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Mr. Walpole has been returned for Cambridge University ; and has is- sued an address of thanks to his supporters. The poll was kept open three days : each day Mr. Denman lost ground, and on Saturday even- ing the numbers were—Walpole 886, Denmtm 419 ; majority for Wal- pole 467. Mr. Denman, finding his case hopeless, withdrew from the contest ; thanking his supporters in a public letter, and doing justice at the same time to the personal courtesy of his opponents. He says that he " believes no contested election has ever been conducted with more mutual respect between rival candidates, or with less acrimony on the part of their supporters." The proceedings, however, did not terminate without a riot. Expelled from the Senate-house for uproarious conduct, by Dr. Whewell, the un- popular Vice-Chancellor, the under-graduates assembled in great num- bers. Mr. Denman's withdrawal added to their disappointment and anger. The authorities expressed their determination to keep all in- residents within gates after hall. Whereupon the rebels assailed Trinity College, compelled the opening of the gates, and, liberating the Trinity men, paid a similar visit to several colleges in succession, and be- sieged the gates. The townsmen fought with the govrnsmen ; the police force seems to have been almost useless in the contest; and the riot went cm until the young rebels were tired.
A Chatham Coroner's Jury have returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against Mr. Turner and Mr. Bedwell, Military Assistant-Surgeons, for causing the death of Stinson, a soldier, in the Garrison Hospital. Mr. Turner administered tincture of opium in mistake for tincture of senna ; and Mr. Bedwell, when the narcotic was killing the man, did nothing effectual for his relief, thinking he was merely in a fit. The Reverend Alfred Lush, Curate of Greywell-eum-Odiham, has been committed by the Odiham Magistrates for remarrying a couple who had been married before at an Independents hapel, and for having falsified the register by stating that the two were " bachelor " and " spinster." Of course Dissenters are very much interested in this case, as Mr. Lush's act was tantamount to declaring that marriagn a legally-registered Dissent- ing chapel is invalid.
An inquest was held at Deal, on Friday and Saturday last week, on the bodies of four female passengers of the Josephine Willis. Mr. Clayton, the chief officer of the lost ship, explained that he did not port his helm, because he at first mistook the light of the Mangerton for that of the lighthouse at Dungeness. If the steamer had not changed her course when near the Josephine Willis, there would not have been a collision. Mr. Bourchier, master of the Mangerton, was examined. He had gone below to look at the charts just before the collision ; there was a good look-out ; he rushed up when he heard cries, and ordered the engines to be backed, but too late. He directed the helm to be put hard a-port. The port bow of the Manger- ton was stove in ; she was not backed for ten nunutes ; for two or three hours she was powerless, as water was coming in at the head, and he feared to use the engines—he expected her to sink. He declared that he did all he could to aid the people of the Josephine Willis. After other witnesses had been heard, the Jury pronounced a verdict of " Manslaughter " against Bourchier he had previously left the town.
The Folkstone Jury returned a verdict in which they censured the con- duct of both crews, both before and after the collision.
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