IlLbe Vrobturts.
The election at Bewdley has :terminated in favour of Lord Mandeville, who obtained 171 votes against the 156 of his opponent, the Honourable Spencer Lyttelton.
A highly respectable meeting of the middle classes was held at Notting- ham on Monday, to consider the actual state of the country. The meeting was called by the Mayor, on a requisition bearing the signature of 138 per- sons who had acted as special constables on the late Chartist demonstration. The Mayor presided: among those who took an active part were the Reve- rend Mr. Brooks, Vicar of St. Mary's, and several other reverend gentle- men, the late Mayor and other members of the Corporation, Mr. J. C. Wright the banker, Dr. M'Douall, and many of the Chartist leaders. The Chartists proposed one amendment, recommending the Charter; but it was not pressed; and perfect unanimity prevailed. Mr. Brooks and Mr. Wright bore testimony to the terrible distress existing in the town: in the market- place and its neighbourhood, said Mr. Brooks, there were fifty shops unlet. We give the substance of the resolutions that were adopted—
That the Town-Council be requested to present to the Queen and Government an expression of loyalty and attachment. That all reforms by unconstitutional means be repudiated. That while the meeting was fully impressed with the duty of maintaining public order, it was at the same time deeply conscious that many and grievous evils did truly exist; that'private distress, commercial embarrassment, and a widely-spread spirit of dissatisfaction, pervaded the community; and that it was the'bounden duty and interest of all classes to impress upon the Legislature the adoption of such remedial measures as the present grave circumstances of the empire impera- tively demand.
That the excessive and increasing amount of expenditure of the State imposed an intolerable pressure on the people, which was aggravated by. its unequal dis- tribution, exhausting the energies of the industrial and commercial classes; that a rigid system of retrenchment was necessary, from the highest to the lowest de- partment of the Government; and that a just and equitable levying of the public burdens should be adopted.
At Knuteford Quarter-Sessions, on the 14th, the appeal of the Reverend David Seddon, Vicar of Mottram,' against an affiliation-order of the Magistrates of Hyde, made, on the i.fith of January last, was heard. Mary Green, the Sunday School feacher; by.wliom the.order was obtained, and a number of other witnesses, were examined at great length; and discrepancies of testimoffY were exposed. The trial lasted two days, and it ended in the quaalting of the ordei against Mr. Seddon.
A gang of Kentish burglars have been captured. They broke into a house at Mopham Green, tin the Wrotham road; bound an old gentleman with ropes, and then ransacked the plaee. The robbers, seven in number, were captured at various places, with stolen articles upon them; and the Rochester Magistrates have committed them for trial.
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