Sin iiirobinces.
Mr. Dupr6 was elected Member for Buckinghamshire, on Monday, without opposition. Mr. Cavendish, M.P. for Sussex, announced that the Liberal Club would be reorganized, and a candidate brought for- ward on the independent interest at the next election.
Sir George Grey was on Tuesday reillected for Devonport, without opposition.
By the death of the Earl of Zetland, which occurred suddenly on Tuesday, at Aske Hall, his seat near Richmond in Yorkshire, a va- cancy 6 occasioned in the representation of Richmond; for which borough, Lord Dundas, now Earl of Zetland, sat.
Mr. Roebuck's late constituents have presented him with a handsome service of plate, and a complimentary address. In his reply, Mr. Roe- buck lashed Lord Powerscourt, and the professedly pious supporters who introduced bribery and corruption into Bath at the last election ; gave the middle and working classes some excellent advice on the advantage of union to attain the common end which both should seek—good go- vernment; and announced his intention of delivering a series of lec- tures in Bath on the subject of government.
Colonel Thompson has been lecturing on the Corn-laws at Ipswich. One of the Chartists of that place, at the conclusion of the lecture, chal- lenged Colonel Thompson to give him a satisfactory answer to a long list of objections which he had prepared, against the policy and advan- tage of agitation for repeal of the Corn-laws. On the spur of the mo- ment, the Colonel took his antagonist in hand, and demolished all his propositions. The folly of supposing that the "cotton-lords" aimed at reducing the wages of the people—the injustice of attempting to cut down the interest of the public creditor—the impossibility of specula- tors in corn creating the searcity—and above all, the absurdity of sitting down and sulking, instead of joining in the movement against the half- loaf men, because, forsooth, Parliament was not what it ought to be— were the points which Colonel Thompson handled, with so much good- nature, yet with such convincing force, that he seemed to carry the Chartists themselves along with him.
The musical festival at Oxford, which was postponed last year on account of the Coronation, will take place, under the direction of Mr. H. R. Bishop, on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of June. The general re- hearsal will be on Monday the 10th.
Resolutions against Church-rates and a State religion were adopted by a numerous meeting at Leicester on the 11th instant.
Mr. Birch, of the Norfolk Circuit, has been appointed Recorder of Thetford.
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