The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-16 00:00:00

SHARES.

A uglo-Mexican, 30 dip. ; British Iron, di,. ;
Tinlpuxahua, Ulm.; United Mexican New,
dis. ; Gas Eng/tif, dis.

DisTness 111 LEEns.—Yesterday, a report was
pretty pre,vt►knt,in the town, that in consequence
of an attempt to lower the wages of smite of
the operatives employed, in the cloth manufac-
tures, a meeting would -be held. in tl►e after-
noon. Upon repairing to. Ilunsiet. Moor, The
intended. place of meeting, we found a uturt
her of workmen, chiefly croppers, to the
amount_ of from one hundred ' to one hun-
dred and fifty, loitering about, apparent-
ly without any settled purpose, ana evidently
in want of a leader. The cause :of this assent-
. bly, we were told, was that the firm. of Messrs.
Clapham Brothers, merchants, in Hunslet.
Lane, hail signified to their workmen, on Satur-
day evening, that they should in future give them
only fifteen shillings per week of, six- days, thir-,
teen hours to the' day, instead of twenty-one
shillings as heretofore ; and further,. that they,
would in future give only two.pence, Itairpeutty
per hour for over hours, instead of foisrpenee.—
The effect of this , reduction would be, that
a man working from five in the morning to eight
in the evening would receive 17s. till. a' week,
heiug 78..6n, less titan formerly. The workmen
after pondering over the subject waited upon
Messrs. Clapham, and represented to them that
they could not Work for them on the above
term's, but they would take work by the piece
►►t the usual price of five. peer cent. To this'pro-
poSui Messrs. Clapham refused to accede and
the men departed. With this resolution to de-
cline working .at reduced prices .the operatives
present expressed their approbation,,and
ed their individual determination to act upon
thisidan.—(Leeds ImPpendent, ,'March 14)

CORN LA ws.--IC--..—'strday evening a Meeting
was held in the Church of St. Leimarti, Shore-

ditch, pursuant to an advertisement, when Reso-
lutions condemnatory of the Corn Laws were
unanimously entered into, and petitions, embody-
ing the resolutions agreed to be'drawn up, to be
!)resented to both Houses or Parliament, A Com-
mittee for that purpose was appointed.

THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS.—A Member of
Parliament cannot resign, but the KING may
grant him the Ace of Steward to the Chiltern

iiutidrptis, the acceptance of which vacates his
scat. The Chiltern Hundreds are Crown lands
iii Re.dfordshire and Bucks, not far from Ayles-
bury,
their topographical name arising from the
chalky nature of the hills, of which they princi-
pally consist.

Fetsllt NO FOR T R EAsu E.—Accounts from Hol.
hind State That another attempt is tO'he made to
fish up the treasure lost in the English frigate
Lucille, on the coast of Holland ; but it is
Strongly suspected time industrious Dutchmen have
nut allowed the treasure to remain so long idle.
The last accounts from Vigo states that from the
two vessels examined, only Plect's of ordnance
had been fished up. The decks of both had
fallen in. The iron was so destroyed that k gave
way under the pressure of the thumb and fingers.

SIR ISAAC NSW TON. —On Monday next,
March 9.0, this great to.to will have left, this sub.
ton u Y world a century.
h'isist:or,hole ci
kvs,ilndiviiislinY d
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twooorrtkail ghentliuls)Psnitettfildtesdatbiyaeseitt unrivalled. Such
an went as 014 loss of such II MAO cannot, in this
enlightened age, be n platter of :ntlitierence,
least of all to the nation which gave him birth.
'Flue 'loyal Society Will, we suppose, bed forward
to support any measure which has for its object
owioeintltd:sloeaeory;lo,7l/w'lleeobmfrmi ghaty?tien'esaxtgpOerentittnitis:ont tsgoorlf:lett
nben man, Itue
brri
grand national atniteniftt;irml:tyt,,ittlcteentinirsietrtBnt>r)riaeteofhilsl
genius, and the.national al)Prcelatien of it.

Madame T,A. PtlyitOVSC, the eele.
hrated Naturalist, died at Tollioul“, uu /key sth O-f,
this month, at the age of SO Yt'"rs.