Several thousand workmen woe discharged on Saturday by the master
hosiers of Leicester for a fortnight; trade being dull.
A fatal accident occurred at the :Manchester Theatre on Wednesday night. Mr. Egerton was performing the character of' Everard, in Lilian the Show-Girl, and had to file at some robbers; his pistol missed file; and Endayson, the property man, fronts the side-scenes, imme- diately fired his bliniderbeiss, and unfortunately hit a performer, named Campbell, who wits descending from some scaffolding to the stage at the moment of the discharge. The poor fellow bled copiously, and died in a few minutes. Einlayson declares that he put nothing but some wet wadding into his blunderbuss, and cannot tell how the shot became fatal: it took effect in the left side of the deceased.
The weather in the country, at the end of last and the beginning of the present week, has been very severe; and there have been falls of snow in parts, so heavy as to delay the progress of the mail-coaches for several hours.
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