etc Cowan).
At Leeds, on Monday evening last week, a preliminary meeting of a few manufitcturers took place at Sewell's hotel, to consider of the course proper to be adopted in regard to Mr. Sadler's Factory Bill. It was determined to call a more general meeting, to be held on Thurs- day evening ; and at that time fifty or sixty persons connected with mills attended, and a series of resolutions was agreed to, expressing a very strong opinion that the Factory Bill, now before Parliament, was calculated seriously to injure trade, to lower the wages of the workmen, and to diminish the contArts If their children; that such a bill was un- called for by the condition of the children; and that its details were most objectionable. .A petition to the House of Commons is now in course of signature in Wakefield, praying for a legislative enactment to restrict the actual working of children in all the mills and factories of the United King- dom to ten hours per day, for five days, and eight on the Saturday, and to prevent any child under nine years of age being worked in any fac- tory or mill.—Leeds Intelligencer. A petition from the principal manufacturers of the town and neigh- bourhood of Huddersfield, has been sent up to J. C. Ramsdell, Esq. M. P., for presentation to the House of Commons, praying the Ho- nourable House not to pass Mr. Sadler's Factory Bill in its present form, but to allow them to work twelve hours ; in which case they are willing to concede one year in the age of the children—id eat, not to begin employing them in mills and flictories until they have attained the age of ten years.—Leeds Intelliyencer. At Greenfell Kilns, on Heartside, in Cumberland, a lime-burner, named Teesdale, met his death on Sunday the 19th instant, under the following awful circumstances. The kiln about which he was em- ployed was at the time what is called soldered; when Teesdale stepped upon it, for the purpose of pushing it down. It happened, however, that while the rest remained firm, the part on which he had stepped sunk, and the unfortunate man was involved nearly to the waist, and fixed among burning coals and red-hot limestones. At such times there generally issues from the part which has fallen in a fearful blaze, but in this instance the flames were driven low by a strong wind. The whole of the lower part of the body being consumed, the upper part was taken from the kiln to await a coroner's inquest. The smallpox has been raging in Horsham to an alarming extent. A huckster, named Jupp, about a month ago, fell a victim to the disease. His body was kept so long above ground, that his relatives were compelled at last to have it drawn to the churchyard. Nine days after his funeral thirty persons in the neighbourhood were attacked during one night, five or six of whom died. The disease has since spread rapidly, and trade has been materially injured, the country people in the vicinity of the town fearing to make their usual weekly pur- chases there.—Briyhton Gazette. At the village of Lavendon, Bucks, on Wednesday week, somefell males, with a view to the performance of a supposed love-charm, pro- cured a cat, and attempted to sever the head from the body; but owing to the inexpertness of -its executioners, the poor animal escaped. It was pursued and retaken, and its heart, while yet warm, "taken out and roasted in a candle." One of the parties was a married woman.— Northampton Mercury. [What is the schoolmaster about ? or—which is a question as germane to the matter—what is the clergyman of La-
vendon about? Are they both abroad?] --
In consequence of the accounts received of the great destruction of property by the insurgent Negroes in Jamaica, almost all holders have withdrawn their stocks of West India produce from the market, wait- ing the result of further information.—Liverpool Times.
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