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Mr. Smith Child was elected on Saturday, without opposition, to the seat for North Staffordshire vacant by the resignation of Lord Brackley. The new Member was proposed by the Honourable and Reverend J. C. Talbot, and seconded by the Honourable E. S. Jervis. From his speech it would seem that Mr. Child was more Democratic in his youth than he is now ; and that his present Conservatism is the embodiment of that "wisdom which comes with advancing years." He is an ardent Protestant ; " one who admires that principle of the English constitution which recognizes religion as having a sanctifying influ- ence on the state, and acknowledges Christianity by providing for the in- struction of the people in the truths of the gospel and securing to them the means of publicly worshiping the Almighty.' Sonic of his expressions en- courage the hope that he is ready to quicken the advance of education with- out waiting till all the religious incidents of the question be agreed on ; almost indicating his submission to the necessity of a teaching purely secular. Hitherto the attempts made to educate the people have met with obstruc- tions which prevented their success; but he believed the importance and the justice of the question are now forcing it upon the attention of all men, and he trusted that in approaching that great but difficult subject all parties would come with a charitable spirit. They might differ as to the means of educating the people ; but while they disputed he would have them remember that the children were growing up men and women—they might stand still disputing, but the population would not wait for them. They might neglect their duties, and when too late they would find that they had missed a glorious opportunity of educating the young people in habits of virtue. At present they were permitted to grow up in habits of sin, and hereafter they would be punished for the habits which they now contracted ; but he would ask, if they were negligent in doing what they could to edu- cate the poor population, whether some of that sin would not lie at their own doors ? He thought that no man could in these days lay his hand on his heart and say, "I am not my brother's keeper."

The Bedfordshire election ended in favour of Colonel Gilpin, the Con- servative. The Whig nobles and gentry refused the cooperation in sup- port of Mr. Houghton which was given in favour of Mr. Barrow in South Nottinghamshire; so the "independent interest" was outvoted by nearly three to one. The Sheriff read the numbers on Monday—for Gil- pin, 1562; for Houghton, 558.

General Sir George Tyler was unopposed in Glamorganshire : he now represents that county, on the same Conservative principles which were professed by the retired Earl of Dunrayen. Sir George promises to keep a watchful eye on the public expenditure.

Mr. Baines has announced, by a letter to his constituents in Hull, that he will not offer himself again as a candidate for their Parliamentary suffrages. The announcement has been received with regret and surprise ; the return of Mr. Baines, if he should have stood, being regarded as quite certain.

Mr. Hardcastle, the Liberal M.P. for Colchester, gave a lecture to his constituents last Tuesday, on the life and times of John Milton. A parallel was indicated between the present times and those of the great epic poet, in respect of the agitation on religious ceremonial and political principles of course with advantage to Protestant simplicity of worship and Liberalism of institutions.

Two meetings of the agricultural Protectionists have borrowed a cer- tain interest from their bearing on the political crisis.

At a gathering of the Agricultural Society of Waltham-on-the-Wold, Mr. Hardy, the banker of Grantham, declared, of his professional know- ledge, that none of the farmers in that neighbourhood have been able by farming to meet their current expenses this year, but have done so only by drawing on their capital. The Reverend N. Morgan gave "his ad- vice, though it might sound somewhat rebellious, that the farmers should not pay the Income-tax till they were forced." Accordingly,. soon afterwards, Mr. Beasley declared that he is "determined not voluntarily to pay Income-tax, as it is at present assessed, after Lady- day 1851." The same Mr. Beasley, however, advised the farmers to "look only for moderate import-duties—no Minister, however fa- vourable to the farmers, can impose immoderate duties." Mr. George Frederick Young warned Sir James Graham, that he is progress- ing as fast as he can to revolution ; but adhered to the opinion of Lord Wodehouse the Free-trader, that the Malt-tax is a burden on the consumer rather than on the farmer ; and reiterated Mr. Beasley's coun- sel not to expect immoderately high protection from Lord 'Stanley as Premier, for the new Minister will have "many difficulties to contend with." "If a new Parliament were to declare for free trade, Mr. Young for one should think the cause of protection hopeless." The Marquis of Granby and Lord John Manners echoed the tone of anticipatory excuse on behalf of Lord Stanley's difficulties, and the latter especially repudiated the imputation that the task Lord Stanley has in hand is that of making bread scarce andllear.

The county of Cambridge met on the summons of its Sheriff at Ely an Thursday, to consider formally the grievances of agriculture. Mr. Ball of Burwell opined that Sir James Graham's speech is likely to incite se- dition. Mr. C. Mossley of New Barns, a "thousand-acre farmer," declared that his farming loss in this last year would not be restored by 1500/. Mr. St. Quintin followed up the tone he had adopted at the late meeting in Cambridge, with a "hope that he was wrong when he said that Mr. Disraeli has given up protection " ; and Mr. W. Bennett further enunciated his opposite political advice at that meeting, that "if Lord Stanley and Mr. Disraeli were in power, it was not for the agri- culturists to expect impossibilities." Mr. Yorke, who defended Mr. Disraeli at Cambridge, had now to defend hituself, being greeted with so much clamour that the Chairman found it necessary to interpose in his behalf. Lord John Manners "did not despair" for protection ; but anticipated still, despite the Times, " the imposition of duties on the im- port of foreign produce." The meeting ended with ambiguous oracles- " three cheers for Mr. Disraeli, and three cheers for the Earl of Hard. wicke."

At the ninth half-yearly meeting of the Norfolk Estuary Company, the Earl of Orford in the chair, a very favourable report of progress in re- claiming the "new English county" from the German Ocean was read. It was stated also that another company is making application to Parlia- ment for an act enabling them to reclaim 30,000 acres of land from the shallows on the Lincolnshire side of the Wash.

At Yarmouth the agitation among the seamen has been more strenuously di- rected towards effecting arise of wages than at the other places. The rates there have been (for the coasting voyage, we presume) 608. in winter and 50s. in summer. The sailors formed an association to equalize the wages all the year round at 55s.; but the shipowners declared these terms to be so ex- travagant that if they were persisted in the owners would obtain men wher- ever they could get them, at the lowest price. All the sailors of the port turned out on strike, and organized themselves, as in the North, to prevent any men going aboard of any vessel at a rate below the one they had de- manded. On Saturday, Mr. Barber, a shipowner, summoned a sailor who had engaged with him at the old rate, but had then refused to carry out his engagement. Before the Magistrates, the man said he was willing to stand by his word, but he dared not : if they would protect him he would go on board. The Mayor and Magistrates mustered their Police, and ordered a steam-tug to bring up in the harbour opposite the Town-hall ; then taking the sailor in the midst of them, they sallied forth through a crowd of two thousand sailors, towards the steam-tug. They were set upon, and a regu- lar fight ensued; but the Police behaved with determination, and the Bailor was carried in the midst of their compact phalanx to the steam-tug, and sent off to his ship outside the harbour. Sonic dozen of the leaders of the seamen were arrested and placed in the Police-office; their excited com- panions procured the mast of a ship, and carrying it by their united efforts, they proposed to sling it as a battering-ram and break down the doors or walls of the station-house. A hundred special constables were sworn in, and a telegraphic message was sent to Norwich for a body of military. The Magistrates with their l'olice, eleven Militia-men, thirty Revenue- Cutter men, the Coast Guard, and the special constables, managed to keep the mass of assailants in cheek till a troop of the Eleventh Hussars arrived at the railway station, under Captain Douglas. A crowd had assembled at the station, threatening to tear up the rails and break the telegraph-wires ; but the dragoons completely overawed them : Captain Douglas's troop rode into the town, and having received orders quickly cleared the streets. The sailors, and the people who abetted them, flew in all directions up the nar- row rows peculiar to the town ; and in a few hours quiet was perfectly restored.

Early on Monday morning, the Black Eagle and Lightning war-steamers arrived from Woolwich, with a corps of Marines on board of each, to assist the authorities in the suppression of disorder and the protection of those sea- men who were willing to accept engagements at the terms offered by the shipowners.

in the course of that day, seventeen of the prisoners arrested in the fray of last week were brought before the Magistrates. Three were dismissed.; nine were fined for assaults in sums under Si., and on default of payment were sent to prison for terms leas than two months ; and five were com- mitted to be tried for riot at the next Quarter-Sessions.

A " game-law outrage "—in this case not by a poacher—has obtained publicity by proceedings in the Holbeach County Court. David Gee, a young fisherman, sued Mr. Dint; on opulent farmer, for 50/., as compensa- tion for wounds inflicted on him. Gee went on lands belonging to a Mr. Wooley, and killed a hare; Elliff detected him ; the poacher attempted to walk away, leaving the hare behind. Elliff fired both barrels of his gun successively, and the contents of the second lodged in Gee's hand and arm, inflicting serious wounds. Elliff told Gee before he fired, that he meant to shoot him ; and when he had wounded him, he exclaimed—" Now I can take you : I have marked you so as I shall know you again, and I will go back and look for the hare." The plaintiff then contrived to crawl to Hol- beach in great agony ; was taken into custody for trespassing in pursuit of game, and was committed to Spalding Gaol for one month. Elhff avowed to

a Magistrate that his objeet in firing was to "mark" the depredator. The Judge of the County Court awarded the plaintiff 381. damages, with costa.

It is feared that Mrs. Wilkins, the widow of the old man who was mur- dered by two robbers at Nempnott, will not long survive. She rallied suffi- ciently at one time to make a deposition in the presence of the Coroner : she identified both prisoners, and stated that Smith handed to Wiles the shovel which he used against her husband.

A man named Ash is in custody as one of the burglars who attacked Mr. Tucker and Mrs. Whittaker at Windsor. Ash knew the house, as he hid frequently been there to work. Mr. Tucker and the lady resident in his house are going on favourably, but are not out of danger.

The somewhat uncommon verdict of "Feb de se" has been returned by a Brecon Jury on the body of George Miller, a young man who destroyed himself by swallowing a large quantity of arsenic in a glass of beer. The motive is said to have bean jealousy ; a young woman to whom he was at- tached having latterly shown a preference for an actor. There was no evi- dence to prove insanity: the witnesses spoke of Miller as being collected, though rather elevated with drink, when he took the poison ; he had pur- chased it on pretence of killing rats. The body was interred in a church- yard at night ; and the crowd who attended sang a hymn when the burial was over.

On Monday sennight, as the last train from Carlisle to Maryport was pro- ceeding at full speed in the direction of Wigton, just within about half a mile of Curthwaite, to the astonishment and alarm of the third-class pas- sengers, (but, fortunately, no further to their detriment,) two of the wheels of their carriage rolled off and left the vehicle to be dragged on as it could. As soon as the guard became aware of it he stopped the train ; and, after some delay, the damaged carriage was discarded, and all went on as before.— Carlisle Journal.