jjt Vroniurro. Yr. David Jones, of Pantglas, was elected MemberTor
Carmarthen- shire, on Thursday; in place of Colonel Trevor, who has acceded to the Peerage through the death of his father lord Dynevor. In returning thanks for his unopposed election, Mr. Jones declared himself a stanch supporter of Lord Derby's Government; expecting from it large and com- prehensive measures for the relief of the suffering agriculturists.
Mr. George Smythe has been among his constituents at Canterinny, preparing for a contest at the general election. On Monday night be addressed a large meeting of the "Liberal electors," assembled at the Guildhall.
looking round the room, he saw the representatives of many shades and distinctions of political belief ; and from that diversity he derived an augury of triumph. "It has been my singular—perhaps throughout England unique —fortune, in my relations with your borough, to have polled the whole of your constituency—one half successfully upon one side, and the other bale successfully upon the other ; and yet I am,without any affectation, utterly unconscious of ever having changed an opinion. Now let me put this striking- ly before you. What was it at the last election which lost to me the con- fidence of the great majority of the Conservative party ? My pro-Jewish and pro-Papist votes, as they were termed; but what I called them then, as I call them now, my votes against a dead principle of sham uniformity—my votes in favour of a living principle of just toleration, which, thank OA moves among us, and which will ere long, with the crowning triumph of Jewish emancipation, have its being in the constitution. Singular to say, a large section of the liberal party now withholds its support from me for pre. cisely the came reason as their opponents in 1847, and, more singular stall, out of precisely the same reason that they then rallied and triumphed around me. The cause of this is obvious. It is because the great Whig party in the state has since entered on a crusade for the persecution of Catholic consciences, which, if it becomes their older and sterner and sectarian tra- ditions, is of modern inconsistency, violent enough to rouse back amongst us the spirits of Charles Fox and Charles Grey, if with no unfair imagina- tive licence I can 'suppose their spirits still guarding that sacred principle of religious liberty to which during their lives they sacrificed all things but their honour. To the rule of faith as laid down by these great men, on matters of conscience, be it my consolation at any -rate to remember that I am unchanging and unchanged, as I am unchanging and unchanged to my every profession of 1847." These references to 1847 seealled to his mind his debt of gratitude to the Liberal party, and particularly to his then colleague' Lord Albert Conyng- ham. Having warmly acknowledged those debts of gratitude, he passed to the conduct of his present colleague, Colonel Hominy. "His name is Per- fidy," said a great man of a misdates duke who was a minister because he was a duke. "My colleagnere name is also Perfely s but it is perfidy in the smallest of ways,. by the paltriest of practices on the meanest of scales. am speaking, it ia true, under strong mortification and a deep sense of wrong; but I am speaking with a well-weighed sense also of the responsi- bility which my. words involve, and with a thorough consciousness of their teeth; as a plans dispassionate, and unvarnished narrative of my relations with my gallant colleague will, I think, fairly pewee and exhibit. In the spring of 1850, Lord Albert Cons-Deism was raised to the Peerage. To sup- ply the vacancy thus occasioneol in your representation, two candidates pre- sented themselves,—Mr. Vases, as a Protectionist, and Colonel Hominy, whom I shall not wrong in designating, from his near and double connexion, with the Prime /Sinister who. had just given Lord. Londesborough his title, a pure Ministerialist. Now, to, one portion of Lord John Russell's policy I was at that time strongly and conscientiously opposed—I mean to the foreign. policy of his Administration: but, merging nay aversion to that policy in the paramount claimed Free-trade sympathy, I replied to the solicitations for my support which came from Colonel, Hominy's friends, by a cordial and active acquiescence. To-Alderman Neame, the chairman of the committee which first introduced Colonel Hominy to.your notice, I wrote a public letter calling upon all my friends to vote for the Ministerial candidate. To many of them I wrote privately to the same purport awl effect. The result was, that Mr. Vance retired, and Colonel Remilly came in. Now, it may be that Colonel Readily undervalues the sw.pport which I then gave him. My intentional know he does not undervalue, because he thanked me for them_ But if he does underrate that support, be it yours to undeceive him ; be it yours to prove to him at the poll, that, as he seeks to prevent my coating in, so y:ou, my friends, will prevent his coming in. It is not I who split an united party—it is he who splits an united party. It is not I who make almost a certitude of two retrogressive Tories coming.in—it is he who makes almost a certitude of two retrogressive Tories:coming ni. I believe—I cannot of course say more—that not only with, but through and because of my support, Co- lonel Hominy was returned to Parliament. I think this was a service. I know it was a sacrifice ; because if I had played the one-and-one game, which I understand Colonel Hominy, or his friends for him proposed to the Tories the other day, I should have my present seat at this moment secure, or at any rate undisturbed by the candour of a colleague. Well, service or none, sacrifice or none' I had at least a right to suppose that the coalition which had subsisted between Lord Londesborough and myself, subsisted still in the poison of a colleague who had accepted my support, and who thanked me for it. I had a right to imagine that if any scruples as to that coalition had arisen in Colonel Hominy's mind, he would have communicated them at once to me, with the intimation that that coalition was fairly at an end. I was deceived; because I had forgotten that Colonel Romilly derived his prin- ciples probably from the same source whence he derived his origin, and that he held, perhaps, with his Genevan anoestors, that when once you are elect, you may discard all honourable sanctions and dispense with all obligations whatsoever. At any rate, it was under the hallucination that our coalition, as I had heard nothing to the contrary, still subsisted, that directly after the certainty of an imminent dissolution' I spoke to him in the sense of making immediate and joint preparations. Then, to my surprise, I learned from himi not without much shuffling., at two interviews, first, that an influential section of my constituents was indisposed to support me, in consequence of my non-attendance in Parliament ; and secondly, that he himself had insur- mountable scruples to a coalition, because I had given two specific votes against Lord John Russell's Administration." . . . .
I, of course, cannot presume to tell what may be the issue of this elec- tion. I am not indifferent to its result, neither am I sanguine ; but of one thing I am certain, that if this cabal shall prevail against me—as it will pro- bably prevail both against me and against its author—not now, perhaps, amidst the heats and jars and conflicts of a contested election, but months hence, in the calm of disappointment, I shall at least be regretted by the non-electors and unrepresented poor of your city. They will never forgets whatever may have been my delinquencies of Parliamentary attendance, that I never lost an opportunity of furthering their interests, and of pro- moting, through their weal, the common weal; to raise them—I do not
slime the word—from their brutalized condition—and nothing brutalizes so much as misery—to raise them up to an education which, always promised, is always stolen from them by the zealous rapacity of contending religion- ass—to raise them up to a sense of self-trust by all the responsibility of self-representation—to raise them up to an alliance with the state, not only by the links and gyves and fetters of taxation, but by gentle ministrations es the one side and by grateful thoughts upon the other—to raise them up, bst not least, in their material happiness, by cheapening to them in their !mates every article of primary necessity. Among those, also, of easier air- mostanoes and happier position, who may be better able to determine the waves which sway politicians, I believe that I shall be not only regretted, but also understood. Here was one, they will say, who had a vision of his eisa—a crotchet, if you will, in politics—who loved an ideal liberty, as poets love their mistresses—whose worship, through good report or bad report, he idolized alone. Not the liberty of certain Tories, who regard her as a sort of housekeeper, perpetually mourning over the ruins of a Bleak House' of her own, always to be let unfurnished, with nobody to bid. Net the liberty of certain Radicals, who seem to consider her as a hitter bar-maid,' for ever ohinking coppers in the presence of the greatest trade the world ever saw; of which they either will not or cannot understand all the wisdom of its magnificent unthrift. Not the liberty of certain Whigs, who treat her as a courtesan, who must, at the risk of losing caste, give her fa- vours only to the privileged and few—the worn-out odalisque of the Whig harem. But a liberty—how describe her ! One who in our constitutional system, has almost always been in a minority, sometimes represented by um* sometimes, I fear, by ciphers—the liberty for which Bolingbroke suf- fered, and for which George Canning died. The forfeiture of a seat in Par- liament, if such shall be my fate, is-the poorest of oblations on her shrine ; but I have that confidence in the majesty of truth, that I believe she will not suffer a wrong to the meanest of her votaries, without an exercise of vengeance ; and -that fate—my fate, and that vengeance—my vengeance, I leave, gentlemen, within your hands."
The meeting passed by acclamation a vote of confidence in Mr. Smythe •
The Reverend R. Errinseton, incumbent of Burntwootl, near Lichfield, has lost his life in an extraordinary -way. He ascended a pear-tree to destroy sparrow-nests, as the birds greatly dams,ged his garden : a branch broke, he full headlong to the ground, his neok was dislocated, and he died almost im- mediately, an the sight of his wife, who had come to warn him not to trust to the tree for support.
Stephen Walker, a young farmer of Cheadley in Staffordshire, courted Fanny Walker, the daughter of a publican. Though of the same name, they were not related. Stephen was unsteady in his habits, and therefore Fanny was sent away from home for a time. On Tuesday sennight she returned ; and Stephen went to the house, but was not allowed to see her. He went away angry, and returned with a gun in his 'hand. Fanny came down stairs and entered into conversation with him. On her objecting to his course of life, he snatched up the gun, and pointing it at her said, "I will now show you what I want." The mother screamed, and got between them, pushed him out-of the passage into the road, and bolted the door. He •ran-to the window, and thrust the muzzle of the gun through one of the panes ; the mother took hold of it, exclaiming, "Don't shoot Fanny ; shoot me! "— and urging her daughter to run out of the room. The poor girl ran, but in her trepidation she could not unfasten the door ; just as she was passing out of the TOOR1, Stephen discharged the -gun, and the contents lodged in her left side, just below the breast, killing her instantly. The murderer ran away into the -fields, reloaded his gun, and shot himself through the head, dead on the spot. A Coroner's Jury have ascribed the murder and suicide to " temporary insanity."
Portsmouth Dockyard suffered from a-fire on Monday morning, but for- tunately the damage was comparatively trilling. The yarn-house, a large brick building, contains a tarring-house and immense stores of white and tarred yarn : at eight o'clock a boiler in the tarring-house burst at the bot- tom, the tar ran out, -and the place and its stores -were quickly in flames. Fortunately, men were at work on the spot, and thus an instant alarm was raised; and it is said that an engine was got to work in'three minutes. There were plenty of hands—artificers, police, seamen, and in about an hour the are -was extinguished. The tarring-house and its-stores were destroyed. A cont of inquiry was held by the authorities, and they pronounced the fire to have been entirely accidental. The boiler was not old. The Admiral Super- intendent published a memorandum praising the conduct of .the people who extinguished the .fire. It appears that the arrangement of haying the tar- ring-house under the same roof as the storehouses for the yarn has been abolished at all the yards but this; and that Admiral Hyde Parker, now in the -Board of Admiralty, when in oonsmand at Portsmouth, strongly condemn- ed the -continuance of it. Designs for a distinct building, and an isolated spot an which to erect a new tarring-house in this yard, were actually ar- ranged a few months since, but have not yet been commenced.
The villages of Cambridgeshire.seem doomed. 'One half of Manes has been destroyed by a fire which broke out in a p4stye on Sunday afternoon, and was rapidly Tarried by the wind to other buildings.
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