Vrouiurial.
The death of the Earl of Cork, and the consequent elevation of his grandson Lord Dungarvan to the Peerage, has caused a vacancy in the representation of Frome. There are two candidates in the field,—Major Boyle, son of the late Colonel Boyle ; who died at Varna in 1864, and Mr. Donald Nicoll, of London.
A public band is to be engaged to play to the Birmingham people during Sunday afternoons. Bands of music played on Sunday afternoon in the three People's Parks at Manchester. Thousands of persons at- tended, and behaved with great propriety.
The ratepayers of four parishes in Hertford have resolved that the church-rates shall not be exacted from Dissenters.
A short time back, Mrs. M‘Knight, wife of a Scotch gentleman, who was staying at the Ben Bhydding hydropathic establishment, was found in a ravine near Ilkley, dead. It was supposed that she had perished by a fall, and a Coroner's Jury gave a verdict to that effect. Subsequent investiga- tion, however, points to murder. A trifling amount of property appears to have been stolen from Mrs. liginight, and it is now supposed that the rob- ber or robbers strangled her. One person on whom suspicion hair fallen is George Holmes, a labourer, now in prison for robbing a girl since the time of Mrs M‘Knight's death. Some gipsies are also suspected.
Two brothers, Andrew and James Bracken, have been committed at Man- chester by. the Coroner for the murder of William Bates. The crime was very atrocious and wanton. The Brackens, who had been drinking, were larking and fighting with a third man in the street; they thrust this man into a beer-shop; Bates happened to pass by ; he did not interfere with the Brackens, but they knocked him down, kicked him on the head, and frac- tured his skull. Bates was a complete stranger to the Brackens : he had only recently arrived from Rochdale in search of work.
John Phipson, I a Stourbridge nailer has killed Elizabeth Millward, a woman who worked in the same shop. n a slight scuffle between the two, Phipson drew from a forge a piece of red-hot iron, which was pointed at the end, and either threw or thrust it at the woman—it entered her chest, and burnt its way through, falling out at the other side. The sufferer died soon after. The nailer is in prison on a charge of murder.
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