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LOCAL MEETINGS.
Reform meetings have been held this week at Leicester and Ports- mouth. At the former, the ballot was the chief subject discussed, and of course adopted. At the latter, the meeting passed resolutions in favour of household suffrage, ballot, redistribution of seats and shorter Parlia- ments.
At a meeting of the Callington Agricultural Association last week, Mr. Kendall made some amusing remarks about Mr. Disraeli. He is "the first man of the day," but sometimes "imprudent," as at Slough. "A man of that kind demands admiration " ; but requires "to be watched with the utmost jealousy." Mr. Kendall was afraid 'that he and many others will be put into a very
great fix by the Chancellor of the Exchequer's ability. In preparing the Reform Bill, Mr. Disraeli might go much further than he should like, and he might be compelled to choose between two erils—Scylla on the one hand and Charybdis on the other- He was afraid that he should either be com- pelled to vote for a Government measure which he did not like or support something very radical indeed. The result of which would be that he would be placed in a most extraordinary fix indeed. (Laughter.)
Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald told his constituents at a meeting in Hors- ham on 'Wednesday that the foreign policy of the Government is " es- sentially one of sion-interference "—to make our rights respected by re- specting the rights of Others.
The Honourable W. F. Campbell made a speech at Taunton last week in favour of the ballot.
At a meeting Of agriculturists of tho neighbourhood of Guildford, on Tuesday evening, Mr. Henry Drummond, M.P., after referring to local and agricultural matters, said he would only mention one point on the subject of politics, because by politics he understood a fight between two factions, arid he never Pared for a tight of that sort. What we had to consider was, that other gentlemen should not come here and eat our beef and metton ; and this consideration was the more urged upon us by the concentration of troops on the coast of France opposite our coun- try—a concentration Jim greater than had ever taken place before. There were, as one might say, within a stone's throw of England, 60,000 troops, which ivas a most enormous force. He urged an in- crease in the pay of our aoldiers, as a subject for the consideration of honourable members rand'arked'ythat,bat the conelusion of a war, WO We t6O'ritieliqieotitilthrh*tetiisiikii&O*1 atniaments and aft erwards to bedbli64cItei celled flWth01j.5Ja5t "r - Sir 'Charles -Wrioci; tne at all evening party given in the Halifax...4 chani,41 V 11.1. ABoie4:4.lPF*led 140 people for the.efforte. ,thafifl(PiluleifttoeeletP MSAVAA.101d,eouliis. eed Irts-sstonishmeat alaihe differeacelinLreglerdetuethe ,etlatation of the people. now and whenct thirty ;years eigoerhK eirtefrect public. life. Mf.' Cobden linq.• bden seleOet1 d tbdit, lleah■fidate by the Liberal electors of Itoehdale. It is rotted that he. holds himself pledged, if elected, to sit for that borough'.
Mr. Edwin Miall has, fairly planted himself lat4ore.the-clettore of Ban- bnry(as, the t r a-Lih eaudirlate. Ile im is stinPurters, on Wedaee- day,.andevery expounded his 'views—noh-interflerenee iii foreign affairs, retrenchnientlefaixpense in Our army land nay, as ranch reform as cah trET got with theetiew gekting More, a 'church disentangled from the state, and Shhtsr obserVanee. He carried the meeting ivith him.
The sixth annual fat Cattle Show of the South Durham and NI:11.th Yorkshire Society—a Sh.OW that takes only the third plate 'among shows of its kind—was held at Darlington last 'Week. . The weather was.fine and genial, and the exhibition expellent. At the .dinner in the evening Mr. Philip Howard of Corby Cagle presided, and the Duke of Cleveland and Lord Harry Vane were among the speakers. It wasvery successful.
Thomas Alexander &Asia/ad Emma; Wiferhave been sent for trial by the Andover Bench, on a charge of murdering Thomas Parsons. The:evi- dence: given at the •examination this week shows eonehisively that Banks and Ina wife were near the spot where the Murder wit' Committed when it was•Committed. - They- Were Seen and SpOketi'to ; waited for; looked for: Banks has :1 -counted for his absence' kaniamier not wholly Satisfactory. He admits that he met his lv ifs, and walked witlt.her home- II wipe out on evidencethat .Mrs.•Bauks..had beendieearerelseereting a dressin Par, sons's Phi* ; that there ' had • been numb nbgtifiation on the subjeot to hush up the Matter ; that Mit. Banks had made appOintreents to meet one of the shop-nen of •Parsons, aiid- Parson himself ; an it is shown that the Mur- dered Man and the aCenSed were in .angry eintimunicatiOn'on theSubject. The matter is still ve.Ohygeriens. Both the accused declare themselves " itineeent of the critic.. , .
Two eases of felonious attempts to 'procure abortion, one implicating a suegeon,.another a chemist, have been Wied 4,,the,;assizes, and exemplary puniahments LaYebeen inflicted on the guilty perSons.
. - Twenty-four lives were lost oh SaturdaV, by an explosion of fire-damp in a coal-mine at Tyldesley, near Leigh. The men were working with safety- lanIPS, but it is supposed that the gauze of one of the lamps must have been damaged. Most of the men were married. .
A carter was driving a two-horse cart over. a field in the coal region. Suddenly the earth opened, and the leading horse disappeared in the chasm. The carter jumped down and seized the remaining:horse. Presently, the harness gave way and the horse went. further down. The carter, lying flat, peered into the abyss, he had hardly moved away when the edge of the chasm fell in. Alight lowered into the rent in the earth was soon extin- guished by foul air.
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