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The subscription in the West Riding of Yorkshire for a memorial to Lord Morpeth amounts to 1,4001. A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle suggests that the proceeds should be handed over to the Dah- lia Committee to go towards the expenses of Lord Morpeth's intended election for that city.
The Tory electors of Cornwall have invited Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, the Member for Helston, to become a candidate for the vacant County seat. It is doubted whether the invitation will be accepted.
The state of the iron-trade, as was expected, came under the consi- deration of the ironmasters' meeting at Dudley, on Thursday last ; when, we are happy to state, it was determined to continue paying the men at their present rate of wages. No reduction, consequently, will in the present state of affairs take place. Thus, as hands have not hitherto been discharged, nor are any that we know of under warn- ing, and the rate of wages remains the same, the discontinuance of the working of some of the furnaces (for there will not be a fourth of those recently at work blown oat) will not prove so calamitous as apprehended. The surplus stock of iron is understood to be chiefly pig-iron ; and it would appear, from the circumstances above stated, that employment has been found for the furnace-men and others immediately connected with that manufacture, in other departments of the business.— Wolver- hampton Chronicle.
Viscount Newark has subscribed 501. for the relief of the distressed operatives of Nottingham. The fund raised is little short of 2,5001.
The official communication of the Poor-law Commissioners to the Sevenoaks Board of Guardians, on the late inquiry at the Workhouse, was forwarded on the 5th instant. It is very voluminous, but it throws little new light on the subject. The Commissioners recognize the over- crowded state of the Workhouse, the unhealthy state of the children, and the want of room and sufficient accommodation in the lying-in ward. They throw the chief blame on the late Master and Matron of the Workhouse, Mr. and Mrs. Gain ; some on Mr. Adams, the late medical officer, for not making written reports on what he observed to be wrong ; and the Visiting Magistrates and Assistant-Commissioner receive a share of qualified censure, for not being sufficiently scrutinis- ing and prompt in their proceedings. The Commissioners urge the speedy completion of the additional wing.
Miss Allen, a young lady who was charged some time ago with having stolen a packet of perfume from the shop of Mr. Joslin, a chemist and druggist at Cheltenham, was tried at the Gloucestershire Sessions on Friday. She pleaded " Not Guilty," and appeared much overcome by her situation. It was said, in her defence, that she was subject to fits of abstraction and weakness of intellect, and was not at all times capable of regulating her actions. Medical testimony bore out the defence, and a verdict of acquittal was returned.
At Thorne, in Yorkshire, on Monday afternoon, Thomas Timms, a journeyman shoemaker, rushed out of a house in a state of intoxication, and attempted to attack several boys and girls as they passed. They eluded him ; but he succeeded in stabbing a boy named Pashley, who was deficient in his intellect. He died of internal hemorrhage a few hours after.
The Sunning cutting on the Great Western: Railway has been the scene of another fatal accident. On Wednesday evening, Dixon, a po- liceman, was standing on the down-line, making signals to the up-train, when the six o'clock down-train reached the place, unperceived by the man : he was thrown down, and killed on the spot.
Mr. Robert Palmer, the lord of the manor on whose estate occurred the late railway accident at Sunning Hill, has contradicted a statement which has appeared in the papers, that the deodand awarded by the Coroner's Jury was about to be paid to him, and that it was his inten- tion to divide it in certain proportions among the poor sufferers. He has received several applications from the expectants, setting forth their claims ; and he has therefore, in order to prevent disappointment, published a letter in which be says it is at present questionable whether the deodand will belong to him or not, and that under any cir- cumstances the statement referred to is premature.
At seven o'clock on Thursday morning, an accident occurred on a branch of the Manchester Railway, at Pocket Nook. A train, consist- ing of laden coal-waggons, approached the swing-bridge which crosses the Sankey Canal ; but the bridge had been withdrawn to allow a flat to pass, without the usual signal being made. As soon as the danger was perceived by those having the care of the train, every means was used to stop the steam ; but finding the accident to be inevitable, the stoker and engineer jumped off in s..fety, and the train was precipitated into the canal. The engine had been lately repaired at a cost of 5001. The Morning Post of Monday published a letter purporting to come from the Warden office in Bath, stating that a street of Combe Down, a neighbouring village, had been undermined by a quarry, and that on Sunday it fell, destroying multitudes. The story proves to be a fabri- cation. There is no such paper as the Warden published in Bath. The manuscript of the letter was sent to the Mayor of Bath, that the im- postor might be traced. This has not yet been done ; but the Mayor thinks that he recognizes a resemblance between the handwriting and that of an insane gentleman with whom he is acquainted, who has been removed to a lunatic-asylum unknown to the Mayor.
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