Vreniurial.
Pi The talk of dissolution in the event of a defeat of Ministers has given rise to a plentiful crop of rumours, especially in the Tory journals, touching the probabilities of future contests. Nothing, however, that at this early stage of the question has been published can be relied on. In fact it is the merest gossip, where it is not the result of election in- trigues.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed eight new Magistrates at Leeds. Of these two are Liberals, and six Conservatives. Lord Chelmsford is making hay for his party during the sunshine of office. A small church-rate proposed in the parish of St. Sampson, York, has been refused on a show of hands : no poll was demanded.
Mr. Pugh, 'Vice-Chancellor Kindersley's Chief Clerk, has been holding a Court at Newcastle to fix the list of contributories to the Northumberland and Durham Distriet Bank. They will be liable to a call of 35/. per share. One shareholder has 2290 shares ; another 1820, a third 1200.
The Leeds Magistrates have fined two men for following. their "ordinary selling" on the Lord's Day, the work they were engaged on "not being a work of necessity or charity." A boiler at a cloth-mill required to be re- Paired; the two men and three others performed the job on Sunday, as Otherwise sixty people would have been thrown idle at the mill on Monday. The Magistrates decided that this was not a "work of necessity." [Do these Magistrates read the morning newspapers on Monday? if so, to be consistent,
they must consider their preparation on Sunday evening "a work of ne- sessity."]
J oseph Morley, a labourer of Unstone, near Chesterfield, has murdered Thomas Watts, a fellow lodger, by stabbing him repeatedly with a knife, a quarrel having arisen at night about some eggs which the men had directed their landlady to cook.
Mary Jones, a young Irishwoman, has been committed at Liverpool for attempting to murder her illegitimate infant by pouring a quantity of ink down its throat. The infant is recovering.
Shields, boatswain of the American ship J. S. Parsons, and two of the seamen, have been arrested at Liverpool on a charge of murdering Henry Barwell, a mariner, on the voyage from New Orleans : they are alleged to have beaten him to death with belaying-pins, and then privately cast his body into the sea. It does not appear whether the crime arose from private malice, or was another specimen of that brutality for which American sea- officers have a bad notoriety. 'The prisoners are at the disposal of the American Minister—they cannot be tried in this country.
The inquest on the three gentlemen killed on the railway near Nuneaton terminated on Thursday, with this special verdict—" That Thomas Miller, Jeremiah Richmond, and William Thomas Morgan were accidentally killed by the carriages of a certain train being overturned through the engine of the train corning into contact with a cow that had strayed on the railway ; that the evidence brought before the Jury respecting the insufficiency of the newly 'cut and laid' hedge between the railway and Baker's field, from which the cow had strayed, was conflicting ; but the Jury consider there ought in future to be no doubt as to the sufficiency of such fence, and there- fore they recommend that the railway company do put up posts and rails to make this and similar fences in small enclosures more secure."
Mr. HI'Donald, a bookseller's shopman at North Shields, a boatman, and a lad, have been drowned off the Durham coast by the capsizing of a sailing- boat ; a fourth person, Mr. Cookson, managed to swim ashore. Mr. 11`Do- nald had his dog with him ; while all were struggling in the water, Mr. Cookson reports that the dog swam with a piece of wood in his mouth to- wards his master. When Mr. Cookson touched the shore, a young woman assisted him to land—it is said that she was engaged to AIDonald. She re- marked to Cookson that if M'Donald had been with them the calamity would not have happened ; her anguish may be conceived when Cookson re- plied, " M‘Donald was one of us !"
Two boys have also perished in the Tyne. One fell off Jarrow Quay ; the other tried to save him, and both were drowned.
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