Scorcn PEERS.—The election took place on Friday last week. The

following are the names of the Peers chosen, with the number of votes for each. Marquis of Queensberry, 63; Marquis of Tweeddale, 47; Earl of Morton, 45; Earl of Elgin, 43; Earl of Selkirk, 40; Earl of Home, 39; Earl of Leven and Melville, 35; Viscount Falkland, 34; Viscount Arbuthnot, 37; Viscount Strathallan, 44; Lord Gray, 47; Lord Saltoun, 44; Lord Forbes, 41; Lord Colville, 41; Lord Belhaven, 44; and Lord Napier, 35. The unsuccessful Peers had votes as follow —Lord Kinnaird, 33; Earl of Airlie, 32; Earl of Caithness, 26; Lord Rollo, 24; Lard Elphinstone, 18; Earl of Buchan, 17; Lord Reay, 15; Earl of Errol, 14; and Earl of Dunmore, 11. The Peers who did not vote are the Duke of Atholl, the Duke of Roxburgh (minor) ; the Earls. of Rothes, Eglinton (minor), Abercorn (minor), Galloway, Traquair, Dalhousie (in India), Carnwath (in India), Dundonald, Seafield; Lords. Cathcart, Sinclair, Sempill, Blantyre (minor), Fairfax (in America), Aston, Elibank (minor), Northesk and Duffus—in all 19. FATAL Rtors AT MERTHYR TYDVIL.—A general turn-out of the work-- men at these extensive iron-manufactories took place on the 31st ult.; on which day there was a meeting, at a place called Twyn-y. wain, in the vicinity of Merthyr. On the 1st, the men again assembled in con- siderable numbers, and paraded the streets of the town. In the evening of the same day, theystmounded the Court of Requests, havinepreviously made a demand that the principal book should be given up to them ; which, however, had been sent out of the way. On being refused, they attacked the house, and destroyed property belonging to Mr. Coffin, who keeps the Court, to the amount of 8001. or 1.0001.,—making a bonfire of the old books of the office, and keeping it up with the furniture of the house. Messengers were immediatelydespatched to Swansea, Brecknock, and Cardiff, for troops ; and a considerable party arrived during the

night, and took up their quarters in the Castle Inn. The non belonged to the 93rd Highlanders. The workmen in the morning surreunded the inn, to the number of a thousand or more ; some armed with muskets, and many with bludgeons. A deputation were admitted ;It t no per- Suasion would induce them to abandon their claim of an advaie e of wages, or to disperse until it was considered by the masters. 2'.1r. Crawshay and .Mr. Hill addressed them in English, and Mr. Guest in Welsh; but without effect. The windows of the inn were at last on ered to be manned by the military ; and hardly bad this necessary piaci anion been taken, before a rush was made by the mob to possess themsaves of the arms of the soldiers who were on guard without the house. Orders were then given to fire, and obeyed with a precision which the bold demeanour of the mob rendered more than usually destriative. The street before the inn teas raked from the one eild to the other ; and be- fore the mob could be driven away, fourteen of their number lay dead in various parts of it, besides a vast number who were more or less seri- ously wounded. Five dead bodies were found next morning. After the men had dispersed, they rallied again on the high go ands near the town ; whence they for some time kept up a dropping f re on the

military, but without serious effect. About. twenty of the soldiers,

including the major who commanded them, were wounded ; and it is stated in one letter, that two of them were killed. A very u nsiderable number lost their muskets. In the course of the day, several cavalry detachments arrived at Merthyr ; and the town assumed once more an appearance of tranquillity. Alderman Thompson, immediately on the news reaching London, set out for Merthyr ; where it was hoped that his presence might serve to restore the peace of the place. The rioters have, it is stated, endeavoured to associate the neighbouring districts in their quarrel ; but without effect. An absurd theory lets been broached by a Bristol paper—a fierce Anti-Reformer—that the riots are con- nected with the agitation of the Bill question ! We believe that

they are as much connected with the agitation of the Note question, of which the paper alluded to has long, but unsuccessfully, been

the champion. The riot is a turn-out riot, formidable only for its num- bers, and for the extremity of violence to which its numbers and its ig- norance have equally conduced. Whether the fatal waste of flood might have been prevented had mediation rather than muskets been employed

to bring the workmen to a sense of their folly, it is impossible to say. One thing seems obvious—the number of the troops was much too small.

Where soldiers are called in, they should be in sufficient force to overawe a mob. Of course, men who threaten murder must be met and opposed by any weapons that the threatened parties can command. The latest

arrivals describe the town and neighbourhood as quiet. The furnaces are all standing. The Times of this morning estimates the loss of the rioters at twenty-five killed and fifty wounded. TYNE Comaaams.—With the exception of the following pits, namely, ItusselPs, Wallsend, Percy Main, Tyne Main, Team, Callerton, Gas. farth, and Fawdon, all the miners have now returned to work.

Matta RaFoitsa.—On Tuesday afternoon, a public meeting of the inha- bitants of the Potteries was held in the Market-place, Hanley, to con..

eider what method should be adopted in order to obtain two representa- tives in Parliament for the district of the Potteries, instead of one, as proposed by the Reform Bill. Samuel Wright, Esq., Chief Bailiff, in the chair. The meeting passed a number of resolutions to petition Par- liament for two members.

A NT aRcao a mc A SSOCIATION.—A meeting for the purpose of forming a True Blue Association, for the purpose of opposing improvement, took place at Leeds the other day—it ought to be true yellow, the livery of

the forsaken. Mr. Sadler was there, and entertained the company with a repetition of Wilson's allegory of the "Ship ;" of which some three

hundred editions, and as many rifacimenti, have already appeared in

the newspapers and smaller periodicals. Mr. Sadler, on concluding this bit of recollected extrumpery, apologized for his "enthusiasm." The

same honourable gentleman mentioned, that he had found in the con- tested counties of England, that the proportion between the friends and enemies of the Bill was not very great—he believed 18 to 17. Mr. Sad- ler's findings are akin to those of Falstaff, but he is not so expert in using them. If a man will steal his enthusiasm from Blackwood, and his calculations from Fraser, common decency demands that he should not make a public display of the theft. before the friends of the pima dered.parties.

CORONER von Gramcasaaa.—The severest contest with which the county has ever been agitated terminated on Tuesday last week, by the resignation of Mr. Bevir ; when Mr. Ball was declared to be duly elected. At the final close of the poll, the numbers were—Ball, 3,354 ; Bevir, 3,143; majority, 211.