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The nomination of candidates for Gloucester, took place on Thursday; when the show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr. Tracy Leigh, and a poll was demanded for Mr. Codrington.
Lord Edward Somerset has canvassed the electors of Cirencester; and as this borough may be still called a close one, and he has the patron's support, he will most probably be reelected.
Lord Euston will probably be elected for Thetford, in the place of Lord James Fitzroy.
The Dissenters generally throughout the country celebrated the cessation of slavery in the British dominions, on Fnday the 1st, in their various chapels. At Hull, the first stone of the 1Vilberforce memorial was laid.
Steam-vessels now run from London to Hull, in Yorkshire, upwards of two hundred miles, carrying passengers for 5s. per head.
A grand archery meeting took place at Gravesend last Friday. Mrs Baty, the e elebrated Yob g Poscius, won four of the prize arrows. [It must be about ti irtg yeate since Mr. Betty was the young Roseitis.] A suspension bridge is in contemplation across the Avon from tile North Parade at Bath. The expense, 10,0001., is to be raised in shares.
During the last week, 180,000 sovereigns were exported from Liverpool for New York.
The intense heat experienced last week seems to have been generally felt throughout the country. Many of the Country Papers state that thermometer stood in the shade at 54, and in the sun at I W.
The harvest is likely to be most abundant throughout the country notwithstanding the injury which the corn has received in some places by the late severe storms.
On Wednesday week, Manchester and the towns in the neighbour. hood, were visited by one of the most severe storms of thunder and lightning which have occurred for some time ; and which, we regret to say, has been attended with fatal consequences. The storm commenced soon after two o'clock in the afternoon, and continued with little intermission till near four o'clock, being accompanied by a deluge of rain. The lightning was general throughout the town and suburbs; but its effects seem to have been mainly confined to the north-east and north-west sides thereof; extending on the former side to Newton, and on the latter to Prestwich. Throughout the whole of the district
named, much damage has been done to the gardens and hothouses ; and to describe the amount in each case, would be a tedious and useless task. A tree near the iron bridge at Broughton was shivered from the top to
the bottom of the trunk. The peculiarity of the storm was, that fragments of ice, some of them of an extraordinary size, fell in abundance, doubtless adding to the damage caused by the storm. Much hind in the low situations was flooded. Several persons in factories in the vicinity were struck dead by the lightning, and many much injured.
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