attractions of the hustings seriously diminished the attendance. The quality of the sport on the first day was indifferent, though in quantity there was abun- dance; nine races being recorded. On Wednesday the sport was still dull. There was but an indifferent race for the Goodwood Stakes; which were won by Lord Exeter's Hydrangea (ridden by J. Sharp) easily. The con- test for the Steward's Cup became interesting from the fact that both the first horse, Cur, (ridden by Whitehinise,) and the second, Collingwood, (ridden by Pellet%) belonged to the same owner, Mr. Rolt. That gentle- man had declared to win with Collingwood, but Cur was the winner. The rest of the running was indifferent. A great change took place on Thursday. The attendance was immense, and the sport abundant and first-lute: There were eleven races between -noon and-five o'cloOk: • the prinmpalinterest centering in those for the' Cup and the Racing Stakes. The fortuerrace was contested with extraor-

dinary severity; Mr. Day's Hero, (J. Day junior,) beating Lord Eglintottn's Eryx, (J. Prince,) by a short length. The Racing Stakes were won by Mr. Mostyn's Planet, (F. Butler); Lord Eglintoun's Van Tromp, the fa- vourite, (J. Marson,) being beaten by half a length. Yesterday was the last day. The races were numerous, hut unimpor- tant, and the attendance was comparatively thin.

A strike has taken place at the Hull Flax and Cotton Company's works, from the operation of the new factory act. The managers announced to the workpeople that the act compelled them to reduce the hours of labour, and they should diminish the wages in the same proportion—people re- ceiving Ils. a week were to have in future only 10s. Id. The workers re- fusing to assent, turned out; and 1,500 people are idle. In' other factories at Hull wages have been reduced in proportion to the reduction of time- 1 in 12, or 8i per cent. The Ifull Advertiser says —" The Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company informed their operatives that they had resolved to bear part of the loss with them; that is to say, the loss of interest conse- quent upon the unemployment of their capital during one twelfth part of the time which it has hitherto been worked, equal to one month in every year."

The Halifitx Guardian gives a more favourable account of matters in its vicinity. Messrs. Fielden having set an example of paying their hands twelve hours' wages for eleven hours' work, many others have followed it. Unfortunately, the manufacturers of Todmortlen are not in a position to work their mills even for the eleven hours.

The first conviction under the new act took place at Manchester, on Tuesday; when a Sub-Inspector of Factories summoned Messrs. Ogden and Sons, cotton-spinners, for allowing persons in their employ to work more than eleven hours. A penalty of 20s. in each of twelve cases was inflicted.

At York Assizes, on Saturday, Samuel Linley was tried for the murder of Stt- sanneh Jagger, at Rawmareb, on the 28th of May. It may be remembered, that the prisoner, an utter stranger, attacked the woman as she was going along the high road, gnocked her down, and then cut her throat. The man was a drunkard; a day or two before the murder he had had several fits, and he was in a weak and nervous condition. A verdict of acquittal on the ground of insanity was returned.

Mr. Justice Wightman announced that he had resolved that the trial of Patrick Reid for the murder of Mrs. Wraith and a servant-maid, at Mirficld, should stand over till the next Assizes.

At Stafford Assizes, last week, Edward Ingle, formerly postmaster of Bilston, was tried for embezzling a letter and its contents, value 21. From the evidence it appeared, that in the year 1845, Owen Coughlin, an Irishman. paid the prisoner 21. for a post-office order; this the man posted for his wife, at rush; it never reached its destination. Coughlin sent two letters to his wife, in

quiring why she had not acknowledged the remittance: these did not arrive. The Irishman then enclosed a letter for Mrs. Coughlin to a friend; this was delivered; and it led to an inquiry about the 21. Ingle told the man that the letter had been forwarded; but a little time after, the prisoner said to Coughlin, "If you will write a few lines for me, and sign your name to it, I will give you back your two sovereigns." Ingle then wrote out the following, which Coughlin copied and

signed—" Sir, the order complained of was not obtained at the Baster, post-office; and what money-orders I have had from there have always been sent and rept- lady received. Owen Coughlin." This letter was evidently written for the pur-

pose of being sent to the General Post-office authorities, who had been memo- rialized by the wife touching the lass. The prisoner again sent for the Irishman, and said, 'I wish you had said you had sent the money through some other post- office, and not the !Aston post-office." He then gave him a bribe of five shillings to say nothing further about the matter, promising him a further bum of fifteen

shillings. Ingle should have been tried in the summer of last year; but he kept out of the way. He was found guilty; and sentence of ten years' transporta-

tion was pronounced. •

John Love was tried for the manslaughter of Job Marsh and four other lads, in a coal-mine at Sedgley, in March last. The man was charged with having left a lighted candle in the air-gallery of the pit; the unfortunate boys were sent down

to disperse the fire-damp by buffeting the air with their jackets; the explosive compound ignited at the candle, and the boys were killed. The evidence did not

bear out the charge The prisoner had never worked in the mine before; and a witness admitted that he left the candle alight in the pit ten minutes before Love descended; the latter found it burning, and left it 130. A verdict of acquittal was assented to on the part of the prosecution.

A most extraordinary charge of piracy was investigated at Exeter Assizes on Monday. Eleven men, the crew of the ship James Campbell, were put on their

trial for having feloniously and piratically assailed William Graham, the master of the ship, conlined him m a cabin, and kept him so for the space of ten days. i Graham s part-owner of the vessel. He was examined at great length. On the 5th of March the ship sailed from Glasgow for Batavia. On the 22d, when about 180 miles from Cape Finisterre, a dispute arose between him and some of the crew: he ordered them to grease the mast, and they refused, because it was Sun- day., and the work such as boys only should do. All refused, lie then took their dinner from the cook-house, and had it carried into his cabin; he was armed with a cutlass; he had pistols and cutlasses in his cabin. Some time after, when became on deck, the crew seized him, pinioned him, and confined him in a cabin. There he was kept till the ship had been brought back by the mate and crew to Plymouth. Cross-examined, lie admitted that he bad been confined for six months in Newgate for assaulting a• steward before he took command of the James Campbell; he had been fined at Madras for an assault; he would not swear that he had not been complained against 'twenty times. On the 22d be had threatened to cut a man down with the cutlass; he struck it into a cask. His crew once left him at [long-kong; the Magistrate there dismissed his complaint against them, and ordered them their whole wages. The crew did not ill-treat him while he was confined. Two apprentices were called to corroborate the mas- ter's statement: in their cross-examination, they stated that Graham was in a great rage on the 22d,. swinging the cutlass about, and swearing he would cut down any man who touched the beef. These were the only witnesses examined who were present at the transactions. After two barristers had spoken for the defence—one remarking, that had not the prosecutor been an owner of the ship this trial would never have taken place, for the owners would have dismissed the master on the complaint of the men—the third counsel was stopped by the Jury's declaring that they had resolved to acquit the prisoners. However, as this was an important case, the Judge insisted on stating the law: he declared that there was only one case m which a crew could be justified in imprisoning their captain— when his conduct endangered their lives or put them in peril of bodily harm. The Judge having finished, the Jury at once returned a verdict of "Not guilty"; which elicited a burst of applause from a crowded court. At Derby Assizes, on Tuesday, Anthony Launt was tried for aiding JOha Platte in the murder of George Collis at Chesterfield. The precise offence at- tempted to be brought home to the accused was the assisting of Platte and an- other man to carry away the body of Collis after the murder had been commit- ted. But the evidence was not conclusive, and the Jury returned a verdict of

acquittal.

There was a serious affair at Chatham on Sunday evening, between the soldiers of the Tenth and Sixty-second Regiments. It is said that the squabble originated in remarks made by one of the Tenth as to the manner in which the Sixty-second behaved at the battle of Moodkee. On Sunday, from 800 to 1,000 men were en- gaged in a general mêlée; which was eventually put an end to by the arrival of a number of piquets and the civil officers. Several soldiers were much hurt; and one, who was knocked down on guard, by a rush of men from the barracks, sof- ferred a fracture of the skulL

A chimney-sweeper of Manchester has been committed to prison on a charge of manslaughter, for having compelled a little boy to ascend a second time a hot fine at a chemical work, whereby convulsions were produced ending in death. The man had behaved throughout with the greatest brutality to the child, only seven years old.