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The election for North Lincolnshire, rendered necessary by the nieces- _ ?ion of Lord Woraley to the Peerage, is expected to take place next week. It is understood that the return of the Liberal candidate, Sir Montague Cholmeley, will be unopposed.
The Reverend Hugh Stowell, in his capacity of President of the Man- chester and Salford Protestant Association, has addressed the following point-blank inquiry to the present Members for Manchester and Salford, and to the two candidates for the vacant Manchester seat. " Is it your decided opinion that no further national concessions to the Church of Rome ought to be made in these realm? " Mr. Milner Gibson replies by a gene- ral declaration that he is in favour of the principle of religious liberty; and that whenever any question involving that principle is brought under the consideration of the Legislature, it will be his duty to take a course in accordance with the views he has expressed. The answer of Mr. Brother- ton is, that he is against all further grants either to the Church of Rome or the Church of England; but that he reserves to himself the right to exercise an unfettered judgment on each case that may arise in Parlia- ment. Lord Lineoln declines answering the question at present, not being yet a candidate; while Mr. Bright says, he will vote for no grants of public money in support of the particular views of any profession or sect: he voted against the Maynooth grant, not because the Romish Church was in question, but because he believes such payments and endowments are in- jurious to religion, and unjust to those who pay the taxes.
The Honourable William Frederick Campbell, Lord Campbell's eldest son, a member of Trinity College, Cambridge, has issued an address to the electors of the town, offering himself as a candidate in the Liberal interest. He proposes to stand in conjunction with Mr. Adair.
The Globe contradicts, by authority, the statement that the Honourable W. 0. Stanley will retire from the representation of Anglesey at the next general election.
The members of the Gainaborough Mechanics Institution held their an- nual tea-meeting in the Town-hall of Gaiasborough on the 18th December. Mr. William Cook, the Burgess Constable, presided. The report having been read, the Reverend James Aspinall, Rector of Aithorpe, made an excellent speech on the rapid improvement of society through education. The Re- verend E. J. Larken, who had crossed the Humber in very inclement wea- ther to attend the meeting, communicated some interesting statistics, to show that the commission of crime was confined almost exclusively to those vsbecould neither read nor write. The meeting passed off well, with an unusual show of clerical support.
A pnblia meeting took place in the Town-hall of Cheltenham, on Mon- day, to raise funds for the aid of the industrious poor. The Reverend F. Close, as chairman, explained, that the object of the movement was " to provide employment for such of the industrious poor as were unemployed at present, on some useful public work. It was also contemplated, on this particular occasion, to depart from what had been the custom heretofore, and to relieve from the funds which the benevolent might place in the hands of the committee, such of the aged and distressed poor as were unable to labour." Mr. Charles Hare, who had suggested the plan, described the progress made, and announced subscriptions to the amount of 1841.; to which sum 101. was added at the meeting. Several Dissenting clergymen delivered speeches, and resolutions were passed appointing a permanent committee of management.
A numerous meeting of the Short-time delegates of Lancashire, York- shire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire, was held in Manchester, on Sunday last, to consider the steps necessary to promote the passing of the Ten-hours Bill this session. The chairman regretted that the nature of their occupa- tion should require them to meet on the Sunday. Several resolutions were agreed to, and among them one adopting the compromise contained in Mr. Fielden's Bill, of commencing with eleven hours, and postponing the full limitation to ten until 1849. It was resolved to forward petitions to Par- liament, and to send a body of delegates to London to watch the progress of the bill.
A meeting of the distressed wool-combers of Bradford was held at the Temperance Hall on the 22d December. A number of the destitute wool- combers presented themselves on the platform and told their woes,—which one of the speakers attributed to the Free-trade principle now adopted, of buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market. A committee of five was appointed to receive evidence of the existing distress, with a view to an appeal to the wealthy.
We have authority for stating that the cotton-waste-spinners of Stock- port have unanimously agreed to commence working four days per week. --StockpIrt Advertiser.
A "Dr. J. Wolff," calling himself a "chiropodist," has been committed to Beccles Gaol on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences. He had been travelling about the country extracting corns, charging so much a root: in one case he pretended to take twenty-five corns &I-Afoul. apparent corns; for which he charged 61. 5s. Dr. Wake, of Beccles, suspwted an Imposture; watched the operator; and detected him in producing ready-made corns as having been ex-
tracted from a patient's foot. Dr. Wolff's corns appeared to have been made out of the parings of horse-hoofs.
A lamentable gun accident happened the other day at Milverton, in Dorset- shire. A Mr. Cross had been out shooting, and on his return with his loaded gun he neglected to draw the charge- he placed the gun by the wall; hi eon, a little boy, took hold of it; it went off:and the have passed through the mother's bead, killing her on the instant.
A gang of burglars have been arrested at Wednesbnry; one of them haw* been seized as he came from a house where he had been engaged in packing up goods to carry them off. The robbers seem to have been extensively employed in plunder.
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