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Several candidates seem likely to appear at the Nottingham election. Mr. Gisborne has issued an address, announcing that he will stand, if a majority of the electors desire it, but not otherwise. Sir George Lar- pent has also issued an address, abjuring the old tricks of elections, and declaring that his own shall be conducted on the purest principles. It is rumoured ,that Mr. Sturge will come forward; and Mr. Feargus O'Connor has been invited by the Chartists.

Alderman Copeland has issued a circular to the manufacturers and operatives of the Staffordshire Potteries, calling for proof or dis- proof of certain reports,—namely, that several manufacturers who are working three or foal- days a week have permitted their people to perform extra work if their wages thus earned be set down to the credit of the Anti-Corn-law League ; that in this way as much as 3d. has been deducted from the 9d. or Is. earned by children ; that persons who do not fall in with this arrangement are marked for dismissal at a convenient opportunity ; that the system prevails in the Potteries for promotion of other party objects besides that of the Anti-Corn-law League ; and that from 15 to 25 per cent has been stopped from the earnings of the operatives, ostensibly to be invested in a bank, but in reality to give the master the command of the capital. For his own firm Alderman Copeland denies the whole of these charges, but he invites communications on the subject.

The Welsh collieries are again in such an unsettled state, that at Aberdare, last week, it was considered necessary to call out the military. In Monmouthshire, the whole of the colliers still continue on strike, to the number of about 5,000, and continue meeting in various parts of the hills. In Glamorganshire, the works on strike are those of Gelly Gaer, of Pont-y-Pridd, the Dnffryn works, and one or two others. The strike in Monmouthshire having now continued for ten weeks, a number of the Monmouth colliers, to the number of about 700, came from Mon- mouthshire, and having crossed the Taff Vale Railway, compelled the men of the Duffryn Aberdare works and the Gelly Gaer works to strike ; and from this the strike extended itself to the other collieries. Numerous meetings have been held both by the colliers and by the Magistates, but nothing of a satisfactoryinature has yet been arranged.— Worcestershire Chronicle.

At Leicester, on Friday, William Jones, aged twenty-one, was in- dicted, under various counts, for addressing inflammatory and seditious language to an assemblage of people on Sunday the 28th August, and particularly for inciting to violence against the Police. The indict- ment set forth a passage of the language charged-

" How long is it since the Militia were embodied ?—Ten years. Being drawn from the labouring classes mainly, without distinction of politics or re- ligion, they (meaning the said Milhia) were a dangerous force to keep up, and they (meaning the Government of this realm as by law established) dared not trust to them in the North of Lancashire and Yorkshire. They (meaning the said Militia) were disbanded; and they (meaning the said Government of this realm as by law established) gave them the new Police (meaning the said policemen, peace-officers, and police-constables) instead. They (meaning the said policemen, peace-officers, and police-constables) are blue vampires, nomi- nated by a certain party. What are the qualifications for a policeman ? Be must be man of no character, be gifted with lying, deceit, and chicanery, blood- thirsty and deceitful, ready to swear any thing their masters (meaning the Government and. Magistrates of this realm) wish them. I call them (mean- big the said policemen, peace-officers, and police-constables) the nnboiled blue ; but when the day of boiling comes, wo to the unboiled. The Army (meaning the troops and army of our said Lady the Queen) are 140,000 hired assassins."

Another passage- " The age of blessedness is fast approaching, but cannot be established in the present corrupt state of things, (meaning the laws and government of this realm as by law established); the present corrupt state of things (meaning the laws and government of this realm as by law established) must be swept away, and a new tem established."

Evidence was produced in corroboration of these charges. In cross- examination by the defendant, the first witness, Mr. Mellor, the School- master of the Town-Gaol, admitted that there had been no riot in Lei- cester after Jones entered it. The cross-examination of the second witness, Thomas Agar, a Sergeant of Police, was thus interrupted—

The Defendant—" Did you think you were morally justified "- Mr. Baron Gurney—" Stop, stop; what have we to do with that ? " The Defendant—" My Lord, I think "— Mr. Baron Gurney —" You may think what you please, but we'll have no such nonsense as that about 'morally justified' here."

Agar said, that injury was done to the Police before Jones came to Leicester, but not afterwards— Mr. Baron Gurney (to Jones)—" 'Why, they took you up, you see; that's the way they quieted you. If you turn a dog down the street, and cry out ' Mad dog! ' there's no need to tell the people to knock him on the head : There's no occasion for it ; it is not necessary ; they will do it without."

The Defendant—" I'm quite aware of that, my Lord; I and those like me have painfully learned that by experience."

The defendant complained that his expressions had been garbled; and he cited the authority of Lord Denman and Chief Justice Tindal against the legality of thus producing garbled passages. He had dis- approved of the Police force, but he had never incited to violence—

He had always advocated peace and order, but it was true he had denounced the Government as tyrannical. Mr. Baron Gurney (with vehemence)—" Then you have done wrong, exceed- ingly wrong. We know nothing of you, Sir." The Defendant—" That was my conviction, my Lord."

Mr. Baron Gurney—" You may hold your convictions as you please, Sir; but you have no right to hold out to the people that the Government is tyran- nical: that's a crime. You need not give yourself a had character. We know nothing of you but what you said and did on the occasion that we are inquiring into. Confine yourself to the present charge against you." The Defendant—" I will contrast my language with that used in 1831 by the very Magistrate who committed me. I am the disciple of the agitators of that period ; and, whilst following their example, the language attributed to me is much less inflammatory than that which I can show was used."

Mr. Baron Gurney—"! cannot allow it."

The Defendant—" Contrast the language used by me with that used in 1831 by Mr. Mellor, one of the learned counsel for the prosecution, which I will read from the Leicester Chronicle."

Mr. Baron Gurney—" I will not allow it. I will not allow any thing you are supposed to have said to be justified by what might have been said by other people. I have nothing to do with that."

The Defendant—" I am merely saying that I did not use such expressions as were used by these gentlemen, even supposing that what the witnesses have said is true, which I flatly deny. I am not going to put them in as evidence, my Lord." Mr. Baron Gurney—" Very well. It cannot be given in evidence, and there- fore cannot be introduced here."

The Judge afterwards said, that he should order away two persons who had been observed to assist Jones in his defence, "if they kept prompting." The defendant complained with warmth of the in- terference of the Court- " My Lord, may I beg that I may not be further interrupted, but permitted to conduct my defence according to the best of my ability, in the mode in- which I have designed it ? "

Mr. Baron Gurney—" That will depend upon whether you confine your- self within proper limits, and to the subject of the charge which you have to answer."

The Defendant said, he felt it useless to address them any further.

He did, however, continue his defence for about an hour, making three hours in all. At its conclusion, the Judge summed up ; saying to the Jury, "If you think that he did utter this language with the in- tent imputed to him, you will convict ; and if you think he did not, you will acquit him." After some deliberation, the Jury returned a verdict of "Guilty." The defendant was thereupon sentenced to be impri- soned for six months, but without hard labour, and then to find sureties for good behaviour for three years.

At Liverpool Assizes, on Tuesday, the Court were engaged with an action brought by Messrs. Birley, cotton-twist-manufacturers, of Chorl- ton-upon-Medlock, to recover compensation of the hundred for injury done to their mill during the riots in August last. The damage was estimated at more than 2607. Two points were raised against the claim : one, that the damage was done without any intention to de- molish the mill, but merely in the endeavour to turn out the hands, and that the case, therefore, did not come within the meaning of the act giving compensation ; the second, that under the Municipal Reform Act the borough of Manchester was liable and not the hundred. The Jury decided that there was an intention to demolish the mill. The second point was reserved for the consideration of the Court above.

At Cambridge, on Friday, John Frederick Mortlock was charged with shooting at his uncle, the Reverend Edmund Mortlock, with intent to murder him. Some years back, he attempted the life of another uncle, Mr. Thomas Mortlock, of Abingdon Hall, by setting fire to his house ; having a standing complaint against his uncles, that he was de- barred from certain information respecting the disposal of his father's property. He was tried for the former offence, and acquitted ; and after that be somewhat reformed his way of life. In November last, however, under the immediate pressure of money difficulties, he went to the rooms of his uncle Edmund, who is a Fellow of Christ's College, and, after some violent threats, shot him with a pistol. He escaped, was pursued, and captured ; having in the chase shot also the two men who pursued him. All the three shots struck the persons at whom they were aimed ; but, luckily, none of them took effect beyond inflicting some slight bruises. The prisoner was convicted of the minor offence of intending to do grievous bodily harm, and sentenced to twenty-one years' transportation.

Sarah Daisley, a young woman, has been accused, at Wrestlingworth in Bedfordshire, of poisoning two husbands and a child. She was ap- prehended in London last week, and was briefly examined at the Mansionhouse ; the Lord Mayor ordering her to be conveyed to Wrest- lingworth, under the charge of a Policeman ; and an inquest was held at that place on Friday. The body of Daisley, the second husband, which was buried six months ago, had been exhumed for the purpose of testing the contents of the stomach, and a deposit of arsenic was found. Several witnesses were examined. A servant-girl who lived with Mrs. Daisley, saw her mistress make up three pills, which she wanted her husband to take ; but he refused. The girl then tried to persuade him to take them, taking one herself; when he swallowed the other two. The girl was afterwards so ill as to be obliged to leave the place; and her mistress scolded her for having taken the pill. Another witness saw Mrs. Daisley throw away some pills that she had received from a druggist, and replace them with others that she had in her pocket, larger and darker than those the doctor gave. Mr. Sandhill, the medical man who had attended Daisley, said he did not consider him to have been in a dangerous state ; and was astonished to hear of his death. Be wished to open the body, but Mrs. Daisley and her mother- in-law objected. Mrs. Daisley came up to London, and one John Waldock was about to marry her a few weeks ago ; but a person had observed to him, " Surely you are not going to marry that she-devil,

who has already murdered two husbands and a child?" and he broke off the match. The Jury returned the following verdict—" That Wil- liam Daisley died from the effects of arsenic administered to him with a guilty knowledge by Sarah Daisley, his wife "; equivalent, said the Coroner, to a verdict of wilful murder. The woman was committed for trial.

The Exeter Gazette states that the Reverend W. H. Tucker, a clergyman, had been committed to the Lunatic Asylum at Exeter, as a dangerous lunatic, for sending threatening letters to the Bishop of Exeter. Dr. Phillpotts had removed him from a curacy into which he had been irregularly introduced.