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Norwich election began on Wednesday and terminated on Thursday. There were two candidates,—Sir Samuel Bignold, the late Mayor, a Conservative ; and Mr. Hammond, of Westacre, a liberal. The former was proposed by- Mr. 'Eaten Browne, seconded by Mr. J. G. Johnson; the latter was proposed by Sir William Foster, seconded by Mr. Tillett There was a good deal of noise and interruption. The show of hands was in favour of the late Mayor, and he gamed the election,. At the close of the poll, on Thursday, the numbers were—for Bignold, 1899; Hammond, 1629; majority for Bignold, 270, Mr. Digby Seymour has vacated his seat for Sunderland, by accepting the Recordership of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The annual dinner of the Bhuidford Agricultural Society was held last Saturday ; Mr. Charles Parke in the chair. Mr. Ker Seym fresh from the debate of the previous evening, was the chief orator. Referriag to the Foreigners Enlistment Bill, he expressed, great doubts as to itswork- ing, and altogether condemned its policy. He regretted that it had been introduced, because many like himself; who feel that the question of the war stands high above all questions of party, were obliged to vote against a Government they were most anxious to support. It also would look like disunion, in the eyes of foreigners. Mr. Seymer disclaimed, on be- half of the agricultural interest, the imputation that farmer& desire the continuance of the war because it occasions high prices.
Some French -soldiers have recently been staying at Gloucester to learn the mystery of building wooden houses for the troops in the Crimea. On Wednesday, when they departed from the city, they were played out by the band of the East Gloucestershire Militia, and escorted by a crowd. Some days previously they had been entertained at a public banquet. In like manner, the Mayor and Corporation have feasted Commander Excelmane and the officers of La Reme Hortense the Emperor's yacht, now lying in Southampton Water, waiting the loading of several ships with wooden houses for the French army. Before thebanquet, an address was presented to the French officer; to which hemadea becomingreply.
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At a meeting of ironmasters at Wolverhampton this week, it WBB re- solved to reduce the price of sheet-iron 308. a, ton, and of all other kinds 208.
Two more of the Newcastle gang have been captured—joiners, of respect- able connexions. In one of the robberies in which they were engaged, plate valued at 100/. and some miniatures were carried off. One of the prisoners afterwards pointed out a hedge in which the plate was concealed. Mr. Ains- worth's novel of Jack Sheppard had been muck read by the accused; a well-thumbed copy being found in the possession of one, and both said they got their housebreaking notions from it. At Pitsmoor, near Sheffield, a poor woman was shamefully treated by two burglars who had entered her house during her temporary absence : the ruffians carried off only eighteenpence, the goods in the house not being worth taking ; so they have risked transportation for a paltry booty. . An iron safe at Messrs. Greg's works, Quarry Bank, Wilmslow, in Cheshire, has been pillaged by most skilful thieves. They chose Fnday night, as there was money in the safe to pay the workpeople next day ; Ui the dusk they forced open the door of the counting-house, entered, and refastened the door—a watchman repeatedly tried it during the night, and of course all seemed safe; the robbers had three curtains and skewers, and they covered the windows with the curtains to hide their light ; they then
set to work with steel drills—they had not forgotten to bring oil with them to work the drills—and opened the safe, after many hours' labour. They took about 300/. in gold and silver ; bank-notes, bad money, some guineas, with seals, rings, and other valuables, they left behind, as dangerous posses- sions. They got of safely in the morning. During the night, not only the watchman but other people employed at the works sat at times on a rail under the counting-house windows, while the robbers were applying their tools.
A burglar at Birmingham, one Davie, has been lees successful : while at- tempting to break into the Bell Inn, Mr. Reynolds, the landlord, interrupted him, and when he fled fired at him, badly wounding him in the head. Davis grew savage at this, returned, and had a fierce conflict with Mr. Rey- nolds; but the publican got the better of him, and he was given up to jus- tice.
At the Liverpool Borough Sessions, on Saturday, James Tallis Peat, a master mariner, was convicted of drunkenness while commanding the Golden Era, bound from Melbourne to Liverpool. He was almost constantly in- toxicated, and took no heed of the ship's safety, even when she was sur- rounded by ice and in great peril. Fortunately, there was a cabin-passenger skilled in navigation ; and by his vigilance and care the ship was got safely to England.—Sentence, eight months' imprisonment.
&Linen have been committed by the Salford Magistrates for conspiracy— the keeping of a lottery contrary to law. They had carried on money lotteries for some tune past, and sold shilling tickets by thousands.
One of the disastrous results to be expected from the excessive shipments to Australia is announced this week—Messrs. Swain and Webb, of Hudders- field, who had exported largely, have suspended payment ; their liabilities are reported to be 135,000/.
There was a fatal "accident" on the South Staffordshire Railway, at Wal- sall station, on Saturday. A goods-train was awaiting on the main line the departure of a passenger-train ; another goods-train dashed into it; Stret- ton, a. breaksman, lost his life, and there was great destruction of property.
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