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Sir William L. Sainsbury Trelawney has come forward as the Liberal candidate for the vacancy in the representation of East Cornwall occa- sioned by Lord Eliot's succession to the Earldom of St. Germains. Mee Carew, of Antony, is expected to be the Conservative candidate, in " Ike Eliot and Rashleigh interest."

Mr. Ward attended a large meeting in Sheffield Town-hall, on Tuesday, for the purpose of explaining to his constituents his conduct in Parliament. He took a brief but general review of the state of polities; and urged The policy of aiming to extort Liberal measures from the present Government; whom he rather wished to coerce into adopting a practice more in accord with -their professions, than to drive them from office. The first stipula- tion with the Whigs, if they returned to power, should be, that they should throw off the doctrine of "protection ": and he drew a distinction be- tween Sir Robert Peel, who must keep terms with some hundred and sixty County voters, and the Whigs, who have in their ranks but six County voters, and therefore have not Sir Robert's excuse for holding back in free trade. When Mr. Ward ceased, there was an animated discussion; which resulted in two motions. Mr. William Fisher moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Ward fur his conduct in Parliament. Mr. Briggs, to prove the MOW- tion that Mr. Ward is losing his popularity by not being sufficiently ad- vanced in Liberal politics, moved, that to make Mr. Ward a good Represen- tative the enactment of the People's Charter is necessary. The show of hands was considerable on both sides; but the amendment was carried. Mr. Briggs then moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Ward for his attendance that day; which, so far as he had the power, was carrying out one of the principles of the Charter, namely, annual Parliaments. The motion was carried unanimously; and Mr. Ward acknowledged the vote of thanks.

West Teignmouth is embroiled in the Church disputes. About two years ago it was at peace; but at that time the Reverend Lawrence Gwynne was appointed Rector, and he introduced preaching in the surplice, with some corresponding changes; which had the effect of reducing the congregation from 1,500 to 750. In the autumn of 1843, the Reverend Walter Blunt (since become noted for his share in the Holston case) was appointed Curate; and introducing further changes, he further reduced the congroga tion to 60 or 70. Mr. Blunt was removed to Helston, and was succeeded by the Reverend Mr. Cardee-; whose conduct restored the congregation to about 700. Thus stood matters when the Bishop of Exeter's letter appeared, advising the clergy not to persevere in the use of the surplice if distasteful to their parishioners. The parishioners of West Teiginnouth accordingly called on Mr. Gwynne to relinquish its use; and communications were made by the inhabitants both to the Bishop of Exeter and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Bishop replied, that he had written to Mr. Gwynne, but could not direct him; and when the parishioners applied to the Rector to know what the Bishop had said, Mr. Gwynn° said that he must again communicate with the Prelate before making any changes. The result was, that on Sunday last, when Mr. Gwynne mounted the pulpit, the whole of the congregation, ex- cept a score or two, left the church. The parishioners held a meeting on Monday ; in the midst of which was received a letter from Mr. Gwynne, saying-

" In consequence of my regarding his Lordship's advice almost in the same light as his injunction, (from my respect for the Episcopal office,)! contemplate making some alteration with reference to divine service in West Teigmnouth Church. It is may wish, however, that for a time there should be no alteration, but that the service should be conducted exactly as it is at present. 1 shall be prepared at no distant opportunity to give public notice of the nature of such alteration. This statement ought to be satisfactory to all parties." "At the same time, I beg explicitly to say, that I shall not allow myself to be coerced in a matter in whirl' the clergy alone are concerned; and therefore, should there be a repetition of the irreverent and most disgraceful conduct which we witnessed on Sunday last in the house of God, occasioned chiefly by certain persons who, after an absence of a year or two, came there purposely to create agitation and cause disturbance; or should public meetings be held in the parish, and offensive resolu- tions passed, I shall then deem it my duty to the Church, however painful and trying to myself that duty may be, fully to assert and vindicate the independence of the office which I hold, and I shall then decline to make any alteration."

The reading of this letter was followed by a burst of laughter and hisses; and resolutions were passed unanimously declaring the continued uee of the surplice in the pulpit offensive, the letter uncourteous and disrespect- ful, Mr. Gwyune's conduct lamentably conducive to Dissent in the parish; and calling upon him, if he could not comply with the wishes of the parishioners, to resign his incumbency.

The change of ceremonial was effected in St. Sidivell's Church, Exeter, on Sunday last; but not altogether without some excitement. In the morning, the Reverend Mr. Atherley, the Vicar, preached in his gown ; and while Mr. Courtenay, the Curate, turned his back to the people in saying the Creed, Mr. Athcrley did the reverse in a very marked manner. Mr. Courtenny adhered to some other innovations. In the afternoon, Mr. Courtenay preached, in his gown ; and again, in the evening, a Mr. Herrings ton preached in the gown. Strong bodies of police were stationed to guard Mr. Ceurtenay on leaving the church; and he was attended by large mobs to his lodgings, but without any hooting or violence. In the evening, entering Mr. Atherley's carriage, he drove off in an unexpected direction; thus disappointing the crowd of their silent march.

A numerous meeting of the farmers and other inhabitant rate-payers of the parish of Ruislip, in Middlesex, was held in the parish Vestry-room on Thursday, "to consider the cruelty, injustice, and ruinous consequences of the Game-laws, with a view to petition Parliament for the repeal or a modification of the same." The petition, which was unanimously adopted; denounced the laws for "the extensive destruction of the growing crops of the cultivators of the land; the fearful demoralization of the people; the sanguinary conflicts and heeda of blood, and the loss of limb and life, so frequently recorded by the public poem; the hatred and contempt engendered in the rural districts towards the administra tion of the laws; the waste of the land by extensive game-preserves; the tempts- lion thus created in the minds of the poor, destitute, ill-paid, and 111-fedlaboureav; the serious and increasing; costs to the county, in county and poor-rates, by prose cations at assizes and sessions, and the maintenance ot the wives and fannlien of the prisoners out of the rates; the mercenary character of thaw laws, since gatr.q has been made a marketable commodity, and the contenipt thereby treated m thd. minds of the great body of the people towards the aenseevef _ Seaham harbour was opened on Monday, in the presence of the Marquis of Lon- donderry and a distinguished party, with much -festivity. Seaham LE a private port belonging to the Marquis, cut out of the solid rock. It was first formed about sixteen years ago ; but recently a third dock has been added, to provide for the increasing trade of the coal-district.

Nottingham Mechanics Institution, a handsome building in the Grecian style, was opened on Tuesday, with a brilliant festival. Among the guests were, the Mayor of Nottingham, Mr. Thomas Gisborne, RP., Mr. Gaily Knight, M.P., the High Sheriff of the County, Mr. John Evelyn Denison, M.P., Colonel Launcelot Rolleston, M.P., and several gentlemen of influence in the place.

Two men have been fined at the Aylesbury Petty Sessions for poaching offences, one being fined one shilling and the other half-a-crown; whilst the costs were respectively nineteen shillings and one pound. At the Ashenden Petty Sessions, another poacher was fined ten shillings, and his costs were 288. 6d.

, Three hangings took place on Saturday. Dovring and Powys, the men con victed of the murder of a son of Sir Thomas Boughey's gamekeeper at Andlep were executed at Stafford. They made reiterated protestations of their innocence; their last words being to that effect. William Howell, one of the three men con- victed of the murder of M'Fadden, a Policeman was hanged at Ipswich. His com- panions, Walter Howell and Shipley, have been respited. Howell declared he was innocent of the murder' but that he deserved to die for the many offences he had committed : on the scaffold be made a similar declaration of his innocence as to the particular crime. It is said that twelve thousand persons witnessed his death, the majority being females and boys.

A dreadful attempt at murder and suicide has been made by one Bunny, at Birmingham, in a paroxysm of insanity. Bunny is a carpenter, but, having iv- cently married the bar-maid of the Rainbow public-house, he hadturned publican. He had been subject for years to fits of madness' and about a year ago he was put into a lunatic asylum; which in a few months he quitted, apparently quite recovered. Bunny married the bar-maid on Tuesday week ; on the Thursday he was very unwell ; and early on Friday morning he rose from his bed, locked the door, and said to his wife, My dear, we have lived together, we have loved to- gether, and we shall die together "—and then with a large clasp pocket-knife he wounded her on the throat, and stabbed her in six other places. He next cut his own throat, and scrambled out of the window, down a ladder, which the neigh- bours, attracted by the woman's screams, had brought to enter the room. The knife was very blunt, and neither the woman nor Bunny have died. The latter was taken into custody: his conduct left no doubt that he was suffering from a fit of insanity.

The body of an infant has been found in the Pembroke College garden at Cam- bridge. The child appears to have been murdered. The gardener who found it made this remarkable statement—" I went to that part of the garden where I found the body in consequence of dreams which I had on Saturday and Sunday night. I dreamt twice on Saturday night, and once on Sunday night, that I saw a female throw a child over the College-garden. I dreamt I was in the Tennis Court Road, and that she was there also."

A fatal explosion occurred in the engine-shed of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, near Manchester, at six o'clock on Tuesday morning. The Irk engine was prepared to take a train from Manchester to Leeds, for which purpose the steam had been got up. Three men were engaged in inspecting the engine—two underneath it, in the ash-pit, and one standing near—when the boiler burst, the engine made a summerset over another engine on an adjacent rail, and, carrying away part of the roof of the shed in the flight, fell over another ash-pit. The three men were instantly killed, two being blown into the ash-pit over which the engire fell. Two of them were much mutilated; the third seemed to have been killed by a blow which smashed his head. The sufferers were Mills, the engine- IMP of the Irk, Alcock, the fireman, and Stone, the night-inspector of engines. Three other workmen were injured by the explosion' and one of them is so badly scalded that his life is in danger. Great lamage has been done to the engine-shed by the explosion; and the Irk, in passing over the other engine, carried away its Chimney, dome, &c.

The inquest on the bodies of the three men began on Wednesday; and after one witness bad been examined the inquiry was adjourned to Monday next, in order that scientific evidence of the causes of the accident might be laid before the Jury. The witness examined was an engine-fitter, and he did little more than describe the occurrence as it had been before narrated. The engine had been recently re- paired. The explosion =vied it a distance of twenty yards.

The Gateshead Observer reports an alarming accident, on the North Union Railway, on Thursday the 23d January. "When the three-quarters-past-eight o'clock train from Gateshead arrived near to the Fence Houses station a com- mercial traveller proceeding to Stockton in a first-class carriage was roused from his sleep by an unaccountable crash, crash, crash !' and knew not what to think, but was inclined to the supposition that the train was falling from a preci- pice. One or more rails had sprung up, and entered the train. A gentleman's lm was grazed by the ugly weapon, and narrowly escaped more serious injury. Two passengers were forced against the windows of a first-class carriage' and had their faces cut. The engineman, being thrown violently on his chest, became insensible from the shock, and was grievously hurt. We have not beard that any other personal injuries were sustained. A gentleman passing on horseback at the time rode off for medical assistance; which was promptly on the spot. The Stockton passengers did not reach their destination until half-past one o'clock."

In a brief addendum, the same journal records a more fatal accident. "On Wednesday, a plate-layer was run over by a train and killed."

A man has been killed at the Wellington station on the Great Western Rail- way, by being jammed between a truck and a train to which he was about to attach it. The lamp projecting behind the train came in contact with his arm and forced it into his side' breaking in his ribs and pushing his lungs out of place; which caused instant death.

Lord Gifford's pack of hounds have had a narrow escape from destruction by a railway train, between Cirencester and Swindon. A fox had crossed the line, and the bounds came to a check upon the rails just as a train came up at full speed. A- huntsman however, succeeded in whipping the dogs off the line a moment before the train passed.