be firobintes.- Th6 candidates - for - the representation of - TiorshaM - were tioniinatedons
Wednesday; the Honourable Edward Howard being the new candidate, proposed. The shoveof hands was in favour 'of Mr. Fitzgerald, and a poll was demanded. The election was expected to go in favour of Mr. Fitzgerald; but Mr. ElowardSssupporters believed that-Mr:Fitzgerald had -made himself ineligible for reSleotion-bythe bribery and-treating which caused the-House of Commons to declare his late election void.- At the -close of the 0)11, on- Thursday, -the-- numbers werm—for Fitzgerald'. 182; Howard, -115. Mr. Fitzgerald was, declared duly elected. Lord- Edward Howard announced that a :petition -would be-presented against the return,- on the score of bri- bery both before and after the late void election.
The nominationTor Cheltenham was also on Wednesday. The Honour- able- Craven* Fitzhardinge Berkeley-and Mr. Agg Gardner were the canals dates the -latter a Conservative. The show of .hands was • in favour of Mr. Berkeley, and • the election was fixed, for next day. At the close of the poll, on Thursday, this-numbers were---Heekeley, 1,024 ; Gardner, 848. Mr. Berkeley, was declared-duly elected.
The new -Missionary College of St: Augustine at' Ciusterbury Wassconses crated on Thursday, by the Archbishop. The College has obtained a royal charter of incerporation. The So*ety 'Will be -composed of a-Warden a- Sub-Warden, and six Fellows; all of whom will be appointed by the ArChS bishops of Canterbury and York ' ands the:- Bishop of- London. The first Wardensthat 'has been appointed is Biehop Coleridge, late Bishbpsof-Bar- bodes; and the Reverend-G. Pearsou,,M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, is the Sub-Warden, There is -aeoommodation -within the walls of-the build.; ing for- fifty students, besides the servants of the, institution d• Amongst, those present were, the Earl of Pow*. Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Pattesons Mn Baron Alderson the Bishops of- London, Lichfield,- Oxford, Fredericton' and Brechin' (Scotland); the Deans -of Canterbury, Hereford, Chichester; Norwich,' and Bangor; and upwards of. one thousand clergy- men. The Archbishop himself preached the consecration-sermon.
Bentley, the driver of the trttek-train on the- North-western Railway, which was dashed into a train containing military, at Crewe, has been committed to Chester Castle- for six weeks, with hard-labours on therontid of neglect of duty,: The Coroner's Jury on the man who was killed at Liverpool by the elephant have returned this verdict." We are of opinion that the deceased came by his death in consequence of having beaten the elephant unmercifully, thereby causing the animal it his fury to kill him." The Coroner expressed regret that the ele- phant was slaughtered, as he thought it might have been kept alive with safety.
The Bristol Jury on the bodies of the- Hill-family, have found--a-verdict in the case of Mrs. Hill tantamount to "Wilful murder" against the deceased husband; for they concluded that he pat arsenic into her food or medicine.
Eleven men have perished at the Victoria Iron-works in Wales,--in descending the shaft of a mine. The bucket and chain which should have formed a counter- poise to their weight, by some means became detached; the bucket cottaining the miners ran down with frightful rapidity; they were pitched out, and all killed on the spot.
A-disaster from a somewhat similar cause has occurred at the railway tunnel at Swansea. Four men were descending a shaft ins skip; when about mid-way the chain snapped, and the men were dashed to the bottom. One died- in a few hours; but the otherware expected- to recover.
The paper-mills at Bitten near Bristol, which were partly burnt clown about three months since, have now wholly fallen by a second fire, which broke out oit Saturday;
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