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With characteristic inertia, the counties continue to roll forward in slow addition to the concourse of national protesters against the Roman interference. Norfolk, Worcestershire, Surrey, Cambridgeshire, and Cumberland, have raised their voices; each with etharacteristic intona- tion.
The Surrey meeting was marked by the appearance of Sir Edward Sugden,, to bring from his retirement the fruit of his reflections on the law of the questien. Sir Edward was dear and unhesitating in hie opi- nion that the illegality of denying the Queen's supremacy, and of intro- during "bulbs" into this country; remains untouched by-the minor Act passed in 1897, which only repeals certain of the severer penal- ties enacted by the 13th Elizabeth. Sir Edward stated, that though he voted for Catholic Emancipation, with doubt and hesitation, in 1829, he has neverrepented of that vote, and would' repeat it ntanonrow if am:salon called for it. A. letter was read from, Mr. Henry Drummed, enume- rating a portentously long list of his reasons for supporting the demon- atratren which he assumed that the meeting would make_ The Woreestershire and Cumber:land, meetings were marked by a stout Roman Catholic opposition; at the former, led by Sir E. Blount and Me. Berkeley of Spetchley, in strikingly bold, energetic, and even center:zeta- ous speeches' at the latter, by the respected Member for Carlisle, Mr. Philip Howard; but in neither case with anything even approaching success.
The meetings in Cambridge and Norfolk were marked, the first by Dissenting oppositions; the second by a Dissenting ceiperation, heo.ded by Mr. Peto, one of the Members for Marwick Seine borough meetings present distinctive features. One at Notting- ham applauded the utterance of very warm sentiments by the Reverend George Cuthbert
Denouncing the Tractarians as ten theusand times more Jesuitical than any agents that Rome had ever sent, and answering shouts of "Turn them (Int!" -with the ejaculation, "We'll do our best!" Ma. Cuthbert further consigned them to an wahoppy place. Those "amen of intellect, learning, education, and naturally gifted besides, were gone to the bottomless pit.'
A voice exclaimed—" Shame, shame !"
Mr. Cuthbert, turning fiercely—" It is no shame, my young friend : the men who denies the truth must burn in the bottomless pit. I sag, let the press keep up her name. al her not etimd in the wayof the Lord. I say to my piing frieede, beware of those pretty processions and those other subtle inventions that are brought forth to entrap your precious young sods, and fly to the Throne of Grace:"
A large portion of the audience were transported with excitement at these spiritual denunciations.
A meeting of lay members of the Establishment in Bath gave Lord, Ashley an opportunity of -repeating the vigorous warnings against foreign aggression and internal heresy which he uttered at the meeting in Ave- =suns Hall. 1143 attacked priesteraft in the same spiritually deumetratie temper which was so notably displayed by Dr. Gilbert Young, the Dean 01 Bristol- " They should raise one united, common, and irresistible veils, that the thing. was unclean, and that by God's blessing the laity would. got rid of the abommation. The ecclesiastics had troubled the Church in all ages the laity, under God's blessing, had invariably reformed it."
The eanvasses of Lord Newark, the Ducal candidate, and bin Barrow, the tenant candidate, in South Nottinghamshire, are prosecuted with the most uncompromising vigour: indeed, says the correspondent of the. Times, "there is as much bitterness of feeling shown, and perhaps more, than if one were a violent Radical and the other-extreme Tory. ' - The Du2a1 party are extremely indignant at the presumption of "the oceu- piers and smaller gentry ' in putting forward an independent candidate ; the-tenantry and gentry-are "enraged to fled -nearly every lawyer in the
co retained against them,' with the agents of the aristocracy." Votes hive' en so openly influenced, that Mr Barrow issued an address spe- cifically putting the contest on the ground of "the eight of the electorto choose-kis-own representative." Disasters by minitig accidents and toiler explosions again. abound.
The Duffryn mine, a new colliery in the valley of A.berdrire, has proved fatal to at least two lives. Piftyetwepersons were down a pit more *an five hundred feet deep, when an explosion shattered the " bratishine" which lbws the shaft, and closed up all means of escape, and apparently°all means et ventilation. After an hour or two of painful suspense, a single bueket was got down the pumping-shaft; awl by its slow instrumentality poor prisoners were drawn out but three. Two lifeless bodies were extricated.
In the Morfa pit of Messrs. Vivian anti Son, at Taibach, Glamorganabire, at least two persons hare been killed, and some thirty wounded, by an ex, 'plosion. In the Abergwydden colliery, Momnouthshbv, the gearing of the lifting apparatus ham.: gotten out or order, the heavy " carriage ' ran down the shaft with frigliftd rapidity. Amen- stood beneath; panic rooted him be the spot, and he was crushed to death smell boiler, used to heat the Halifax County Covet, exploded—as is:be- lieved, from the freezing of an exposed pipe. The hoary fraguaents were dashed into a playground on a. spot that had a few moments before been crowded by children. The inquest held on the bodies of the twelve persons killed by the boiler- - explosion in the manufactory at Bradford has resulted in a verdict-of "Man- slaughter" against Mr. Firth, one of the members of the firm,, and Joseph Helliwell, "the engine-tenter."
At Farnborough in Kent, two Policemen encountered four men in a cart, whom they believed to be burglars. On their attempting an arrest, a dove- rate straggle ensued ; the burglars using life-preservers, threatening with a pistol, and eventually escaping. The Police retained the horse and cart; in the cart were piekloek-keys, centre-bits, a dark lantern, and matches; the horse has great powers of speed, and seemed to hare been driven from Lon- don.
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