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At the election for Taunton, on Tuesday, Sir John W. Ramsden, the Liberal candidate, carried the poll by the meagre majority of 7—Rams- den, 373 ; Badcock, 366. It is remarked that Mr. Badcock, the Conser- vative candidate, was 80 behind at noon.
A deputation from the Commissioners of the Dublin Great Exhibition, including the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Sir Thomas Deane, Mr. W. Dar- gan, and Mr. C. P. Roney, visited Liverpool on Tuesday, at the invita- tion of Mr. Reline the Mayor. Mr. Holme had also invited several gen- tlemen to meet them, among whom were Lord Gough and Mr. Justice Halliburton, author of "Sam Slick." The guests were carried to see the sights of the town, and then to luncheon in the Town-hall.
Trade continues steady and prosperous. Stocks are everywhere re- ported as small, and orders as plentiful. The rise in wages continues to be general, and the comforts of the working classes and their employers on the increase. At Birmingham, the prosperity of the middle classes is shown by the rapid extension of new dwellings—upwards of 3000 during the last year, besides warehouses, manufactories, chapels, and schools. The iron-trade continued very brisk. Employment is very abundant in the Nottingham trade. The hands are described as getting independent, and the rapid growth of the town has roused the building trades to de- mand large advances : additional hands were flocking in last week, but there was still a scarcity. From Leeds we have the same reports : the business of the month has been over the average ; prices have been higher, and wages higher also ; and this, it is thought, will operate against the continuance of the trade at the present rate. Nevertheless stocks are low. The demand for labour in this quarter is also described as unpre- cedented during the last quarter of a century ; and although some of the arti- sans are behaving with great improvidence, they are the exception. The high price which the manufacturers are compelled to charge for their goods is the main limit of production at Bradford, where wages are high and raw material is dear. From Gloucester we have also flourishing reports.
In consequence of the rise in the necessaries of life, the Duke of Rut- land has directed the wages of the labourers on his estate to be advanced from 10s. to 12s. per week. The farmers of Eye have advanced the poor men's wages to 9s. per week.—Noefolk Chronicle.
An advertisement has appeared for the apprehension on a charge of felony of William Morten, Superintendent of Police at Tunbridge Wells, and James Dadson, parish constable, who have absconded.
An atrocious and wanton outrage has been committed at Somerton : the stables of two inns were entered at night, and two horses were hamstrung and cut so that it was necessary to kill them. One of the horses, belonging to Mr. Jacobs of Baltonsborough, was worth 200 guineas.
Mr. Yelf, late actuary and manager of the Isle of Wight Savings-Bank, has been committed for trial on three charges of forgery, and for stealing 201. " the monies of the trustees."
Holmfirth, which last year suffered from water, has just experienced a great calamity by fire. A very extensive woollen-mill, erected by Mr. Lock- wood, but lately occupied by several persons, was burnt down last week. It is thought the fire originated from the spontaneous combustion of "waste." Holmfirth, studded with manufactories, has not a single fire-engine : the nearest is seven miles away. So the fire had time to get a great hold before any engine could be obtained. The loss is estimated at 12,0001. ut least, and hundreds of workpeople will be thrown out of employment.
Mr. James Warne, deputy-postmaster of Oxford, has been found dead in Woolvercott Pound Lock, two miles from the city. It is supposed that he accidentally fell into the water in stepping from the board of the lock to the towing-path, on Saturday night. He frequently preached at Dissenting cha- pels; it was his custom to walk along the bank of the canal on Saturday nights to meditate on his sermon for the next day ; and it was during one of these solitary walks that he lost his life.
A grocer named Smallshaw, his wife, and Mrs. Lever, a customer, have been killed at New Springs, near Wigan, by an explosion of gunpowder, which tore the house to pieces. Smallshaw kept a considerable stock of pow- der, which he supplied to miners for blasting purposes. Fortunately, two or three barrels that were on the premises did not ignite. A servant and Smallshaw's children escaped almost unhurt. An explosion at Old Park colliery, near Dudley, has caused the death of six men and three boys, while other miners were seriously hurt. The pit belongs to Lord Ward. During a gale last week, two Shields vessels went down on the Haisbro' sand in Yarmouth Roads, with the loss of all hands—in one case ten are known to have perished. It is supposed that a third ship foundered, though the disaster was not seen as in the other instances.
It is said that the solicitors of Dr. Ullathorno and Dr. Moore intend to apply to the Master of the Rolls for their liberation, on the ground that the arrest was an abuse of power, intended to squeeze out of Roman Catholics generally the funds which it was well known the two ecclesiastics had not. Should the application fail, the prisoners will go through the Insolvent Court.
The Delegates appointed to consider what museums, lecture-rooms, and other buildings are required at Oxford for the study of natural history and physiology, with the probable cost of the buildings recommended, have printed a detailed report, from which it appears that, on a rough estimate, Mr. Lewis Cubitt considers that the contemplated museums, rooms, and acces- sories, will approximate to 48,000/. ; if with a gallery round each museum, 20001. more. To this is to be added the fittings-up, the chemical furnaces, warming, &c., which he estimates at 25001., and the cases, tables, shelves, gas-fittings, &c., at 50001. more ; in all 57,500/. During the month of April 27,000 emigrants left Liverpool—a larger num- ber than has ever quitted the port in that month. The increase has been in the departures for America ; the people being from Ireland, Germany, and Holland.
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