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The death of Mr. George Richard Robinson the eminent merchant and shipowner, makes vacant the Parliamentary seat for Poole, which he represented in the Free-trade-Conservative interest since 1847. Two candidates have issued addresses : Mr. Savage, who dates from St. Leonard's, Kent, —a Church-and-State man, who would exclude the Jews from Parliament, refuse further concession to the Roman Catholics, and reverse the Free-trade system as a proved failure; and Mr. Henry Denby Seymour, of Knowle House, near Shaftesbury,—a country gentle- man of large bolded possessions and of advanced Liberalism, who would "extend the franchise," and who "rejoices in the Free-trade measures as amble but temporary sacrifice on the part of the wealthier classes for the benefit of the labouring classes."
The Mayor of Southampton, Mr. Andrews—a successful man of busi- ness, a hearty Radical politician, and a warm-hearted man—gave a grand banquet to the Lord Mayor of London on Monday, in acknowledgment of the Metropolitan hospitalities lately shown to Provincial Mayors, and in compliment to the Show of Industry in Hyde Park, of which South- ampton entertains a strong official approval. The London dignitaries went in state, entering Southampton from tltb Bishopstoke station with all the paraphernalia of their civic equipage and costume. The inhabit- ants made the day a holyday, and heartilyjoined in marking their sense of the dignity of the occasion. Lord Palmerston was to have been present at the banquet, but could not leave the Foreign Office ; Solicitor- General Cockburn, the Member, was therefore the leading public man ; and it fell to him to compliment the spirit of the notable man whom Southampton is proud to acowledge as her Chief Magistrate.
The Manchester subscriptions for a monument to the memory of Sir Robert Peel amount to 50501. ; of which 4000/. has been paid in.
The Liverpool Dock Committee have appointed Captain llenrichson, whose wife and children were murdered by Gleeson Wilson, to a master- ship of one of the docks.
The Government have completed the purchase of all the ground and property requisite for the construction of the new harbour at Holyhead ; and the whole of the works will now be pushed forward with the utmost expedition, nearly 1500 men being constantly engaged in the various operations. The engineers are proceeding rapidly with the extension of the sea-walls at the Northern breakwater, and are also proceeding with the erection of the stages. Many thousands of cubic feet of stone are now ready for the commencement and erection of the immense sea-wall, and fresh supplies are daily obtained from the lofty heights that overhang the harbour, where extensive quarrying operations are carried on. The material thus obtained is thrown down into the breakwater, in masses from ten to fifty feet in thickness. The estimated cost of this new harbour, which will give 316 acres of sea-room, is'700,0001.
In a report to the directors of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Com- pany, Mr. Robert Stephenson informs them, "that the whole of the tubes of the Britannia Bridge are now safely deposited in their final pceitions. Nothing now remains to be done but to complete the junctions bet*cen those composing the second line. A fortnight will finish the junctionifin the Britannia Tower; three weeks more will complete the junction with the Carnarvon small tube ; and by the end of October I have no doubt all the remaining preparations for the opening of the second line will be brought to a satisfactory conclusion."
Patrick Forbes, lately convicted of murdering his wife, was hanged at Newcastle on Saturday, amidst the execrations of the mob. He had pre- viously made a statement on divers matters to the officers of the gaoL The only part directly referring to his crime was this—" I loved my dear wife sincerely; and on the 22d of March I had no intention to do her any injury whatever. On that night I was very drunk, and am not conscious to myself of having done anything to cause the death of my dear wife; but, believing the deed was not done by any other person, I am willing to take the blame of it upon myself. I tun satisfied that I had a fair trial before my Judge and the Jury, and I submit willingly to the laws of my country." He suf- fered much during his last night, and was very violent till be became ex- hausted. As he walked to the scaffold, attended by two Roman Catholics priests, he ejaculated prayers for mercy, and for the intercession of the saints and all Christians.
Mr. Blackhurst, the Preston solicitor who was accused of interpolating. words in his wife's will, was reexamined on Monday. Witnesses deposed that they had heard Mrs. Blackhurst declare her intention to leave the resi- due of her personal estate to the city of Glasgow, for endowing a school ; her first husband, from whom she derived the money, having been a Glasgow merchant The prisoner's solicitor declared that the charge had been trumped up to get Mr. Blackhurst imprisoned while a lawsuit about the property was. in progress. The Magistrates committed the accused for trial, refusing bail..
James Rickard, late collector to the Malden branch of the Essex Provident Society, who absconded from that town on the 20th May owing to a defi- ciency in his accounts, has given himself up to the authorities, and is now safely lodged in gaol. lie appears to have gone to France, and lived at Boulogne until his resources became exhausted, when he resolved to return to.
this country and deliver himself up. •
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