The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-10 00:00:00

STOPPAGE OF THE MILLS AT

HE Y WO OD.

The hands at all the mill; in lleywood left their work
last night, the terms of arrangement offered by the
masters having been rejected. The masters have posted
large placards throughout the town and neighbourhood,
of which the following is a copy :—" Many erroneous
reports having been circulated relative to the earnings of
the weavers late in the employ of Messrs. John Hilton
Kay and Son, the Committee of the Mill-owners' Asso-
ciation think it necessary, in justice to those gentlemen,
to lay, before the public a statement of ruch earnings,
as copied from the wage books for the fortnight ending
the 22d of November last (being what may be called the
last full fortnight previous to the turn-out.) The fol-
lowing are the averages :—for 58 two loom weavers,
per fortnight, 19s. Id., per week, 9s. 6±d.; for 56 three-
loom weavers, average per fortnight, IL Bs. Bd. ; per
week, 14s. 4d. ; for 23 four-loom weavers, 11. ss. 54d. ;

per week, 12s. Bd. N.B. There are no abatements
from the above, except for spoiled work, and the whole
deductions on that day amounted to only 1/. Bs. 9e.
The earnings, as stated above, were obtained at the
prices per cut paid previously to the weavers
turning out ; and from the amount, the public
will be able to judge whether such a step
was justifiable or not. Since the turn-out, however, the
Messrs. Kay, wishing to put an end to such a state of
things, and also to prevent a more general stoppage of
mills in the neighbourhood on their account, have made
several attempts to come to terms with their weaver?,
but hitherto without success." Friday Erening.—The
turn-outs have posted copies of a placard throughout
the town this afternoon, intended as a reply to the
statements of the masters. It gives the amount of
wages paid by Messrs. Hilton, Kay, and Son,
for the fortnight ending the 17th Dee. as for 59 two-loons
weavers, average Bs. id. per week ' • and 41 three-loom
weavers, average 12s. 84d. per week. According to the
masters, however, this was nct a full fortnight, and
hence the difference. About five o'clock last night a
number of the county police from Bury arrived, and are
to be stationed in the town during the strike. When
our reporter left Heywood last evening, the magistrates,
were assembled at the Queen Anne Inn, and had just
determined against swearing in special constables, which
had been previously arranged. There is every prospect
of things going on quietly, and there is some hope that
things may be arranged before Monday. The notorious
Pilling, of Ashton, is to address the turn-outs this (Sa-
turday) evening.—Manchester Guardian.

FATAL AND WICKED CARE-
LESSNESS.

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On Tuesday an inquest was held at the Commercial
Inn, Burnley, on the body of Patrick Markey, hatter,
who came by his death under the following circum-
stances :—lt appears that during the preceding week he
felt rather unwell, and not sufficiently recovering, had
been recommended to try arrowroot and milk as a
remedy. Accordingly on Saturday last, about two
o'clock, he sent his wife to Mr. Heaton's, chemist and
druggist, Goodham Hill, Burnley, for a quantity of the
powdered root. Mr. Heaton, jun., and the assistant,
being both absent, and there not being any arrowroot in
the drawer in which it was usually kept town stairs,
Mr. Heaton, senior, took the scoop out of the drawer,
and proceeded upstairs to a tub in which he supposed
the arrowroot was, and brought some arsenic out of the
tub down in the scoop, asking the shop-boy if he thought
that vv is arrowroot. The boy, having tasted it, said he
thought not, as it appeared to be too gritty for arrow-
root. Mr. Heaton, having also tasted it, replied that he
thought it was arrowr) (dam inrerior description, kept
by his son to sell at the small shops. Eventually the
woman was served with two ounces of arsenic. About
the same time two other persons, one named Varley, cf
Huncoat, were served with small quantities of the same
poison. On the return of Mr. Hopwood, the assistant,
the mistake was discovered and the utmost dispatch used
to recover the deadly mixtures. They were successful
in two of the cases, but unfortunately the deceased had
swallowed nearly an ounce of the poison about five
minutes before the messenger arrived at his residence.
Medical assistance was immediately called in and the
stomach pump and other remedies applied, but in vain,
and he lingered in excruciating agony until about six in
the evening, when he expired. A verdict of " Man-
slaughter" was returned against William Heaton, and
John Curl, the shop-boy.- Illachburn Standard.

CAPTURE OF TWO DASHING
SWINDLERS.
A few days ago the inhabitants of Tunbridge, Kent,
were visited by two fashionably-dressed persons, under
the assumed names of the Hon. Captain and Lady
Stewart. They took up their abode at the Queen's Arms
Hotel, and had not been long there before they called at
different tradesmen's shops and gave extensive orders for
valuable jewellery and clothes of the very best descrip -
don. The dress and appearance of the strangers were
well calculated tolull suspicion as to their real characters,
and they succeeded in obtaining two gold watches,
chains, rings, and pins, of various descriptions, which
were paid for with checks on the London and
County Bank (a check-book of which the " gentle
man ' carried .in his pocket), and filled up in
the presence of the unsuspecting tradesmen, from whom
he generally obtained five or ten pounds, the balance
of the amount of the check. They carried on their de-
predations with great success until Thursday morning
last, when several boxes were removed to the railway
station, addressed to Mr. Dittmar, London, to be left at
the terminus at London until called for. The removal
of so many boxes caused some suspicion, and inquiries
were instantly sent to London respecting the checks,
when it was ascertained that the party was known there
only as a swindler, several applications having arrived at
the bank from various parts of the country respecting
them. On the return of the messenger from London it
was discovered that the parties had absconded. An
officer was dispatched by the railway after the fugitives,
who had walked a short distance from TonbriJge, where
they had a conveyance in waiting, and in which they
were driven off to London. Yesterday Moy and Blatt-
ford, of the M division, secured the prisoners at the rail-
way terminus, where they had arrived to carry away
their luggage. The whole of the boxes were seized
by the police, and found to contain jewellery and dresses
worth between 200!. and 3001. On the male prisoner
was found a gold watch and chain, a blank cheque-book
of the London and County Bank, and thirty sovereigns.
On the female was also found another gold watch and
chain. They were taken into custody by an officer from
Tonbi idge, and conveyed back by railway to that place,
where they will undergo an examination on Monday.

DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN MAILS.
The next mails for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Ceylon, and India, via Southampton, will be dis-
patched hence on the morning of the 20th inst.
The next mail for Ceylon, India, and China, via Mar-
seilles, will be dispatched hence on the evening of the 24th
inst., in addition to the mails for India forwarded through
France on the 7th of the month, owing to fresh arrangements
having been made.
The next mails for the West Indies, &c., will be dispatched
Forth hence on the morning of the 17th inst. The steamer
appointed to take them out.
The next mails to America will be dispatched from Liver-
pool on the 4th of March, by the steamer Cambria. Letters
in time on the evening of the 3d.
The next mails for Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres will
be dispatched hence on Tuesday, the 4th of March.
The Dussorah Merchant, with the Sydney mails of the
31st ult., left the Downs on Friday, the 7th inst.

[ IDYERTISEMEINT.]—A POOll, MAN'S LIFE SAVED
BY noLLOWAYS Pru.s.7-Jeremiah
.Laughlin, a porter
about the quays of Dublin, was afflictedfor years with
shortness of breath, spitting of phlegm, night perspira-
tions, and general weakness of body, a want of appetite,
sick head-aches, besides suffering much from the liver.
This man was in. the second stage of consumption, and
not expected to live three months, when he commenced
the use of Holloway's wonderful Pills, and, by their
means alone, he is now as strong, as hale, and as well as
ever he was in his lif..—Soid (also Holloway s Oint-
ment) at the Establishment of Professor Hollovvay,
244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by
almost all respectable vendors of medicine throughout
the civilised world.
AIIERYSTWYTIL—On the 27th ult., a small tar
barrel, and on the 28th, a vessel's head board, with yel-
low letters on a black ground " lonia," was picked up
about two miles south of this place..—Caernarvon Herald.