The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-13 00:00:00

STRIKE OF FARM LABOURERS.

There has been great alarm and commotion at Weston
Colville, near Cambridge, and surrounding villages,
within the past few days, in consequence of a
strike of farm labourers on a portion of General
Hall's estate. The strike occurred in consequence of
the farmers having reduced the labourer's wages to 9s. 3d.
weekly. The animosity is running very high, and Mr.
Leonard, a fanner, who has taken a prominent part in
the matter, has had his head cut open with a stone.
Letters of a very threatening and alarming nature have
also been picked up on some of the farms.

Party politics are all very well in their way, and of
course it is quite fair to make out that your opponent is a
fiend in human shape ; but when the London correspon-
dent of a Conservative contemporary calls Sir Robert
Anstruther a "veteran Whig hack' this is rather too
outrageous. The " veteran" is in his 36th year, and he '
has sat in Parliament for just six years.
The dispute between the North British and.
Caledonian Railway Companies as to the position the
former is entitled to hold on the Scottish North-Eastern
Railway, as regards goods traffic, has been settled. The
arbitrator declares that the North British Company are
entitled to an equal position in every respect with the
Caledonian Company at Aberdeen Station.
At the quarterly meeting of the North of England
Iron-trade Board of Arbitration and Conciliation held at
Darlington, resolutions were come to, in order to prevent
minor strikes, that the Standing Committee would not •
take up any case until the men who have struck should
have resumed work. It was decided to vote a sum of
money to Mr. Hughes, M.P., for his services as arbi-
trator.

The particulars of the dispute between a large
number of wool-buyers and the London wool brokers
are published by the Yorkshire Post in a circular bearing;
the signatures of Mr. David Yewdall and Mr. R. B.
Jowitt. The chief point of difference appears to ba'
whether the brokers are to continue to charge half per
cent. on their buying commissions, or only one quarter,i
which a great number of Yorkshire buyers offer, and
refuse to give more. Both parties at present resist any
change.

Mr. W. Vernon Harcourt, M.P., writes to say that
the allegation that the Birmingham League ever has pro-
posed to exclude all religious instruction from national
schools, is not only not true, but is the reverse of the
truth. Two sets of amendments relating to the " reli-
gious difficulty" have been put upon the paper in the
names of two prominent members of the Birmingham
League—namely, Mr. Winterbotham and Mr. Dixon. As
far as they are concerned their religious teaching will re-
main wholly unaltered, except in making the Conscience.'
Clause really effective.

A correspondent of the Globe states that he visited
Byron's tomb in the parish church of Hucknal Torkard,
and was indignant to find that, notwithstanding all than
has been written in regard to the disgraceful stabs
in wl4ich that church remains, no effort has been made to
carry out the designs submitted for its restoration. Hek
says he was informed on the spot that subscriptions had'
been raised, and that the plans had "years since" been:
referred to the Duke of Portland for approval, but that
to this moment no answer had been received. As.
Englishman he asks if this is so, and how long theirs.
mach is to rest on us ?
ABDUCTION OP A CHILD BY ITS NITASE.—TIib Press
seems once more to have beer. successful in restoring a
stolen child to its parents, and bringing the unnatural
robber to justice. At the Clerkenwell Police Court, Mary
Connor, aged 44, described as a domestic servant,
a dirty, dissipated-looking woman, was charged
with stealing Jane Chinnery, a child one year
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The prisoner was apprehended in the midst of a mob,
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=salty prevented from ill-using her. She was remanded.

A correspondent asks if it is true that some
foolish parochial official at Bethnal-green has ignored Miss
Burdett Coutts's election as Guardian of the Poor, and
returned a man who stood lower on the poll by 108
votes. The writer adds that if so such conduct is surely
illegal,- - - - t.