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The Honourable William Bingham Baring, the new Paymaster of the Forces, -was reelected Member for Thetford, on Monday, without opposition.
Mr. W. Deedes, of Sandling Park, near Ilythe, has been selected by the Con- servatives of East Kent as a candidate for the vacancy occasioned by the retire- ment of Sir Edward Knatchbull. He avows himself a determined enemy to any -diminution in "protection" for agriculture. The election is to take place on Monday next. No opposition is expected.
At the annual meeting of the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Farmers Asso- %dation, on Friday, several of the speakers gave the Members for the County, Mr. Yorke, Mr. Affix, and Mr. Eaton, notice that they would never again be allowed to sit in the House of Commons. Mr. Witt said; Sir Robert Peel had repealed the Auction-duty, that they might, he supposed, be all sold up cheaply. When the question of decreasing the taxes was before the House, Mr. Miles and Colonel Sibthorp had said a word in favour of the farmer; but what had their own repro- sentatives said? Why, nothing. The farmers had now a right to speak out; .and he for one would tell thew three Members, that the term of their lease had nearly expired: when it was out, he would ask them, as their landlords did the &rmers, how they had kept all the covenants of it; and if they found that ‘those covenants had not been kept, would the farmers renew their lease? Let them have warning to leave. Mr. Ball, the Chairman, exclaimed, they had seen 'the men whom they had sent to Parliament to protect their interests drinking -to the dregs of their glasses the "No surrender ". principle; and now they wit- -messed them in Parliament supporting Sir Robert Peel in his own destructive
• -measures. Their present position was owing to the want of truth in those whom • they had trusted—round whom they had rallied, and in whose cause_ they had • - spent their money. These sentiments were heartily echoed by others, and in the cheers of the listeners.
The Peel polies, was also the subject of animadversion at the eighth annual dinner of the Buckingham Conservative Association, in Buckingham Town-hall, on Tuesday: but the speakers were less bitter; no doubt because the county Members, instead of being renegade, were present, aiding and abetting. Lord Orkney was there, reviving his tale of last year—how "since the day had been • taken off Scotch cheese that article had risen in price." [ So the Times reports the ,passage.] Complaint was made that Ministers bad made no formal allusion to the agricultural interest; rehearsing, said Captain Fitzmatuice, "the old bal- lad," "Oh, no, we never mention them." Of himself, Captain Fitzmatuice said, , alluding to " protectim" generally and to the Sugar-duties in particular- -" He could not come down there and talk of protection to agriculture and pro- tection to commerce, and go back to the House of Commons and by his vote there neutralize those assertions, and assist in annihilating the prospects of every West Indian planter, by voting for -the abolition of a protection from Aim which he always bad, and always should, strenuously oppose being taken from those whom he had the immediate honour of representing." How- ever, the farmers were told not to despair, so long as they had at their head the Duke of Buckingham, their President, who sat at the top of the dinner- table. In returning thanks when his health was drunk, the Duke cordially ex- Tressed his concurrence in the opinions which had been that evening uttered in -condemnation of the conduct of her -Majesty's Government as regarded the agri- culturists of the country. He had thotight. that something would have fallen
• from the Minister, in bringing forth his Budget, indicative of his intentions to- wards that class of her Majesty's subjects; but he was disappointed. He had now only to hope that an opportunity for doing so might yet arise. If the Mi- nister should not avail himself of it, he felt convinced that those Members who represented the agricultural interest of the country would. He went on to enforce the necessity of protecting internal agriculture; and he exhorted the Members not to forget the pruiciple in the House of Commons. It was his firm belief, that it was entirely in the power of the country gentlemen of England to keep any Go- vernment within proper limits and in proper order; and that if they acted up to • the principles which they avowed upon the hustings, there need be no fear that the agriculture of the country would be protected. Ile offered this humble opi- nion honestly and conscientiously; and were he in the House of Commons he would act boldly up to it.
The Liverpool Anti-Monopoly Association held a meeting in the Theatre Royal, on Thursday evening. Mr. Wiffiam Brown presided. Resolutions were passed approving of Sir Robert Peel's removal of import-duties on raw materials, and of an equitable property-tax, but condemning the continuance of monopolies. The peakers supported the resolutions with hearty expressions of pleasure at the Mi- nister's movement towards free trade, but bitterly attacked his proposed Sugar- duties. Mr. George Thompson closed the proceedings with a long speech on the same subjects. The assembly appears to have been very enthusiastic, as well as numerous.
The nail-masters of Dudley have agreed to advance wages ten per cent; and a similar advance has been agreed upon at Bromsgrove.
The trial of the woman of Laffunonby, who destroyed her child by holding it on the fire, was to have taken place at the present Carlisle Assizes; but it has been postponed, that the chief witness against the woman, her little daughter, may receive such instruction as will enable the Judge to let her be sworn. Thomas Robertson, who was formerly a soldier, was found guilty of man- slaughter at these Assizes, for killing a man with a medicine containing corrosive Aublimate, which he had prescribed for him; the prisoner acting as a doctor for labouring-people. He was sentenced to an imprisonment of fear months. Six men have been committed for trial by the Salisbury Magistrates, for a des- perate attack on gamekeepers at Fovant Wood, in January last. Four of the ;poachers were much injured in the fight ; and the whole party engaged in it were more or less hurt.
'No fewer than ten men, said to be poachers, are in prison at Worcester, impli- cated in the murder of Stake, the Earl of Coventry's gamekeeper.
Two wilful fires are reported. A farm-building at Lower Streatham, and two farm-houses and seven cottages in the village of Wingfield, near Dunstable, have been burnt down.
A passenger was killed last week on the Stockton and Middlesborough Rail- way. He was thrown out of a third-class carriage; and the whole tram passed over him, cutting off his head. It is customary when the trains arrive near to Stockton to remove the locomotive engine from the carriages, so that they may run gently up.to the stationhouse. On this occasion a great shock was occasioned by the clumsiness with which the engine was taken away; and the poor man. at the time leaning over the side, was thrown head-foremost out of the car- riage. It appears that the third-class carriages on this railway are wretched ve- hicles—a species of truck, with sides only eighteen inches or two feet high.
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