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The East Seaeee election took place this week. Two candidates were nominated at Lewes on Monday. Mr. It. W. Blencovse proposed and General Davis seconded Mr. J. G. Dodson, the Liberal candidate ; Mr. E. Hussey proposed and Mr. W. D. L. Shadwell seconded Lord Povensey, the Conservative. Mr. Dodson won the show of hands ; but a poll WAS demanded for Lord Pevensey. It was maintained with great keenness on Wednesday and Thursday; and, at the close the numbers werePevensey 2300, Dodson 2211.
Lord John Manners was returned on Monday for North Leicestershire without opposition. Mr. Cobden and Major Powys were proposed, but apparently only for the purpose of enabling a Loughborough Liberal and the disappointed Mr. Frewon to make speeches.
A deputation from the Ballot Society attended a meeting in the Freetrade Dell at Manchester on Wednesday week. Mr. George Wilson presided. Tho speakers on behalf of the Society were Mr. Whitehurst and Mr. Henry Berkeley M.P. Mr. Nicholson, the leader of the Ballot movement in 'Victoria, gave details to show how successfully it had worked in that colony. Having heard these explanations, Mr. Archibald Prentice moved and carried a resolution pledging the meeting to support the movement.
A company of the Twenty-fifth Regiment arrived at Birkenhead from Manchester on Saturday ; and under their protection the now hands resumed work at the docks. By Monday the turn-outs—who were starving—gave way ; and they were allowed to resume work.
At the Carlisle Assizes, William Graham, a young labourer, was tried for the murder of Thomas Simpson a gamekeeper. Graham admitted that he killed Simpson, but under peculiar circumstances. They met in a weed; Graham ran away; but on Simpson firing at him, he turned remit and in a hand to hand fight Simpson's head was smashed by Graham. The question was, did Simpson fire unlawfully at Graham ache fled ? Mr. Baron Martin inclined to believe Graham's story ; the Jury believed it, and returned a verdict of "Manslaughter." Sentence, transportation for life.
At the Winchester Assizes, two convicts have been found guilty of an attempt to murder warders at the Portsea Prison. Sentence ref death has been " recorded " against them. One of the convicts gloried in his act, and threatened to repeat it, if possible. Discontent was felt in The court that this man, at least, was not left for execution.
Thomas Wooten, the Birmingham ticket-of-leave man, was examined by the Magistrates of Aehover on Monday, charged with burglary at the Reverend Mr. Nodder's. At the examination Wooten conducted himself with great impudence. Mr. and Mrs. Nodder described the attack on their house. [Mr. Nodder's coolness, courage, and resolution had been admirable.] Two butchers identified Wooten as the man they had carried from a field near Ashover to Chesterfield the morning after the burglary, When they picked him up he was very lame. He told them an incredible story, to the effect that he had been robbed of money and a vast quantity of corks and then thrown over a wall. Other witnesses gave evidence strengthening the case against the prisoner. He offered no defence, and he was committed for trial.
At the resumed inquest, on Monday, on one of the men who suffered by the explosion in the Lundhill Colliery, Warhurst, a fireman, gave further evidence, showing that the rules for the government of the mine were not strictly adhered to : " bmttices " were not erected so frequently as they ought to have been—the men did not like them, as the current ereated "wasted" their candles, and they used to swear they would leave the mine if the brattices were put up. Warhurst did not carry out the rule about brattices because he had "Msver seen any occasion for it." Some of the air-courses were not so large as required by the rules. There WAS no Davy lamp in use at the time of the explosion.
Five men have been killed, and twelve hurt, by an explosion in Shipley Colliery, Derbyshire. Some gunpowder first exploded through accident, and the blaze tired a quantity of gas.
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