The scheme of Equitable Labour Exchanges seems to be spreadinc.f.
Mr. Owen has been at Birmingham, and has explained his system to a meeting of 10,000 people. ••.
We are happy to say, that by the end of this week the dispute between the silk weavers of Macclesfield and their masters, the Messrs. Brocklehurst, will be accommodated by the hands resuming their employment at the old prices. Several other of the manufactories re.. seemed work on Thursday last.—Chester Chronicle.
Two students of Oxford University lost their lives on Thursday morning [the 29th ult.] by the upsetting of a boat on the river. Mr. Graham, of Trinity, and Mr. Surtees of Exeter, both Under-Graduates, are the unfortunate sufferers ; a third, who was in company with them, was saved with great difficulty.
A few days back, an elderly woman rained Hills, residing with Shepherd Levett, Milton Street, in the par; h of Arlington, who has a daughter subject to epileptic Ets, entered the kitchen, and observing the poor girl, who had just fallen in a fit, lying on the floor, fell down herself, and immediately expired !—Lewes Journal.
A man, who had been taken into custody charged with setting fire to a barn near Petworth, where property to a considerable amount was consumed, has been fully committed to Horsham Gaol to take his tried for the offence. His name is George Hersee.— Sussex Advertiser.
A man named Collings, who, about five years and a half ago, was sentenced to transportation for seven years, for a larceny committed at Norwich, was discharged on Sunday last, one year and a half before the expiration of his term, in consequence of his good behaviour. He was taken into custody again on Wednesday, for stealing the till, and money therein, at the Fountain Tavern, North End.—Portsmouth Herald.
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