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Lord Holmeadale and Mr. Thomas Frewen, of Brickwall House, Northiam, the rival Conservative candidates for West Kent, have both withdrawn, in favour of Colonel Au-sten, of Kippington, Sevenoaks; a Conservative, President of the West Kent Agricultural Protection Society, and an opponent of the Maynooth endow- ment.
Meetings to petition against the endowment of Maynooth have been held at Liverpool, Manchester, (by the Wesleyan Methodists, and by the Congregational Dissenters,) Leeds, Blackburn, Windsor, Bristol, Coventry, (the clergy,) and_other
places. The spirit of all is nearly the same; though in some instances as at,•Leeds, less bitterness has been displayed againat the Catholics; the objection to
the grant being chiefly based on a general objection to all State payments for religious purposes At a meeting of the Liverpool Protestant Operative Association, on Monday, ri 'resolution, moved by the Reverend Hugh lil‘Neile, was passed unanimously, de- claring, "That no Member of Parliament is entitled to the confidence of a Pro- testant constituency who will not firmly oppose the contemplated endowment of the Popish College of Maynooth."
Two miners were killed at Thornley Colliery, Durham, on Thursday week, by the inattention of a man whose duty it was to atop the engine which draws the "corf or basket up the shaft. The corf was ascending, with nine men in it; and the engine not being stopped when it reached the surface, it was carried up against a beam; two men were thrown out by the shock, were precipitated down the shaft, and killed instantaneously. The other men clung to the basket, and were saved.
Some months ago six lives were lost at Derby by the fall of an arch recently erected over a stream called the Mill Fleam ; and on Tuesday a similar disaster .caused the death of two men. The arch had been again formed; and the con- tractor, Mr. Suns, appears to have removed the wood-work which supported it -before it was sufficiently firm: for while he was engaged, with his son, a workman, • and an apprentice, in removing the centre, a large mass of brick-work fell, and buried all four beneath it. Mr. Sims and the apprentice were taken out dead; hut Mr. Sims's son and the workman escaped with some severe bruises.
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