Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1870-04-23 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

BROADHEAD WORSHIP A.T SHEFFIELD.— A drama called "The Union Wheel" was produced at the Theatre Royal, Sheffield, on Saturday. The Sheffield Independent says :—" The play is one which deals with trades unionism, and introduces reaming, a blow up, and putting powder in a grinder's trough. The propriety of producing such a play as this in Sheffield of all other places may possibly be questioned. One would almost think we had had enough of this kind ot thing in reality without having it produced upon the stage; but The Union Wheel' possesses this advantage over real life that it brings the rattener and blower-up to speedy justice, and if it be the means of teaching oh who feel inclined to do the same kind of work that their fate will be similar, it will do a greater amount of good than the author in his most sanguine moments could have anticipated. One of the most striking characters in the play is that of Mr. William Bromley, secretary of the Savrgyinders' Un.on ; and it is at once easy to see that it is intended to represent a former secretary of that union. The 'get up' of Mr. Alexander, who represents the character, is really admirable, and so well does he •imitate the twinkling of the eyeglass, the frequent use of the silk pocket-handkerchief, and the style of speaking which at one time those who attended trades union meetings were so familiar, that c,igli'alfy failed, that the notorious exit seems almost difficult to believe, the journey to Union had not turned his attention to the stage. A sad feature in connection sAeracrePtaara,y, hoafv*lthge Grinders' eonatSeavtouryrdasyucnceighed-t with the representation of the pelym —and we suppose it will be the the interest tl eo rue scut; . succeeding representation—was that the sehtiments which the oa fu ttlhmerupn union n intob being nt hgeebmouthove elot fcßonrtrdieerYatTors cheered by the occupants' of the were ' gallery, whilst sentiments which went to the contrary effect met with only a very partial response."  " Mr. Gladstone has been invited to preside at the annual dinner of the Cobden Club, which is to take Ace, as usual, towards the end of the session. The representation of Mayo has become vacant by the death of Mr. G. H. Moore, who expired suddenly at Moore Hall, county Mayo, on Wednesday morning. A warder in St. Mary's convict prison at Chatham has been attacked by a number of convicts and. badly beat on the head. The prisoners were engaged in breaking stones within the prison at the time. The Leamington Local Board have resolved to petition against the .proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to abolish foot hawkers' licenses. The members of the board believe that vagrancy and crime would be increased by the abolition. An excursimistnamed Richard Cardwell, aged 32, of Barrow-in-Furness, was drowned at Bla,ckpool on Monday night through falling from the pier when in a state of intoxication. The body was recovered on Tuesday. On Tuesday evening' one of the prisoners in the Nottingham Borough Gaol, named. George Moss, who had. been sentenced. to 12 months' imprisonment for unnatural assaults upon his , daughters, committed suicide by hanging himself. Two miners have been killed, and a third so seriously injured that he is not expected to mover,, at Stray Park 3fine, near Cambonrn ,e Cornwall, through falling off apiece of timber on which they were standing. THE HALFPEYNY Posrikon ON