be glrobintts.

Signs of increased activity among the aspirants for Parliamentary honours abound.

Sir George Grey has declined to accede to the requisition of the electors of North Northumberland; but an active canvass has been begun by his friends and relatives.

Mr. Hedworth Lambton's announcement, that he intends to retire from North Durham, has elicited an address to the electors from Colonel Beck- with, of Silksworth. He avows himself a thoroughgoing Reformer, a friend of commercial freedom, an opponent of state churches and of the Govern- ment scheme of education. He is also in favour of an alteration of the law of inheritance, and for the enfranchisement of copyhold and leasehold tenures. Mr. Robert Duncombe Shafto of Whitworth is to be the can- didate in the Lambton interest.

For East Surrey there are two Liberals in the field,—the Honourable John Peter Locke King, and Mr. Thomas Alcock. They are both for free trade, and the repeal of the Malt-tax.

The Isle of Wight is in a state of apathy. There are no committees formed, and no excitement, although a canvass is going on for Mr. Simeon and Mr. Fleming.

The Birmingham electors are talking of Mr. William Scholefield as their future representative; Mr. hluntz, it is said, having given some offence to the brewers or public-house people.

Mr. W. Page Wood, the new candidate for Oxford, was introduced to the electors on Monday evening, and received a warm reception. Free trade, Church reform, and economy, were avowed to be his favourite ideas.

For the University of Oxford there is likely to be a contest. Mr. Est- court retires; both Mr. W. E. Gladstone and Sir William Heathcote have been spoken of as candidates; but Mr. Gladstone has cemented to stand, and has been accepted.

The electors of Bolton are looking out for another Free-trader to sit with Dr. &wring.

There is to be a contest at Knaresborough; Mr. J. P. Westhead, and the Honourable William Lascelles, a liberal Conservative, opposing Messrs. Ferrand and Lawson.

Mr. George Rennie has addressed the electors of Ipswich as a future candidate.

Mr. D. W. Harvey's alleged hankering to be in Parliament has induced him to feel the pulse of the Colchester electors. He is ready, it is said, to give up his Police Commissionership, if he were sure of being returned.

Mr. Remaly declines to stand again for Bridport. In a published ad- dress, be declares that he cannot tolerate the corruption and bribery ne- cessary for success. Those only, he says, ought to buy a constituency who mean to sell it.

Mr. Montgomery Martin has answered one of the Bridport electors that he is willing to represent the borough if he is required to pay none but the ordinary hustings expenses and printing charges. He swears by the Na- tional Club, and thinks the struggle at the next election will be between Protestantism and Popery.

Mr. Portal and Mr. Carter are canvassing Winchester, in opposition to the sitting Members; but it is expected that the latter will be reelected, Sir James Buller East by the Conservatives, Mr. Bickham Escott by the Liberals.

The inhabitants of Liverpool met on Wednesday, to devise means for re liming the rate-payers from the burdens thrown upon them by the enor- mous influx of Irish paupers. The Mayor presided; and Mr. Rushton having explained the statistics of the subject, the meeting agreed to several resolutions, among others for a petition praying Parliament to pass two bills now before it for the relief of paupers in Ireland, and for the deporta- tion of Irish paupers from England.

The measures taken by the Government to check the wholesale immi- gration into Liverpool and the increase of fever are actively seconded by the principal steam-boat companies. A notice signed by the agents of the Dublin Company, and the Belfast, Drogheda, and Newry packets, which has been extensively circulated in Ireland, announces that the fares are raised to 5s. each way; and that no persons will be allowed to embark until examined by a medical officer as to their freedom from infectious dis- ease. A lazaretto has been prepared at Liverpool, and a steamer provided by the Select Vestry to convey medical inspectors on board the Irish boats as they arrive at the mouth of the Mersey. The quarantine for any vessel having infected passengers is to be fifteen days.

"An order in Council," says the Southampton Independent, "has been received at this port, requiring that all steam-vessels arriving from Ireland with deck-passengers on board shall be visited by a medical practitioner before coming into the docks or alongside the quays; and that in case of fever being discovered to exist amongst the passengers of any vessel she is to be immediately sent to the lazaretto station at the Motherbank to per- form quarantine." The receipt of a similar order is mentioned at other ports.

The "Irish fever" is reported to be making great ravages in Manchester.

- The Manchester Examiner publishes a table showing the present state of employment in the manufacturing districts. This we compress into the Ihrm below. The mills are mostly cotton-factories. Actual returns have been received from the 845 mills in the first column of figures; the third and fourth columns are the result of probable estimate, and the fourth in- cluded in the last. Mills. Hands. Mills. Hands. Total.

(Known.) (Known.) (Estimated.) (Estimated.) Hands.

lolly emeleved

Working Short time Out of Work

347 77,911 20 3,000

80,911

405 72,300

n

11,550

83,350 93 1245 50 9,600 31,620

Riotous proceedings are mentioned in some parts of the country; but they seem to be ascribable to no uniform cause.

At Nottingham, disturbances have been produced by the distress, always so great in that place at times of difficulty-

" At half-past four in the afternoon of Monday, a large concourse, called toge- ther by the Chartists, assembled in the market-place, to listen to addresses com- menting upon the great distress the working classes are suffering. On the meet- ing separating, a number of individuals attached themselves to a waggon which had served as a platform, and, followed by a large mob, drew the vehicle through

the streets, entering every baker's shop, provision-warehouse, and respectable

tradesman's dwelling, soliciting bread, food, and money. Three men were 111 the waggon, who as loaves of bread were given, deposited them in the waggon, till ill

was more tile half filled. This visitation very much terrified the shopkeepers and the inhabitants generally. The men did not enforce, but asked for bread; consequently the Police did not interfere; but the Magistrates assembled at the Police-office, and took precautionary steps in case of any violation of the public peace. Some fears were entertained of an outbreak late in the evening; but hap- pily none occurred."

A tumult, more serious in its aspect, but less so in its origin, happened. at Walsall, also on Monday. There are several Irish labourers, working,. it is said, at wages below those of the English labourers; hence a jealousy, and the riot.

"Monday is generally kept as a holyday by the miners; aud accordingly, large bodies of them, to the number of about 900 or 1,000, met in various parts of the town, behaving in a most riotous manner, and causing great alarm. As the fore- noon advanced they armed themselves with bludgeons; and, as if by precon- ceded arrangement, proceeded to all the new buildings in course of erection to the collieries, furnaces, brickyards, and railways, driving away every Irishman employed upon them. The conduct of the mob was most brutal and violent. On returning to the town, the rioters increased to between 1,500 and 1,800: and they passed along the streets threatening violence to all who would oppose them, and.

filling the inhabitants with the greatest alarm. Applications for protection were- unceasingly made to the Police; but they could do nothing, as the force numbered

only nine men, under Chief Constable Rolfe, and were quite incapable of opposing

such an infuriated mob. As night came on, affairs were becoming more threaten- ing; and the Mayor and some of the Magistrates endeavoured to induce the mob

to disperse; but they were not listened to. The conduct of the Irishmen them- selves was most praiseworthy. They acceded to the entreaties of the Mayor, and locked themselves in their dwellings. Their doors, however, were broken open; and the poor men who were so unfortunate as to fall into the hands of the rioters were severely injured. We have not been able to ascertain whether any injuries of a dangerous nature have been sustained. After demolishing everything they could find in some of the poor men's houses, the rioters broke up into small par- ties, and dispersed; not, however, before four of the ringleaders were apprehended on warrants. On Tuesday these four men have been fully committed to the Ses- sions for trial for the riot."

Similar tumults, though not so violent, took place at Wolverhampton on Monday, and at Bilston and Wednesbury on Tuesday; and it is feared that these are only part of a regular series contemplated by the mining people; the whole district being in a very excited state.

The Brighton Vestry has again refused to grant a church-rate; and in consequence, says the Brighton Gazette, the Churchwardens will probably make a rate with the assistance of the minority—a course which has been sanctioned by the Court of Queen's Bench.

The Coroner's Jury that sat at Rochford on the body of Terri, the old man who died from wounds inflicted by somebody who afterwards robbed him? have

concluded their inquiry. The circumstances implicating Willsmore, the man who was committed to prison by the Magistrates for the robbery, were very strong: the old man had recognized him as the person by whom he was accosted; the property was found on him; and there was a hoe in his possession which would have produced wounds such as Terry received. A verdict of "Wilful murder was returned against Willsmore. He is only eighteen years old.

The Coroner's Jury which met to inquire into the case of the three children who were found hanged at Llanybydder have returned a verdict that they were destroyed by the mother, Mary Hughes, she being at the time in a state of in- sanity. It appears that she is a believer in astrology.

The rain that fell on Saturday caused a serious flood in Manchester early on Sunday morning. The river Medlock, which runs through the town, supplies many factories with water; but as it is a very insignificant stream in dry seasons, slalom have been erected to dam the water up. These sluices should have been opened on the Saturday: the consequence of neglect was, that about three o'clock on the following morning the stream overflowed its banks at a place called Little Ireland, and the lower parts of factories and dwellings were flooded. The water in many houses was from four to six or seven feet deep, and the greatest terror prevailed: no lives were lost, those in the greatest danger having been rescued by boats; but the poor people's furniture was floated about the streets. The damage to manufactories and to a new gas-work was very considerable.