27 APRIL 1861, Page 3

The Tynemouth election begun on Monday, in the Town Hall

of North Shields. Mr. Hodgson and Mr. Otway were proposed and seconded, and the show of hands being in favour of Mr. Otway, his opponent demanded a poll. At the close on Tuesday, after a severe contest, the numbers were—Hodgson, 421; Otway, 374. Mr. Hodgson was very roughly treated, and &guard of sixty policemen escorted him to the railway station. Mr. John Locke, who resigned his seat when appointed Recorder for Brighton, was, on Wednesday, re-elected Member for Southwark without any opposition. Another seat is vacant. Mr. David Pugh, member for the Mont- gomery burghs, died on Saturday, in his seventy-second year.