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A meeting of Conservatives, to select a candidate for the seat for West Kent, Vacant by Lord Marsham's succession to the Peerage, was held at Maidstone on Monday. Reporters were excluded, and the meeting is said to have been stormy. The candidate proposed was Viscount Holmesdale; who had been sent down by the Central Conservative Committee in London. On being pressed, he declined to pledge his vote against the grant to Maynooth College. He was, however, adopted by the meeting.
Among the numerous meetings to petition against the additional grant for Maynooth College, one was held in Liverpool Amphitheatre, on Monday; at which the speakers were voluminous and energetic: but the absence of many of the Conservative gentry, who were expected to be present, is remarked.
At a meeting of Nonconformist congregations in Derby, held at Victoria Street Chapel on Wednesday, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted- " That we, as Protestant Nonconformists, supporting our own ministers, build- ing our own chapels and schools, educating our own students, and asking no help froth the State, cannot look upon a plan to support five hundred Popish students, with their tutors, at the expense of the public, as well as to enlarge and repair their buildings, as anything better than the grossest injustice. That we protest against the measure, as so thoroughly, unprincipled that we can recollect nothing equally so that has been brought before Parliament during the present century; and therefore whatever be the private views of our Representatives., we entreat them to withhold all support, from this highly obnoxious and unjust measure, and respectfully but firmly state, that we are convinced that it will be the absolute duty Of all Protestant Nonconformists to decline all future support of gentlemen who may uphold the proposed bilL" The clergy of the Arelideaconry of Northampton met on Tuesday, and after a long discussion adopted a petition to Parliament, in which they say—"That your petitioners, as ministers of the Reformed Church of England, and subjects of a professedly Protestant Government, feel the greatest repugnance to the pro- Posed measures, from the conscientious belief that many doctrines of the Church of Rome are not only grounded on no warranty of Scripture, but are even re- pugnant and contrary to the Word of God, and therefore most dangerous to the Souls of men. With these feelings, your petitioners humbly trust that your honour- able House may, under the Divine direction, be enabled to devise some method by which our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects in Ireland may be benefited without doing violence to the religious principles which your petitioners profess."
At the quarterly meeting of the iron-masters of the Midland districts, held at Birmingham on Thursday, it was resolved, as at previous meetings elsewhere, to make an advance of forty shillings per ton on the price of bar-iron.
At Norwich, on Monday and Tuesday, three young men, Royal, lkfapes, and Hall, were tried for the murder of Mrs. Candler, in November last, at Great Yarmouth. The woman kept a chandler's shop; she had recently received a legacy of 150/, of which she made no secret; and during the night of the 18th November, she was found by the Police murdered in her shop. The three men were suspected and arrested; and the circumstantial evidence against them was strong; but the strongest was that given by Samuel Yarham, a man who lodged in the upper part of the woman's house. He declared, that on the night of the murder he heard a noise in the shop, and went to discover the cause; when he found two men there, Royal and Mapes, Hall standing a short distance off: Royal, with whom he was acquainted, told him they had murdered the old woman, offered him some of the spoil, and threatened vengeance if he betrayed them; which so alarmed him that he said nothing of the murder till lie was himself arrested on a charge of having committed it. Cross-examination did not make the witness swerve from his story, but it elicited some facts not very favourable to his own character; and to him Mr. Prendergast, counsel for Royal and Hall, im- puted the commission of the crime. Witnesses were called to prove an alibi in the prisoners' favour. After ten minutes deliberation, the Jury acquitted them all., At Warwick, last week, James Crowley was tried for the murder of one Tileley, at noon on Christmas Day 1842, at Spernal. Crowley had had some differences
with his father; and the old man had 'f appointed a constable, for his protec- tion: early on Christmas Day, Crowley went to his father's house, but Tilaley fienied him admittance; on which he threatened vengeance. He returned to his own re- sidence, dressed himself in his best clothes, took a double-barrelled gun, mounted his horse and rode over to his father's; there he met Tilsley, shot him dead, and went away. He escaped to America; whence he retuned last year, and was arrested at Chester. When seized, he admitted that he shot the man, which he thought "it was his duty to do"! The evidence was conclusive in every part. Mr. Hill, the prisoner's counsel, pleaded insanity: several of Crowley's family had been insane. The Jury, however' found a verdict of Guilty; and sentence of deatha, was passed on the prisoner; who heard it unmoved.
The trial of Sarah Freeman, for poisoning her brother, Charles Dimond, by giv- ing him arsenic, took place at 'Taunton, on Saturday. Several verdicts of " murder" were returned against her by a Coroner's Jury which sat at Shapwick the evidence in the present case resembled that given at the inquest; the woman. was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged.
John Brough, the man who murdered his brother Thomas for harshly treating his mother, the tenant of Thomas, was hanged at Stafford on Saturday.
A most accomplished rogue, who seems to be connected with a gang in London. and other places, has been charged with swindling and forgery at Sunderland.. In December last, he took the Commercial Hotel there, representing himself as a man of large capital, carrying on the business of hop-merchant at Bir- mingham; and by his plausible manner he soon obtained goods of all kinds, on credit, to the extent of 1,5001. The greater part of these he emu. led away and sold; and on the 24th February he himself decamped; but he has been traced and arrested. He has many names. He gave a bill of exchange toa furniture-broker accepted in the name of " Dawson," and he is charged with forgery for using a fictitious name for that purpose.
A peculiarly shocking murder has been committed at Old Hatton, Sear Kendal.- in Westnioreland. A Mr Simpson, who lives on his own land at Old Hatton, had been in the habit, when drunk, of ill-treating his mother; and last week he not only kicked and beat her so that her back was a mass of bruises, but.struck her on the head with a poker, with such violence that the weapon broke in two She, died on Sunday. A Coroner's Jury has returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against the son; who is in custody. He treats the matter with indifference.
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