... During the week several railway accidents have oc- curred, which are entirely attributable to ?? carele, sness of the sufferers. On Monday, about 20 minutes before one o'clock at noon, a man named Joseph Atkinson was walking along the Manchester and Bolton Railway, at Clifton, when an engine, to which was attached two coke- waggons, came up behind him. He was not walking on the same line of ...

... THE OPERATIVE. LONDON, DEC. 9, 1838. TIlE CANADIAN STRUGGLE. Thc absorbing theme of the week is Canada. By the arrival at Liverpool of the packet ship, Orpheus, in sixteen days from New York, we are put in possession of Canadian intelligence up -to the 15th, and of American news up to the 19th ult. From the journals of those-dates we learn that the insurrectionary movement commencdd by the ...

... THE OPERATIVE. LONDON, MAY 26, 1839. THE,, BLESSINGS OFITE EXCLUSIVE SYSTEM. I. : The enemies of popular freedom. are constantly blaming the friends of the people for their endea- vours to awaken the labouring classes to a sense of their wrongs, and the evils of their social condi- tion. Mr. Fielden and Mr. Oastler, are by Lord John Russell described :as promising to lead the people to a ...

... TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, 4c. of National Rent. We received, paid into the trea- surer's hands, and took receipts on Monday for the follow- ing sums: 51. from the Totnes and Bridgetown Working Men's Association; and 11., being the subscription of a Radical Reformer in Delph. We hope our Totnes friends will take advantage of the postponement of the time ap- pointed for presenting the ...

... PUBLIC 7UEETINGSQDURING THE WEEK. 'A m . - A meeting was held at ?? sinxglon, on Wednesa qruis of Camden,Ke singonon ednsday evenin~g last. ,Ar. Emn Sal a; 1in thle char.Te meeting ;vaj addressed ;by Messrs. J . Richardson, of Manchester, andim rf, James Tay- lo, ofRoclidale. Sveral resolutions i ieepassed, ex- pressive of confidence in the Convention, the propriety of signing the National ...

... TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, ec. eb A few Radicals of Finshury. Their spirited letter is Inserted. We have received their contribution, ten shillings, towards the National Rent. Noah Flood. The correspondence between himself and the Registrar-General in our next. We-have no room for It this week. 4 James Knight. We assure him that he is not the only person who has been disgusted by Mr. ...

... qA-RW11'H AMERICA- THE DEBATEABLE WAR WITHGROUND. It is proper that the readers of TuE OPERATIVE should have some light thrown upon the remote and re-- cent causes of the very sudden misunderstanding avnidrp. ture which have just taken place between two nations-o speaking the same language, professing the same religion, a using the same customs, and'itrading amicably with each other ...

... |ltbRD liRO2iJHA31'S SKETCHES OF Pt811t I I . CHARACfttaS. I I WIT OF LORD NORTH. But if it would be endless to recount the tri- umphs of his tempe c, it would be equally so, and far more difficult to record those of his wit. It appears to have been of a kind peculiarly charac- terestic and eminantly natural; playing easily, and without the least effort; perfectly suited to his placid nature, ...

... OkIGPWAL COIMMSICA IO1T. . ,; i, . ?? TO THE EDITOR OF t THE OPERATIVE. ; Si isi nistructed, by the Finsbury National Rent ' Contilttee, to inform the public, through your columns, that an address was delivered on Monday evening, at the Hall of Scienee, City-road, in aid of the National Rent, by J. Bronterre O'Brian, Esq., to a very Intelligent and at- tentiveaudience, ofh the subject of ...

... THE REFORM ACT-VOTES OF LODGERS. The Reform Act has conferred the franchise on all fpersons being occupiers of a house, sirop, workshops, Iwarehouse, cellar, or other building, within the meaning of which are classed-shops occupied although by vlodgers), in trade; workshops, warehouses, arid cellars, which all come within the anearirig contemplated by the Reform Act, arid in fact every ...

... On Wednesday mTrurit lsts, intelligence was brought into Whitehaven that a tremendous explosion of carburetted hydrogen gas had taken place in one of the coal-pits be- longing to H. Curwen. Esq., of Workiligton Hall. situate at Lowca, between three and four miles from this town. 1The pit at which this awful catastrophe occurred is called f John Pitt. Around tthe mouth of this pit on ...

... I We do not, in the columns of THE OPERATIVE, pay much attention to the tales of scandal and the idle rumours constantly in circulation respecting the Court of the Queen. Bat the case to which we now call the at- tention of our readers is of no ordinary description. It appears that Lady Flora Hastings, a lady of spotless re- riesation, of the strictest morals, in attendance upon the Duchess ...