Vrouiurial.
The declaration of the poll by the High Sheriff of Kent took place at Maidstone on Saturday. The numbers he announced were—Martin, 3557; Riddell, 3149; majority for Martin, 408. He was declared duly elected, and girt with a sword as a knight of the shire. In his speech to the electors, Mr. Martin thus described the views and objects which he considered had been adopted by them— The electors had pronounced in favour of the glorious principle of civil and religious liberty ; they had declared that no man should be debarred from any .of the rights of citizenship on account of his religion; they had given then verdict in favour of liberty of conscience to the Dissenting population of the nation ; they had given their verdict in favour of a sound and judicious extension of the franchise; they had pronounced in favour of an extended system of education, to embrace, if possible, the humblest of their fellow subjects ; and they had pronounced in favour of that principle of reform in all our different departments and institutions, which, when coupled with education and the principle that merit should have a fair chance, would give to every man who possessed integrity and moral principle a chance of obtaining any or all of the great prizes in the lottery of life.
These remarks were corroborated by the cheers of those who heard them.
Lord John Manners having retired from the representation of Colchester for the purpose of being returned for one of the divisions of Leicestershire, a new election for the borough which he relinquished became necessary. There were two candidates. At the nomination, on Monday, Mr. Round proposed and Mr. Cooke seconded Mr. I. T. Miller, who, when elected for Maldon in 1862 was unseated on petition. He was the Conservative candidate. Mr. Gurdon Rebow, the Liberal, was proposed by Mr. S. Brown, and seconded by Mr. Philbriek. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Rebow. The polling took place on Tuesday; the numbers were officially declared on Wednesday—Rebow, 563; Miller, 462. Mr. Rebow was declared duly elected.
Five hundred navvies employed at the Birkenhead Dock works have struck, for an advance of threepence a day, they assert ; others state that the strike arises from jealousy of Irish labourers towards Englishmen. The turn-outs have behaved with violence, driving new hands from their work ; and on Thursday the Magistrates applied to Sir Harry Smith for troops.
A daring burglary has been perpetrated at Ashover, a few miles from Chesterfield, but in which the robbers were ultimately defeated. Four ruffians, disguised, appear to have been engaged. Two of them, by means of a ladder, entered a bedroom of the residence of the Reverend Mr. Hodder: Mrs. Hodder, who had recently been confined, slept there, and she was up, attending to an infant. She retreated to her husband's room, locking doors after her ; which the robbers burst open. Mr. Nodder received them with a pistol in each hand, and as they advanced he fired one pistol : the charge took effect on one of the burglars; both retreated, leaping from a window, and got off for a time. Miss Ileeley, a niece of Mr. 'Hodder, tied in her night-dress at the first alarm, and ran three-quarters of a mile to the village : in making her escape' she was much hurt by a fall from a window fourteen feet high, and at one time her life was in danger.
A man supposed to be the wounded burglar was captured in Birmingham. Superintendent Holmes, of Ashover, applied to Inspector Glossop, of Bir.raingham, for assistance in tracing the burglar. Mr. Glossop exhibited great skill and perseverance, and at length found his man. He suspected he would be at a Mrs. Hadan's; he could not find him there, though his impression still was that that was the burglar's lurking-place. A leechwoman was found who had applied leeches to a wounded man at Hadan's. Again the officers went thither; but still without success. Mr. Glossop came to the conclusion that he would find his man in some adjacent house : he did so. In a house in a back-yard of Hadan's he found two men in bed ; one was the occupier of the house ; the other had received a charge of shot in his abdomen. The wounded man Glossop knew well, as one who had been transported for fourteen years, and who had returned home after six years' absence in 1855. He was a ticket-of-leave man, who had been reported by Mr:Glossop to the Recorder, and by the latter to the Home Secretary, as a fit and proper person to have his ticket-of-leave repealed. This fellow is Thomas Wotton, leader of a desperate gang of burglars who have made Birmingham their head-quarters. On Tuesday the Magistrates sent Wotton to Chesterfield.
Burglary is again rampant in the North Riding of Yorkshire : at Driffield, Middleton, and North Dalton Wold, houses have been plundered.
Mr. Joseph Hopgood, formerly practising as a surgeon has been held to hail by the Tiverton Magistrates for adeuniitering medicine to procure abortion to Mrs. Craze, a widow.
A. more accurate estimate has now been made of the number of miners lying dead in the Lundhill Colliery, and the total is considered to be 182. While it has been deemed absolutely necessary to keep the mouths of the shafts closed to smother the fire in the pit and prevent a new explosion, water has been allowed to accumulate in the workings and steam has been forced in with the same objects. A general subscription has been opened for the relief of the great number of persons who were dependent on the sufferers.
One of the miners who were got out alive—Abraham Turner—has since sunk under the hurts he sustained. An inquest was opened on Monday. No light was thrown on the cause of the explosion. William Colbridge, a fireman, who was in the pit when the gas fired, stated that he had examined part of the workings that morning—another fireman having charge of the other half of the pit—and he found every portion in excellent working order. Candles were generally used ; when Davy lamps were employed they were not always locked. [A rule of the mine is that they shall be locked.) ' A portion of a cotton-mill at Kirkheaton has been burnt down by cotton and wool igniting in a " teaser " : William Smith, a man of weak intellect, who was tending the machine, perished in the flames.
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