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The death of Sir George Pechell leaves a vacancy in the representa- tion of Brighton. There are three applicants for the place ; Mr. Frede- rick David Goldsmid, Mr. James White, the rejected of Plymouth, and Lord Bury ; the last being, we should think, the most suitable candidate.
Meetings have been held at Manchester, Brighton, and other places to call upon the House of Commons to maintain its privileges by "rever- sing" the vote of the House of Lords on the Paper-duty Bill.
The practice of recording all the movements of the British Association and printing in profusion the papers read in the sections has been wisely departed from this year by the daily papers. The Association has met and read its papers and passed an agreeable and instructive week at Ox- ford. The closing meeting was held on Wednesday. The next gather- ing will be at Manchester, when Mr. William Fairbairn will preside.
Two open air meetings have been held at Bristol touching the price of butchers' meat. At the last, on Saturday evening, while it was admit- ted that, to some extent, the present high prices were caused by scarcity, it was insisted that they were mainly owing to monopoly, one of the orators citing as an illustration an instance in which a grazier who had purchased stock to the extent of 100/. was on his way to Bristol market when he met a dealer who gave him 1201. for his beasts, the argument being that the price was thereby increased 20/., which was paid by the consumers. Another speaker who professed to know a good deal about agriculture, having worked at it in his younger days, asserted that, taking the average of seasons, the present was not so adverse as had been re- presented ; the truth was that fodder was kept back. He knew a farmer in the Marsh, beyond Westbury, who had several mows of hay whichls0 refused to sell until the price reached 71. per ton. Resolutions west" passed declaring the intention of the meeting to continue in the absti- nence from butchers' meat until the prices were reduced ; and gratilia- tion was expressed that the movement had extended to other towns, ail that " navvies " in the north and other parts of the kingdom had shown themselves to be as ignorant as those of the west had been declared to be.
The son of a Mr. Kent, of Promo, inspector of factories for the distriot, has been cruelly murdered by some person not yet discovered. It is sup- posed that the murderer must have been in the house on the night of the murder. The child was four years of age.
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