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Mr. Baring, the new Lord of the Admiralty, was reelected at Fa/-mouth on Wednesday, without opposition.
Death has already made two vacancies in the new House of CommoneMr. D. Davies, Member for Carmarthenshire, died on the 23d instant, at the University Club, in his sixty-sixth year. Mr. Robert Hall, one or the Members for Leeds, died at Folkestone on Tuesday. Mr. W. E. Fenster of Warfdale, and Mr. Remington Mills, have already issued ad-. dresses to the constituency. The Exeter papers state that Mr. Divett, who lies represented the city of Exeter twenty-five years, is about to leave this country for Australia, where he purposes engaging in private enterprise. It is added, that in consequence of this determination he will very shortly announce to his constituency the resignation of his seat in the House of Commons.
The attendance at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition appears to be well sustained. On Tuesday, there was a review at Old Trafford, and a show in the Botanical Gardens in honour of the Queen. But the largest crowd of holiday-makers assembled at the Exhibition : they numbered 8575. On Wednesday, however, the number of visitors exceeded this, and surpassed any since the opening : there were 9333 persons in the building ; 2959 holding season-tickets, 6374 paying one shilling for admission.
A great Architectural Congress has been held during the week at Lincoln. The members of several diocesan architectural societies have attended, and the time has been occupied with excursions and lectures. On Wednesday evening there was a public banquet, at which several distinguished personages were present ; and on Thursday the Mayor, Mr. Clayton, entertained a very large party.
It has been decided to build a church at Doncaster for the spiritual instruction of the servants of the Great Northern Railway Company employed there. The edifice will cost about 40001.; the funds for which, and for the endowment of the minister, have been provided by private subscription through the agency of Mr. Denison, the Chairman of the Company. The church will be dedicated to St. James, and will be erected in the West part of the town of Doncaster, from a design of Mr. G. Gilbert Scott, the architect of the new parish-church at Doncaster.
It is expected that the number of troops in the Colchester camp will be considerably augmented shortly.
The Tilbury, Malden, and Colchester Railway scheme is abandoned.
A desperate attempt to murder occurred at Witham in Essex on Sunday afternoon. A young female servant named Freeborn was some time since " engaged " to Charles Finch, a farm-labourer ; Finch Went to the Crimea in the Army Works Corps ; in his absence his intended formed another attachment. Finch, excited by jealousy, went to Witham on Sunday, waylaid the young woman, and as she was walking to church alone, suddenly sprang upon her, without saying a word, threw her into a ditch, and gashed her throat with a razor. He ran off; but presently returned and cut the poor creature's throat a second time. She was soon discovered, and surgical aid was obtained : though the windpipe was severed the main arteries were not cut, and she may recover. Finch was captured a few hours after, in a wood.
Mr. T. Charlesworth, a farmer of Bromley Hurst, near Rugeley, has been beaten to death at night by robbers, as he was returning home at a late hour. Three men were arrested on suspicion ; one turned approver, accusing a fellow prisoner as the actual murderer, though all three were present at the commission of the crime.
John Wardle, a collier of West Bromwich, has been ordered to find sureties to keep the peace for twelve months for having sent a letter to Sir George Grey threatening violence to the Duchess of Kent unless 5001. was sent to him. Wardle appears to be unsettled in his mind : he has a delusion that his mother is a natural daughter of the Duke of Kent, and that his grandfather once saved the Duke's life : he had been in custody before for sending a threatening letter to the Queen.
The local journals state that the Duke of Rutland has discovered that he has been defrauded of many thousands pounds by the manager of his estates at Cheveley, near Newmarket. The Duke had been deceived for years by means of false accounts.
The Earl of Yarborough, the Honourable W. Monson, and Dr. Duigan R.N., with the crew, have been in danger from the wreck of the Earl's yacht Zoe. They were cruising in the North Sea, when, on Sunday night, the wind fell light, and the tide drifted the yacht on to the Haiaborough sandbank, fourteen miles off the coast of Norfolk. All hands had to escape in the boats ; they got to shore in safety, but the yacht became a total wreck.
Ensign George II. Bowles, of the Eighty-fifth Foot, and James Cartinel, a servant, have been drowned, by the upsetting of a boat in the Ribble.
A father and his two children have been burnt to death in a cow-house at Cilycwin, near Llandovery. The children accidentally set fire to straw in a bin in which they slept ; the father, David Williams, rushed into the lire to save them ; but lie too was overpowered by the smoke and flames.
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