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The Cheltenham election, as was anticipated, terminated triumphantly for Mr. Grenville Berkeley. At the close of the poll, on Saturday, the numbers were—Berkeley 758; Ridler 176; majority for Berkeley 582.
Mr. Stracey, Conservative, was elected on Tuesday for East Norfolk, without opposition, in the room of Mr. Wodehouse.
At Birmingham meetings to discuss foreign affairs are to be periodically held. The first of these meetings took place on Tuesday. The Earl of Malmesbury had been invited; but he declined, and instead of attending, sent a letter, in which he expresses his dissent from some of the views of the originatiars of the conference.
" It is not true that the succession to Denmark, the Sound, and Schleswig- Holstein is secured to Russia by that treaty. Russia has obtained no rights present or prospective tbat she did not possess before the treaty. There are now four male heirs to the Crown of Denmark alive. The treaty prescribes that if their extinction should become imminent, the high contracting parties, namely, Austria, Prussia, Russia, England, France, and Sweden, shall en- gage to take into consideration any further proposition made to them by the King of Denmark for securing the succession on the principle.of the integrity of the Danish monarchy. Should this remote contingency occur, the con- tracting powers would, therefore, meet again to settle the Danish succession ; and I leave you to judge whether the five Powers who signed the treaty of the 8th May with Russia are likely in such a case to determine that, as head of the house of Holstein-Gottorp, she should annex to her dominions the whole of the present Danish monarchy."
In one of his recent perambulations of the manufacturing districts, ostensibly with the object of supporting Mr. Roebuck's motion Mr. Ur- • qnhart, addressing a meeting at Sheffield, said that "he had ;11 his life looked upon Mr. Roebuck with suspicion," but believing that he had been " startled into honesty" by the awful facts disclosed before the Se- bastopol Committee, he now gave his confidence and support to Mr. Roe- buck. A petition was agreed to at the meeting, and forwarded to Mr. Roebuck ; who, in acknowledging its receipt, informed his constituents of the view he takes of Mr. Urquhart, in whose "idle ravings" he has never put any faith. "I had a good opportunity of judging of Mr. Urquhart's ability and judg- ment when he was a Member of the House of Commons—and a more ineffi- cient and weaker person I never saw there. He evinced great animosity and great imbecility, uttering strong opinions always supported by weak argu- ments, damaging every cause he espoused, doing mischief even to the truth —.1f, by any strange accident, he was on the side of truth. That such a person looks upon me with suspicion is, I think, a circumstance rather in my favour."
The Reverend E. A. Litton, Vice-Principal of St. Edmund Hall, pro- poses to open a private Hall at Oxford, under the provisions of the act of Parliament of last year. After a careful consideration of the probable expenses, 801. for the academical year, consisting, practically, of three terms, each containing eight or nine weeks, has been fixed on as the lowest sum compatible with prudence. This includes all the student's expenses, except fees paid to the University for matriculation, or for de- grees. The Hall is expected to be opened next term. William James, a schoolmaster in his seventieth year, has been convicted at Oxford Assizes of uttering a forged will, with intent to defraud. The age of the culprit induced the Judge to pronounce a lenient sentence—eighteen. months' imprisonment.
At Leicester Assizes, Henry Russell, an engine-driver on the Midland Railway, has been convicted of the manslaughter of Ford, a stoker, through neglecting signals. Russell drove his train into Ford's, at Barrow station, though signals to stop were exhibited. It was urged for the accused that a man should have been sent down the line to atop his train. The Jury re- commended him to mercy ; and the sentence was six months' imprisonment.
Joseph Meadows, the young man who shot his sweetheart dead at a public- house in Dudley, has been convicted of murder, at Worcester Assizes. Jea- lousy appears to have been the motive for the crime. The convict was sen- tenced to be hanged.
David Abramivitch Rzimienski, who described himself as a Polish Jew, but who, it was discovered from his papers, was a Russian, was finally ex- amined at the Dover Police Court yesterday week, and committed for trial on a charge of endeavouring to induce men to desert from the British Swiss Legion. On Saturday, Alfred Hills, a tidewaiter at Folkestone, was committed for trial by the Folkestone Magistrates, on a charge of inciting soldiers of the Foreign Legion to desert.
At Newton-le-Willows, a common fight has ended in a cowardly assassi- nation. Peters, a glass-blower, quarrelled with Thomas Rose, a fellow work- man ; and they resolved to fight out their difference. During the pugilistic encounter Peters repeatedly stabbed Rose with a penknife which he held concealed in his hand, inflicting fatal wounds. A Coroner's Jury have pro- nounced his crime murder.
There has been a marvellous escape on the Erewaah branch of the Mid- land Railway. At Ilkeston Moor, the engine of a train left the rails and plunged down an embankment, with the tender; the couplings broke, and the passenger-carriages remained on the line. The driver was pitched into a hedge ; but neither he, the fireman, nor any of the passengers, suffered seriously.
Part of the Outhwaite tunnel, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- shire Railway, Jell in on Saturday, in consequence of heavy rain having forced down the soft shale roof. The disaster was discovered in time to pre- vent any mishap to trains.
Three men and a boy have been killed by a colliery " accident " atDukin- field. They were ascending the shaft, when the engineer, from neglect or from losing control over the engine, allowed the basket to be drawn to the top of the pulley—the poor miners were hurled out, and fatally mangled.
The pitmen of Northumberland celebrate the birth of a child by throwing a "leek-bag" of salt into the fire. The other day, at Blythe Folly, a miner who had had an addition to his family threw in mistake a bag of gunpowder into the fire! The house was shattered, but no one was killed.
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