The Sun. — 1867-03-12 (London, England)

FARM WAGES IN CANADA.—The official reports OI the Government agents in various parts of the provinces to tho Bureau of Agriculture and Emigration give the following rates of wages for farm labour :—ln the counties near Hamilton, $l4 to $l6 per month; Toronto, $l5 $2O ; Kingston, $l4 to to $l5 ; Ottawa, $l3 to $l5 ?, and Montreal, $ll to $l5 ; in all cases with board and lodging. Harvest labourers received during the season of 1866 front $ll to $2 per day. A Canadian dollar is in all cases 4s. 2d. sterling. THE MURDER BY A PARAMOUR IN STAFFORDsume.--John Bednall was brought up on remand before Mr. F. Willington, at Tamworth, la amworth, on Thursday st, charged with the murder of Mary Keeling, a, woman whom he had lived with as his mistress, Alrewas, on the 9th of February last. Some additional evidence having been adduced against the prisoner, he was committed for trial at the approaching session at Stafford upon the charge of wilful murder Ye. RAILWAY BlLLS.—sterday, Mr. Frere, th 3 examiner, held a sitting at the House of Commons. The Fulham Railway Bill, the only one examined, was adjourned until the 21st. The Lords' Committee held a sitting, but no Railway Bills were submitted. In the House of Commons committee on group 6, the London and North-Western and Midland (Huddersfield and Halifax) was considered and adjourned. The following were also adjourned : —The London and North-Western (Bux ton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Sheffield) and the West Brecon and Merthy Junction was considered a sorno length and adjourned. The other bills adjourne Great by tis Committee were the Carmarthen and Cardigan, he Western, the Llanelly, the Llynvi and Ogmore, Noah and Brecon, and other bills. the Riding and Grimsby. In the committee on group 9 POWDER EXPLOSlON.—lnformation has been received that the Themis, a Bremen schooner, while, taking in powder, in Hong Kong harbour from the powhder hulk Zephyr, was destroyed on the 17th January, togeter with the Zephyr, by an explosion. Five European° were on board the Themis at the time of the disaster, and several Chinese, but the number of the latter is not knoWn. t'd Two bodies (of Chinamen) were afterwards pick Asimilar up in the harbour dreadfully mutilated. disaster is reported as having occurred on the Bth off January in Shanghai harbour, when by the blowing 111) the steamer Adeline, four of the crew (two English 11_0' two foreigners) were killed. The loss of the Bra o, steamer Corea which sailed from Hong Kong for -31-r°Kc'r llama (Japan) is also reported. She struck on a 1'06" near Swatow on the 18th January. Some of those on b°a- f reached the shore, but a boat in which wore a nualb°r,ii°, the passengers and croNN had not been hoard of When advices loft. qn THE IRONWORKERS' STRIKE AT SWINTON, YonKsmnE.—The strike at the Swinton Iron Works, the celebrate longing to Messrs. John Brown and Co., bratitoc; armour-plate manufacturers, against a proposed reduction of wages, still goes on without any prospect a an diate settlement. The mon have held several meeting:_tio the subject, in conjunction with their fellow-workmen. vsea are on strike at the Atlas Works, and have OP'et.sicii, great determination not to submit to the reduction, sv.:,be it is most improbable the masters will withdraw iLd. present state of trade. The mon are now being supperowof in their struggle by the United King-dorn Allianc Organised Trades. kt the MURDER AND SENTENCE OF for the Derby assizes yesterday Richard Wager was tried murder of his wife. The prisoner was a farmer, bat er Bleaklow House, Derbyshire, and on the 24th of Dec° 00 ho made a brutal attack upon his wife, running in the direction of a pond, pursued by her Flud, band, Her body was soon afterwards found in the p. 0.11, who wao and the prisoner represented that she bad committed suicide. There were, however, many facts to place thus this statement ; and the jury returned a verdict of N"r_ The priscni. , murder, with a recommendation to mercy.— who was sentenced to death, left the dock laughing. , at A man of the name of Merritt has just dieac.or Gosport, in Hampshire, aged 102. Re was a hird-e by trade.