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The election of a Member for Cambridge, occasioned by Mr. Fitzroy Kelly's intment to be Solicitor-General, began in that borough on Monday. Mr.

7 was proposed for reelection by the Conservatives: Mr. Alexander Shaft) Adair, on behalf of the Liberals, by Mr. Pryme ; who made use of allusions to the declaration of an Election Committee, that Mr. Kelly's friends and agents had been guilty of bribery and corruption at the last election. In addressing the electors, Mr. Kelly declared that he stood before them with his principles unchanged. He replied with some heat to Mr. Pryme'a allusion; calling to mind that a most hostile Committee bad sought in vain to fix the slightest personal imputation on his conduct. He defended the increased grant to Blaynooth Col- lege; attacked the ballot, (of which Mr. Adair was a declared supporter,) and, in reply to some impromptu questioning, deprecated universal suffrage. He boasted #itit the present Government has been one of deeds not words; vaunting the achievements of the party in the Catholic Emancipation Act, the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, the abolition of slavery, and so forth. He argued against a total abolition of the Corn-laws and for protection; but contrasted the conduct of the present Ministers with that of their predecessors in the reduction of taxa- tion. In the midst of Mr. Kelly's speech, some interruption was occasioned by the appearance on the ground (Parker's Piece) of a body of 200 railway labourers, with music and banners, who were presumed to have been brought for the pur- pose of intimidating the electors. There was, however, no breach of the peace, and at length comparative tranquillity was restored. Mr. Adair's speech was the opposite to Mr. Kelly's. He concurred with him, indeed, in defending the

Maynooth grant, but " not as a sop to stay the torrent of agitation in d." He accused the Government of having deceived the people by avowing principles which they have abandoned; and he admitted that he wished to effect a change of government, in order to a change from Tory principles to Liberal principles. He attacked the Income-tax; advocated the ballot, and Mr. Villiers's motion on the Corn-laws; and by anticipation congratulated the meeting on the result of that contest. The show of hands was declared to be in favour of Idr. Adair, and a poll was demanded for Mr. Fitzroy Kelly. Thaw the whole of Tuesday, the town was in a very disordered state; the

" navigators " employed on the neighbouring railway being conspicuous among the disturbers. They marched under a banner inscribed "Peel and Wellington"; doing little credit either to the Ministers or the Conservative candidate. Among the many conflicts was a kind of general fight, in which five or six hundred per- sons engaged; and three persons were seriously injured. Meanwhile, the course of the poll exhibited an unusual degree of vicissitude: the following numbers, if not strictly accurate, will show the general nature of the suspended interest— Majority for Majority foe

Kelly.

At the close of the poll, the estimates were very. conflicting: Mr. Kelly's Com- mittee made their majority 15; Mr. Adair's Committee computed the numbers at 740 for each candidate, the casting-vote to be given by the Mayor to the Con- servative; the check-clerks computed the numbers at 750 for Kelly and 728 for Adair. All were wrong; for when the Mayor announced the numbers in the- Town-hall, on Wednesday, they proved to be—for Kelly, 746; Adair, 729; ma - jority, 17. Mr. Kelly, therefore, was declared to be duly elected.

The Royal Agricultural Society has assembled at Shrewsbury, for its summer exhibition. Strangers began to arrive on Thursday week, the last day for re- ceiving implements and machines; but at first the attendance was not altogether so numerous as usual. Of implements, which were opened to the public on Tues- day, there were ninety-two exhibitors, some of them exhibiting as many as sixtyy or seventy articles each. Among the novelties exhibited may be noticed a plough- constructed upon a very singular plan, and denominated an atmospheric plough. It is to be driven, not in the ordinary way by horses, but by the wind; and for- this purpose a machine is constructed with sails something like the fanners of a windmill. It was generally understood to work in this way—when the sails are moved round by the wind, they wind up a rope to which the plough is attached, and thus the plough is drawn through the soil. It seemed to excite a great dea more of amusement than of admiration among the spectators. There were the usual ploughing-matches, trials of the implements, and so forth. The cattle-show- opened on Tuesday. By Wednesday, when the Council-dinner took place, the in- flux of visiters into the town was much greater: about three hundred gentlemen sat down to the banquet; theDuke of Richmond presided; while Earl Spencer and• a number of leading agriculturists surrounded the board. The great public dinner took place on Thursday afternoon, in a temporary- building erected for the purpose. on the Quarry. The company was quite as nu merous as on all similar occasions; about 1,100 gentleman sat down to dinner: The Duke of Richmond took the chair, and Lord Portman the vice-chair.

The Government has recently obtained the ground for a new steam-basin at Portsmouth. It amounts to four acres, and is on the Portsea shore. The tene- ments on the spot were generally of a very inferior kind. The purchase-money amounted to 60,0001.

The York and Scarborough Railway, a line forty-two miles long, was opened on Monday week. There was great festivity on the occasion.

At Chelmsford, on Thursday, an action was brought against Mr. Carter, 'the son of a wealthy farmer at the village of Fox Earth, for the seduction of Emma. Ewer, the daughter of another farmer. The defendant is a young man, and the female was only eighteen when betrayed by a promise of marriage. A verdict was returned for the plaintiff, with 5001. damages.

At the Winchester Assizes, on Saturday, a true bill was found against Messrs.. Hawkey and Pym for the murder of Mr. Seton. Bench-warrants were issued for their apprehension.

A brutal murder was committed at Penzance last week. Two strangers, a man named Ellison, and a Mrs. Semen, came to reside at that place eighteen months a and occupied a cottage together. Ellison slept at a coffeehouse on Monday night; and on Tuesday morning gave an alarm, saying that on going to his cottage he had found the woman murdered. The female was lying on the floor with her head nearly severed from the body by means of a large hatchet, which. was beside her; and other parts of the body were much mangled. In one hand' was clasped some hair, said to resemble Ellison's. A Coroner's Jury, upon circum- stantial evidence, has returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against the man, who is in custody. According to gossip,. the woman was very handsome, in the- prime of life, and was about to be married to some rich man, having promised to settle an income on Einem.

A young lady, the daughter of Mr. Eden, Lady Brougham's brother, was drowned at Worthing, on Friday week. She went out to sea in a sailing-boat for a pleasure-trip, accompanied by Miss Baring, her half-sister; when a squall capsized the boat, throwing the young ladies, die boatman, and a boy who as- sisted him, into the sea. A vessel which was near rescued Miss Brig and the man and boy, but Miss Eden perished. Mrs. Eden, who stood on the beach and saw the boat capsized, was a witness to her first husband's death under similar circumstances. The body has been found, and an inquest held: verdict, "Acci- dental Death." The boatman was blamed for taking a boy with him to manage the vessel instead of a second man; and the boat itself was not considered a safe one.

Hill, an engineer, died on Wednesday, at Guy's Hospital, from injuries whick. he received on the preceding day on the Brighton Railway, at Reigate. On the way to London, the man got out of the train for some purpose at Reigate, and before he returned the carriages were in motion: he ran after them—in attempting to leap on to one of them, he fell, and the train passed over him, cutting of hia left foot, and crushing the leg.

Kelly. Adair.

Nine o'clock Ten Eleven Twelve One Two Three Quarter past Three. • Half-past Three Quarter to Four 101

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238

185 53

334

289 45

395

360 35

504

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564

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609

632

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654

684

30

668

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