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The nomination for the Bath election takes place today. At the out- set there were three candidates,—Mr. Whateley, Sir Culling Eardley, and Mr. William Tite. The Conservatives hold fast to Mr. Whateley, and stake their chances upon him. The Liberals have resolved upon choosing Mr. Tite as their champion ; and it is probable that Sir Culling Eardley will withdraw. Mr. Tite takes a prominent and official part in the Administrative Reform movement; and Mr. R. R. It. Moore, one of the well-known "lecturers" of the Anti-Corn-law League, has gone to Bath to talk on behalf of the Vice-Chairman of the new League.
The Liberals of Kent are to have an opportunity of trying their strength at the next general election. Mr. Whatman, now Member for Maidstone, will not stand again for that borough, but will put up for one of the Kent divisions; and with him will stand Mr. Wykeham Martin of Leeds Castle. Mr. Humphrey Mildmay has offered himself to the Maid- stone electors.
The movement set on foot by the Administrative Reformers continues in the provinces. Rochdale has adopted a petition to Parliament praying not only for administrative reform, but the abolition of secret diplomacy, and the restoration of Poland, Italy, and Hungary ! The people of Mer- thyr, at a meeting over which the Chief Constable presided, established a local society in aid of the movement. At Exeter, a petition has been signed in favour of Mr. Layard's views, and forwarded to Mr. Divett. At Oxford, the Town-Council has refused to entertain a proposal from the Ultra-Radicals to petition Parliament for administrative reform.
Birmingham, the parent of Freehold Land Building Societies, is still firmly convinced of their efficacy, but more as means of working moral than political improvement. At the sixth anniversary of the local so- ciety,—Mr. William Seholefield, M.P. in the chair,—renewed declarations of faith in the principle of these societies were made ; and, as a token of thankfulness for his consistent support, the members presented the chair- man with a silver inkstand. It appears that the revenue of the Birming- ham Society has risen from 24001. to 15,0001. a year.
There seems to be a general improvement, though of a moderate kind, in the manufacturing districts, coincident with the more buoyant state of the money-market.
The Irish at Newcastle celebrated Whit Monday with a fatal riot. There were races on the sands ; and after they were over a considerable number of Irishmen, well armed, some with pistols, others with swords and bludgeons, assembled in a tent to drink. About midnight, an Englishman going in for re- freshment was assaulted and beaten. He called in some constables ; they were driven back, and severely mauled. The Mayor, hearing of the riot, sent down a competent Police force, aided by special constables : still the rioters made a deadly resistance, one firing a pistol, another thrusting with a sword, all resolutely fighting. But the Police charged in a body, and after a terri- ble fray, defeated the truculent Irish, and captured thirty-three. Of these twenty-six were wounded, and one has since died.
Parricide has been committed at Birmingham. Lowe, a publican, bad a dissipated son : on Sunday night the father scolded him, and struck him with a s'ick' whereupon the young ruffian stabbed his father until he was dead. The parricide escaped, but was pursued, and arrested in BristoL One Huxtable has been held to bail by the Barnstaple Magistrates for "abusing, ill-treating, and neglecting" a lunatic, Edward Lancey, a man of forty-five. The poor creature was kept in a "cell," in a state of inclescrib- able filth and want; his limbs were contracted, his body excoriated, and the bones of one leg broken. It will scarcely be credited that the relatives of Lancey had treated him in the same ancient and barbarous fashion.
Keetht a publican of Exeter, has been fined 2001. for adulterating his beer with grams of paradise, camomile flowers, and gentian. Mr. Mansfield, the Liverpool Stipendiary Magistrate, has investigated complaints made by passengers of the James Baines, alleging ill-treatment: he dismissed the charges.
No fewer than five railway men are in custody as concerned in a long-con- tinued system of robbing goods-trains passing through Carlisle and belonging to different companies. They operated by wholesale, and baffled repeated efforts made to detect them.
By an explosion of fire-damp in Deep Ash Colliery, near Longton,—caused by the use of a naked candle,—six men and a boy have lost their lives, and the limbs of another man have been fractured. Two men escaped unhurt. For- tunately, only these nine persons happened to be in the pit at the time.
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