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The succession of the Earl of Darlington, the Member for South Shropshire, to the Dukedom of Cleveland, has set the electioneering folks in motion. The Honourable Captain Bridgeman, of Weston, has addressed the electors, bespeaking their votes for his nephew, Lord Newport, who is now in Italy ; but he is "actuated by the laudable am- bition of aspiring to obtain at their hands the honourable distinction which, in former times, the favour of the freeholders of the county has conferred upon individuals of his family." The Captain describes him as a thorough Church and State man. Mr. Whitmore, of Apley, near Bridgnorth, has also been mentioned as a Conservative candidate.
Mr. Bainbridge has retired from the representation of Taunton. Sir Edward Colebrooke has offered himself as the Liberal candidate, and has already addressed the electors. It is expected that he will be op- posed by Mr. Hall, on the Tory interest.
Colonel Torrens has made an offer to the electors of Liverpool. His address forms a bill of indictment against the financial policy of the late Ministry : the several counts setting forth, that by the renewal of the Bank Charter they subjected the country to the recurrence of mone- tary blight ; by lowering the duties on French wines they violated the principle of reciprocity, and produced a disadvantageous course of ex- change between this country and France ; by clinging to the Corn-laws as long as they could cling to office, they postponed their repeal until it is doubtful whether it would not come too late to save ; and by the measures to which they at last resorted they violated the cardinal prin- ciple of commercial policy, "Avoid sudden change"—
' The consequences of the adoption of the Whiz Budget would have been in unfavourable balance of foreign payments, a dram upon the banks of cir- culation, a contraction of the currency, a fall in prices and in wages, an increase in the pressure of all fixed duties, a diminution in the amount of ad valorem duties, and a falling-off in the revenue, rendering it doubtful whether faith with the public creditor could be maintained."
If the electors approve of the Colonel's opinions and past exertions, which had the approval of their distinguished representatives Canning and Huskisson, he will offer himself as a candidate; but he will not compromise his independence by engaging in an expensive contest ; nor will he disturb any previous arrangement to secure a competent ad- vocate of Liverpool's commercial interests.
Sir Howard Douglas personally addressed the electors of Liverpool on Wednesday. He avowed himself an advocate for "those moderate but wise restrictions in trade which regard the interests of every class ; but with respect to the degree of protection, some consideration might be required.
The Anti-Corn-law Bazaar at Manchester opened on Wednesday. The receipts for the first day amounted to 1,9001.; for the second 1,500/. Anti-Corn-law meetings have been held at Bridgoorth and Stroud. At Stroud some Chartists took part with the Anti-Corn-law party. Others moved one of their usual amendments ; but it was not carried; and the opposition of that section of the Chartists does not seem to have been obstinate.
The Anti-Corn-law agitators sustained one of the worst defeats which they have yet experienced, at the Long Rooms in Southampton, on Tuesday. Mr. Adkins, a Dissenting minister, who was one of the chairmen at the Manchester Conference, was active in getting up a de- monstration. Lord Radnor presided. Sir John Easthope and Mn' George Thompson were present, with speeches for the occasion. The numbers present are variously stated at fifteen hundred to three thou- sand, including several farmers and work-people, with a good sprinkling of Chartists. The meeting resolutely opposed the business of the day with shouts and other obstructive noises ; the Chartists partly aidiig in the work of opposition, but also endeavouring to obtain a hearing for Lord Radnor and his friends. After facing the storm for three bourn, Lord Radnor dissolved the meeting, and retired with his party.
The half-yearly general meeting ot the proprietors of the Grand Junction Railway was held on Tuesday, at one o'clock, in the Cotton Sales-room, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool. The accounts exhibit greater increase of receipts than those of any former half-year ; the gross income being 241,8161. The expenses for the same period were 104,988/. ; leaving a net balance of profit of 136,828/.
An inquest was held at Chard, on Monday, on the body of Harriet Palmer, a girl thirteen years of age, the daughter of an innkeeper. Mr. Spicer, a surgeon, attributed the death to the bursting of a blood vessel in the lungs while the girl was running after a little sister up-hill ; and he ascribed the accident to pressure on the lungs from tight lacing. The Jury returned a verdict accordingly, with a caution as to the in- jurious tendency of tight lacing.
Accounts have been received at Lloyd's of an impudent act of piracy, in Falmouth Harbour, on the night of Thursday week. Mr. William Williams, of the brigantine Brisk, of Bristol, having business at Falmouth, left the vessel early in the evening, in the ship's boat, and on getting ashore gave directions to the men who had rowed the boat to be in attendance for him at eleven o'clock. Mr. Williams was in wait- ing at the time appointed; but there being no boat,:he engaged a pilot to put him on board of his vessel. He had not proceeded fur when it was discovered that the vessel had sailed, and had got out of the harbour. The Coast Guard were immediately apprized of the affair, and several clippers were set afloat in chase of the vessel ; but a heavy gale of wind which came on at the time rendered egress from the harbour im- possible. She is a valuable ship, of about 190 tons burden, and had on board a cargo worth, it is said, 2,0001. The owners are insured. The crew took the vessel into Bristol ; where they have been arrested and committed for trial. They said that they sailed to avoid a gale of wind.
About twenty minutes after two o'clock on Wednesday last, an acci- dent, attended with the most disastrous results, occurred in the boiler- house attached to the cotton-mill of Messrs. John Pooley and Son, Clarence Street, near the Cavalry Barracks, Hulme. This was caused by the rent and collapse of an internal boiler-flue, which immediately caused the steam, hot water, fire, burning coals, &c. to be driven out of the fire-doors with tremendous force ; scalding four men so dreadfully that three of them died the same day, and the fourth is still in a very precarious state. An inquest was held on the bodies on Friday ; when after a lengthened investigation, a verdict of "Accidental Death' was returned, unaccompanied by a deodand.—Mancheater Guardian.
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