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The candidates for Chatham are Captain Byng, the new Clerk of
the Ordnance, and Mr. Ching, a Tory barrister. Mr. Erskine Perry► was requested to stand ; but not having the least chance of success, be declined going to the poll. Out of 600 electors, it is said that 250 are in receipt of Government money, and 150 more indirectly dependent. In fact, Chatham is a Government borough. As Mr. Abercromby was made Master of the Mint and appointed to a seat in the Cabinet, ea
Captain Byng may be said to have been made Clerk of the Ordnance
and appointed to the representation of Chatham. Mr. Perry declares in his address to the electors, "that influence of the worst kind is still all-powerful, and that Government have got Chatham so completely in their hands, that they mighli return a Black footman, or any other lacquey they pleased to nominate. ,I therefore will not lend myself to the firm of an election." Iny, he adds, do not the Whigs permit old Sarum and Gatton still to send in their representatives, witbout degrading and demoralizing the would-be independent electors of the new borough of Chatham ?
It is the intention of the Government to defer the granting of the charters to the newly-enfranchised boroughs, till the reforms are made in the existing charters, and to make one measure applicable to both.-+ Leeds Mercury. The Leeds Trades Union has been utterly dissolved. The fear of approaching starvation has can psi stone thousands to return to their
work and sign the masters' dyclarat ; with a mental reservation,
however, to take tic first itvotii able opportunity of striking again. Brighton was visited on fhittirdAy last with a most violent storm of wind, rain, and hail, wit'u thunder and lightning. The Brighton Gazelle describes it-
" Tile hailstones which at first fell were about the sire of marbles, but others satin followed which were as large as walnuts. The noise they made in the treets was like that which would be causal by a fall of pebbles; and several
pars ins received considerable injury from the force with which they descended. r-hitne of the hailstones measut al, as we are told, from eight to twelve inches in circumference, and few of them which fell during the latter period of the storm were less than an inch and a h of long and an inch thick. As they struck the pavement they were completely flattened on one side. The storm continued to rage violerely fer about an hoar, when it gradually subsided and died away to- wards the north-east. It arose in the south-east, and was consequently MOO felt on the Marine Parade, and in the houses at the east part of the town which front that quarter. The great quantity of glass that is broken will not appear incredible, when we state that many of the immense hailstones which demolished the panes, descended with such violence as merely to perforate the glass, not to shatter it."
The damage to the windows is estimated at upwards of 30001. Itt some of the hothouses and graperies, thousands of panes have been broken, and much damage done to the fruit and plants. Twelve hun- dred panes and upwards were broken at the Palace; but not a single pane of plate glass has been injured.
A Court-martial was held on Monday. at Portsmouth, on board his Majesty's ship Victory, before Sir F. Maitland, President, and Cap- tains Fanshawe, Williams, Harcourt, and Hastings, to try Lieutenant de Saumarez fur flogginga seaman. The Court fully acquitted Lieutenant de Saumarez of acting contrary to the general rules of the service. A considerable number of the inhabitants of Dover met in the Town-hail of that place on Tuesday, and determined to commence a railway to London, which has for some time been in contemplation. Many shares were taken, and there is a prospect of the scheme being carried through in a spirited manlier. The plans are in a state of for- wardness.
The new Government packets from Dover to Calais, Ostend, and Boulogne, are of a superior description, and the charges for freight of carriages have been reduced one-third. The resort to Dover Oils season is uncommonly great. Mrs. Home, the old lady who had been nearly three quarters of la century in the service of the Warwick family, and who died about it week since, left upwards of thirty thousand pounds, which she amassed in gratuities received for showing the castle. On the 1st instant, a General Post letter was put into the Post-office at Atherham, addressed to Messrs. Stowe and Co., bankers, London, which letter contained bank-notes and bills to the amount of upwards of 6000/. Part of the property consisted of a 5001. Bank of England note, a 5001. and a 300/. bank-note of the Branch Bank at Liverpool, and a draft for 14501. ; the rest of the amount was in bills. This letter
was nut delivered ; and at reward has been offered for the recovery of the property, or the conviction of the offenders.
The father of Mr. Powell, the young mail who was last week killed on Ascot Rice-course, shot himself through the head on Sunday even- ing at Dover. Verdict, " Temporary Insanity."
The body of Martin, a well-known informer, who has been lately busy in bringing charges against the keepers of beerhouses in the Pot- teries was found lifeless on Tuesday morning, about two miles from Newcastle, on the Hanley road. On examination, it was discovered that a pistol-ball had perforated his loins, and his head and body were smashed as if with stones. The scalp was broken, and one of his legs fractured.
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