Ste ilirobincez. Mr. Denison resumed his canvass of the West

Riding on Friday last, with attendance at a meeting held in Sheffield; and be appeared on Saturday at meetings in Pomfret and Doncaster. At the former place, he was warmly received, and found, by the exclamations of his auditors, that Sir Culling Eardley's former contest of the borough as a Tory was still fresh in the memory of the electors. At Doncaster, he somewhat amended former statements of his " endowment" opinions. Answering the question, " Then, of what class of Christians would you have the Inspectors and Governors of schools?" he said, be " would not interfere with the religions instruction; but he was in favour of the Minutes of Council, which afforded assistance according to the extent of the school, without interfering with the religion taught there."

The nomination of candidates took place on Monday, at Wakefield, be- fore an immense concourse of persons. There were no election-pageants; the two chief parties abstaining by agreement from any array of proces- sions. The supporters of Sir Culling Eardley wore orange, the old Whig colour of the county; those of Mr. Denison laid aside the Conservative blue, and adopted white, as a colour of coalition and peace.

dr. Denison came on the hustings with his friends Mr. Edwin Lascelles, M.P., and Mr. J. P. Tempest. Sir Culling E. Eardley had not recovered from his illness, and deputed Mr. John Bright to speak for him. Mr. Samuel Kydd appeared as a third candidate, in the Chartist interest Sir Culling E. Eardley was proposed by Mr. Joseph Hamerton of Helefield Peel, and seconded by Alderman Carbutt of Leeds; Mr. Denison, by Mr. Edwin Lascelles, and Mr. John Rand of Bradford; Mr. Kydd, by dr. Brook of Huddersfield, and Mr. Ironsides of Sheffield.

Mr. Bright read an address prepared by Sir Calling E. Eardley in lima of a

speech. Sir Culling declared himself to be for "carrying the principles of the Reform Bill to their full and complete effect." Re is for the ballot; for abolishing small constituencies, and dividing some existing gigantic ones, "if candidates are not to be killed with fatigue"; for assimilating the English qualification law to the Scotch; and for restoration of triennial Parliaments. The Parliamentary suffrage he would immediately assimilate to the Municipal franchise: if some- thing wider were required, be would prefer household suffrage to standing still; but he thought this too far for a first step. With this reform of Parliament, re- trenchment of national expenditure, development of free trade, abolition of game- laws and of capital punishments, &c., would be speedily and safely attained. On endowment he repeated his maxim—" Pay all, or pay none "; both as a citizen and a Protestant, he elected topay none. "Nay," said he, " as a mere bearer of the Christian name—I think if I were a sincere Roman Catholic I should feel it as much as I do now—that it is treason to the very idea of religion to make a play- thing of Christianity; to tell the Catholic that his faith is on a level with heresy, and the Protestant that his faith is on a level with Popery. Such a course is equivalent to a national profession of infidelity; and to such a coarse I will not be a party. With my Catholic fellow subjects I will fight out our controversies, not on the hustings, but on the platform, until either my Lord Arundel is convinced by Sir Culling Eardley, or Sir Culling Eardley by Lord Arundel. I will use every argument that I please, and he shall use every argument that he pleases; and we will not consult parties who think one religion a mere variation of the other, as to the hardness of our mutual blows, or the vehemence of our respective controversies. But while our controversy is proceeding, we will join hand in hand as citizens of the same realm and seekers after the same truth; we will frankly tell the men who offer us artificial aid, that Christianity does not require them; and when Mr. Denison whispers in my ear that he will uphold my faith at the cost of my Lord Arundel, we will join to quote a book which a man had better read in Latin and carry it into practice, than possess in English without studying its contents: Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them, for this is the law and the prophets.'" (Cheers, and cries of " Oh ! ")

Mr. Bright endeavoured to follow this address with a speech on his own behalf, but was prevented by Mr. Denison's adherents. The Under-Sheriff decided that he should be heard.

Mr. Bright then spoke at some length, amidst interruptions so great that he was scarcely audible. He especially denounced the Irish endowment project, as a scheme to seduce the priesthood into a disregard of the wrongs and sufferings of their countrymen. Sir Culling Eardley proposed rather to redress the wrongs than to cover them with a bribe.

Mr. Denison declared that he came forward on the pressing call of political op- ponents, who agreed with him that past differences must be forgotten in an effort to "preserve our constitution in Church and State." He dismissed first some points which were not of paramount interest in the present contest. He cheer- fully admitted, that in a great commercial country like this, freedom of trade should be the rule and restriction the exception. But free trade would not make the land flow with milk and honey. "Man's doom is labour; some may be rich, but many most be poor. They are the foundations of society; they are the work- ing bees; and while I advise them to take that part of the honey which of their own construction they can get, I advise them also to work hard and be industrious, and not to be deluded by the gewgaws of political economy—not to be blinded by the delusion that universal suffrage and vote by ballot will relieve them from the weight of that taxation which they are heirs to." (Cheers.) He showed the tolerance of his principles on education grants by an illustration. " So I say, with regard to the Roman Catholics: I interfere not with your religion, don't you interfere with mine. I will not go deeper into this subject hem; but there is a vast and a wide difference between us, and I am perfectly aware that nothing can grate more upon the feelings of conscientious Protestants than to give money to teach Roman Ca- tholic principles. Therefore, let us give them the money, and leave them to teach Roman Catholic children as they think proper; but let us teach our own children in the way we think best." But the cardinal point of the election was the endowment of the State Church. "I tell you that the present struggle is a struggle between the Chapel and the Church. (Great cheering and uproar.) The Roman Catholic endowment is a question which has been dexterously put in the foreground, to mask a concealed battery, by gentlemen who, respectable as I admit they are, proceed as sappers and miners. They gradually and secretly work their way against the buttresses and founda- tions of your Church Establishment; and they mean, as soon as they can quietly, to leave you to the operation of the Voluntary principle. That is what they are aiming at. 'No endowments to the Roman Catholics, says Sir Culling Eardley; 'No endowments whatever,' whispers his friend Mr. Baines. (Cheers and counter- cheers.) ' Wait,' says Sir Culling, let me get to Parliament on the Roman Ca- tholic question; and then we shall see what I and my friends the Dissenters can do in another direction.' Gentlemen, I won't trust them. If they had the power, what is the first thing they would do? They would take possession of the Church property, and say the Church can support itself as well as we can; so that their first spoliation would be all the property of the Church. Are you prepared to let them do this, and leave your Church to the Voluntary principle ? Are you pre- Pared to let Westminster Abbey and York Minster stand upon the Voluntary prin- ciple?" ("Nor)

Mr. Samuel Kydd only wished that Sir Culling E. Eardley would carry out in Practice the noble principles of his address. He adverted to the condition of the Poor. The question of strife between Church and Chapel was an important one, i

out it was insignificant compared with the great question of employing the poor; Which, his word for it, would involve the preservation of the country from revela- tion. The theory of free trade sounded well, but the people now got less of the cheapened goods than they used to get of the dear. A gentleman had rejoiced at our having outlived Continental rebellion; but let them not speak too glibly. "The Peace now prevailing is an alarming .peace. The rich are pale with fear. Let them go back, like sensible men, and give up their claim to the land, to the min- erals, and to the rivers. Till they did this, they would live in constant dread of revolution." As to Ireland, the land should be tilled by the people, and a tax put on all unfilled land for the support of the unemployed. He approved of secular education; by the Voluntary principle if possible—if not, then by the State, for the young of the poor had a right to be educated. He did not look for the Mil- lennium just yet, and could not dispense with the Army; but he would officer it from the ranks. He would abolish primogeniture, and establish universal suffrage. He withdrew his name as a candidate.

On a show of hands, Sir Culling Eardley was declared to have the ma- jority; and a poll was demanded for Mr. Denison.

The three candidates for the representation of Leominster have issued their addresses. Mr. Frederick Peel declares himself an advocate for " every retrenchment compatible with the public safety, with the protec- tion of our widely-extended commercial interests, and with the firm main- tenance of the national credit." He adds-

" The necessity of a wise economy is the more urgent, in my opinion, because I feel it incumbent upon me to resist every attempt (if such be made) to reimpose taxation upon those articles of foreign import which constitute the materials on which our manufacturing industry is employed, or which enter into the subsist- ence or administer to the comfort of the great mass of the community; unless it should be deemed prudent, on more extensive experience of the effects of Free- trade measures, to adopt a different line of policy; a result, however, which I do not anticipate."

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton issues an address which is remarkable for looseness of diction and breaches of syntax, but adds little to what was previously known of his politics. On Irish policy generally, and on en- dowment of the Irish priesthood in particular, he thus pronounces himself, however- " The affairs of Ireland have lately called for a vigorous administration of the law in support of property and life. I trust that the restoration of order will be followed by sound remedial measures. But amongst such measures I cannot class a proposition that has lately agitated the Protestant world, viz. the endowment of the Irish Roman Catholic clergy. Against such a measure, repudiated by that clergy themselves, and removing none of the real difficulties in the government of Ireland, while revolting both to the religious sentiments and the political opinions of a large majority of the British people, I should offer my most strenuous opposi- tion."

Mr. Phillimore came forward as an Ultra-Liberal. He would abolish quibbling in the law, remove the Bishops from the House of Lords, compel them to live for nine months in the year in their respective dioceses, and reduce " their large, mischievous, and insulting incomes." He looked upon the Irish Protestant Church as a great practical evil in its present state, and as a chief cause of the miserable condition of that afflicted country. Finally, he was an advocate for vote by ballot, for extension of the suffrage, for a comprehensive and impartial scheme of national education. Mr. Phillimore has, however, withdrawn, not to divide the Liberal interest.

Mr. Crowder addressed a public meeting of the electors of Liskeard, convened on Wednesday to hear his political sentiments. Ho declared himself for advancing in the spirit of the Reform Bill; but he objected to the ballot. He denounced the Ecclesiastical Courts, as a scandal and disgrace to the country. A resolution was carried without opposition, that Mr. Crowder is a fit and proper person to represent the borough ha Parliament.

Mr. Kekewich has withdrawn from the canvass of the electors; and Mr. Crowder's return is looked on as certain.

At a recent soirde of the Lancashire Public School Association at Man- chester, Mr. Cobden made a speech in favour of State education. He thought that "if we did not adopt some provision for the State education of the people, the next generation in this country was likely to be the most ignorant of any civilized community."

At Liverpool, on Monday, before the South 'Lancashire Special Commission of Assize, Francis O'Donnell, Peter Herbert Delamere, and eight other prisoners, most of them merchants' clerks enjoying good situations, were indicted for con- spiracy and sedition. The prisoners were men of some education, who exercised special influence in the Chartist and Confederate movements of fast Juoe, in ace cord with the Irish insurrection; and were on that account prosecuted as worthy of exemplary punishment. The trials lasted three days, but had no distinctive interest: the prisoners were all found guilty, and were sentenced to imprison- ment for periods varying with the criminality of each, from a month to two years.

John Bleasdale, the man charged with extensive robberies of coal by mining under Wigan, and for whose capture a reward of 1001. was offered in. January last, has at length been arrested, in London.

The inquest at Wymondham was resumed on Tuesday. Several witnesses were examined. A boy stated, that, by Mr. Rush's order, on the morning of the mur- ders, be littered straw along a path leading from Potash farm to Stanfield Hall; the straw was laid for about three furlongs. The lad Savory, whose evidence had been suspected, was reexamined at great length. He bad said that he bad been in the habit of putting a peg in a door which would have prevented Rush from getting his boots from the washhouse; but he now admitted that the door could be opened despite the peg—he pretended that he did not know that until the police had proved it. He admitted that be had asked a man to give evidence about the peg to "screen" Mr. Rash. A policeman spoke to the finding of letters at Potash farm which showed ill-feeling towards Mr. Jenny. A glazier produced a large ramrod which he had found in a passage at Stanfield Hall on the night of the murders. The inquest was again adjourned for a week.

A Coroner's Jnty has found a verdict of manslaughter against Mr. Boyd, the chief keeper of Mr. G. Salvia, of Croxdale Park, Durham. On the night of the 25th November, Mr. Boyd and an assistant overtook some poachers whom they heard firing in the preserves, and endeavoured to arrest them. A poacher threatened to fire if their pursuers advanced, and on Mr. Boyd's disregarding the threat, the poacher did fire: Mr. Boyd was wounded dreadfully, and fell to the ground; but as the men fled be raised himself and fired at John Coulson. All the poachers escaped at that time, but John Coulson was found next morning in a thicket, nearly dead from the effects of Mr. Boyd's shot; and he died in the In- firmary next day. Mr. Boyd is committed for trial.

A drunken squabble at Badminton has ended in a murder. A number of men quarrelled in a public-house at night; on going MN the street, Hobbs, a carpen- ter, and Watts, a stableman, began to fight, and Hobbs seems to have been worsted. Subsequently, Watts was found dead in the stable-yard: he had been stabbed twice. Hobbs was arrested, and on him was found a clasp-knife, the blade of which was marked with blood. Hobbs made a remark to the constable as to the provocation he had received. The Jury have given a verdict of " Wil- ful murder" against this man.

Mrs. Ann Newton, an old lady of Bridgenorth, has been found dead under very suspicious circumstances. A daughter of the deceased had been in the habit of treating her very cruelly. One night there was an alarm of fire in the house•' the furniture of a kitchen where the deceased slept was partially burnt, and the corpse of Mrs. Newton was found in a back-yard very much burnt. A post-mor- tem examination showed that it was probable that the woman had died from suf- focation—perhaps before the fire occurred. The daughter became entitled to some property on the mother's death. A numerous gang of burglars entered the house of Mr. Thomas Sly, on the Stockford Road, seven miles from Birmingham, yesterday week, and carried off a large sum of money. Mr. Sly is an eccentric person, seventy-eight years old: he is well off, and has no faith in banks; so he hoards his money in his own house. He lately sold some houses to a railway company, and received 5001. of the pur- chase-money in gold; and it was this particular money that the robbers aimed to make their booty. Nobody lived with Mr. Sly except one old woman. The robbers broke open a barn and took thence a ladder, and, having coaxed and drngged a dog which roamed the premises by night, they ascended and entered the window of the old man's room, and pounced upon him in bed. A dim light showing the sheen of fire-arms, he submitted to be bound and gagged. A robber then deliberately lighted a candle, and three men in masks broke open the boxes in the room. In a slender box of common deal, which was smashed with a fist- blow, the money was found; and it was held up in triumph before the old man's eyes, till he screamed out with vexation. His housekeeper cried from her room, "Oh, for God's sake spare his life!" The robbers burst her door from its hinges, silenced her with threats, and bound her securely. Taking the old man's watch and some silver spoons, they locked him in his room, and went down stairs. Carousing there for a short time, it would seem that they somewhat relented; for they left the watch and the spoons, and a small sum of money carefully piled on the parlour-table. When they were quite gone, the old man tried to undo the cords which bound him: with his teeth he untied the knots from his wrists, and then completely released himself: he set his housekeeper free, and ran off some dis- tance to raise his neighbours in pursuit of the robbers.

The York convict hulk in Portsmouth harbour has of late been the theatre of some most bloodthirsty attempts at violence and suereesful escapes on the part of the convicts confined therein. Fifty of the worst among the bad on board were taken out of the ship on Saturday morning, under a strong military escort, and marched to the railway station, Gosport, for conveyance to the Milbank Prison, with a view to reduce their violent temperament by a systematic application of the silent system and hard labour. Their ribaldry and yells on going through the streets of Gosport were the most filthy and revolting human ears could be in- sulted with; and when they reached the station, their conduct ended in open re- wilt, and put Mr. Stevens, the superintendent, and his officers and men, in fear of their lives. The soldiers at length were compelled to charge bayonets, (their pieces being capped and loaded,) and use them before the prisoners could be got into the train.—Portsmouth Correspondent of the Times.

A fatal accident on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway has been the occa- sion of noble conduct in an engine-driver. An engine was travelling with its tender from Normanton to Wakefield; on the locomotive were Callagan the driver, Ilawkshaw the stoker, and Whittle a driver on the Midland line. Nearly opposite Kirktborp Church, a part of the machinery broke, and the engine left the rails; it fell down a high embankment, turning over twice. Callagan and Whittle were pitched into a field, while the fireman was crushed into the embankment by the engine. Canton was least hurt; he assisted Whittle, who has since died; he also pulled the fireman out of the embankment—his arm and leg were broken, and he lies in danger. Then, as he stated at the inquest, Callagan, hurt as he was, and amid the awful circumstances by which he was surrounded, had the presence of mind to recollect that the mail-train from Leeds to Manchester was just about due. He managed to scramble on to the line, and found that the rails had been sprung, and two of the chairs broken. He started off towards Norman- ton to stop the train; and, after falling several times from weakness and the dark- ness of the night, the poor fellow reached the signal-light at the junction of the Lancashire and Yorkshire with the Midland. When he got to this point, he was so exhaiisted with the fatigue that he could not tell the signalman what he wanted; but he made him understand by motions that the approaching train was to be stopped: The'red signal-light was turned on just in time to stop the mail- train, which was coming up at the moment.

Inquests hatie beet held at Hull on the bodies of the people who were drowned by the upsetting of a ferry-boat. The sufferers were workers at the Kingston cotton-mills, and to go thither they had to cross the river Hull. Early on the morning of Thursday week. a great many factory-people were crowding into the boat; the ferryman entreated them not to do so; but as the bell was ringing at the mill, they said they should lose a " quarter " if they did not go by that boat; and the boat was pushed off in an overladen state. All might have been well if the passengers had been quiet; but they began to quarrel and "lark"; the boat became unsteady, the people crowded to one side, and the vessel was upset. The evidence of some of those saved, corroborating his own narrative, showed that the ferryman was not in fault. The verdicts were " Accidentally drowned."