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The election of a Member to a seat for the borough of Buekingham, vacated. by Sir Thomas Fremantle's appointment to be Secretary for Ireland, took-place in the Town-hall on Monday. Sir Thomas was again proposed, and elected without • opposition. Among his recommendations, the Reverend J. Coker mentioned that CINAtemell, that master of coarse and vituperative language, could find nothing worse to say of him than that he was " a very nice man for a small tea-party. In returning thanks, Sir Thomas Frenuintle made very sparing allusion to political subjects; referring to his well-known sentiments. lie spoke of the necessity of conciliation in Ireland, but of maintaining the Protestant Church; using, how. ever, terms of no force or precision. The whole affair passed off with the utmost rapidity and quiet.

Sir George Clerk was reelected for Stamford on Monday, without opposition. Opposition had been threatened. The inhabitants of the borough are greatly in favour of a branch railway proposed by the Midland Counties Railway Company, to pass through the town, from Syston to Petertorough. The Marquis of Exeter, whose influence is paramount in the election, is believed to be opposed to the project, and Sir George Clerk was understood to agree with him. A-dec. potation from the Railway Company waited on Sir George in the morning, to talk him over: but he could not approve of certain details in the project, which they would not give up. At the hustings, the subject was alluded to by the crowd, and by Sir George himself ; but Mr. Hudson, who had been threatened as a rival candidate in the Railway interest, did not appear; and the whole dispute passed off with words that came to nothing,—unless, perhaps, it resulted in a few snow- balls while the Lew-elected Member paraded the town in the process of " chairing," The Honourable Henry Fitzroy, the new Lord of the Admiralty, is again a candidate for Lewes. Mr. George Baring Kemp, son of Mr. Thomas Read Kemp, a former Member for the Borough, has come forward as a Liberal candidate. Mr. Summers Harfonl was also expected to offer himself; but he has not done so. The nomination is fixed for'Monday.

The nomination of a Member for South Wiltshire, in the room of Mr. Sidney Herbert, the new Secretary at War, is fixed to take place today; when it is ex- pected that he will be reelected without opposition.

Mr. Christopher Tower has offered himself to the County electors of Bucking- ham, "on Conservative principles." He avows himself opposed to free trade and to reduced or fixed duty on corn; and he is anxious to assist in removing the distress which prevails among the agricnitural labouring class.

Sir William Salusbury Trelawney has announced, in an address to the elec- tors of East Cornwall, that he withdraws from the contest; as " it would requize a larger sum of money to contest the Division than a -candidate should he called on to expend at any time, and particularly towards the close of a Parliament.' Thus the Conseil ative candidate, Mr. Carew, of Antony, is unopposed.

The Manchester Chamber of Commerce have removed Mr. Birley from tilt direction of that body, because he supported Mr. Entwistle, a " Monopolist,", at the last election for South Lancashire.

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The members of Convocation poured into Oxford on Thursday, intent upou the great business of the day; and by one o'clock the Theatre of the University was filled. Many men, titled and untitled, well known in public life, were there; among them the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop of Llandaff, Mr. W. E. Glad- stone, Lord Ashley, Lord Sandon, a few more Lords, several Members of Par- liament, and a host of reverend gentlemen—some twelve or thirteen hundred in all. Mr. Ward already occupied the " English " rostrum; the Reverend Mr. Oakley, of HalliolCollege, by his side. Some preliminaries over, the ViceeChancellor stated the business of the Convo- cation; and Dr. Bliss read the passages from Mr. Ward's book, The Ideal of a Christian Church Considered, which formed the basis of the charge against him, as inconsistent with subscription of the Thirty-nine Articles. [Those

are already notorious.] Called upon by the Vice-Chancellor, Mr Ward passages a long speech, by permission, in. English. He enlarged upon the difficulties -under which he laboured,m speaking before au audience prejudiced against his doc-

and ill-suitel to form a judicial tribunal; and in being limited as to time, thong to do justice to his arguments they needed ample development. He con- tended, that in some part the formularies of the Church must be accepted by all sections of it in a "non-natural" sense; he pointed to the "High Churdimen" and the "Evangehicals" railing against cads other, as two parties dividing the whole Church on such disputed matters; and he referred to the withdrawal of the pro- posed new test, against which a general outcry was raised, as proving that none will consent to be restricted to the "natural" sense in subscribing the Articles. He concluded by handing in a Latin protest against the legality. of the proceed- ings. The speeds occupied an hour in the delivery; it was given rapidly, yet with calmness and self-possession, and with all the marks of sincerity. Towards the beginning there was some applause; but Mr. Ward himself repressed it by an appeal to the judicial character of the assemblage. Dr. Grant, of New College, handed in an amendment to the decree of condemnation; censuring the book, but declining to judge the author or his good faith in subscrileing the Articles. The Vice-Chancellor said, that no proposition could be received that had not been sanctioned by the Hebdomadal Board. Mr. Denison handed in aprotest against the whole proceedings. The Vice-Chancellor put the decree of censure to the vote: there was a perfect roar of " Placet" and "Non placet;" and on a scrutiny, the numbers appeared to be—for the censure, 777; against it, 586.

The Vice-Chancellor next called upon Mr. Ward to say why he should not be degraded. Mr. Ward made a shorter speech; reminding his hearers that persons who had even gone over to the Church of Rome had not been deprived of their degrees, and that to degrade him, willing to serve in the Church of England, and much attached to it, would be harsh. Mr. Ellison, formerly a Fellow of Balliol, opposed the degradation, in a long Latin speech; on the ground that Mr. Ward had not impugned the principal doctrines of religion, and that his personal cha- racter was unimpeachable. l'he motion of degradation was put and carried, by 569 to 511.

The Vice-Chancellor then offered the third proposition, for the condemnation of the Tract XC. There were loud shouts of " Placet" and "Non placet"; when the senior Proctor rose and interposed the veto of his body, saying, " Nobis Procuratoribus non plume" The veto was received with loud cheers and hisses,

After the meeting,addresses were put in circulation. One, hearing two or three hundred names,(including those of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Justice Coleridgeee) thanked the Proctors for the veto. The other declared the censure of Tract XV. imperatively necessary; and called upon the Hebdomadal Board to renew it when the present " temporary obstruction " [the present Proctors, soon to be oaf nein] should be removed.

The Gravesend and Rochester Railway was opened on Monday.

All•the cotton-mills at Haywood in Lancashire have stopped work, in conse- cntence of stile of the worknien for increased wages.

A.very alarming collision occurred on the Branding Junction Railway on Tues- day night. The eight o'clock train from Gateshead to Sanderhind approached Felling station, when the speed of the train was slackened; but, before the train reached the station, a smart shock was felt by the passengers; • who were thrown from their' seals, and a general rush was made to get out of the carriages—the women screaming, and the men in a state of bewilderment. The railway is un- dergoing repair at this part, so that there is only one line in operation for a short distance: along luggage-train was coming in the opposite direction, from Brock- ley Whine, and was in the act ofleaving the one line and crossing on to the other, Where the repairs are finished, when the passenger-train ran plump into the one next the engine; which were thrown off' the line, piled one above another, end scattered en all sides by the shock. The engine of the passenger-train was much broken, and a large rent made, through which the fire tumbled on the ground; sad a general cry that the engine would burst added greatly to the pre- vailing consternation, every one endeavouring to get as far front it as possible. A feW-slight bruises was the extent of the bodily injury sustained by the passengers.

Three zarnekeepers have been dreadfully beaten by -poachers, at Favnnt, in Wiltshire.

Mr. Bunny, of Birmingham, who attempted to murder Ma wife and kill him- s4 has been-examined by the Magistrabes ; and his demeanour leaving no doubt of his insanity, they intend to apply to the Home Secretary to confine him in a fanatic-asylum.

A: Coroner's Jetty has retttened a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Jane Crosby-of 'Ilavisinonby, the inhuman wretch who destroyed her child by holding its faro on the fire.

Thomas Marples, a gatdeh-toole-inaker living at Grenoside, near Sheffield, has kilted his father, during a'qtrarrel, by thrusting into his abdomen a piece of red-hot iron.

Samuel Aedy, an agricultural labourer at Finehley, has hanged himself, in conreeqnence of the distress which he suffered from the miserable wages he re- ceived for his labour. Aedy and his wife had seldom anything beyond bread and potatoes to e,at ; and would have wanted even these at times had not a neighbour occasionally lent them assistance. The cottage of the poor people is described as the picture of cleanliness, and they had lived in it for thirty-five years: the man was very -averse from applying for aid to the parish.

Markey, a hatter at Burnley, has been killed by taking arsenic instead of arrow- root. Two ounces of the poison were sold to Markey, ignorantly and negligently, by Mr. Heaton senior, the father of a chemist at Burnley, in his son's absence, in- stead of arrow-root, which was wanted. Two otherpersons were also served with arsenic. On young Mr. Heaton's return the fearful mistake was dis- covered, and means immediately taken to prevent ill effects: in two cases the ar- senic had not been touched, but Markey had swallowed an ounce of it and he soon alter died. A verdict of " Manslaughter " has been returned against Mr. Heaton senior, and Curl, a shop-boy.

Hannah Hetherington, a young woman twenty-two years of age, who was em- ployed in the Yorkshire coal-pit, at Standish, was killed a few days ago, in con- sequence of falling down from the top-landing to the bottom of the pit. On the Coroner's inquest, her father deposed that his daughter bad worn men's clothes for the last twelve months, and had worked in the Yorkshire pit for three or four days before her death. He did not think any one could have known her from a man in her man's clothes; for she was five feet ten inches high. His family was very poor. Other women were employed in the pit, and they also wore men's °lathe's.

An extensive building used as a carpenter's shop, with a dockyard-school and other adjoining buildings in Chatham Dockyard, was destroyed by fire on Tues- day.inornmg. The fire was discovered two hours after midnight, and burnt with such fury that the numerous engines on the spot, manned by soldiers, police, and workmen, and well supplied with water, were of no avail in saving any portion of the pile of bnildings ; but they prevented the Queen, a ship of 110which was Very dangerously situated, from taking fire. The loss is estimated guns, at 15,0001. or '2IPOOL