Zbe Vrobinces. The nomination of candidates for the representation of
Dartmouth took place cis Wednesday; when Mr. George Moffatt, a Liberal and Free-trader, and Mr. Henry Prinsep, a Peel Conservative, were successively proposed. Mr. Moffatt's r was Sir Henry Seale, son of Sir John Seale, who was succeeded by the KtoePMember, Mr. Somes. The show of hands was pronounced to be in Mr. Prin- sep's favour; and a poll was demanded for Mr. Moffatt. At its close' on Thurs- day, the numbers were—for Moffatt, 125; Prinsep, Ill ; majority for Moffatt, 14.
Sir Frederick Th is to be opposed on offering himself for reelection at Abingdon, by General aulfield, a Liberal: the General avows himself in favour
of free trade, of opposer, equality, of education without compromising religious scruples, but op to endowment of the Roman Catholic Church out of the ge- neral taxes. The nomination is fixed to take place on Monday; the poll, if any, on Tuesday.
There has been a good deal of agitation in Exeter. The Anti-Corn-law League have put forward General Briggs, and they have undergone no vacillation. It has been otherwise with the Conservatives. After a good deal of hesitation, they advanced Mr. Teed, but subsequently withdrew him. Then, a deputation was sent to invite Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, in anticipation of his being appointed Solicitor-General; but he had not been appointed, and doubted whether he should be; and subsequently, the party thought that they might be safer with some one else. At a Rablic meeting, it was resolved to invite Sir Culling Eardley Smith. Ultimately, Sir John Duckworth accepted their invitation, and he is understood to unite the suffrages of the Conservative electors. His address con- tains no explicit declaration of principles; but as Mr. Daw, his agent, was an active opponent of the Maynooth grant, it is inferred that Sir John comes forward on religious rather than political grounds. The nomination is fixed for Monday next.
Cambridge is also on the qui rive in expectation of Mr. Fitzroy Kelly's ap- pointment. It is said that he will not stand again, having had enough of some among the electors. The Conservatives will probably invite Lord George Manners, the third son of the Duke of Rutland and a Young Englander; the Whigs, Mr. Shaft° Adair, or Mr. George Denman, a son of the Lord Chief Justice.
A new manufacture has been introduced at Norwich by Messrs. Brooks and Day, from Spitalfields—that of satins and sarsnets, which promises to prove a great boon to the distressed hand-loom weavers; as they can earn much higher wages when employed in it than they now do. A local paper says, that in all probability the town is indebted for this new source of profitable occupation to the facilities afforded by railways for rapid communication with the North.
The Health Committee of the Town-Council of Liverpool made a report to that body on Wednesday, of the operations of the baths and wash-houses for the poor during the year just ended. The report was of a most favourable character; and showed, that whilst affording most material accommodation to the poor at a very cheap rate, the single establishment yet in operation had paid its expenses and left a surplus of upwards of 501. The building cost between 2,0001. and 3,0001. The new baths and wash-houses now erecting in the North end of the town will cons nearly 7,0001.; but will not be opened till next year. So promising, however, are their anticipations, that at the meeting on Wednesday, the Committee strongly recommended the Council to proceed to the erection of a third establishment of the same description in a more central locality; and there is no doubt the recommen- dation will shortly be acted upon. Thus while the Corporation of London have contributed only about 5001. towards a similar object, the Municipal authorities of Liverpool have spent 10,000L; and most likely will soon devote 3,0001. or 4,0001. more to the same laudable purpose.—Times.
The Vicar of Leigh, (the Reverend James Irvine,) having by his innovations driven the respectable part of his congregation to worship in the neighbouring churches, has served notices on all the neighbouring clergy, threatening them with legal proceedings if they administer any sacrament of the Church to any of his parishioners.
An unfrequent exhibition nowadays hasjust taken place at Wallasey Church in Cheshire: a Mr. Parry, of Liscard, performed public penance for having de- famed the character of a maiden lady of Seacombe. The Chester Ecclesiastical Court had condemned him to pay heavy costs, and publicly to retract his slander. The recantation was read by the clergyman in Mr. Parry's presence.
A correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury relates an instance of outrageous fanaticism, scarcely credible in the nineteenth century. Some improvements were in progress on an estate at Elton, in Cheshire, and a wall was building. It was rumoured that a nunnery was about to be made; and one afternoon, a body of men, armed with crow-bars and such instruments, and led by a fanatical local preacher, made an attack on the wall; which the workmen were ordered by their employer to quit, that a conflict might be avoided. The assailants pulled down a part of the building, and on departing threatened to pay another visit.
Graham, a farm-labourer at Skellingthorpe, near Lincoln, has killed Harrison, another labourer by striking him on the head with a hoe. The men had quar- relled, and Graham declares that the deceased struck him first. The man has been committed to prison for the murder.
A novel mode of suicide was employed last week on the North Midland Rail- way, near Leeds. Sutcliffe, a warehouseman residing at Leeds, got on to the line, hid himself behind the abutment of a bridge, and just as a train came up threw himself on the rails; giving his neck a twist, said a witness, as if to adjust it to the rail. He was killed instptaneously; his bead, right leg and left arm being severed from his body, which was otherwise mangled. The man was a drunkard, and had before attempted suicide by cutting his throat.
An alarming accident happened on the Dover Railway, near the Westenhanger station, last week. A mail-train came in contact with an engine and tender pro- ceeding in the opposite direction, and both engines were much injured: the pas- sengers escaped with a few bruises, scratches, and torn garments.
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