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The official declaration of the poll for East Surrey election was made at Croydon on Monday. The numbers were—for Mr. Antrobus, 2,635; for Mr. Alcock, 1,436. Mr. Antrotms and Mr. Alcock addressed the electors. The former stated that the numbers polled had been only 22 more than at the preceding election, yet the majority was increased fourfold.
The election of the Honourable George Wentworth Fitzwilliam, as Member for Richmond, took place on Tuesday, -without opposition.
A report is in circulation, whether well or ill founded we are unable to say, that Mr. Cresswell, the barrister, intends to offer himself as a candidate on the Tory interest for the representation of the borough of Tynemouth at the next election.—Tyne .31ercury. A meeting was convened at Brighton on Thursday week, to petition Parliament against the Poor-law Amendment Bill. The Chartists mus- tered in great force, and succeeded in carrying an amendment in which a petition for Universal Suffrage was embodied with the petition against
the Poor-laws.
John Thorogood has again been summoned for refusing to pay fwg' church-rates, amounting to 13s. 6d. As he objected to the validity of the rate, the Magistrates could not enforce it, and the only remedy is by resort to the Ecclesiastical Court ; a course which it is said the Churchwardens are about to adopt.—Courier.
The Commissioners of Sewers for the Half-hundred of Beeontree, Essex, are about to proceed against the North-eastern Railway Com- pany for penalties, on account of the embankments having stopped the usual flow of the water during the late floods. It appears that there is a heavy penalty per hour for every inch of water found higher on one side the railroad than the other. During the floods, the water was eighteen inches out of the level on the two sides of the embankment. It was stated by the Chairman at a meeting of the Commissioners, that the penalty is 100/. per inch per hour ; but the Commissioners' clerk said he believed 51. was the highest. Even at that rate the penalties amount to a very large sum.
Mr. Elliot, the Member for Roxburghshire, had a narrow escape in travelling north to Kelso lately, by railway. When about two miles from Wigan, the carriage in which he sat got off the rails, when it was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour. In a letter describing the ac- cident, Mr. Elliot says- " The wheels, axles, springs, steps, &c., in fact, every thing below the body of the carriage, was smashed to pieces ; and when at length the engine was stopped, we were left lying in the wreck about two feet from the edge of the embankment over which we were passing at the time : yet, most fortunately, nobody was hurt."
A Court-martial has been held at Windsor on Sergeant Coolen, for having appeared at parade, the day after the Royal christening, in a state of drunkenness. He had received permission to attend a ball given on the occasion, and had drunk so heartily to the health of the Princess Royal that he could not go through his "facings" next morn- ing. He was found guilty. Another sergeant was put under arrest for refusing to give evidence against Coolen.
John Denton Holt, clerk to Messrs. Hall and Co., merchants, Liver- pool, was charged on Friday last, before the Police-office, Liverpool, with the robbery of his employers to the extent of 1,500/. in December last, On Monday he underwent a second examination ; when the Police Commissioner, to whom be had surrendered himself, stated that he had acknowledged a fraudulent appropriation of 1,8001.; which he had hidden, part in a lane near IIuddersfield, and part on Mitcham, Common, near London. Search was accordingly made at these places, under the direction of the prisoner ; when property to the extent of 1,600/. odd was discovered, chiefly in sovereigns and bank-notes. At the close of the examination the prisoner was again remanded.
In consequence of a fierce competition now going on amongst the coal-proprietors in Barnsley, coals are selling at sonic of the pits as low as 4s. 9d. per ton.—Leeds Journal.
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