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The poll for Scarborough, on Saturday last, ended in the return of Mr_ George Frederick Young the Protectionist, by a majority of 33 over the Whig Lord Mulgrave. The numbers wore—for Young, 314; for Mal, grave, 281.

Tiptree Farm, belonging to Mr. Mechi, was visited on Thursday by a party of eminent persons connected with the agricultural implement de- partment of the Exposition, and others, at the invitation of the owner. Many interesting trials of implements took place ; and finally, 150 gentle- men, among whom were Prince Frederick Holstein and Lord Ebrington, partook of a cold collation.

A strange fight for possession of a tunnel took place early on Monday morning, near Cambden' a little village in Worcestershire. Merchant, a contractor, having failed to complete his contract for the roadway through Muckleton tunnel, on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, the works were given over to Messrs. Pet() and Betts for completion. Mar- chant resisted. On Sunday night the Pete party, 500 strong, marched_ down to Muckleton tunnel, in order that they might be first On the ground. On reaching the Worcester end of the tunnel, the first detachment of about 200 men were met by Merchant, who, armed to the teeth with pistols, barred the way and dared them to come on. The leader of the invading force, Mr. Cowdery, ordered his men not to strike a blow, while he carried on a parley. But the negotiation failed; and peremptory orders issuing from Mr. Brunel, the men made a desperate rush upon the liarchant division, and were repelled with the casualties of broken heads and three dislocated shoulders. Hitherto, it appears, the "navvies" had fought with feet and fists, but one of Merchant's men drawing a pistol, he was seized and a deep wound was inflicted on his skull. This daunted Merchant, who retreated, and the army of Pete remained in possession of the field. How the next act of the drama came about is not clear. Merchant is said to have returned with "some three dozen policemen from the Gloucester Con- stabulary, a body of privates of the Gloucester Artillery, and two Magis- trates, who instantly began to read the Riot Act." But a second, engagement began under the very nose of the peace-officers, and several combatants came off with broken limbs. Reinforcements now poured 'in; and Merchant, &d- ing defeat inevitable, "adjourned with Mr. Brunel, in order that sonie amicable settlement" might be made. The upshot is, that Messrs. Cubitt and Stephenson are appointed arbitrators, and the works are suspended forlt fortnight.

A body of trades-unionists made an attack upon a brick-field belonging to a Mr. Farr, at Rusholme, near Manchester, on the 18th; intending to de- stroy and damage the new and unburnt bricks on the "flats." The field was guarded by four armed watchers ; after they had discharged their pieces in returning the fire of the invading force, one ran out a email cannon pre- pared for the occasion; leded it with bullets, and fired into the mob. The assailant, fled at once saving one man, who was found next morning, dead on the field. It is si4ased that he was aloit by one of .his own party, at a distance. of not mot than six paces. A Coroner's Jury has retiumed a ver- dict of a- wilful rarder." Another man was carried off badly wounded.

The Police arrive too late-

In Decerisheri848, the Eighty-first Regiment was quartered at Hull. As the officer,' r(1019 were not ready, they took up their abode at the Royal hotel. Rev-they passed their time in the usual fashion, smoking, loung- ing, playinggiliards, and flirting. The landlord, Mr. Johnston, had a pretty

aughter soh Ann. CaPtain Boughey, captivated by her good looks and d

cumin, mamers, made love to her. The parents, discovering that Miss &rah Ann :as in a fair way of returning the Captain's passion, sent her down to (lase in Lincolnshire. Whereupon the Captain grew sad ; in- sisted up,' knowing whither the young lady had been spirited away ; and on finaig it out, declared that if she were not forthwith brought back he should,o down to Chase and see her. The result was, that Miss Johnston came mite; Captain Bongbey preferred his suit, was an accepted lover with the :nowledge of the parents, made a promise of marriage, and gave the lady a ring. Then came a reverse. Captain Boughey went with hi, regiment to Berwick. Before starting, he said he should exchange a regiment destined for Canada, as his pay was not large and aatrimony was too expensive in England. But when at Berwick, though he did not absolutely forget the pretty innkeeper's daughter, he had time to reflect ; his friends remonstrated with him on the proposed mesalliance ; he grew cool, and finally wrote so as to lead to the be- lief that he wanted to break off his engagement. Mr. Johnston wrote for an explanation. Captain Boughey said he would come and explain. Mean- while, Miss Johnston was growing ill; and when Captain Boughey came, she could not see him without fainting. When they were left alone' the gallant Captain contrived to get possession of the ring he had given her ; and this furnished the chief plea of the defence to an action for breach of promise,—namely, that he had been released from the engagement by Miss Johnston herself. The action was tried at York on the 19th instant, before Mr. Baron Platt; and, in spite of the eloquence of Sergeant Wilkins, the Jury returned a verdict of damages 300/.

At Winchester Assizes, on Saturday, William Pamplin was tried for steal- ing a box of gold-dust from a truck on the South-western Railway. The circumstances of the case were narrated when the man was examined by the Magistrates. Nothing new of any importance came out at the trial. There was no evidence to show that Parnplin actually stole the boxes : it seemed most probable that he was connected with others who abstracted the trea- sure, his part of the nefarious work being to convey it to London. The Jury acquitted him of the robbery, but found him guilty of receiving. Sentence, ten years' transportation.

At Chelmsford Assizes, on Tuesday, James Dawson and Stephen Pryke were indicted for burglary and for cutting and wounding John Jones. Daw- son pleaded guilty. Pryke is a lad of fifteen. Dawson, Pryke, and a man named Poole, went to the farm-house of Mr. Cook at night ; the Police had notice of the intended burglary ; John Jones watched within the house, and two others without. Dawson and Poole broke in, leaving Pryke to watch outside. A desperate struggle took place between Jones and a man-servant on the one side and the two robbers on the other, Dawson striking Jones with an iron bar. Mr. Cook came down stairs and fired a gun, mortally wounding Poole, and also inflicting a wound on the arm of the labourer ; it was necessary to amputate the arm. During the conflict, Pryke ran away. The Jury found him guilty of burglary only; and he was sentenced to be transported for ten years. Judgment of death was recorded against Dawson.

On Wednesday, the four men charged with the robbery of nearly 600/. from the Waltham Abbey Gunpowder Works were put on their trial. When the evidence for the Crown had been heard, a verdict of "Not guilty" was taken by consent in the case of Eve, one of the watchmen at the works. Counsel- addressed the Jury for the other accused. Cornish, the second watchman, and Griffiths, a hawker, were acquitted ; but Rowe, who is a publican, was convicted of receiving the money. Sentence, ten years' trans- portation. All the notes stolen have been presented at the Bank ; they ap- pear to have been negotiated in France with divers money-changers.

Peter Holden was convicted of a burglary at Manningtree, and sentenced to be transported. Much of the case turned upon the ownership of a patent wooden hand: Holden had lost a hand; when a policeman detected a man tom.ng from a cellar with plunder, he struggled with him, striking him, as he thought, on the head; but, to the surprise of the officer, the thief was net stunned, and he ran away : a wooden hand was found hard by, and the policeman's blows had been dealt on that, knocking it from the socket. After much investigation, it seemed that this hand belonged to the accused; though a one-handed witness declared that Holden had lost his wooden fist, and the witness was in the habit, as the Judge said, of "lending a hand" to him.

Mellie, an Irishman, has died at Liverpool, from a bullet-wound received -during the conflict between the Orangemen and Roman Catholics. Mellie had been very conspicuous in more than one attack on the Orangemen. In the afternoon, he led on a body of his countrymen to the combat; they were worsted, and in the retreat Mollie was shot in the back. At the hospital it was found that he had a weapon resembling an old sword-blade ground down concealed in the leg of his trousers. Another man, Jones, received a fatal stab while attempting to rescue a Policeman from a mob of Irish.

Thomas llogarth, a stable-man at Liverpool, quarrelled with his wife, a struggle followed, and he killed her. When locked up, he hanged himself to the bars of the cell, and was nearly dead when the act was discovered.

Mary Powell, wife of a clerk at Liverpool, has killed her two children and attempted to destroy herself while in a state of insanity.. The husband is a -dissipated fellow, and had refused to support his family ; the mother and -children went into the workhouse ; for two months the woman was treated as a lunatic, but after that she appeared to have recovered her senses. Last week, she applied to the Governor to be discharged from the house ; and he eonsented. She seems then to have sought aid from her husband, but in vain. She was seen in the street exhibiting signs of madness ; she threw an infant on some steps and fled ; the child was dead, having been strangled. Subse- quently the mother jumped into the river, but was rescued alive. She told where the body of her other child would be found : she had strangled it also. Archer and Roberts, the girls who took laudanum with Mary Ann Sutton, at March, which ended in Sutton's death, were committed for trial on a Coro- ner's inquisition for her murder ; but at the Cambridge Assizes the Grand Jury ignored a bill preferred against them, and the prosecution on the in- quisition was withdrawn. Mr. Justice Cresswell rebuked the girls for the enormity of their conduct, and they were discharged.

At the Assizes now proceeding, many trials for arson have occurred, with 'varying verdicts.

Mr. Henry Fazakerley, a young gentleman who bad just succeeded to the Gillibrand Hall and Fazakerley estates, (Ind Mr. James Green, a young friend from London, with a miner and an underlooker, have perished in a coal-pit at Charley. The gentlemen appear to have descended the shaft front curiosity ; Mr. Green unwillingly, and only after repeated assurances froth the colliers that the pit was safe. The party had an unprotected light ; an explosion of fire-damp ensued; and all four were killed. From subsequent inquiries, it appears that the pit was a dangerous one to descend, the ventilation having been very defective. Mr. Fazakerley, and Taylor, a miner, descended the deep shaft first; their lights were extin- guished; unwamed by this, Taylor returned to the surface, and descended with Mr. Green and billinge, Taylor taking lighted caulks and a flaming torch : Mr. Smith, a friend of Mr. Fazakerley, declined to make one in the dangerous adventure. When all arrived at the bottom of the shaft, they walked with the blazing torch up the only working ; an explosion en med, and the scorched and bruised bodies were hurled along the gallery into the water of the "sump-hole" at the foot of the shaft.

Three men and a boy have perished in the South Moe Lead and Silver Mine, a few miles from Devonport. At ninety-five fathoms below the sur- face, a steam-engine is worked, which consumes a ton and a half of ceals daily ; yet no proper means are employed to convey the smoke to the surface : it is allowed to find its way along a level, and thence up the engine-..haft. As it precaution against accidents, men have been prohibited front working in the level which the smoke traverses. It was known that there was mineral still unworked in this level; and the other day a party of men got leave to work it, but cautions were given respecting the smoke. Four iuirui and a boy laboured with the contractor. After a time they complained hi him of the smoke ; he told them to quit the level by the engine-shaft, and himself led the way ; the carbonic acid affected him so much that he fell asleep so soon as he got to a higher level, and did not wake for two hours. When he reached the mouth of the pit, he found that his companions had not come up. Search was made, and eventually one man was got out in a bad state, but alive ; all the others were dead. It seems that instead of taking the proper direction to escape from the smoke, the unfortunate party actually moved towards it.