thr Vraniurro.
The writ for Bradford is now in the hands of the Mayor; and the elec- tion will take place about Tuesday next. There is no sign of any opposi- tion to the Liberal candidate, Mr. Robert Milligan.
At the second general meeting of the members of the Suffolk Agricul- tural Relief Association, in Bury St. Edmunds, on Thursday, a very ani- mated attack was made by the Chairman, Mr. P. R. Welch, of Yaxley Hall, upon the malt-tax, the present unfair adjustment of tithes, the in- equitable and varying customs of tenant-right, the irresponsible manage- ment of county expenditure, the detestable game-laws, and other matters —including the tyrannical law of distress—which deserve the attention of Englishmen. The vigorous language of the speaker provoked repeated cheers from an audience of tenant-farmers ; and it was resolved,
" That this meeting regards the present aspect of public affairs as highly favourable to the advocacy of the principles of this association ; and that it would rejoice to witness statesmen who at present deal in doubtful terms come forward and ingenuously declare their principles and propound their . plans for the improvement of the condition of the farmers."
At the meeting of the Surrey Magistrates in Quarter-Sessions, on Tues- day, the Visiting Committee of Justices of the Guildford House of Correc- tion recommended the dismissal of the Reverend Mr. Richards, the Chaplain of the prison, on account of his behaviour to a prisoner. A long discussion ensued. It was not wished by the Magistrates that the part of the report referring to Mr. Richards should be publicly read; but Mr. Austin having warmly supported the Chaplain, it was at length deemed advisable that the re- port be read in full. This was done. It appeared that William Augustus Sheen, a prisoner, about to be liberated, had stated, that last year the Chaplain offered to siring anything he wished from London : Sheen requested him to bring a shawl and other articles ; subsequently, Mr. Richards said he had lost them, having " drank too much French wine in London." Sheen further said that the Chaplain had questioned him in an indelicate man- ner with reference to the conduct of ladies in France in the confes- sional. When Mr. Richards was examined by the Committee, he denied having stated that he had drunk too much French wine, but admitted that the remainder of the conversation occurred, but with the qualification that he only spoke of " certain" French ladies acting in the manner described. Mr. Richard, addressed the Magistrates in person. He admitted the con- versation ; explained that it arose out of a desire to illustrate his assertion that the state of morals in France is not better than in our country ; and he averred that he had been entrapped by Sheen—" a concealed Roman Ca- tholic, or something worse." On Mr. Richards's own admissions, the Magis- trates passed a motion, with the single opposition of Mr. Austin, to dismiss the Chaplain from his office.
Mr. Jose, a German merchant, has been robbed at Manchester of sixteen hundred-pound notes. At the boarding-house where Mr. Jose was stay- ing, Jacob Alter, another foreigner, came to lodge ; he called himself an
Hungarian refugee, but that seems to be doubtful. An intimacy arose be. tween Jose and Alter ; and one day the latter said he could purchase some- goods cheap, if he had monejs Jose showed him that he had 16001. in portmanteau. There was a secret spring to the trunk ; . at Alter's requt,' Jose was so incautious as to explain how-the spring acted. The "refugeese" took an early opportunity to make use of the instruction, and got clear of with the notes.
Mrs. Pinckard, en elderly woman, has been found dead in her cottage near Daventry, under circumstances that have led to a suspicion of murder.. The body was in a sitting posture on the floor, with a thin tape round the neck and fastened Ma little brass hook in the wall. The position did not appear to be that of a suicide. On closer examination, it was discovered that the deceased had an extensive wound on the temple, and there were bruises on her arms ; there was blood on the floor and on a wall. The deceased was not a person likely to destroy herself: she enjoyed good health and spirits,- lived happily with her husband, and had a small income of her own. Her husband was absent on the day of the death; the only person who was seen- to enter the house was the wife of Mrs. Pinckard's son. This woman often- quarrelled with her mother-in-law; her husband was in pecuniary difficul- ties; on the death of his mother he would become entitled to 10001. The
daughter-in-law has been taken into custody. ' . • While seven men and two boys were descending a coal-pit near Elston, the winding-gear got out of order, and the carriage ran down the shaft with frightful velocity. When it struck the ground, the chain, '160 yards long, broke with the jerk, and fell on the people. The boys were taken out dead ; two men died during the day, and others are in danger.
Three children have been suffocated in a labourer's cottage at Copford,, near Chelmsford, by one of them setting fire to the straw which covered a heap of potatoes in the room where the children had been left : the straw did not blaze, but emitted a large quantity of smoke.
Five persons have been poisoned at Thurlow, near Haverhill, by eating of a pudding in which arsenic had been placed. Medical assistance was im- mediately obtained, but some of the patients were considered to be in dan- ger. A person in the house, upon whom suspicion fell, has been arrested. The account of the matter is very vague.
Three fatalities occurred at Manchester during the Queen's visit.. A girl was killed by the wadding of a cannon entering her eye : James Alcock, a youth, is in prison for the manslaughter. An-infant was squeezed to death in its mother's arms, in the crowd at night ; and a man was crushed bY a cart-wheel against a barrier.
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