The Sun. — 1837-03-24 (London, England)

OLDHANI.-After struggling for several months, greatly to their own pecuniary injury and the serious distress of numbers who can only be employed in conjunction with them, the turn-out spinners are manifesting a decided anxiety to exchange their present unsettled state for permanent work and constant wages. Not only in Oldham, but in many of the neighbouring places, the machinery of numerous mills is only running short time, consequently the hands are earning little more than half their usual wages; they have, therefore, nothing to spare in support of the turn-outs, who, alarmed at the falling off in the supplies, the taking up of their places by new hands, and the working the mills short time, are now quite anxious to return to their old situations upon the terms off!red by the employers,and rejected by them so long as they could do without work. On Monday a number of the turnouts returned to their places, and the machinery of several of the mills commenced workine, only eight hours per day. The employment of the new hands has not produced any materially unpleasant feeling. We hope that the result of this and of the Preston contest will enlighten the hands generally with respect to the manner in which they ought to re. Bard the demagogues and agitators by whom they were .excited to a course so greatly to their own injury.—Manchester Guardian. A most determined attempt at suicide, arising out of a love affair, took place yesterday morning in Somers Town. The name of the young man who made the rash endeavour to terminate his existence, is William Croft, of No. 17, Carey-street. He is the son of a respectable tradesman in the neighbourhood, and a few months ago was intro. duced, and subsequently, in the character of a suitor, paid his addresses to a female of great personal attractions, and from the apparent reciprocity of their affection he had every reason to imagine that in the course of a very short period she would render his happiness complete by becoming his wife. In this, however, he was doomed to be disappointed, and having learned from undoubted authority that her more favoured smiles had long been bestowed upon another, who had made every preparation for the speedy celebration of the nuptials, he took from a cupboard an ounce phial, with which he hastened to the shop of a chemist and druggist, and purchased a quantity of laudanum, when he immediately repaired to the residence of the false fair one in Church-street, and after reproaching her in the most bitter terms for her incon. stancy, drew from his waistcoat-pocket the deadly draught, which he swallowed, exclaiming, " You are the cause of my death—l could live no longer without you, and have therefore poisoned myself to get rid of my misery." The wretched young man then rushed out of the house, and on his arrival home threw himself upon the bed in the greatest agony, and was presently followed by the female, accompanied by Mr. Barnard, surgeon, of Charlton-street, who with the aid of the stomach-pump, succeeded in extracting nearly the whole of the poisonous fluid ; but the sufferer lies in so weak a state as to render his recovery exceedingly doubtful. The female is in a state of mind bordering on distraction at the sad event.