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The West Riding of Yorkshire election has ended, as foreseen, in the unopposed return of Sir John Ramsden. He was nominated and elected at Wakefield on Monday. His proposer was Mr. H. S. Thompson, his seconder Mr. Thomas Dunn of Sheffield. The speech which courtesy demands of a new member was made by Sir John, and seemed to give great satisfaction. It was moderately liberal.
The contest for East Worcestershire, a pitched battle between the Liberals and Conservatives, has been close, sharp, and well-sustained. The nomination took place at Droitwich on Saturday.. Mr. Calthorpe was proposed by Mr. Foster, M.P. and seconded by ?dr. Galion. Mr. Pakington was proposed by Mr. Bearcroft and seconded by Mr. F. Smith. Mr. Calthorpe obtained the majority on a show of hands, whereupon Mr. Pakington's friends demanded a polL This took place on Tuesday. In Shepston-on-Stour, Evesham, Pershore, Droftwich, Mr. Pakington had a majority; but in Stourbridge, Dudley, Halesowen, Kingsnorton, and Bromsgrove, Mr. Calthorpe mustered very decided majorities, and thus carried the day. Mr. Pakington voted for himself, and Sir John Pakington voted for his son. The numbers, as officially- declared were—Colthorpe, 2284; Pakington, 1963; majority for Cal- thorpe, 321.
The Bury and Norwich Post does not anticipate that any opposition will be offered to the return of Lord Alfred Hervey, for Bury St. Ed- munds. A meeting of liberal electors, however, was held on Monday night, and was adjourned to Friday evening, to consider whether any steps should be taken.
A demonstration of the Manchester Liberals who do not concur with Mr. Bright is to be made on the 4th March in the Free Trade Hall. An address is to be presented to Mr. Aspinall Turner, M.P., thanking him for his services to the constituency during the past two years • and the triumphant majority of the electors who by their votes displaced Mesas. Gibson and Bright from the representation of the city at the general election in March 1867, will take advantage of the occasion for the more important public object of declaring their adherence to the principles which then guided their conduct, and their opposition to the measure of Parliamentary reform since proposed by Mr. Bright, on ac- count of its unfairness and tendency to class favouritism.
The Manchester Guardian reports a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, whereat the Reverend W. Gaskell read the following extract from a letter of the Reverend Thomas Belsham (dated Hackney, August 16, 1805), containing an account of a visit which he had just paid to the Duke of Grafton, in which the following passage occurs, and Mr. Gaskell wished to know whether any member of the society could confirm the statement made in it— "Admiral Cosby told me one circumstance which was curious. When he was Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, during the last war, at the time that we were in possession of Corsica, and when Sir Gilbert Elliott was Governor-General of the island, General Paoli introduced Bonaparte, then a young man to the Governor and to the Admiral, as a friend othis who would be glad be employed in the service of England ; but these wise men, not having Lavater's skill in physiognomy, rejected the proposal, which obliged Bonaparte to offer his services to the French, and this was the rise of Bonaparte's fortunes. I had often heard that Bonaparte had offered his services to the English and been rejected, but I hardly gave credit to it till I learned it from Admiral Cosby himself."
Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Roberts said that, in their boyhood, they had often heard a similar statement made, but were not aware on what authority it rested. Mr. Thackeray visited Harrow last week for the purpose of delivering a lecture before the school on "The Court and Times of George the
Third." The whole school was present, together with a select party of visitors, who filled every vacant corner of the speech-room. Mr. Thackeray WAS enthusiastically cheered before and after his lecture, which was listened to with admiring attention by an audience of more than 500. Mr. Thackeray is the lineal descendant of a former head master of Harrow, Dr. Thaekeray, who presided over the school from 1740 1760.
A form of statute was promulgated in the Convocation of the Univer- sity of Oxford on Tuesday, for omitting the sermons in the Christmas vaeation, and for discontinuing the sermons on the days of the abolished state services. Several members expressed opinions strongly opposed to the abolition of the state services, and in favour of continuing the ser- MOAB.
At Lancaster Assizes, William Sanderson, Thomas Holden, and John Parker, were indicted for the wilful murder of James Eatough, when acting as gamekeeper on the property of Mr. Whalley, on the night of the 13th December lat. An approver, named Reilley, described the proceedings of the party of poachers, consisting of five, including himself, and the affray with the gamekeepers, during which Eatough, who was an old man, was frequently struck. The evidence of the approver was confirmed by that of the gamekeepers. The deceased lived twelve days after he was wounded. Mr. Justice Wiles, in his charge to the Jury, observed that if they thought the keepers, by their conduct and excess of violence, in attempting to arrest the man, had provoked the blows in hot blood which led to the death of the deceased, then the offence was only manslaughter. The Jury, after an hour's deliberation, took that merciful view of the offence, and found Saun- derson and Holden guilty of manslaughter only, and acquitted Parker. Saunderson, who is an old poacher, was sentenced to ten years, and Holden to five years' penal servitude.
Lieutenant A. Baillie, of the East India Engineers in quarters at Chat- ham,. was arrested last week on a charge:of robbing a brother officer. Rob- beries have gone on for some time, and suspected servants have been dis- inisnal. Baillie's servant gave information which led to a vigilant watch oa his master's conduct. The alleged robbery was instantly discovered. Bailie escaped from prison on Saturday.
George Binning, a Sunderland miner, aged 19, has shot Margaret Hodgson, a girl of 18, whom he was courting. The young woman rejected his suit, she would have nothing to do with him. The boy exclaiming that no one else should, drew a pistol, shot her in the head, and ran away. She is in a dangerous state.
While the Bute Docks at Cardiff were full of sailors and others engaged on business on Tuesday, the boiler of an engine blew up. Six persons were killed, and several wounded. It is stated that the man at the engine put his hand on the safety valve in order that he might hear the captain's in- structions.
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