London vid Bombay 19th January.
The great strike of ironworkers and kindred trades at St. Petersburg is assuming a menacing aspect. Fifty thousand men are already out. All work has ceased in the govern-mont dockyard on the Neva. The whole movement is directed by capable organisation—Reuter.
Eight thousand cotton operatives have struck at S*. Petersburg. The employees of the St. Petersburg and Warsaw Railway threaten to join the strikers.
'The correspondent of the "Standard" at St, Petersburg wires that there have been three meetings of, the strikers, at which, besides the eight hours' day, they resolved to demand the convocation of a popular assembly, the cessation of the war, an amnesty for political prisoners, and freedom of the Press, of religious belief, and of public mecting.—Reuter.
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