Lord Chelmsford is making hay while the sun shines. He
has just added nine gentlemen to the commission of the peace for the borough of Ipswich. Six of the nine are Conservatives, and the remaining three Liberals.
A county meeting of the Kentish hop-planters was held on Penenden Heath, on Thursday, Sir E. Hoare in the chair. The county Members of both divisions were present. It was resolved to request Mr. Disraeli to grant an entire remission of the instalment due next May.
A public meeting of men of all parties has been held at Leeds, Sir Peter Fairbairn in the chair, to express regret at the removal of Dr. Hook from Leeds, and to dike steps for raising a fund to provide a suit- able testimonial. Mr. Baines, Mr. Forster, Mr. Beecroft, and many other local magnates, took part in the proceedings.
There is at Bible Hedingham, in Essex, a congregation of Particular Baptists. They have a chapel vested in trustees under a regular deed. In 1858, the preacher there was one Charles Shipway, and as his conduct in the opinion of the trustees ill-became a Minister of the Gospel—he was charged with committing an indecent assault, and convicted of a common assault —the trustees informed him that he would not be allowed to enter the pulpit again. In defiance of this, Shipway and his friends one Sunday took pos- session of the chapel, held it vi et armis, smoke and drank in the church, changed the locks, and continued to hold it. The trustees appealed under their deed to the Court of Chancery, and-Vice-Chancellor Stuart has decided that the act of Shipway was illegal, and that the trustees had a right to give him a summary notice to quit. The Court granted an injunction to restrain Shipway from preaching and meddling in the service, and amerced him and his friends in the costs of a. suit arising out of their illegal conduct.
It is now stated that the supposed murder at Ramsgate was in reality a suicide. An elaborate statement has been put forward to show that the deceased had taken great precautions to destroy every mark whereby he could be identified. As he had lost two fingers, it is assumed that he chopped off all his fingers to destroy this mark. So he had picked out the marks on his linen. It is supposed that he stripped, cut off his fingers, and stabbed himself to the heart, dying at once ; that the knife was washed out of the wound, that the suicide was committed on a certain rock, and that the body drifted with the tide from that rook to the spot where it was found. But he failed to destroy every mark of identity. A small bit of paper. was found bearing his name " Henry Matterig." The explanation of suicide, which finds favour with the police, seems rational.
The Jury have returned a verdict that the deceased man died from a wound in his left breast, but by whom inflicted there was not sufficient evi- dence to show.
King's Newton hall, a very ancient house in Derbyshire, built by a member of the Hardinge family 400 years ago, and now the property of Lady Palmerston, was destroyed by fire on Sunday. It was in the occupation of a Mr. Green, then absent with his family at Hastings. Servants were in charge. The villagers tried without effect to extinguish the fire. Its ori- ginas not known.
Robert Chambers, a Tyne waterman, has defeated Thomas White, a Thames boatman in a contest on the Tyne for 1001. aside. The race was well-contested, White showing greater strategy, Chambers superior strength. The London man was beaten by five lengths.
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