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Boston election has greatly elevated the Protectionists. Mr. Wire was first in the field; he has twice before. been a candidate to represent.the place, receiving much support ; the borough is Liberal, and the Dissent- ers have much local influence in the election : all these circumstances conspired tomake Mr. Wire think, as he said in his retiring address, that " the death of Captain Pelham, the late Liberal representative, would re- move all impedimenta" to Mr. Wire's success. " But I found," he con- tinues, " on meeting with nearly all my old, and dear friends, that there was one little word standing in• the way of every pledge ; and I need not tell you- that that word was protection. Gentlemen, I am not a cuckoo, and I could mot say it." So he withdrew: The fact is, that the borough is an agrioultural.borough, and that the Liberals were divided. Notwith- standing Mr. Wire's retirement, a stanch party persisted in nominating him, and in going to the poll without his concurrence; and they polled, under this adverse state 'of things, nearly two-thirds as many votes as Mr. Freshfield the Protectionist. At the close of the poll, the numbers were 368 to 251. The friends of the late Captain Pelham withheld their votes altogether. Mr. Freshfield has been returned duly elected.

A memorial from-the clergy of the rural deanery of Leeds to the Bish- op of Ripon, on the subject of the innovations in matters of ritual at St Saviour'S, has elicited the reply from the Bishop—"Whatever measures the law empowers me to adopt, or whatever can be effected by my per- sonal influence, towards the extermination of those pernicious principles which have prevailed at-St. Saviour's, I shall unremittingly pursue." But his clergy must not expect him " to work impossibilities." " However earnestly I may wish to find in the new trustee of St Saviour's a person who would conscientiously promote the principles and -encourage the doctrines of our Reformed Church, I cannot control the remaining trus- tees in their choice. However ardently I may desire the appointment of an incumbent at St. Saviour's who shall conciliate the confidence both of myself and the Church, I have no hope that Dr. Pusey will be in the slightest de- gree influenced by my wishes; and, in the case of an incumbent presented by a patron to a benefice, you are all most fully aware, that unless the Bish- op can convict the individual'of heresy, he has ne ground to refuse him institution on the supposed ground of false doctrine. With regard to curates, I certainly can refuse to license' any individual until, after some period of probation, I shall have reason to believe that he will really con- form to the doctrine and discipline of our Reformed Church. Of this safe- guard, which is within my math, you may rely on my availing myself." The difficulties which he-has had to contend with in his constant- en- deavours to counteract the influence of the "errors in doctrine " which have " gone hand in hand " with "innovations in ritual " at St. Saviour's, his clergy will be able to estimate when he shall have given to the whole Church, (as he is on the point of doing,) "an insight into the history of St. Saviour's from.its first commencement-down to the recent proceedings connected'with

The Nottingham correspondent of the Times notes the first stages of one of those social revolutions following improvement in machinery, which effect great general good at the co-4W intense particular evil which it is painful to contemplate- " Owing to the rapidity with which roundabout frames are superseding the old-fashioned loom in the manufacture of shirts, drawers, pantaloons, &c., great numbers of workpeople are either stinted to short-time or thrown out of employ entirely. These new frames, contrary to the ancient prac- tice, are generally fitted up in factories, and are so easily worked as merely to require young.people to attend -to them, one skilled workman only being required to superintend each establishment ; whilst they are so rapid that each frame produces from 100 to 130 dozen pairs of stockings every week. This invention, it is calculated, will throw 30,000 workpeople out of employ in the counties of Nottingham, Leicester, and Derby, in a very short time. Although probably productive of much distress for a short time, the ultimate effect of this will be beneficial, by driving the people to other occupations, in which employment will be more constant, and remuneration more liberal. Hitherto, take them as a body, for at least two generations past, their phy- sical condition has been considerably worse than that of agricultural labourers."

Mr. Beckett Denison is converting a large house in Kirkgete, Leeds, a nest of the commonest lodging-houses, into a model lodging-house.

The "Jenny Lind wing" to the Manchester Infirmary is now com- pleted, and will be ready for patients in a fortnight. The coat of the new addition is 14,0001., of which 40001. was contributed by four firms. The two concerts realized 25001.

The foundation-stone of an asylum for the blind, upon an extensive and magnificent scale, was laid at Edgbaaton, Birmingham, on Monday. Earl Howe is the President of the institution ; and in the •interesting ceremonies of the day the clergy and Dissenting ministers of the town and neighbourhood cordially united..

A contract for constructing the tidal channel and the half-tidal basin for the South or sea entrance of Sunderland Dock has just- been let for 51,5001., the highest tender being 63,0001.

The new borough gaol for Liverpool, at Walton, is fast progressing. The walls are complete, and give some idea of the vastness of the edifice. We believe there will be eight hundred cells, and the chapel now erect- ing will be sufficiently spacious to accommodate more than that number. Kirkdale gaol has hitherto been regarded as a large prison, but the new borough gaol will render it an insignifieant building, at least without.— Liverpool Standavd,

A distressing fatality by misadventure has been caused by a clergyman in the North of England. The Reverend Joseph Smithy Perpetual Curate of

Walton, near Brampton in Cumberland, has, under a false alarm at robbers, shot dead, with a revolving-pistol, Mr. 1Villiam Armstrong, a pntleman farmer of Serbia Trees in Bewcastle. Mr. Armstrong is described by the Carlisle Journal as "a large farmer and considerable landowner, about thirty-eight years of age, married, and having two children—a man highly

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respected in his neighbourhood, openhearted, geneus, and hospitable." He went to Brampton on Wednesday last week, to complete a' purchase' of land ; and meeting many friends there, as it was market-day, drank too much wine. When last seen on his way home, at about half-patt eleven' he was rather the worse for liq_uor: In the village of 'Walton, the road Northwards from Brampton to Bewcastle divides into three; the middle and direct road leading to Bewcastle, Mr. Armstrong's home, and one of the divergent roads leading to the parsonage-house of Mr. Smith. In the house of Mr. Smith was a servant named Ann Glcndinning, who had lived as a servant with Mr. Armstrong's father, and afterwards with Mr. Armstrong himself. Mr. Smith was sitting up alone at about twelve o'clock, when he heard a knocking, which he at first thought was Mrs. Smith in a rocking- chair up-stairs, but which he presently found was some person at his study- window. Being a weak nervous man, he was in great agitation; he saw that the bar of the window was not fastened, and he felt afraid that the window might be driven in, as vagrants and sailors had sometimes " spoken to him through the zinc blind in the way of dictation." In the hope of in- timidating any persons outside, he went forward with a great noise, and

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succeeded in fastening the bar. He unlocked a drawer, took out a rearing- pistol, took a small lantern, and went to the door. Mr. Smith himself, at the Coroner's inquest, continued the narrative as follows. 'I went forward, alone as I was, drew a bolt loudly 'of the front-door, shot back the lock loudly, drew back a sliding guard-chain, and opened the door. I mention this as a proof of how utterly void I was of self-possession ; as I exposed the house and myself by opening. the door, like the moth rushing into the candle. I was speechless, and could not say anything. From the noise I had made at the window and door the person had withdrawn from the vicinity of the window. My sight is so defective that I often bid • good day' to a stranger, thinking him to be a pa- rishioner. At this time the moon was in the South, casting a dark shadow on the North-west angle. These circumstances, with the shade of the shrubbery and the glare of the lantern, combined to prevent my seeing any one. I at once discharged the pistol two or three times, without aiming at any object, more in the hope of creating alarm than anything else. I am not accustomed to-fire-arms, and have al- wily; had a dislike to fishing and shooting. The reason I provided myself with the pistol was painful anxiety of mind, occasioned by the Frimley rmtrder and' other cases of that kind which have been reported ; and, not being possessed of bodily strength, and bring alone in the house with women and children—the house being accessible on all sides without passing through the village— I felt it my duty to have some fire-arms to use in case of danger. I had one before (a pistol) similar to the one I used : not being able after several trials to hit any- thing with that pistol, I exchanged it for this one. I fired recklessly out at the door, and then went in and shut the door loudly. There were only three or four barrels loaded. After remainingin the house a short time, I recovered consciousness so as to see the rash exposure 1 had made of myself and of my family, and also the risk I had run of wounding any person out of doors. At this moment it struck me I should go out again, at all hazards, to see if there via, any one there, or any trace of any one having sustained any injury. I held the lantern in my hand, and looked all around to see it I could see any one having sustained any injury, but saw nothing." In the morning at seven o'clock, Mr. Armstrong was found lying just in- side the gate, a cold corpse; outside the gate were the foot-marks of a horse, that seemed to have stood a long time ; and at about a -mile from Walton Mr. Armstrong's pony was found making its way home. A surgical examination showed that two bullets had struck the deceased : one had "entered at the back part of the right shoulder, coursed along the shoulder-joint, and made its exit at the front of the shoulder ; it was found lying under theright arm- pit. The other had entered the right breast about four inches below the nipple, had passed through the liver, entered the posterior wall of the stomach, passed thence by the lower cavity of the chest on the left side, without wounding the lung, and finally lodged closa to the skin between the tenth and eleventh rib; where it caused • an exterior'swelling, and a. dark bruise. The bullets, which were about the size of a small bean, had mimed through a top-coat, a dress-coat, a thick waistcoat, a linen shirt, and two flannel shirts."

On Tuesday the inquest was resumed ; and after'' the receipt of a great quantity of additional but uninteresting evidence, the Jury returned a ver- dict of Manslaughter" against Mr. Smith. Within' a few minutes after the delivery of the verdict, the Reverend Mr. Benson, Vicar of Brampton, ran into the room from an adjacent room where he had been personally con- soling Mr. Smith, and exclaimed, " He's quite gone, quite gone ! the poor man is quite gone out of-his mind !" The news-had overwhelmed him ; he sobbed and cried like a child, and inn-a short time fell into a state of mental imbecility, from which he had not recovered at the time of the latest accounts.

The Horsham Magistrates on Saturday finally examined three men charged with burglary at Kirdford Common, near l'etworth. It is stated that six were engaged in it, —Levi Ilarwood and Jones, who were hanged last week ; John Hores, a man who has been convicted of burglary ; and the three pri- soners. The latter consist of John Isaacs, the captain of the Sussex'gang so recently broken up ; Samuel Harwood, who was acquitted of the Frimley murder ; and James Hamilton, the approver in the Uckfleld case, who how offers evidence against his companions in this burglary. If his statement is true, it fully makes out the charge against the prisoners ; and other wit- nesses strongly corroborate it. The house robbed was occupied by Mrs. Harriet Stoner, a grocer ; and both she and her servant declare that Isaacs and Harwood were a portion of the gang. Harwood stood 'over Mrs. Stoner with a pistol, and demanded her money, with a threat to blow her brains out : all the men were masked ; Mrs. Stoner recognized Ilarwood by his voice, but she saw Isaacs's face, his mask having fallen off. Two of the men had pistols; Isaacs had a chisel ; Mrs. Stoner was thrown down in the pas- sage, and treated with brutal violence. She gave up her money. Witnesses deposed to having seen six men walking along the road from Guildford to Kirdford on 'the night of the robbery ; and they identified Hamilton and, Harwood as two of the party. All three were fully committed for trial. Hamilton has made a long statement to the Police respecting the gang of which he was a member. The gang consisted of fourteen men and two wo-: men ; John Isaacs was " elected captain," and the others all swore to obey his orders. If any one attampted to leave the gang, to refuse to rob, or to murder, if necessary, the recusant was to be shot. Hamilton 'gave a long detail of divers burglaries in which he wee engaged. It seems that the thieves cheated each other, privately appropriating plunder instead of put- ting it in the common stock : one Abed another of a sovereign, and was given into custody by his brother burglar. This formidable gang is now completely broken up. The Police, especially Superintendent Biddelcombe, have gained much credit by the achievement' • The four men accused of the robbery at the -Waltham T'Owder-works were reexamined on Tuesday ; and a large mass of cart& atery evidence was brought against them. William Lane, a gunsmiih, who had been admitted into the confidence of the prisoners, recited what he-had heard from them, concerning Rowe's intention to sell the twenty-pound notes in London, where he expected to get 151. each for them. After going to London, Rowe told Lane he bad sold only two of the notes, as there was a difficulty about the others. All the prisoners were remanded, and it is expected that other persons will be arrested. - A woman has been poisoned at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, under remarkable circumstances. Elizabeth Anderson, a widow, aged thirty-four, lodged in the house of a Mrs. Wilde. The widow passed for "Mrs. Jenkins" ; a con- fectioner of that name cohabiting with her. One morning Jenkins was at the woman's lodgings, which he left about twelve o'clock ; at two, "Mrs. Jenkins " was found lying on her bed, dressed, and quite dead. There was nothing in the room from which the deceased could have drunk but a glass of water; in an adjoining room was a glass that appeared to have had porter in it. A surgeon was called in ; he found no traces of poison in either of the glasses; he had attended deceased for disease of the heart, and, after some hesitation, gave a certificate that she had died of that disease. It was a chance that the corpse had not been buried on the strength of this ; but Mrs. Wilde having applied to Inspector Little to "give her a line as to her character, that she might present it to the Registrar," Mr. Little made some inquiries, and the upshot was a Coroner's inquest. A post-mortem exami- nation proved that the woman had died from swallowing a large quantity of essential oil of almonds. The surgeons considered that, from the quantity taken, death must have ensued almost immediately, and that it would have been barely possible for her to have walked from the sitting-room to the bed-room after taking it. They also stated that it was quite impossible that she could have destroyed or secreted a vessel which contained.• the poison after she had taken it. The essential oil of almonds is used principally by confectioners to flavour their goods. After the first sitting of the Jury, Mr. Jenkins and Mrs. Wilde were arrested, and brought before the Magistrates. The constables found a glass stopper in the ash-pit adjoining Mrs. Wilde's house, which had the odour of oil of almonds.

The capital sentence passed on Maria Clarke, who buried her infant alive, has been commuted to transportation for life. It was strongly represented on her behalf, that she had been confined only a very short time before, and that she had spent the night wandering about in the inclement weather ; circumstances which might have temporarily impaired her reason and les- sened her moral responsibility.

Wills and Smith, the men convicted of the murder of Mr. Wilkins, an ned shopkeeper of Nempnett, were hanged at Taunton on Wednesday. They confessed their guilt, but protested that they did not intend to commit violence when they went to the house, but only to obtain plunder. Wills was fifty-six years of age, a notoriously bad character. He has left a wife and seven children. He and Smith first met each other a few days before the outrage. John Smith was only thirty-two years of age. Very little is known of him. He is not a native of the county, and is supposed to be re- spectably connected. He expressed great reluctance to give any information respecting his connexions; he did not wish them to be marked out to the world as persons related to a man who had suffered death for murder. He was not pressed on the subject. It has been ascertained that for several years he has been employed as an excavator in London, Staffordshire, and on several lines of railway.

George Cunt, the young man who was convicted of the murder of Eliza- beth Bainbridge, was hanged at Bury St. Edmund's on Tuesday. He made a confession of his guilt. "I now freely admit the correctness of the evidence adduced against me on the trial, and that I committed the act as stated in the evidence ; but I deny the statement made of any improper importunity. Myself and Elizabeth Bainbridge had been in the field the greater part of the afternoon, and some unpleasant words ensued between us ; when she suddenly snatched my knife, and threatened to cut her throat. I succeeded in getting the knife from her; when she stated, 'Then I will drown myself.' then said, If that is the ease, we will both drown ourselves together.' I was in a state of frenzy at the time, and regardless of what I was doing ; and, iu spite of her entreaties and her resistance, succeeded in forcing her to the pond ; threw her in, with myself upon her, with a determination of de- stroying myself as well as her ; but I now beg to express my thanks to Al- mighty God that I was prevented carrying my intention into effect, as it has enabled me by prayer to seek my salvation from the Throne of Mercy. I freely admit I forced and kept the deceased down ; but after some time I became aroused to a sense of consciousness, and desire for life for which I cannot account." He had been drinking a great deal of beer on that day— he was "full of beer" ; and whenever in that state he was so excited he scarcely knew what he did. "The interchange of trinkets between us was common ; I often wore her rings, and she was frequently in the habit of wearing my watch ; it was a common occurrence between us."