Mr. Bodkin has been elected Recorder of Dover. The Tory
Mem- ber for the town, Mr. Halcomb, had the least number of votes of all the candidates.
The Bishop of Durham has presented to the library of the Uni- versity of Durham a large and valuable collection of works on eccle- siastical literature.— Tyne Mercury.
About two months ago, the extreme low price of wheat induced the farmers in the parish of Redgrave, Sussex, to think of lowering the wages of their men from 9s. to 8s. per week ; but prior to doing this, they were determined to cause such a reduction in the prices of meal and flour, that the labourers should be better rather than worse by the alteration. A Vestry meeting was called to put this determination into effect, and the millers were personally requested to attend. They did so ; and seeing the parishioners were fully determined that the poor, with cheap wheat should Lave cheap bread, and prepared to take steps independently of them to secure it, they readily agreed to make a reduc- tion at once of 31. per stone,—entering into a contract to supply the poor for a month at the price. At the end of the month, a second meeting was held, and a second contract made, with a further reduction of ld. per stone; so that the poor were supplied with the best meal at Is. 2d. per stone, and flour at a proportionate rate. A third contract was made with the same miller, on Thursday week, at Is. 3d. per stone for meal, and flour in proportion. The consequence is, that the labourers are satisfied ; they and their families, they acknowledge, being better off now with 8s. than they were before with 9s. per week. Other parishes in the neighbourhood are adopting the same plan, and no doubt the effect will be equally satisfactory. It appears scarcely credible, that whilst 2s. 4d. has been charged for fine flour in Bury, wholesome meal has been sold within sixteen miles at half the price.—
country Paper.
It is stated on good authority, that there has been, for some time, considerable anxiety at the Home Office to know the state of different parts of the country ; and we know that parties who have occasion to go there, from the country, particularly Magistrates, are very closely questioned.—Birmingham Advertiser.
An elderly lady at a village in Norfolk has adopted the singular idea that she is an old lien. Her restlessness and vexation were excessive so long as her friends contradicted the notion ; but after a time they ceased to do so, and at the recommendation of her medical adviser, suf- fered her to think arid act she pleased. In consequence of this indul- gence, the good dame is more positive than ever of her feathered state, and has even gone so far as to make herself a nest in a clothes-basket ; where she sits a great part of the day, with most praiseworthy patience, on three Dutch cheeses, asserting that they will be hatched in seven weeks' t me.— Siffe/k Chronicle.
Yesterday week, as the Reverend Lord W. Somerset was on his way from Badminton to Stoke, in a one-horse phaeton, accompanied
by a man servant, and driving at a smart pace, the horse ran the carriage against a bank near Kendalshire Common, about six or seven miles from Bristol, by which it was upset, and the servant had his skull dreadfully fractured, and his Lordship was severely cut about the fore. head. The servant was taken into a cottage by the wayside, in so dm- gerous a state, that it appeared unlikely be would survive many hours; but his Lordship, after giving the necessary directions for the care of his servant, pursued his journey on horseback, the carriage being too much shattered to proceed.—Felix Farky's Bristol Journal.
There was a prize-fight on Monday, at Bromborough, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey. It was attended by crowds from Liver- pool. After the battle was over, a number of men and boys, pnnei. pally rogues and blackguards, went on board two boats, to return-to Liverpool. They had not proceeded far, before the party in one of the boats quarrelled about the division of some meat, which they had stolen in Cheshire. In the course of the quarrel, the boat was overset by the pressure on one side. The sight of this accident made the peo- ple in the other boat lean too much on one side, and that also was cap. sized ; and notwithstanding aid was given by some steam-vessels and other boats, between forty and fifty of these wretched fellows were drowned.
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