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The nomination for Salisbury took place on Monday, and the polling next day. At two o'clock on Tuesday, 255 electors had voted for Ge- neral Buckley, and only 88 for Captain Roberts. Captain Roberts then gave up the contest, and the Mayor declared General Buckley duly elected. There was some rioting in the course of the day, arising out of the appa. rent unpopularity of General Buckley : he was pelted through the streets, and the mob would not hear him speak. General Buckley is elected as a Liberal-Conservative and a supporter of the Government. His antago- nist professed "independent" principles.

The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the existence of cor- rupt practices at the last and preceding elections for the borough of Tynemouth commenced its sittings on Wednesday.

Eighteen hundred working men of Hull have presented two splendid silver tankards to their late representatives, Mr. Clay and Lord Goderich. The presentation was celebrated at a meeting in the /dude Hall, on Mon- day, under the presidence of the late Mayor.

A meeting was held in the Manchester Corn Exchange on Wednesday, to express the sympathy felt for Turkey in her struggle with Blasi& Mr. Absalom Watkin presided ; the principal speakers were Sir Charles Na- pier, Mr. Urquhart, Dr. Vaughan, Mr. T. Schnuck, and Mr: brae Gregory. Resolutions were agreed to declaring that the Enaperoi bf sin had violated the law of nations ; that his policy of aggression odit'to be resisted by the united efforts of all civilized states ; amithat the meet' lag "rejoiced in the determination of the British Government to uphold the independence of the Ottoman empire, even, if necessary, by force of arms."

A conference on the subject of "the legislative amendments impera- tively called for in the national treatment of morally destitute and cri- minal children," has been convened at Birmingham, by Lords Ualthorpc, Lyttelton, Denbigh, Leigh, and Harrowby, Mr. 'Gladstone, Sir John Pa- kington, Mr. Adderley, Mr. M. D. Hill, Mr. Muntz, Mr. M. Milne's, Sir Robert Peel, the Lord Mayor, the Mayor of Birmingham, and a long list of other influential persons. The conference is to take place at Dee's Hotel on the 20th of December.

Last week, a church-rate of sevenpence in the pound was proposed at a Vestry meeting in Aylesbury ; but so strong was the opposition that the motion was withdrawn.

The new building for the Salford Mechanics' institution Was. opened on Monday, with a soirée attended by many Manchester notables. The building has been erected at a cost of 13001. .The whole expense_ laal not been defrayed, but Mr. Henry on the spot banded in a check for 1001,

Bolton Public Library, lately opened, contains 12,289 volumes, and there is a balance of 700/. to begin a museum. The borough-rate to support the library, at a halfpenny in the pound, will yield 2851. a year...

A new town-hall is about to be erected in Leeds,. at a east of 57,3354 The great hall, which is planned to hold 8000 persons, wilthe the largest room in England.

The Denbigh people have addressed the Commissioners of Woods-and Forests asking for money aid in establishing public walks and other at- tractions in the grounds of their ancient castle.

Lady Charlotte Guest has undertaken to supply Dowlais with water at her own expense, involving an outlay of 3000/. The sanitary condition of the town has hitherto been exceedingly bad, owing to the went pf a sufficient supply of wholesome water.

At the meeting of the Preston operatives, on Monday, it was announced that 19501. had been received for the weavers. Mr. Cowell, in the course of a long speech, controverted some statements made by the Times: the people who had sought interviews with the masters, and who had in some cases been repulsed, were not foreign " delegates," but Preston men, who had long worked in the mills of the respective masters and the &Iton hands had not gone in at the old rate, but had got an advantage.

The operatives of Burnley and Bacup are in a very destitute state, as they receive no aid from other districts, and their own small funds are exhausted. Perhaps if the masters were to reopen their mills, the people would gladly return to work ; but the large stocks on hand make the masters very willing to keep the factories closed for a time. - The delegates of Preston, in general meeting assembled, have adopted and forwarded a memorial to Lord Palmerston, stating their case, as they understand that he "is desirous of being made acquainted with anything and everything that may affect the peace and harmony of these realms!' They disclaim any intention of keeping up the present antagonism withou good cause. They mention the chance of disturbance—" a spark niaS1 lead to serious results," operating on the "discontented "who "have b0.0 unjustly deprived of the means of existence" ; and they submit foiatortl Palmerston's consideration, whether he can "adopt any measures ealc to lead to an arrangement." The tone of the document is very moderate. The strikes at Wigan seem to be drawing to a close : many or the th ' diem resumed work last week-1500 men gind boys returnecitpi. HaIL Colliery, the Earl of Crawford's pit. GridIPW's peopleyreidilied". his mill at Ince : they, as well ati-thi viSing the mill handgi-to retuna -to it :gibe prices. A committee of clergymete cttitide=sr

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meeanbadvendebne wages, and, they thought it would be for their inte- rest teekespdheinthertories closed for a time. On-Me

tien'at I. eetoriangh was quiet. Two companies of infantry

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DLU 0,1 i wAgeeseery " exciting " to the manufacturers of Birmingham : did imn trade was brisk, and orders came in freely to swell the large

kepoirejtclyisin:hand; the coal trade was more active than ever, the c ip,,paiumipiont -a their work as ever, and the price of coal on the adence.:44inattlare were -received from the copper houses announcing a. aisminetheeprice of copper of no less than 91. 108. a ton ; while trade generally /smarmy buoyant in the district. .Therti,ffithtlefien It-partial strike for increased pay by the labourers em- pleyethethieutikaber trade of Hull. The turn-outs have been violent towards those who remained at work ; and some have been sent to prison. The proposed strike of the Tyne seamen seems to have been quite aban- doned : it is said that this is the result of the mariners having shaken off the trammels imposed by "delegates" and "secretaries," who were anxious for a turn-out.

The shipwrights of St. Ives in Cornwall have obtained an advance of wages, from -32. 9d. to 48. 3d. a day.

Twenty years ago there were sad predictions of the ruin of seamen by the Prevalence of steam-navigation in the North-eastern ports of Eng- land the effect has been very much the contrary ; for the demand for coal ail over the world has caused an astonishing increase of ships and seamen.

At the Doncaster "statutes," on Tuesday, there was a short supply 4 agricruitural servants seeking to be hired, and high wages were asked and obtained.

The Port on Mendes published a detailed account of the marder

ffi the Burnham Abbey farm, giving some particulars which had not previ- ously been Innught before the public. It appears that the deceased, Mary -Ann Sturgeon had not been living with Mr. Goodwin more than ten -weeks; that she was forty years of age ; and thatehe was not on the best terms with Hatto. Mrs. Bence described her as "as foreright kind of person,—a little lusty, perhaps, when she evarn't -pleased, but a good sort of woman." It would stem that the-murder must have been committed immediately after the deceased left the house of Mrs. Bunco to give Haft his supper,—that is, about nine

.After his committal, Matto exhibited extraordinary bravado. On entering the chaise-cart in which he was conveyed to Aylesbury Gaol, the waved the straw hathe wore, -with his handreraanaeled, and.gave a kindaf cheer to the crowd -who watched-his departure. "On the road, he asked Mr. Symington

to return themeney his master had paid him as wages aince his appre- henen.; 'for-that .if it were not.retarned to him in the event-of his convic- tion 'it -would go:to:the Crown. &awing through Burnham,.he observed Dr. Roberts in the etreet, and raised dais hat to him. Remarking a crowd of persons awaiting his arrival at onenart of -the village, he said to Mr. Sym- mgten, t. they are not all their own keepers,'—referring, as was under- steed, to-the feat that they couldmottell,how leng it might-be before some- thing wasatiarged against them. la Beaconsfield a crowd were out to see him; andabserving at, he raised his hat, and 'waved it over his head two or three 4ietee. Intheeouree of the journey lie asked Mr. Symington to let him have 03/111:1 books belonging to-him. Mr. Symington inquired what they

were, and where-he-should find theme e replied, thatthe hooks he meant were 'lie rapiers Progress," The Dreamer; and the 'Fortune-Teller.' Ire said the former was in his own hex.; the ether two he had lent to her,— referriag de the deceased."

"Great sympathy is felt in the neighbouehood of Burnham for Mr. Good- win. He is almost distracted at the event, and has declared that he would leave the district directly had he not embarked the greater portion of his fortune in the estate, which is in every respect a model farm."

There has been a fatalrize-fight on the sea-beach at Formby, near Liver- pool. James Gill, or "Rosy Gill," was the victim; his opponent was Frank ; against whom and the seconds a Coroner's Jury have found a Verdiet of "Manslaughter."

Mr. Henry Bunny, the Town-Clerk of Newbury, has disappeared, leav- ing defalcations in his accounts. He is supposed to have fled to Australia : his wife and children were found in a ship at Ph-mouth, but the defaulter himself could not be discovered. He held several offices at Newbury; and it is said that he had been "speculating."

There TM a collision on the Great Northern Railway very early on Wednes-

day Morning ; attended with less serious consequences than might have been exported. A short luggage-train left Doncaster for London ; near Reming- ton station, an axle-tree of one of the trucks broke, and this truck was thy/Ica:across the down-rails ; at that moment the night express-train from London dashed up, and crashed into the truck. The engine of the express wail npset, the break-van partially smashed, and three passenger-carriages moire thrown off the line; yet no one was killed, though the guard, the driver, and three passengers, were cut and bruised. The stoker is a short liqkie been three inches taller his head would have been smashed by lien projecting from the overturned truck. A good many accidents fintly, occurred from the breaking of axles, supposed to have been T #0,nges of atmospheric temperature, or by overloading.

• g of the 11th a collision occurred on the Bristol and fir- limy. There is a coal-depot about a mile from Chelten- Tewkesbury. A goods-train was being shunted across the Main Fen at the moment when a passenger-train was due; the morning was feggY,and the driver of the passenger-train did not perceive the obstruction kilts, late to prevent ii. crash. Several trucks in the goods-train were smashed, and a van mid a carriage of the other train were broken : forte-

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, lision. Tlae passengers in other carriages were shaken and bruised. if said that the "all right" signals were up for the passenger-train.

dill.. Bare nastationinaster at rembrey, on the South Wales Railway, iyiew

nwn fonligh net. He was returning from Bridgend, by 't ,arilarbil Alp ayPembrey ; but the driver had promised

colliers resumed work—indeed, a very large propor-

to afficken speed, in order that Mr. Bareise naig4 descend. The station- master did not stop for this, but leaped out while the train Was at full speed. Joseph Turner is in custody for placing a wooden sleeper across the rails of the Great Western line at Tuflley. A piece of metal and a large stone had previously been placed on the rails near the spot, and a watch was set. The only motive assigned for this atrocity is the hope of plunder if a crash, took place.

At the resumed inquest, on Saturday, on the persons who perished by the boiler explosion at Blackburn, more evidence was given of the reckless way, iu which the deceased engineman worked the boiler. The foreman at the foundry where the boiler was made had told both Mr. Hesketh and the en- gineman that the pressure allowed was too high for safety : the pressure ought to have been not more thah twenty pounds, but he had seen it as high as thirty-seven pounds. The most startling evidence was given by Mr. Fair- bairn, the eminent engineer, who had been called to examine the ruins of the boiler. The explosion was of tremendous force; the main portion of the boiler was carried a distance of eighty yards ; the building above the boiler. was destroyed, and then the massive projectile knocked down the weaving- shed, a large part of a dwelling-house, and, crossing a street, was buried in the interior of a house on the further side. The boiler was quite inadequate for its work—it was old, improperly and injudiciously stayed, and there was an exceedingly defective safety-valve. It was only fitted for a low-pressure engiue—it was used for a high-pressure one ; it was unfit to be used at a pressure of thirty-five pounds—it had been exposed to a pressure of fifty pounds. After minutely describing the construe- tion of the boiler and the staying, Mr. Fairbairn said—" It appears that the lives of every one employed in the mills, or within reach of this explo-

sive vessel, were, and had been for years, suspended by a thread, which the least change of pressure might in a moment cut asunder : that moment ar- rived on the morning of the 2d,"—fortunately at a time when most of the workers were away at breakfast. He suggested some precautionary measures to be adopted by all owners of boilers : for sixty years such measures have been used in Cornwall, with engines at high pressure, and explosions arc al- most unknown. Jackson, a shoemaker of Nenthead in Cumberland, has accidentally killed his wife. He rose early in the morning, his wife remaining in bed ; he loaded his gun, as be was going out grouse-shooting ; it went off while he attempted to take the barrel out of the stock, and the contents entered Mrs. Jackson's back, inflicting a wound that proved fatal some days after.

There have been several cases of leeer.ti.;seean a late in.Devonshire. In the last two instances a threshing-machine was consumed in etiet eerie, and it is considered that enmity to machinery was the motive.

Three wilful fires are reported in Nottinghamshire, by which a good deal of farm-produce was destroyed. At the Tiverton Road station, a gentleman's carriage and two horses, with the coachman, fell down an embankment forty feet deep ; yet man and) horses were unhurt, and the only damage was the breaking of a trace.