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'Viscount Elmley, eldest son of the present Earl of Beauchamp, was elected on Monday as Member for West Worcestershire, in the room of General Lygon, who succeeds to the title and estates of Beauchamp. Lord Elmley is a Conservative, and there was no opposition.
• Captain Higginson' of the Third Battalion of Grenadier Guards, has been engaged for several days past in taking a survey of Ascot Heath, for the purpose of selecting the most eligible position for an encampment of 7000 of the Household Brigade and Regiments of the Line, which are to
e encamped there in the months of May and June next. Surveys have also been made in the Great Park, Hounslow, and at Bagshot Heath, where it is intended to encamp at the same time as many regiments as can be spared from all the military stations in this country.
In spite of the strike of the old hands, the Peninsular and Oriental Company succeeded in manning the Haddington, and the West India Mail Company the Avon on Monday. The new crews were brought to Southampton from distant ports by steamer, and put on board the packets without touching land. There were some disturbances ashore, and some arrests by the Dock Police. Subsequently some of the men on strike gave in.
• At the Winchester Assizes, on Wednesday, James Flhin was put on his trial for the manslaughter of Colin Lamont on the high seas. This was the ease which occurred on board the Melbourne, while she was lying in the Tagus : both the prisoner and the deceased were sailors; most of the crew were in open mutiny ; Flinn supported the officers ; a scuffle took place, in the midst of the struggle Flinn struck with his knife in self-defence, and the blow fell on Lamont. The prosecuting counsel withdrew the cage before all the evidence was given as it was clear that the charge of manslaughter could not be sustained. given, Justice Crompton observed that the prisoner was acting lawfully for the defence of his officers. Verdict, "Not guilty."
Parental cruelty has seldom appeared in a more revolting light than in the following story of the starvation of a boy at Bridgyate, near Bristol. John Cornish, a labourer, had two children by his first wife, a boy and a girl ; on his wife's death be married again, and has three children by the second wife. It was notorious that both Cornish and the stepmother, while treating the children of the second marriage well, :were very cruel the others. The boy, who was rather more than ten years Add, died recently, and an inquest was held. The body weighed only twenty- seven pounds. Medical evidence proved that starvation was the cause of death: there was no vestige of fat anywhere ; the body was a bundle of bones and skin—a mere skeleton. Neighbours deecribed bow both brother and sister had been beaten and ill-used. The girl presented a pitiable spectacle. These children had been kept so short of food that they picked potato-peelings froni the hog-trough, mouldy crusts, or anything possibly eatable, to stay the cravings of hunger. The boy was once found in a neighbour's pigsty, where he had been for two-and-twenty hours to escape from the misenes of home. One of the stepmother's children who was present at the inquest was quite plump. After considerable deliberation, the Jury pronounced a verdict of "Wilful murder" against the father and stepmother.
While a train was proceeding from Tynemouth to Newcastle, on Wednes- day evening, the engine, tender, and guard's van, broke away., and ran down an embankment near Wallsend. The engine-driver was killed ; the stoker and guard are not seriously hurt; the passengers were bruised and shaken.
Doncaster parish-church was entirely consumed by a fire on Monday morn- ing. It was an ancient, handsome, and extensive structure, in the perpen- dicular style: the oldest portion was built about the year 1070: the length was 164 feet, breadth 68, height of nave 78 feet, of the tower 141. There were some fine windows : one of them was considered by Rickman to be one of the most beautiful specimens in England of the perpendicular style ; it had recently been filled with stained glass at an expense of 7001,; three smaller windows had also been thus ornamented at a cost of 4001. Within the last year, new stalls, pulpit, and reading-desk, had been erected in ac- cordance with the age and style of the church. In the library, were many rare and valuable old books ; the organ was one of the finest in the kingdom_ Everything except the parish-registers and the communion-plate was swept away by the fire. Nothing could be done to save the structure. The loss is estimated at 100,000/.
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