ebe larobinces.
The nomination of candidates in the stead of Major, now Lord Vivian, took place at Bodmin on Wednesday. The candidates were Sir Samuel Spry, the old Representative, and Mr. Sawle, of Penrice, near St. Austell, a young candidate, brought forward under the patron- age of Lady Agar, in the Liberal interest. Towards the close of their addresses, recriminations took place as to instances of intimidation. The Mayor called for a show of hands, and after a second trial declared in favour of Sir Samuel Spry. A poll was demanded for Mr. Sawle.
The proceedings of the League, at Manchester, closed on Friday evening, with a meeting in the Free Trade Hall, at which nearly six thousand persons were present. In the morning th_re had been a "meeting of deputies to receive the reports of Committees" on manu- factures, &e.
A story is going the round of the papers, of John Webb, a thatcher, who killed his mother, aged seventy-nine, by striking her with the handle of an axe, at Ledbury, on the 16th of January. He was insane ; and the only remarkable thing in the case was, that a medical man had before pronounced it unsafe for Webb to go at large, yet no steps seem to have been taken to restrain him.
Mrs. Hall. the recently-married wife of the leader of the band at a theatre in Newbury, stabbed her husband after the performance on Saturday ; inflicting two severe wounds, in the back and on the shoulder. The knife had been borrowed a short time before from a butcher. Jealousy is said to have been the motive ; and the wife has since been in a state bordering on insanity.
The inquest on the mutilated remains of a woman's body found in the Aire at Leeds sat again on Monday, without eliciting much further information. Medical witnesses expressed an opinion that the woman had been between twenty and thirty years of age ; that she had died from loss of blood, probably caused by wounds in the large vessels of the neck ; that she had not destroyed herself; that the mutilations of the body and breaking of the ribs had been done after death ; and that the body had been some weeks in the water. The inquest was again adjourned to the 29th instant.
An "insurrectionary movement," as it is called, in South Wales, as- sumes importance from its pertinacity. A leader appears, like Madge "Wildfire at the destruction of the Tolbooth, in woman's clothes, sur- rounded however by others dressed as women, Rebecca's "Daughters", with a number of men undisguised, and they break down the toll and turnpike gates. The leaders are well mounted; and " Rebecca " is so rapid and ubiquitous in her movements, that the name is supposed, like that of the heroes of antiquity, to belong to several persons whose deeds are attributed to one alone. Troops have been called out, but they have proved as powerless to suppress the disorder as the police and yeo- znanry ; the rioters dodging them so effectually, that not one has been apprehended. It is rumoured that the Workhouses are to be included in the attacks of "Rebecca and her Daughters."
An old woman named Nell Gwyn, although at the age of ninety-eight, actually walked from Swansea to Carmarthen, a distance of thirty miles, one day last week, in less than nine hours. We believe this feat to be almost unequalled in the annals of pedestrianism.—The Welshman.
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