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A meeting of inhabitants took place in Birmingham Town-haff On Monday, to promote a subscription in aid of the distress in Veleta About 800L was subscribed. The congregational collection in the to*W amounted to upwards of 3,0001.; and the Society of Friends have stilt. scribed above 1,0001.
In consequence of the high price of provisions, the farmers in the pa- rishes of Lutterworth, Yelvertoft, Tristerton, and Kilworth, have comets a resolution to advance the wages of all their labourers from 10a. to 11*. per week; and should a further rise take place, an additional sixpence will be given.
On Wednesday evening last, another meeting of artisans and labourers took place in Lincoln, for the purpose of promoting the establishment of a proprietary mill. It appears that already the organization consists of 190 members, all of the working classes, who hitherto have gone unaided by their wealthier neighbours. Each has taken a share of IL, which is paid by instalments. The intention is, if sufficient capital can be raised, to build or buy a mill; for the company to buy their own corn, and after grinding it,, to sell the flour to the shareholders at a small percentage above prime cost, just sufficient to cover the expenses. A similar affair at Hull is stated to have paid forty per cent; and it is also stated that the price of best flour to the shareholders has not during the range of high prices been above 2. 2d. per stone.—Lincolnshire Herald.
Another case of poisoning has been discovered in Essex, in the neighbourhood cif Danmow. The illegitimate child of Sarah Bright and David Grey died Buda denly ; an inquest was held, and it seemed probable that the infant had perishes( from an opiate. It then appeared, however, that the drug might have been admht- istered by the parents with no evil intention but medicinally, in excess; so an open verdict was returned, that the deceased had died of convulsions. S cioascircumstancee having since come to light, the parents were arrested, exa ad before the Danmow Magistrates, and committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder. - By the rules of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, oiling wheels while a train is in motion is prohibited. On Saturday afternoon, the breaking of this regulation was attended with disastrous consequences. The fireman of a luggage- tram, when near Broxbourne, thought the engine required oil, and clambered over the machine to apply it: while thus employed, he fell from the engine across the rails, and both his legs were cut off. He was not expected to survive.
A serious accident has occurred on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. A. a. mail-train was stopping at Shap to take in water, an engine and tender dashed into it: the carriages were broken and forced off the line, and several of the pas- sengers severely hurt.
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