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It is stated in the Leeds Mercury. that Messrs. Mark Phillips, Joseph Brotherton, Thomas Potter, J. B. Smith, and James Hey- wood, all Liberals, have been appointed Magistrates for the County Palatine of Lancaster; and that other gentlemen of the same politics have been nominated Justices of the Peace at Liverpool and Rochdale. We arc glad that Ministers are taking this course: the influence ob- tained by the Tories throughout the country is in no slight degree owing to their having almost exclusive possession of the Magistrates' bench.
Lord Brougham has promised to deliver a lecture in the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution at the termination of the present session of Parliament. A deputation waited upon the learned lord at Manchester lately, when the pledge was given.
Mr. W. Mereweather Turner is a candidate, on the Reform inte- rest, for the representation of Dudley, in the event of another dissolu- tion of Parliament.
Mr. Charles Woodcock, one of the Coventry Corporation witnesses,
charged a Mr. W. Browitt with having persuaded certain persons to take false oaths, in order to qualify themselves as voters; but Mr. Browitt denies the charge, and suggests the motives which induced Woodeock to bring it, in a letter to the Morning Chronicle. We extract the fol- lowing passage, in mere justice to Mr. Browitt, as last week we in- serted the passage referred to in Woodcock's evidence. IN" To attempt to justify myself among my fellow townsmen from the attacks of sack evidence, is perfectly unnecessary ; but being well known in the commercial world, it may be requisite that u contradiction should appear in your columns. I can, therefore, only state, that a more gross and direct falsehood was never uttered by man: and can only be attributed to motives of revenge, from the circumstance of my exposing to the Commissioners that Charles Woodcock was the Corporation champion, because be held is valuable lease at a low rent, that would expire in a few years, and that, doubt. less, he expected a renewal of the same upon reasonable terms, as a reward fur Lis services."
Two earthquakes were felt at Chichester, and the surrounding neighbourhood, on Monday night ; and were productive of much alarm.
One day last week, twenty-five van-loads of mechanics, with their wives and children, arrived at Hampton Court, to enjoy a pick-nick repast in Bushey Park.
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