The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-07 00:00:00

THE BRICKLAYERS' STRIKE.

lIIININGItAII, SATIMIDAT.—It is expected that the men
engaged in the various branches of the building trade, in
this town, will very. soon be all out on strike for an advance
of wages. The bricklayers have already demanded an ad-
vance of 3s. per week, and most of them have struck work.
The strike is said to be the result of an understanding with
the men in other parti of the country. It seems that there
has been a considerable demand for men at the Birkenhead
works and Manchester, and that this demand has led to an
inducement on the part of the general committee of the build-
ing trade to effect an advance of wages throughout the king-
dom. The master builders held a numerous meeting of their
body on Thursday night, at the Acorn Inn, Temple-street, in
this town, for the purpose of considering the demands of the
bricklayers. Mr. W. Smith having been called to the chair,
and the notice convening the meeting read by Mr. J. Davis,
secretary, the
assembly was 'addressed by several masters,
all of whom concurred in describing the present demand as
unreasonable, and greater than the present contracts would'
enable the masters to give. It was stated that there was at
present a great scarcity of bricks, owing to the fact that
there were only three pieces of ground in the borough from
whence bricks could be obtained, and that the works of the
new gaol were partly stopped for want of this portion of the
materials. In addition to the above reasons. it was stated
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that there were only three works of any importance in coarse
Office in the Temple, the new gaol, and the intend _e...
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separated at ten o'clock.
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Tho prix o of 50/. offered by the Royal Agticultural
:ociety ltir the best report on She farming of Cambridgeshire, has been
warded to Samuel Jonas, Esq., of Ickleton, near Saffron Walden.—
Essex Standard.
FIRE AT THE ADELPIII THEATRE.—Sunday evening
some alarm was created in the immediate Ylcinity of the Strand, by
the report that the Adelphi Theatre was on lire. The engines from
Oland°, street were immediately taken to the building, and were
followed by the West of England firemen from the Waterloo-road.
It was then ascertained that the fire had broken out in the car-
penter's workshop, a building exactly over the treasury of the
theatre, and that it was caused by a spark falling amongst a heap of
allvlngs. A number of deal boards, standing in the workshop were
set on fire, but the discovery having been opportunely made, the car-
penters and scene painters, who were at the time fortunately engaged
on the stage, ran forward, and, with the aid crime buckets of water,
succeeded in extuguioulostils &ANS baton ally considerable damage
lad inea done,