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The Speaker of the House of Commons has given the usual- fortnight's notice in the Gazette before issuing his writ for electing a new Member for the East Riding of Yorkshire, in room of the late Mr. Henry Broad- ley. A meeting of the Conservatives has been held, and the task of-find- ing a safe candidate to succeed Mr. Broaclley, on Protectionist principles, has • not proved easy. Mr. Yarburgh Gneme, Mr. Philip- Saitinanthe junior, of Saltmarshe, near Howden, and several other gentlemen, suc- cessively declined the proffered honour. A requisition was then signed, calling upon Mr. Edward Christopher Egerton, sound Mr. 'Wilbraham Egerton, of Tatton Park, Cheshire, to offer himself. Mr. Egerton-is- the nephew of- SifTatton- Sykes, 'Baronet, of Hedmere, who presided at•the meeting ; and it is believed that he will comply with the requisition.

Last week it was stated that. the Conservatives of North Warwickshire had "made 1400 objections to the Liberals of that county division." Mr. James Taylor, the organizer of the Freehold Societies, corrects this state- ment, and -says the reverse is the fact- " The Free-traders and Liberals have objected to nigh 1400 Tories ; sad, what is more, the objections are everyone legal.and will be sustaioed." He further states—" Had we but time, we would have taken 'double the number of objections ; but will reserve these till '52, if Lord John don't-render it un- necessary! 'We are doing the work well. We have objected to magistrates and clergy—tools and slaves-go one of the Members and the tenants of the other; and the Revising Barrister's Court will -decide whether- right or sot. The whole division is in a ferment ; we are told Mr. Newdegate Gannet sleep, and all sorts of threats are made !--they intend. to ruin us in fines '— 'sue for damages.' Out upon such nonsense! We are praparedlor all. The register ter is proverbially corrupt, -and shall bwreellseoured.

Some-time since, Lord Seymour purchased the Gate House, in the High Street, Totness, and at a-cost of about 10001. presented it to the towns- men, fitly-furnished for a- mechanics' institute, library, and reading-room. The principal residents of all parties and sects acknowledged the-gift, on Tuesday, by a- public dinner to Lord Seymour,- at which alt polititirdsques- tions were carefully avoided, and-the generosityof the chief guest-was the topic of friendly speeches and conversation.

• The Liverpool Courier describes with gusto, but with.sadness, the riches- of the menagerie and aviary atEnowaley, formed by the late Forl of Derby, and now about to -be sold and dispersed. The .sale-catalogue occupies fifty pages, and gives.a classified enumeration of -346 manimalia ' in 94 different species, and of 1272 birds in 3.18 species. " The total number of species is 412, and of individuals 1617; and of these there are 766 individuals, in 84 species,- which were bred at Knowsley. The animals include many exceedingly rare antelopes, many sorts of beasts of burden from the East, many-zebras; kangaroos, armadilloes, rare goats and sheep, and llamas. The dogs include some noble blood-hounds. Among the birds, the collection of- eagles .and vultures.is large; and the specimens-are the finest in the country. -There are ostriches,. rheas,.-emus, cassowarys, and other gigantic birds ; rare birds of the ibis character ; and a group of phea- sants, including the only male Japan pheasant in Europe. A collection of domestic poultry, and a Crowd sif tortoises, wind up the list." The same journal laments the. possible dispersion of the noble collection. "The founder of the -Knowsley aviary commenced his labours when comparatively a- boy. He devoted a long and an intelligent -life to the pur- suit of natural history, and he succeeded in forming a collection such as hes never been equalled by any private collection or in any public institution. The like -of Knowsley aviary was .never seen before—it is probable it-will never be seen again. All will deplore the scattering. of this magnificent collection. Into the question of its distribution we- do-not now enter. It is probable that its founder did not expect it. to be _distributed: after his decease ; as he expressed his wish to a gentleman, about two years before his death, that, after he was removed hence, the. colleetion,would be of -more general access and more instructive than it could be in i private family. But such as it was he made it. It occupied a hundred wares of land and seventy acres of water. Its first cost is unknown; its reputed annual outlay exceeds ten thousand pounds. The sale will bring. purchasers from all civilized countries. We have reason to believe that- the collection will be scattered through all the European capitals. But, whatever be its fate, we advise our readers, one and all, to go to the aviary when it is on view. Such a sight is nowhere else to be seen in the whole-world, and we believe it will be next to impossible that another such collection can be got together." The elle commences on the 25th instant, and continues -eve days.

Extensive .works for the improvement of navigation and the reclama- tion of land are in progress at King's Lynn. Messrs. Peto and Betts are executing a contract by which a new channel, four railee long, -30 feet deep, 265 feet in width at. bottom, and 618 at the surface will extend from the town into the Wash, while 30,000 acres of land will be re. claimed. • Since December last, 1200 men have been employed, and. the work goes on well.

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The Leeds Mercury announces the recent discovery of an ex maly rialt be 1 of iron-stone of vast extent "inCleveland, between Stokesley and

Whitby." At a recent meeting of the Leeds Northern Railway Cent. party, Mr. Edwin Ward Jackson, Government Inspector of Mines, made a -report of the discovery, in his private capacity. According- to -the dean- read by him, "the principal seam varies from ten to fifteen feet in 'thickness ; and there are two smaller seams iying -below it, varying in thickness from six inches to twoleet each." He declares that "in quan- tity it is inexhaustible," and "the cost of working it is a mere trifle." It contains thirty-three per cent of iron in the uneakined stone. lie con- cludes, "There is little doubt of its creating a greater revolution in -the iron-trade than that which resulted from the discovery of the blank band in Scotland. In no part of the country could iron be produced so cheaply as in this district. The Cleveland Hills will become the centre of the largest iron district in England."

A case of literary and political imposture has been exposed at Birmingham. In November last, two volumes were publi-hed in London as the " Personal Adventures" of the "Baroness Von Beck," a Hungarian lady, who, after her husband had been killed at the barricades of Vienna, underwent a num- ber of exciting adventures as a spy for the Hungarian patriot army : she was really a spy, and probably did experience some of the vicissitudes she so spiritedly narrated, • but that constituted the whole amount of truth in -the book.

At Birmingham, on Saturday, the " Baroness " was to bare appeared be- fore the Magistrates, with Constant Darra, her "agent and secretary," on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences. The • prosecution was at the- instance of a society for the succour of Hungarian refirgees. When:the -proceedings were about to commence, every one was shocked by the an- nouncement that the woman was dead. She had just died in an anteroom. She had complained of illness that morning while in prison ; when -brought to the court she appeared much exhausted ; a chair was given to her, -and she expired almost instantly. The deceased appeared to be about fifty-four years of age. Constant Darra was placed at the bar : he is a prepossessing and accom- plished young man. Mr. Toulmin Smith, the London barrister, stated the case against. the 'deceased and Darra, and called witnesses to prove it. There was no such person in Hungary during the war as Baroness Von Beck ; no officer -of the name Von Beck was killed at Vienna. The "Baroness" had is-

sued prospectuses for another work ; and to obtain subscribers for this had been the ostensible object of her visit to 'Birmingham. She had received much sympathy from persons of station and full sources of- information in London ; -and she met with equal sympathy and very warm support in Bir- mingham; subscriptions were premised for "The Story of My Life," and some were paid. Mr. George Dawson took a great interest- in thelliungarian

lady ; and through his introduction she was, when unwell at a hotel, taken into the family of a solicitor at Edgbastori. There the impos- ture became known, and she and her "secretary "-were- arrested. --Mr. Dawson was rather surprised to find that a court lady did not speak French ; he had, however, no suspicion of -an imposture. 'Mr. Tyndale, the gentle- man who received the deceased into his house that she might- have country -air, said she frequently spoke of her intimacy and friendship with Kossuth with great emotion ; on such occasions tears would start into her eyes. Dan-a had been at his house almost the whole of the time the-Baroness was his -guest. He passed as the secretary and agent of the Baroness. Witness had received about 16/. or 16/. as subscriptions for her new work, and about seventy or eighty gentlemen in addition lied, promised ta become subscribers. -Mr. Tyndale spoke highly of Darra. Mr. Paul Ilajvik, formerly member of the Hungarian Diet and Chief Commissioner of Police of Hungary and-Tran- sylvania, deposed that- the woman's name was Racidula ; she had been a subordinate paid spy to the Hungarians ; she was-an Austrian woman of low birth, and extremely vulgar ; she had no acquaintance with Kossuth, furtiser than she could claim from having seen him twice to receive directions. There is a noble family in Hungary named Beek, but deceased did not be- long to it. Barra in his defence stated that he became acquainted with the Baroness on her-return- from Liverpool, and that he had requested him to obtain sub- scriptions for her. He believed her to be what she represented herself. To him the connexion had been unfortunate, and he was sorry that he had had an acquaintance with such a woman. He was, however, gene innocent -of any crime.

Mr. Hajvik said he knew the father-and family of the prisoner ; One more noble did not exist in Hungary. The Magistrates conferred for a few mi- nutes, and then discharged the young man. • Mr. Dawson Bind, it might ap- pear strange and cruel -that the prisoner, when, suffering frona illness, and who had come to so awful a death, should have • been removed to a prison ;

but the fact was, that on Thursday evening she danaed in .a waltz, and they _did not conceive,- under such circumstances, that bee apprehension. would he followed by such lamentable results. It appeared at the inquest, that the sudden deathsof the woman .bad been caused by long standing aneurism. Verdict, "Died by the visitation of God." A number of letters connected with the case hare been:published. It would seem that the spy wished to abuse Mr. Pulasky in her, book, though that gentleman had recommended her to a publisher: -Mr. Bentley Mimed to publish the calumnies. A Ferdinand de Carl attempted to obtain money from Mr. Pulszky on pretence that he could prevent abuse appearing in a

German edition ; but the proffer was spurned. -Mr. "Charles de Soden" de- clares that -Racidula has been employed -"se a spy and informer to the re- cently-established foreign branch of the English Police force,"-.not a politi- cal spy, of course, so far as employed by the English Police authorities : but it is understood that latterly the character of a political eye for the Austrian Government was added to that of a simple police-officer under the English department.

A curious emigration case came before the Liverpool Magistrates on Mon- day. Mrs. Byrne, a widow from Ireland, with one child, and a servant, en- gaged berths In a ship to New-York, paid passage-money, and put her goods and provisions-svalued at 701—on board the vessel ; late on the night pre- vious to the day fixed for sailing, the captain turned MTS. Byrne out of the ship on the ground that he had just received information that an set of Congress had passed prohibiting masters of ships from landing- at New York widows or single -women with children, or blind, maimed, or infirm persons —in short, any one likely to become chargeable as a pauper. If masters lend such persons, they must give heavy securities that they shall not become chargeable. Mrs. Byrne Pad lost one eye. Mr. Saul was the agent she had paid. He offered to send her by ship to Philadelphia, whence she might get to New York by rail. But her property fwas carried away in the New York ship, and she was put on shore penniless. Her passage-money was not re- turned. After a long investigation, the Magistrates ordered the passage- money to be refund, 10/. to be paid as compensation, and 11, for main- tenance and assts.

Broome, Staden, and Jones, the men committed by the Brighton Magis- trates for conspiring to cheat and defraud Mr. Ramp, have made divers at- tempts to' get out on bail; and Broome has succeeded in obtaining good bondsmen. The others have been less fortunate ; and one of the sureties offered for Staden has got into trouble. Henry Nottage was produced before the Magistrates on Monday, and charged with perjury. He was cook at the Argyll LarderPenton Street, and had sworn that he possessed 500/ in the Bank of England, two houses, and furniture. The money was in the " Three- and-a-half per Cents." An officer from the Bank proved that there was no such description of stock, and that no Henry Nottage had 5001. in any other stock that he could discover ; he and another gentleman had made most dili- gent and careful search. He admitted that a sum of 3841. 8s. 4d. was in- vested by "Henry Nottage" in "Three per Cent Consols" on the 17th May 1850; but that was sold out in October of the same year. Nottage was com- mitted for trial, but he will be liberated on heavy bail if he can obtain it.

Burglars entered the house of Mrs. Evans, near Presteign, and carried off plate worth nearly 2001. A trace of the robbers having been found, Super- intendent Dixon and Mrs. Evans's coachman started in a chaise ; they went to Leominster, Tenbury, and Kidderminster ; at the latter place they got two constables, and drove on to Smethwick. Here a suspicious-looking "trap" was seen outside a public-house, and on entering five men were found within. A desperate struggle ensued, the men using "life-preservers,' knocking down a constable, fracturing the skull of the coachman, and severely wounding a farmer; but in the end all the fellows were secured, and conveyed to Birmingham. In the cart were twenty or thirty skeleton- keys, other housebreaking implements, and the whole of the stolen plate. One of the men was John Davis, a green-grocer of Birmingham, the owner of the cart, and hitherto considered a respectable man ; his brother was one of the gang; and another a dieearded servant of Mrs. Evans. The coachman lies at Kidderminster in a dangerous state.

A thrifty woman of Sheffield who keeps a provision-shop had saved 1501. unknown to her husband ; she had formerly deposited her hoard in a say- ings-bank, but recent occurrences in connexion with similar establishments shook her confidence in them, and she withdrew the money. In her garret was a case of bacon ; in the chaff of this case she deposited a hundred sove- reigns and 501. in notes : the other morning she discovered that the money was gone. The garret is overlooked by a number of workshops, and the wo- man's visits to the bacon-case may have been noted.

Henry Hills, a patient in the Kent County Lunatic Asylum at Banning Heath, has killed another inmate, John Hubble, an aged man. During the night, in a fit of mania, Hills attacked the old man with the tin vessels of the sleeping-ward, and beat him violently over the head. The sufferer seemed at first to be going on well, but a change for the worse occurred, and he died three weeks after the assault, from inflammation of the membranes of the brain, caused by the blows. There was no doubt that Hills acted from an insane impulse, and the Jury gave a verdict accordingly. Gutta peroha vessels are to be used for the future, and even these are to be fas- tened.

At the end of last week much excitement was created about Morpeth by a suspicion that a highway robbery and murder had been perpetrated. Mr. Milburn, a stout powerful young farmer, who was in the habit of carrying large sums of money on his person, parted with a friend at night near Reps- cots. Early next morning, the farmer's horse was found roaming about, with the bridle-rein cut. Search was then made along the road, and half a mile from where the friend had parted company with him, was found his riding-whip, broken to pieces, his hat, smashed in front, and his memo- randum-book, with some of the leaves torn, and the pockets emptied. Near to where the articles were picked up were considerable marks of a struggle, some blood, and footmarks on the road, and an appearance as if a person had been dragged by the arm over two or three fields into a low thick wood be- yond; the hedges indicating the trilling of shoe-heels. Beyond the wood there was no further trace. The river runs about six or seven hundred yards from where the hat was picked up. Every bush was beaten, the river dragged, and some old pit-shafts pumped out, but no trace of the body was found. It was still suspected that it had been thrown down some disused shaft.

A father and daughter have been drowned at West Carr, near Epworth. Ann Leggett quarrelled with her mother, and the father said he did not know "what was to be done" with the girl ; she answered, she knew, and left the house. The father followed. Ann threw herself into a deep pond ; the father plunged in after her; she clung to him, and both perished in sight of Mrs. Leggott.

While two men were ascending a coal-pit shaft near Dudley, a boy in- cautiously pushed an empty skip towards the mouth, and boy and skip fell down. The skip struck one of the men, the uncle of the boy, and killed him ; and the boy himself was dashed to pieces.

A boat put off from Howden on the Tyne with passengers for a steam-boat which was on a pleasure-trip ; the boat was overladen with seventeen or eighteen persons. It had not got twenty yards when the tide drove it athwart 'We vessels lying in the stream ; it was upset, and seven young fe- males were drowned, the rest of the party having been saved with great difficulty. It is said that the boatmen showed want of management and caution.

While Mr. Barnard Slater, a supernumerary Wesleyan minister of Mac- clesfield, was walking to Alderley chapel to preach, he stumbled at a descent of the road, and fell heavily. His spectacles were broken by the fall, and the glasses cut deeply into the flesh ; he was taken up insensible, and died a few days after, in his seventy-third year.

Another fatal colliery accident has happened near Bristol. Nine persons were ascending the shaft of the Deep Pit, at King,swood, and they had ar- rived in safety as far as "the stage' where the men usually get out of the bucket. Just' at this juncture, to the dismay of the engineer Stone, who was superintending the hauling up of the men, the bolt of the reversing handle broke off. Being aware of the consequences that would follow, he laid hold of the eccentric and endeavoured to lift them ; and, finding he could not effect this by himself, he called out to a man to come to his assistance; but before the rods could be lifted the accident had happened. Stephen Newman sprang out, but jumped short, and fell down the shaft, a depth of 147 fathoms : of course he was killed. Another man and a lad jumped out with safety ; but the others were drawn up over the "shiver-wheel," and were thrown, together with the heavy iron bucket, weighing about three and a half hundred- weight, to the ground, a distance of twenty-five feet. All were seriously hurt, and two, it is feared, fatally. It was necessary to amputate the leg of one of them.

Abraham Mayhead, a waggoner, has been committed for trial by the Chi- chester Magistrates for periling the lives of passengers on the South Coast Railway. At eight o'clock at night he drove his team and waggon on to the line at an occupation-crossing, and allowed them to remain there while he unfastened the opposite gates, instead of making all clear first, and noting if any train was approaching. A train came up ; the obstruction was seen, the speed slackened as much as possible, and as the horses were whipped and the waggon was hurried off the rails the train barely cleared it : it was a most narrow escape. The Company's solicitor urged that the waggoner should be made "an example," as all cautions had been disregarded.

Holincote, the beautiful seat of Sir Thomas Aeland in Somersetshire, was burnt down on Saturday. The house and contents were insured for 7C001.

The extensive premises of Messrs. Laverton and Co., at Bristol, the largest furniture and bedding manufactory in the West of England, were entirely destroyed by fire early on Tuesday morning. The stock was hunired.