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SATURDAY.
There are now two candidates for the representation of Boston. Mr. Alderman Wire is opposed, on Protectionist principles, by Mr. Freshfield, the late solicitor to the Bank of England. The election will probably take place in the middle of next week, and it is likely to be sharply con- tested.
The first day's polling for the county of Longford is decisive of the election. On Thursday evening, Mr. More O'Farrell had polled 622 Totes, and Mr. Sleator only 29.
The Horning Herald exults in the prospect that "the Protectionist ban- quet which is to take place in Edinburgh, the 22d instant, promises to be most successful." "Such is the enthusiasm," that three or four times 660 tickets "could have been disposed of.'
The Paris papers speculate much on a manifesto in the Assemblee Ara- tionale,—which is the organ of M. Guizot, M. Duchatel, M. de 'Palmy, M. de Pastore], and the party which has laboured to bring about the fusion of the two branches of the house of Bourbon,—declaring, that in consequence of the failure of the proposed fusion, the next best thing to be done is the prolongation of Louis Napoleon's powers.
The United States steam-ship Franklin brings accounts from New York to the 5th instant, without any features of importance. Much excitement prevailed in Boston in consequence of the repeated capture under the pro- tection of the Federal authorities of fugitive slaves ; the captors refusing to sell the slaves, but persisting in taking them out of Massachusetts to "try the right" and the power.
The news by the West India mail steam-ship Clyde, which left St. Thomas's on the 7th April, is of little moment. In Jamaica, the cholera epidemic had totally passed away. The Assembly was in session, and was considering financial questions in a conciliatory but economic spirit.
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