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Major Beresford, who is apprehensive of some Tory opposition in North Essex from Colonel Brise the select man of the malcontents, has been down to the Saffron Walden polling district, there to make good his position. He accused the present Ministry of unfaithfulness to Con- servative principles, and denounced the concessions they had made on the Jewish question and in respect to the property qualification, empha- tically declaring that he would have died sooner than have surrendered in favour of those who deny the divinity of the Saviour.
Harvest homes are becoming fashionable again. Aylsham, in Norfolk, has distinguished itself by the jollity and sobriety of its annual harvest homes, and the abolition of the system of giving largesse and letting the labourers do what they liked with it when they had got it. This has been accomplished because the local leaders of society interfered in the matter at some personal trouble to themselves, and devised a plan whereby the harvest home was kept, the real enjoyment of the labourer increased, and excesses avoided.
Another conspicuous harvest home is that at East Brent. Here the leading spirits were the Archdeacon of Taunton, Sir Arthur Elton, Mr. William Miles, Sir Claude Wade, Mr. Reed, the lord of the manor, and the Reverend F. Smith.
A new music-hall was opened on Wednesday in the public-spirited town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This completes the suite of the new Tow n-hall buildings, the work of the Corporation. The town made a festival of the day, and in the evening there were musical performances in the new hall.
The inquiry into the late terrible accident on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway was resumed on Wednesday, and again adjourned for a week. It did not make much progress. Evidence was given to show that the guard did wrong in admitting anybody into his van, and that the issue of tickets to the public was a breach of faith. The train was intended for the children alone.
A Jury, empanelled to inquire into the boat accident off Worthing, has found that the "deceased persons met with their deaths by drowning, arising from the oversetting of the Mary Eliza, a pleasure-boat ; that at the time of such oversetting of such boat, considering the number of pas- sengers on board, the boat was not competently manned, nor were the sails so fastened as to guard against such an oversetting. The Jury cannot se- parate without strongly recommending that the local authorities should take the necessary steps to insure the proper regulation and management of pleasnre-boats within the district of -Worthing."
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