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Mr. Whiteall Dodd, of Cleverly, in Shropshire, has accepted a recadei- tion to stand for the Northern Division of the county, in the room of Lord Clive, who succeeds to the Peerage. The Standard vouches for Mr. Dodd as "a thorough Conservative and sound Churchman."
A public meeting was held at Leeds on Thursday, and resolutions were unanimously adopted against increase of the Army and Navy, or the call- ing-out of the Militia.
The rise in the price of cotton at Liverpool has caused a renewal of de- pression in the manufactruing districts. 41 general resumption of short
time is expected at Manchester, Stockport, Ashton-under-Lyne, and other towns of the district.
Al Blackburn, the notice recently issued by the millowners, of a reduc- tion of 10 per cent in the wages of the workpeople, has created much die- Eatisfaction. Meetings have been held to denounce the millowners; and on Sunday there was a sort of monster meeting, at which a majority de- clared for a "turn-out." There was no disturbance.
The new Chartist settlement in connexion with the People's land scheme, at " Snigs End," near Cheltenham, was formally taken into possession on Tuesday sennight, by the first body of settlers. A cortege of waggons and carts, containing the adventurers with their furniture implements, and provisions, passed through the town of Cheltenham preceded by a band of music.
Budge, a waterman of Gravesend, has perished in a Police lock-up of that town. Early on Sunday morning, he was found drunk in the street, and was taken to the 'casual" lock-up: this was a building of two floors, between the Town-hall and the Market; the lower room was used for lumber, but the upper was used for casual prisoners, a quantity of straw being spread on the floor as a bed. Badge was alone. Five or six hours after. the place was found to be on fire; and though engines were immediately obtained, the building was gutted. Budge's body, or what remained of it, was found stretched across two charred rafters. Apoor woman who sold matches had been allowed to sleep in the place on Friday night; who probably dropped a match among the straw, and the match may have been set on fire by Budges tossing about. An inquest was held on Thursday. The evidence did :not explain the cause of the fire; but a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. The Coroner and Jury expressed an opinion that drunken prisoners should not he left unvisited for a whole night; and the authorities promised to attend to this.
Sarah Young, niece and servant to Mr. Young, a glass-cutter of Stourbridge, has died, according to the words recorded in the verdict of the Coroner's Jury, "from neglect and the want of proper nourishment." The evidence at the inquest, showing how the uncle and aunt kept the deceased in a half-starving state, and how the aunt ill-treated her, with the description of the manner in which the sufferer picked up refuse from the streets to stay the pangs of hunger, was very shocking.
Mr. Bleasdale, a coal-proprietor of Wigan, and Enoch Grimshawe, his over- looker, have been remanded by the Magistrates on a charge of stealing coal. They are accused of mining in land belonging to other people, taking the property of some twenty or thirty different persons; and in the course of these operations, it is alleged, they have undermined the parish-church and many of the public buildings and streets of Wigan, to an alarming extent.
George Whiston, a young jeweller of Birmingham, has been committed for trial there for a long series of frauds. The man had been in the habit of taking for sale bars of a mixed metal, gold and silver, to Messrs. Alston and Macfarline, re- finers; when the ingots were offered, two pieces were cut out for the purpose of assaying them, the places being then marked by the refiners with a punch; pend- ing the assay, Whiston took away the bars; he then cast ingots of a spurious metal, cut two pieces out, and with a punch forged the marks of the refiners; these ingots he took for sale; and the assay having shown that the original bars were of a certain value, the base metal was purchased at a high rate-14s. per ounce, while not worth more than 28. 6d. At length the fraud was discovered, but not, it is calculated, until the rogue had made thousands by his trickery.
John Crane the postmaster of Peterborough, has been committed for trial on a charge of stealing a letter containing a ten-pound note.
Two men named Bartlett have made a resolute attempt to murder their step- father, James Storey, a beer-shop keeper at Chatham. Being alone with him at night, they demanded money; he refused; one fetched a bludgeon which he had been fashioning that same evening, Storey was savagely beaten over the head, and his pockets were rifled; his cries alarmed some lodgers, and the assailants fled, after one had suggested to the other that they should shoot their victim. The ruffians, who had formerly been convicted of robbing Storey, have been captured, and committed for trial.
A considerable part of the extensive cotton-factory of Messrs. Binns and Deans, at Dukinfield, has been destroyed by fire. Two hundred people will be thrown out of employment.
A locomotive engine has exploded at the Carlisle station of the Carlisle and Maryport Railway, destroying the shed under which it was placed, and wounding the driver and stoker who were engaged cleaning the machinery. Both the safety- valves had been tightly screwed down.
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