larobinces.
Mr. Walter has come forth as a candidate for Nottingham ; respond- ing, he says, to the friendly disposition evinced towards him-
" In the hope that I may unite all voices in my favour, and with a resolute determination to exert all my faculties for the hest interests of the town and the general good of my countrymen, I intend to appear among you on the day of nomination ; when I trust that I shall shake many an holiest friend by the hand, and find the hostility of those who opposed me appeased by the perse- verance with which I seek the favours of all."
Mr. Walter says nothing, as Joseph Sturge does, about the necessity of abiding by purity of election, and of using no weapons but those of truth and justice.
Mr. Rigby Wason has published a letter in the Suffolk Chronicle, impugning Mr. Rennie's statement respecting the arrangement at the Ipswich election. Mr. Wason says, that Mr. Rennie " bolted " from a danger of which he was forewarned ; that he never urged his colleague to resign ; and that by not having been made the subject of such a compromise as Mr. Wason was charged with preventing, Ipswich has escaped being included in the same catalogue with Nottingham and Harwieb,—beginning with a worse exposure, and ending with probable expulsion from the House of Commons "without the feather.bed of a Tory Committee to break the fall."
A county meeting was held on Penenden Heath, on Thursday convened by the High Sheriff of Kent, to consider the portion of the Tariff relating to hops. The High Sheriff presided ; and among the speakers were Viscount Torrington and Mr. T. L. Hodges. The County Members and the Ministers shared the indignant reprobation of the meeting. Resolutions were passed against the Tariff, declaring that the consumer would not benefit, because the culture of hops would merely be transferred to foreign lands; suggesting that "the real in- terests of the :consumers as well as of the hop-planters, would be best ea:malted by reducing the malt-duty"; and complaining of the mode in which hop-growers are singled out for assessment under the Income- tax Bill.
A highly-respectable meeting of the mining-interest was held at Truro, on Monday, to receive the report of a deputation which had been appointed to confer with Government in order to obtain better protection for British ores and metals. The deputation reported ill- success ; and they were requested to continue their labours and to draw up a still stronger memorial to Government.
The attempt to obtain a church-rate at Newport in the Isle of Wight does not succeed. At a Vestry meeting last week, Mr. Pring, the senior Churchwarden, complained of the dilapidated state of the church, and his own unpleasant situation, "sitting in a church exposed to the wind and the rain " ; but his plaints did not move the Vestrymen. The motion for a rate of 10d. in the pound was negatived, by 100 to 11. A. poll was demanded, with little prospect of final success.
A son of Chief Justice Pennefather was killed on Thursday morning. The young gentleman was with his father on an excursion at Bray ; and he had accompanied his brother to Bray Head : when at the top of one of the cliffs, his hat was blown off, and in trying to recover it his foot slipped and he fell to the bottom of the cliff. An inquest was held, and the Jury returned a verdict of" Accidental Death."
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