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Mr. Sotheron Estcourt was reelected on Tuesday for North Wilts without opposition. He was proposed by Sir John Awdiy and seconded by Mr. Lovell. In his speech Mr. Estcourt spoke of the combination of Liberals against the Reform bill. The power of numbers in the present }louse of Commons is against the Government; but he was not afraid. The day is gone by when any Government can be maintained in office or Ilastroyed by party. No Government can stand except by measures, and on that ground Lord Derby will not be afraid to appeal to the country. If the people are of opinion that Lord Derby's Government has main- tained the dignity and character of old England, Lord Derby may defy any hasty movement.
The Earl of March was also returned without opposition for West Sussex on Wednesday. He was proposed by Mr. Mitford, and seconded by Colonel Lloyd. He said the Government Reform Bill was intended to give a "judicious addition" to the constituency of the country party!
Mr. Frederick Lygon has been opposed at Tewkesbury by Mr. Humphrey Brown, ex-director of the British Bank, and formerly a Member for the borough. On Monday Mr. Lygon was nominated by the Honourable W. Coventry and seconded by Mr. Bolding. Mr. Brown was nominated by Mr. Prosser and seconded by Mr. Chandler. Mr. Lygon took high conservative ground, but eulogised the Reform Bill. Mr. Brown professed liberalism in general. The show of hands being in Mr. Brown's favour, Mr. Lygon's friends demanded a poll. Mr. Brown did not, however, go to a poll. But it was kept open all day to secure the legal return of Mr. Lygon. He was thus duly elected.
Lord Lovaine was returned Member for North Northumberland on Thursday without opposition.
The election for Bury SL Edmunds took place on Monday. A party in the borough wished to find a candidate beyond the limits of the Bristol family ; but their efforts were peculiarly futile. Lord Alfred Hervey was proposed by Mr. H. J. Oakes, seconded by Mr. C. H. Smith, and elected without opposition. He expressed conservative liberal views, objected to parts of the Reform Bill, but declared himself in favour of amending it in committee.
Mr. William Brown is about to resign his seat for South Lancashire. Mr. John Pemberton Heywood has agreed to come forward as a candi- date for the valiant post.
A pamphlet entitled, "Facts and Documents showing the Alarming State of the Diocese of Oxford" has been published. It describes Oxford as the centre of a Romanizing movement, and specifies fifteen peculiar innovations. It professes to come from a senior clergyman. This work has raised some commotion. Twenty-six archdeacons and rural deans have insisted on a memorial to Dr. Wilberforce, against whom the pam- phlet was levelled, expressing their belief that the charge is false and calumnious, and that nothing has been introduced into the diocese to justify the assertion that it is in an alarming state. Dr. Wilberforce, in reply, also repudiates the charge. He declares that he is not favour- able to innovations ; that he has always appointed hearty English churchmen free from all extremes either of doctrine or ritual ; and that he has a jealous dread of every Romanizing tendency.
At the Durham Assizes, Mr. William M‘Hugh, a surgeon, was convicted of the manslaughter of Martha Davies. The woman died in childbed, in consequence, so ran the evidence, of the unskilful treatment:of her case by the prisoner. Mr. M'Ilugh approved the verdict. With the evidence be- fore them the jury could have returned no other. But he declared he was the victim of "malice and vile, because my professional success has in- terfered with Mr. Carnes, with whom I was an assistant for nine years, and who himself always treated me as a confidential professional adviser, but from the day I left him and started in business for myself he has been my bitterest enemy." He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
At the Winchester A.ssiaes, a blacksmith who had caused the death of James Wicks, a labourer, by applying corrosive sublimate to a cancer in his face, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
John Buchanan and Archibald Mitchell, two engineers of the mail steamer Bogota, from Valparaiso, are in custody at Liverpool on charge of murder. It is alleged that they tied Thomas Landen, a stoker, to a ladder between two furnaces, and kept him there, enduring all the tortures of roasting alive, until he dropped down in great agony and died. A soldier of the 9th Foot, Henry Benjamin Haynes, went forth of the camp at Aldershott on Sunday, with a razor in his pocket, intent upon kill- ing some woman. Be had fixed upon Margaret Chilton. In a house on the skirts of the camp used for immoral purposes he found Mary M`Gowan, and without more ado he cut her throat. He said "the Devil done it." His comrades on the spot, horrified at the sight arrested him ; and a Coro- ner's Jury has returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against him.
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