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Lord Waterpark has retired from the representation of Lichfield, It is thought that Lord Bandon, the Earl of Harrowby's eldest son, will be returned for the borough without opposition.
. Manchester has been for some time on the move to secure an exhibi- tion of art treasures, next year, within its precincts. At a meeting held in March last, it was resolved that such an exhibition would be desirable if practicable. As the result of the agitation, ninety-two gentlemen guaranteed a fund of 62,0001. for carrying out the design. Subsequently the origin- ators of the movement put themselves in communication with Prince
Albert, and obtained his sanction and patronage ; the hope being held out that the exhibition would result in a permanent museum. At a meeting held in Manchester on Tuesday, it was resolved that the exhi- bition should take place in 1857; and a committee was appointed to carry out the project. The nineteenth annual meeting of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutions took place last week, at Middlesboro'-on-Tees. Mr. Ed- ward Baines, the President of the Union, Occupied the chair. Although better than last year, the financial condition of the Union is still "emi- nently unsatisfactory." Nevertheless, there is an increase of upwards of mie per cent in the number of members, and of fifty per cent in the classes. The number of institutes in union was a hundred and thirty; of members, 20,000 ; of books, 100,000 ; the number of volumes in seventy-eight institutes was 93,768; the number of issues 292,140. Out of 694 lectures delivered at seventy institutes 126 were paid for, and 568 were gratuitous.
A gang of armed burglars have committed a robbery at Miss Hill's on the outskirts of the city of Worcester. Their faces were blackened. They held a pistol at Miss Hill's head to compel her to tell where the cash was. Mrs. Ellis, who lived in the house, rang an alarm-bell hanging outside her window ; the ruffians tied, but fired at Mrs. Ellis on their retreat.
Benjamin Hill, a labourer of Sheffield, has died from momentarily in- haling carbonic acid arising from yeast in a brewery which he was visiting. Hill's heart was much diseased, and the poisonous gas acted almost instan- taneously in stopping its pulsation.
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