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The nomination for Marylebone took place on Monday, and the election On Tuesday. Mr. Jacob Bell was proposed by Mr. Brettingham, and seconded by Dr. Dillon, as the representative of Democracy. Lord Eb- rinfttell was proposed by Mr. R. Collier M.P., and seconded by Professor Key.

Mr. Bell addressed thaeleetors on the danger of sending lords to the House of Commons; pointing out the Income-tax,. imposed alike on industry and property, and the Legacy-duty, from which great lords are exempt, as con- sequences of sending lords to Parliament. He did not mean to say that no lords are qualified to sit in the House of Commons, bemuse the late Member for Marylebone was an instance to the contrary. Mr. Bell described himself 118 a member of thervoiety of Friends, but not a member of the Peace Society ; and as to the war, all he had to do was to deal with circumstances as he found them. War icgoing on, and we must send sufficient force to insure victory and &permanent peace. Somebody asked why he did not vote for the ballot: he replied, that he had not formerly made up hie mind ; but now he had, and would not flinch from saying he approved of the ballot. Lord Ebrington he described as a red-hot advocate of centralization.

There was much confusion ; and when Lord Ebrington essayed to speak uproar drowned his voice. He therefore spoke only at the report-

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He denied that he had ever ridiculed the Society of Friends ; but he was sorry to see that the Society was misrepresented by Mr. Bell,—a man of peace to advocate a vigorous prosecution of the war is a contradiction in terms. Could they put any confidence in the professions of a man who two months ago protested against the war ; who had supported the Tory can- didate; who was one thing today, another tomorrow, and the next no man could tell what ? Mr. Bell was a trustworthy man of business, a promoter of art, but not a fit Member for a pure constituency like Marylebone. Lord Ebrington had voted for the repeal of the Jewish Disabilities Bill, when Mr. Bell voted with the Tories. It was said a lord could not sympathize with the people : was there any jealousy at Alma or Inkerman, where lords and their comrades shed their blood side by side like water ? It was not as Lord Ebrington that he asked for the confidence of the electors ; but it was as a commoner, plain Hugh Fortescue, that he offered himself as a candidate to represent a popular body. And he would ask who was most likely to be- come the representative of such a body—the gentleman opposed to him, or one who never gave pledges—who never disappointed expectations—who could point to fifteen years of consistent and faithful publio service—who was no centralizer—who loved local self-government, but who wished to see it conducted economically and efficiently, in order that it might be strong and respected—who never designated the Vestries" vulgar," but who thought their practical management might be improved—who never proposed to have all the power centralized in the Queen, but who thought that seventeen Paving-Boards, acting under twenty-nine acts of Parliament, were not a wise and economical arrangement for one borough—who thought that, in- stead of Crown-appointed Commissioners of Sewers or self-elected Boards, there ought to be for this great and constantly-growing Metropolis a respon- sible representative government, in which a seat would be an 'honour, and a member of which would be likely to be a man of business. Such were his principles and such were his wishes. Mr. Bell carried the show of hands ; but the poll, on Tuesday, gave a very great majority to Lord Ebrington. As declared by tho returning- officer on Wednesday, the numbers at the close were—for Ebrington, 6919; Bell, 4166.

At a Court of Common Council, held on Wednesday, the report of the Consolidated Committee containing propositions in answer to the recom- mendations of the Commission of Inquiry was brought up for considera- tion. But the motion for its adoption was met by an amendment to ad- journ the consideration of the report, on the ground that within a few hours they would all be standing before their constituents for reelection. The amendment was carried by 56 to 31.

The annual vrardmotes, held on Wednesday, for the election of Com- mon Councilmen and other officers, resulted in a very few unimportant alterations in the Council.

The twopenny toll on carts and waggons entering the City, if not the property of freemen, will cease on Monday. This antiquated and tine popular impost produced 60001. to the Corporation ; but the threatenings of Reform induced them to relinquish it.

At a meeting of the Almoners and Governors of Christ's Hospital, on Wednesday, the consideration of the report, so far as relates to the elec- tion of the Almoners' Committee, was adjourned ; and a Committee was appointed to inquire and report what changes are advisable in the consti- tution, powers, and duties, of the Committee of Almoners.

The first general meeting of the Council of Teachers and the students of the Working Men's College in Red Lion Square was held on Wednes- day evening, the close of the first term. After tea, the Reverend Frede- rick Maurice, the Principal, made a general statement. Since the open- ing of the College, nearly 180 students have been admitted. The best- attended class is the Bible class, comprising 50 or 60 students ; next, the classes on Algebra and Grammar. The class on Public Health has not as yet been successful. Those on Political Words and the play of" King John" have been scantily attended ; but these classes will reopen in the ensuing term, commencing on the 7th January. The Principal spoke highly of the industry and intelligence of his pupils. The other teachers, Mr. Ruskin especially, declared themselves fully satisfied as to the prac- ticability of teaching the highest branches of knowledge to working men during their leisure hours. Mr. Ruskin congratulated the Drawing class on the accession of Mr. Dante Rossetti to the Council of Teachers. All the old classes will be continued, and new ones will be instituted,— namely, a French class, by M. Talandier ; a Latin class, by Mr. Irving ; and one on Political Economy, with Mr. Mill's work as a text-book, by Mr. Vansittart Neale. An evening school, distinct from the College but under its superintendence, will be commenced for instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic. The Principal and Teachers were all received with hearty expressions of friendly feelings, and the meeting seemed to be pervaded by a hopeful spirit.

In December 1851 the _Examiner newspaper contained an article relating to the notorious trial then recently closed, in which James Birch, proprietor of the Dublin newspaper the World, sought to recover 60001. from Sir Wil- liam Somerville for articles furnished by Birch and published in his pawn. The Examiner article Mr. Birch considered to be a libel on him ; and, he entered an action in the Court of Queen's Bench against John Forster, re- gistered proprietor of the Examiner. The case was brought to trial on Wednesday. Birch conducted his own case, and the Attorney-General de- fended Mr. Forster. The plea was justification. Four Cabinet Ministers were summoned as witnesses for the plaintiff; and three were examined— Lord Palmerston, Sir Charles Wood, and Lord Clarendon. The Foreign Se- cretary was subjected by Birch to a close examination ; and the whole story of his connexion with Birch, whom he paid to write articles in defence of law and order in 1848, was raked up. Several witnesses proved that Birch was in the habit of attempting to obtain money by threats that he would publish damaging exposures unless he were paid—threats made to ladies, tradesmen, and trading societies. The Jury held that the libel was justified, and found a verdict for the defendant.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, Mr. Alderman Challis sought to recover compensation from the Great Northern Railway for the hurts he sustained by a collision at Hornsey on the 31st August last, when be was on his way to the Sheffield Cutler's feast, to which he had been invited as Lord Mayor. The Company had sent him a check for 14/. to cover some of the actual expenses to which he had been put, and they now paid 301. more into

court. But it was shown that Mr. Challis had suffered a good deal, and had been incapacitated for a time from attending to business. Lord Campbell, in summing up the case, observed that the counsel who represented the de- fendants admitted the plaintiff had incurred a loss of 454 by accident; but surely the Jury would not confine the damages to the actual pecuniary loss; they should also consider the agony suffered by the plaintiff, and the shock sustained to his system. The Jury gave 1701. damages in addition to the 30/. Lord Campbell adverted to the wish expressed by the late Mr. Sydney Smith, that a Bishop might suffer from railway accident, in order that the railway companies might be induced to take greater care of the lives of their passengers : now that the Lord Mayor of London had suffered, it was to be hoped that the public would derive a benefit in their increased protection.

In the Court of Common Pleas a Special Jury has given a verdict for 1501. compensation to Abbott, a lighterman, for the death of his son and appren- tice, who was drowned in St. Katherine's Dock, by a stanchion's giving way as he was attempting to ascend from a boat to the quay. The stanchion was quite insecure ; and it was held that the Dock Company was bound to see that means used by people to get on to the quays are safe.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday. Moody a beer-shcp:keeper, and Brown a shell-fishmonger, pleaded " guilty " to charges of keeping bet- ting-houses in the City. The City authorities have resolved to put down such places • these prosecutions were intended as warnings ; and on the de- fendants' pleading guilty, they were only bound over to appear for judgment if called upon. The next offenders will not be treated so leniently.

On Tuesday, Thomas William O'Keefe was brought up for judgment. He was convicted some time since of obtaining 500/. from Miss East, on pretence that he would marry her, while in fact he had a wife living. He has ar- ranged to return 100/. to Miss East, and to give security for the repayment of the other 4001.; he has already been in prison four months, and LS in had health : the Recorder liberated him on his own recognizance:3, and if he re- pay Miss East no sentence will be passed on him.

On Wednesday, the two brothers, Francis Robert Newton and Philip William Newton, the young men who so desperately assaulted Mr. Adam Stewart Ker, at Beulah Spa, were put on their trial. There were various counts in the indictment, the highest charging an "intent to murder." The particulars of the ferocious assault were noted at the tine; and the facts were fully made out on Wednesday. As to the motive for the crime, it seems to have originated in a comparatively trifling circumstance. Mr. Ker stated, that at a party, William Newton, a stranger, asked him to take wine; which Mr. Ker thought a liberty, and he declined the invitation. Shortly afterwards, William Newton called on Mr. Ker, "about his brother" ; but Mr. Ker told him he knew nothing of his brother, and had not said anything disrespectful of him : the interview ended by Mr. Ker's taking his visitor by the collar and handing him down-stairs, as the young man seemed unwilling to go; and Mr. William Newton then hinted a duel. On the same after- noon, Francis, after an altercation, struck Mr. Ker with a stick, in the street; Mr. Ker knocked him down ; and would have lifted him up to knock him down again had not persons interfered. On the following day the brothers attacked him at Beulah Spa, with a hunting-whip, beating him on V— head so violently that for some time his life was endangered. Cross- examination elicited nothing from Mr. Ker to justify the prisoners. Ile denied positively that he had said Francis had been cashiered from the Army for embezzlement. Mr. Collier, who defended the prisoners, urged that Mr. Ker had made charges against the honour of Francis; but he called no 'witnesses to support his assertion. The Jury found the young men guilty of" unlawfully wounding," but recommended William, the younger, to mercy. Mr. Justice Cresswell sentenced Francis to be imprisoned for nine months, and William for three.

Charles Mallett, who robbed and cruelly misused Mrs. Harrison, in her house in Bull Inn Yard, was convicted ; and sentence of death with recorded against him.

At the Middlesex Sessions, on Monday, John Adams, convicted of receiv- ing a picture-frame stolen from a house at Chelsea, which was stripped of a large amount of property, was sentenced to six years' penal servitude : he had not thought proper to earn a more lenient sentence by giving informa- tion about the robbery.

A precocious criminal was convicted on Tuesday. Ruth Elizabeth Scales, a girl only fifteen years of age, robbed her master, Mr. Holton, a butcher in Newport Court, of more than 1001. in money, besides jewellery : she was traced to Limerick ; she had spent most of the money, having purchased goods for sale in Australia whither she intended to proceed. Sentence, six years' penal servitude.

Frederick Charles Maturin, a person of good connexions, late district se- lecting agent at Woolwich to the Emigration Commissioners, is in custody for a number of cruel frauds. He pretended to poor people who applied to him that he had influence to get them accepted as Government emigrants, and by this false representation he extracted sums of money, their little savings : many of the people who paid these bribes were rejected by the Commissioners, because unfitted for emigrants.

Francois Longueville, a Frenchman, and Ernest Beanolerk, :a Sardinian, have been remanded by the Southwark Magistrate on a charge of breaking into a house in the Blackfriars Road, on Friday sennight. They seem to be very dangerous characters. They broke open a door with a crowbar ; and when Longueville was seized, besides the crowbar, various housebreaking im- plements were found on him. Beauclerk got away ; when apprehended at his lodgings, more burglar' tools were discovered.

Barthelemy has been committed for trial, charged with two murders. The woman who accompanied him has escaped to the Continent. In a house he had hired at Chelsea, the Police found that the floor of the kitchen had been removed and a great hole dug, for what purpose can only be surmised.

A distressing case has been brought before the Thames Police Magistrate. Mr. Liell, a haberdasher of Bromley, has been compelled to prosecute his daughter Rebecca, a girl of seventeen, for robbing him. She is a vicious

i girl n other respects, and the father makes a criminal charge against her as a possible means of reclaiming her. She was committed for the robbery.

Mr. Richard Nunn, a jeweller, hitherto of high character, has been com- mitted for trial, but admitted to bail, by the Clerkenwell Magistrate, on a charge of transposing an old hall-mark of the Goldsmiths' Company to a ring which a gentleman had commissioned him to make.

A short time since, a person named Saunders died at Camberwell, with a bag of sovereigns tied to his neck; Police-Sergeant Meirick allowed an officer of the Coroner to take possession of the bag without countin,g the contents ; Saunders's widow was removed, in an informal manner, to the workhouse ; three women there found a bag of sovereigns concealed on Mrs. Saunders's person and they stole some of them. Sergeant Meirick feared that he should be called to account, and reduced to a private constable, for his remissness; and this so affected him that he committed suicide. The three paupers have been committed for trial by the Lambeth Magistrate. Among the seasonable contributions to the poor-boxes of the Police Courts this week, have been the annual gifts of 204 to each box from the Gold- smiths' Company.