Vroniurial.
The Honourable Frederick Calthorpe has announced himself as a can- didate for East Worcestershire in the room of Colonel Rushout now Lord Northwick. Mr. Calthorpe desires to go to Parliament "as a freeman, unshackled by pledges, bound to no party in the State, independent in principle and position " ; and "as a Liberal, ready to promote any mea- sure calculated to advance the general good, by whomsoever propounded."
Mr. Pakington, the son of Sir John Pakington, has come forward, as a "Worcestershire man," and a Conservative in favour of "progressive improvement both social and political," to contest the county with Mr. Calthorpe.
A large meeting to promote Church extension in Staffordshire, Lord Calthorpe in the chair, has been held at Walsall. This meeting is one of a series assembled to promote the views of the Bishop of Lichfield anxious to make better provision for the spiritual welfare of the poor of the county. The meeting subscribed upwards of 6001. towards the ob- ject, Lord Calthorpe leading with 2001.
The Church of England Young Men's Christian Association of Read- ing have expelled the Reverend T. Y. Fosbery, vicar of St. Giles, and one of the chaplains of the Bishop of Oxford, from the list of their pa- trons on the ground that he is a supposed adherent of the Puseyite sec- tion of the Church.
The annual meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce was held on Wednesday, Mr. Turner, M.P., in the chair. The main topic of his speech was connected with India and the cotton crop. He hoped the promise of a good supply of cotton from the United States would not re- lax our efforts to obtain a supply from India, he implied a censure on the East India Company for not having adopted measures recommended by the Chamber to facilitate the production of cotton, and hoped better things from the new government. Mr. Baxley said that we are now enjoying an amount of commercial prosperity with India never before known, and he traced it to the concession of more constitutional Indian government.
The Bristol Chamber of Commerce met the same day, Mr. P. Miles in the chair. The report showed that the trade of the port of Bristol is greatly on the increase. One-eighth of the sugar imported into the country last year came through Bristol.
The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce met on Thursday. The sub- jects of its report were the inadequacy of protection to British manufac- tures against foreign imitation, the system of Government contacts which the Government are anxious to remedy, and the Bankruptcy Law.
Meetings have been held in Stafford and Macclesfield on the subject of the equalization of the poor-rates. At Stafford, where Mr. Wise' the city Member, attended, the meeting were for a national rate. At Maccles- field, where Mr. Brocklehurst, M.P., was present, an equalized county rate was demanded.
A train proceeding from London to Sheffield on Sunday ran oft' the rails eight miles from its destination, and then turned over, fortunately on the inner and not on the outer side—for had it fallen on the outer side, the whole would have pitched headlong down a steep embankment. Several of the passengers and the guard were seriously injured. The cause of this ac- cident has not yet been ascertained.
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