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Sir George Tyler, of Cottrell, is a candidate for the seat in Parliament for Glarnorgansbire vacated by the retirement of the Earl of Dunraven. He is attached to the "glorious Reformation," and demands "the adop- tion by the Legislature of the principle of Protection," to secure all in- terests against "unfair and unequal foreign competition."
The Speaker of the House of Commons has given notice.in the Gazette, that in fourteen days after the 13th instant he will issue writs for the election of new Members by the Counties of Bedford and Nottingham, in room of the deceased Members, Viscount Alford and Mr. Bromley.
Carmarthenahire and Merionethshire have given their distant echo to the cry against the Papal aggression. The proceedings were in each in- stance, as one would expect from the Principality, very marked manifes- tations from the Anti-Tractarian ground of oppugnancy to the Popish measures.
Suffolk declared itself on Thursday ; not without much dissent. A free-conscience amendment was moved and supported by Catholics, and maintained on division by a fete hands ; ' Mr. Roy, a Dissenter, made a fierce attack on the tyrannizing Clurch, amidst cries from all parts of the room ; Mr. Prentice moved an amendment against State endowment Of any religion, which fell still-born to the ground ; and a specially Anti- Tractarian amendment found less than the usual favour- The address at last carried was of the common stamp.
Besides the education movement at Manchester which we last week de- scribed, there was another educational proceeding of more purely local objects, and of a totally unpolitical tone. The Mayir of Manchester, Mr. Potter, has long entertained the hope of establishing a Public Free Li- brary and Museum for Manchester, of a similar character to the Peel Park and Library and Museum in the sister municipality of Salford. He has been quietly working towards the accomplishment of his project, and on Wednesday sennight he called together a public meeting of his towns- men and communicated,how very nearly he has accomplished all the preliminary,steps of the undertaking. The Bishop of the diocese, withmany of his dignified and parochial clergy, Mr. Joseph Brotherton, the Mayor of Salford, and a large number of wealthy merchants and manufacturers, assembled to hear the welcome statements— A conveyance has-been procured, ;for 12001., of the Hall of Scienee in Campfield, which was erected some years since by a body of Socialists at.a cost of 60001. ; and Sir Oswald Moseley has made a gift. of half the chief- rent of 92/. due to him on the building—a donatton worth,„12.001. Mr. Pot- ter has by a personal canvass obtained subscriptions frims.keventy-six gentle- men and firms, amounting to 43191. ; and the Overseers have voted in aid of the public object a sum of 20001. under their disposal for such purposes. It is calculated that 76001. will be the sum of money required, and Mr. Potter has already obtained 63001. ; so that the scheme is already. nearly accom- plished. It is proposed to appropriate about 20001. in acquiring a library of about 8000 books for reference ; and about 10001. in the purchase of a "library of circulation," consisting of about 5000 books. The Bishop of Manchester expressed admiration of Mr. Potter's phi- lanthropic activity ; and in giving his entire concurrence to the scheme, added seine practical advice suggested by personal experience in the esta- blishment of educational institutions, with especial reference to the library of circulation- "I entirely concur with the remarks which you hare made with respect to the temper and disposition of the operatives of this county, and of this country in general, at the present time. I believe it has been a libel again and again. repeated and circulated, that the trash which we see nt a at number (in too many) of the windows of some small shops, is the real lite- rary food of the working-people of England. I know, from actual inquiry and observation, directly the contrary. I know, for I was permitted, some years since, to join with others in establishing a very humble and small lite- rary institution in Birmingham, the books of which were carefully selected for useful practical purposes, and some of them were of a superior description ; and the complete success which attended that experiment, the number of books taken out, the regularity with which they were returned, the care and respect with which they were preserved, all warrant me in saying, I can per- sonally recommend and encourage the experiment you are intending to make • here. But that is not all. I have made inquiry carefully, from good author- ity in Manchester, as to some works which are circulated amongst the working-people, and I have positive evidence from those on whom I can rely, from their.peculiar advantages of knowing, that many of those books are of a very. superior description. Nor is this all: within the last few weeks I have received invitations from no less than nine mechanics' institutions in different parts of the country, or institutions of that kind ; and though I have been only able to accept one or two of them, I have found on inquiry that those institutions are improving ; thet the circulation of books greatly increases, and the interest taken in them by the working classes is of a most satisfactory description in every way. These are encouraging circumstances. These are things which point out not only the good opportunity, but they also im- peratively press upon us the duty which we have of doing something for those classes. I have ventured to throw out a suggestion, which the Mayor has very kindly promised to consider, and which I think will be of very great benefit to all classes. By cataloguing the books, each work entered under all the heads which it is calculated in any way to illustrate, you will have a library of reference, with a key to it, by which information on any subject may almost instantaneously be obtained; while the small labour which will devolve upon the librarian of cataloguing these books immedi- ately as they come in, though, of course, it will be considerable at first, will ;gradually become very trifling, as each book will be entered immediately upon its being brought into the library." • The Dean of Manchester, Mr. Bazley, President of the Chamber of -Commerce and the Mayor of Salford, were among the many speakers -who declared their hearty support of the scheme, and expressed the gene- ral feeling of gratitude to Mr. Potter for its origination. It is hoped that the institution will be in actual operation by next July.
The busy and enterprising townsmen of Southampton assembled in public meeting on Tuesday, to bear explanations from Mr. Howe,. the well-known political leader of Nova Scotia, on the subject of the schemes of emigration to the British Colonies in North America, which lie has tome over to place under the notice of the Colonial Office and the Eng- lish public. He proposes to establish cheap steam-boats for the poor, from Southampton to Halifax in ten days ; and he informed the meeting, that the Government have received his plans in the kindest possible spirit, and are desirous to assist in carrying them out if they be thought practicable.
Some of the great manufacturing firms on the Wear have it in con templation to start a powerful steamer to ply regularly between Sunder- land and London.
The office of Superintendent of the Surrey Police has been conferred on Mr. Henry Cadogan Hastings, late a Lieutenant in the Fifty-fifth Bengal Native Infantry.
The six Hatfield burglars were examined by the Magistrate at Tonbridge Wells on Saturday. No fresh evidence was given, and they were re- manded.
Hannah Minton, a girl of sixteen, was hired last Michaelmas by Mr. John Lee, farmer of Kempsey, near Worcester, to be the nurse-maid of his chil- dren, for 21. a year wages. Lee and his wife cruelly beat the girl, and -starved her, so that neighbours gave her food to keep her alive. The Magis- trates of Worcestershire convicted Mr. and Mrs. Lee of a common assault, and fined each of them 21. with costs.
Some boys in Blackburn habitually annoyed Mr. Rogerson, a surgeon, by giving runaway pulls at his hell, and in other petty ways. About a fortnight since, Mr: Rogerson caught one of them, took him into his surgery, and branded his forehead by marking "B " on it, with caustic, "for an exam- ple." The parents of the boy brought the case before the Police Magistrate, :dieing' the opinion of surgeons that the brand would be indelible for life. Mr. Rogerson contended that it would only be indelible for a year. He was given till last Wednesday to consult a legal adviser, and it was intimated that he will be bound over to appear and take his trial at the Assizes for the transportable offence.
Thompson, Mounsey, Pinnick, and Graham, were in Carlisle Gaol for trial on a charge of robbery, and three of them were confined in one cell. ;Graham was liable to fits: on Friday last week, an alarm was raised that he was dying in a fit ; and the turnkey hastened to the cell in an unguarded mood; Graham, the "dying Man' " rushed at him, and with Thompson and Mounsey overpowefed him, took his keys, and focked him in their cell, whence his cries could not be heard by the Governor. They next liberated I'innick, and then the four got to the foot of the lofty prison-wall. A ladder which they found was so short that only Graham, who is a very tall man, could by its means climb the wall: he lifted the other prisoners up to him, and, the ladder having been put on the outside of the wall, lowered them down to it. When all three but Graham were safe, Mounsey kicked the ladder down, and said to Graham, "Stick where you are, you bloody sky- lark!" all three then ran away and left Graham to his fate. An alarm was raised, and Graham was recaptured on the wall. A reward has been offered for the apprehension of the others.
A house on fire, in North Street,- Brighton, was discovered on Saturday morning. There were six inmates. Mrs. Figg, a laundress, with an infant grandson in her arms, ran down stairs through the flames'; she and the infant were burnt, int-net in a way to endanger life. A kin of Mrs. Figg escaped from an silk window over the roof of the next house. Holden, his wife and child, who occupied' the drawingroom floor, also flew to the attic - window, and got on the roof; but in the darkness they all missed their foot- ing and fell—a distance of forty feet—into an old chalk-pit in the rear of .th;house. The husband was taken up insensible, and died in the hospital on Sunday ; the wife sustained several fractures, but is recovering ; the -child was found sitting in a flower-garden, slightly bruised.
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