... . - - -t -t -1__L -l 1!ls~l, ON Friday night, at the Townsbend Schools, West- I minster, the prizes awarded to competitors at the Westminster and Pimlico Working Class Exhibition which was opened this day week, were distributed by Mrs. Farrar. At the commencement of the pro- ceedings Canon JFarrer, who occupied the chair, said they must all rejoice at the occurrence of so excel- lent a thought ...

... TIIE DEPRESSION OF TRADE. ON Saturday, at Wiulverhlriptoi, there was a distribu- tion of bread and oatmeal to about LGOO distressed people. This is the third distribution during the week, b-t the .distres iS increasing, aird o inladequaete are the mean:s subscribed to meet it that the Mayor issued air easnest appeal for further subscriptions. Ilis worship states that many hundreds of families ...

... :,COMMENCEMENT' ?? A,, GREAT, | a BUILDING TRADE STRUGGLE. TH. PLASTERES LCKED OUT. ?? returns of the irecent~ballot of the :members of the .Operative' Plasterers' As- sociation on the general. question of sub- .mitting to: the demands-of- the National Association of 'Master 'Builders of Great Britain- and. Ireland' were offlicially an- nounced on Friday evening. -Onthe question,*whether the ...

... TERRIBLE CONDITION OF THE COTTON ITRADE. EMiPLoYERs in the cotton district say that the cotton trade was never in a worse condition, even during C the cotton famine, and they have come to the con- ir elusion that one way of mitigating the depression is v by reducing wages. They have accordingly decided 0 to reduce the wages of the operatives 10 per cent,., c which with previous reductions will ...

... DANGEROUS VAGARIES OF k BUTIr d AT Malmeebnrv markeb on WredneedaY, adcai ?? c Bristol, named Leon7rd)boughtseverql fa h a anction, and the drovbr in oharge started tO ? out of the muarkot about one o'clook, to talke tho-railwvay station. Upon getting ouc ?? I. one of the animals bolted through a r. ronnd Eo:uo gardens at the back of Me-ss2. ;: r and Clark's premiSes. He. then ran round ;.:e i ...

... spA-DE AFIP NAVIGATION RET-RNS. ?? avilvation Rpturns forJu, 1TL1.Tade slda, shn sn&ldcraC In VS:,flpotS Mrda7 i%~hbt these,. it is: bat i'l1 o ftc. do, not nocssil o- d ~iiri1~trae.June ti eren jOV , , a's the Tfit~untid6 boli- jlaor ?? t'l hpaefOrO, havo ef~l ~s - Lv .I~a 1e decreases ~eNl~gr for turh''e value tfth jn t4 it or, Per Canct. OLn the month, and Jin tha is Onlyr~ pr Pei cet,. ...

... LABOUR ~Tb- is, TnIM~H 16 ini eiidnge In :Le Position~ ?? t0:4,h the Oity Poadl andr -no fnt~hho'r`etipiqx bla- be n, tknythe Operative z :oD : Y ;ysB. as to~ter rms. Of. the 1Afty.to, h werd-xlthdrlawu from 41-sets.4Mov.4Jrn,%fO'tY- have obtaned war 1sewheroan three ~~i~a~ii oni picket duty L1` istsaid~tl&it~he firma ba otane asucint nnb'oif -briiek- 'ayeri imth Fc tou A~ citi t ...

... PBOpOsED aBmOVAL OF BILLINGSGATE M._AKE.. r A propoal ia now before the Corporation of the City of b Lnon for the removal of this anolent market to some central e part of the Oity, where It can be brought into direct coummuni- oatlon with the various railroads by which fish are now regularly , onveyed to the metropolis from some of the remotest parts of the kingdom, and in larger quantities ...

... THlE LABOUR MARKET. I - -- -- L a TuiE miners at Scremston Colliery, Berwick, have agreed to accept a reduction of seven apd a half per eent., instead of fifteen as proposed. The majority of the 1500 weavers in the employ of Messrs. Tootal, Broadhurst, Lee and Co., Sunny- side Mills, Bolton, resumed work on Saturday nmorning at a reduction varying from S to 7i per cent. The twisters and ...

... TE:i LABOUlt MAEKET. I - ±t _ T._ SKrunDAY last WMS U very busy day with the Lordon v Masons' Strike Committee, who, in addition to the S usual work of looking after the payment of the strike f, allowances, had to receive sev~eral visits from men s from the country who expressed the wish to return b to'their homes. The number on the strike roll last week was 619, and -of these, the 'married ...

... . I . I I I . t . . . 'i '1s wWi_ l-L ~i r -Y ?? a. TiencE is not the east indication at present, says the fa Tiooes (Jnly 30), of any arrangement between the nail- rI makers in the South Staffordshire district and their P employers. The strike is one of very large dinensinos, ' some 24,000 or 25,000 hands being out, and it has been b entered upon without the nailers having any resources d ...

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