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Mr. Roason has issued an address to the electors of Chester, offering him- self as candidate in the event of any change in the representation, or, in the event of a dissolution, as an opponent to the Attorney-General.
A few stray meetings on the subject of agricultural distress and protec. tion, and on financial reform, are reported in the provinces by the London organs of those movements,-in behalf of protection, at York and Wis. beach; in behalf of financial reform, at Winchester and Hitchin.
A "People's College," similar to that in Sheffield, is about to be esta- blished in Norwich. A gentleman of fortune, wishing to benefit the work- ing classes of his native city, has supplied the means for commencing the undertaking.
The General Council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science has appointed the time for holding the ensuing meeting in Birming- ham. The members will arrive on Wednesday the 12th of September; the business of the Association will commence on the following day, and be continued each day, Sunday excepted, until the following Wednesday, when the proceedings will close.-Birmingham Gazette.
At a special meeting of the shareholders of the North Midland Railway, held at York on Thursday, a Committee of investigation into the accounts and affairs of the company was appointed; and four new Directors were chosen in place of Mr. Hudson and three others.
A bell-mouthed double-barrelled blunderbuss has been discovered in a dung- heap under an outhouse at Potash Farm while the servants were turning the manure over; the ramrod found at Stanfield Hall fits it•' and, to complete the chain of evidence, Mr. Parker the gm:maker, of Holborn, writes to the Times, that he sold this very gun to a man "exactly answering Rush's description" on the 13th of July last year. On the night of the 3d instant, two soldiers-John MacFarlane and Andrew Daley-accompanied by some girls, were making a disturbance in the streets of Bristol; Policeman Pym desired them to cease, and to go home; one soldier naught hold of the constable, the other hit him with a stick, then both fell upon him, knocked him down, and struck him on the head with something which one of the girls thought was an oyster-shell. On the 11th, Pym died of erysipelas resulting from his wounds. On Friday last, a Coroner's Jury found a verdict of "Wilful murder" against the soldiers; and Inspector Bosworth immediately started for Gosport to endeavour to arrest them before they set out with their regiment for the East Indies: but he was too late, as they had sailed on the 9th.
The Coroner's Jury which sat at Bath on the body of Henry Merchant, who was poisoned with arsenic, have returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against the woman Harris, the widow of the victim. Her present husband, and Shaylor and his wife, who were in custody, were not considered to be implicated, and they have been liberated.
Another "poisoning case" has been discovered at Morpeth. William Hornsby, a young married man living at Haltwhietle, was taken suddenly ill; and died soon after, apparently from inflammation of the stomach. A report was current in the vicinity that the man's wife had bought arsenic, ostensibly to poison rata, but that it had been applied to another purpose; and the Coroner resolved to hold an in- quest It began last week; but after the examination of some witnesses it was adjourned in order that a chemical examination of the deceased's body might be made. In the mean time, the Magistrates had the widow arrested, and she was lodged in 31orpeth Gsol on is charge of murdering her husband.
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