ADDITIONAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 8 November 1871, Page 3

ADDITIONAL TELEGRAMS.

London, October 7. —A fortnightly line of steamers between Antwerp and New York via Dover is contracted for. The smack ‘ Peto ’ was sunk in Yarmouth, and eleven persons drowned. The Turkish cholera is subsiding. London, October 9.—lt is proposed to erect a national memorial to Dickens. Sir John Fox, a veteran of the Napoleonic war, died yesterday, aged 89 years. It is proposed, should a difficulty occur between the workmen and employers at Newcastle, to submit the matter to arbitration. The police at Newcastle threaten to strike for increase of pay. It tis reiterated that Chevalier Nigra will shortly relievo Count Dacordina as Envoy to the Court of St. James. Versailles, October 9. —The report of the appointment of Druys do Lhnys as French Minister to Austria is denied. It is reported that Victor Lc Franc succeeds the late Lambrecht in the Ministry of the Interior, and Picard- will fill the Ministry of Finance pro. tern. London, October sth. The General Committee of the Nine Hour League at Sunderland, is organising for an extension strike throughout the North of England. October Gth. The Cable Company’s steamer ‘ Robert Lane’ has arrived at Plymouth, where thirty-three of her crew abandoned her on account of the wretched quality and insufficiency of provisions. Eugenie is expected at Torquay. The steamship ‘ Thuringia’ lias a.irived at Plymouth. October 7th, 3 a.in. The strike of the Engineers at Newcastle may be considered at an end. Only matters of detail remain to bo settled. The employers have agreed to the nine hour system, which is to be carried into effect on and after the 2nd January, 1872. The men have promised to work nine and a half hours a day until then. October’ 7th. Sir Win. Armstrong has proposed to the Newcastle strikers to resume work for the present at the rate of fifty-seven hours per week, if masters will agree to reduce the hours to fifty-four hours per week at the beginning of next year ; a mass meeting of workmen are discussing the proposal to-night. The cotton manufacturers of Buinely, North Lancashire, have decided to reduce the wages of their operatives on account of the depressed condition of business. The newspapers are discussing the subject of literary piracy. The writers roughly handle American publishers, and an international copyright is universally demanded.