vr.rbt iprobintes. We are requested to state that Mr. G.

F. Young, late Member for Tyne- Mouth, has been requested to offer himself as a candidate to fill the vacancy in the representation of King's Lynn, caused by the death of the late Lord George Bentinck. The application to Mr. Young has been made by mer- chants, shipowners, and others, who are averse to the repeal of the Navi- gation-laws. We are also informed that the entire interest of the Duke of Portland will be given to Mr. Young upon the ensuing election.—Times. The Globe mentions a rumour that "the worthy Member for Think (Mr. Bell) is about to resign his seat in Parliament, on the wore of ill health. Two candidates are spoken of sable successor,—one a son-in-law of a neigh- bouring baronet, and some time Member for Windsor; the other a young officer, well known in Thirsk, who will come forward upon Liberal prin- ciples."

The alkali and glass trades are still in a very depressed state. Several of the intuaufaetories of crown, flint, and bottles, are closed, besides three of the principal alkali manufactories on the Tyne; and those in existence, we are afraid, are scarcely obtaining remunerating prices for their produc- tions.—Newcaatle Guardian.

A majority of the Town-Council of Manchester memorialized the Post_ master-General to close the Post-office in that town entirely on the Sun- day; this was backed by other memorials. The application was only par- tially successful; for the Postmaster-General " finds it would not be ex- pedient to dispense with the only delivery of letters which takes place on that day, and which is generally concluded by ten a. m.; but he has been pleased to authorize the cessation on Sunday of all other duties at the Post-office after that hour, excepting from five to six p.m., when a clerk shall attend to receive foreign letters only, the postage of which cannot be paid in stamps."

The Reverend Dr. Warneford has presented to Queen's College, Birming- ham, through William Sands Cox, Esq., the munificent donation of 1,0004 to be applied to such purposes and uses as may be considered by the Rev- erend Chancellor Law, the Reverend Vaughan Thomas, and Mr. Sands Cox, most beneficial to the institution.—Birmingham Gazette.

The Brighton and South Coast Railway and the South-western Com- pany have settled differences respecting the Portsmouth traffic. There will be but one terminus in the town, that of the Brighton line; trains of both companies starting thence, and branching off West or South at Cosham or Hilsea, as they respectively belong to one or the other line. It is said that " the public will materially benefit " by this arrangement. The whole scale of fares, however, except for the " Parliamentary " trains, will be raised.

The contractors of the Newport, Monmouth, and Hereford Railway, re- ceived orders on Monday week to cease from their labours for two years. The Monmouth contract has been closed for some time; and the works at Newport and Caerleon only have been proceeded with. Detached por- tions are now left in an unfinished state.—Globe.

The artificers and labourers in the service of the Great Western Railway at Swindon assembled in the hall of the Mechanics Institute of that sta- tion, on Wednesday evening, to hear speeches on the subject of emigration, from a deputation of the Colonization Society. The room—a large one— was crowded by the men employed at the great locomotive engine manu- factory of the Company; and Mr. Archibald Sturrock, superintendent of that establishment, took the chair. The deputation consisted of Mr. Mark Boyd, Mr. C. D. Logan, and Mr. A. H. Forrester. Mr. Logan, from per- sonal experience, detailed the state of the labour-market in New South Wales, contrasted with that of the Mother-country. At the end of his ex- planations he invited interrogatories; and was questioned with great intel- ligence by the workmen. The deputation presented copies of the pros- pectuses of the Colonization Society, and books and maps; and, on the invi- tation of the men, engaged to pay another visit to Swindon in a short time

Two short branches from the Eastern Ceunties Railway at Witham, each about six miles long, and extending respectively to Maldon and Braintree, were opened for traffic on Monday.

Alnwick Moor, otherwise Aydon Forest, an "immense wilderness, con- taining upwards of three thousand acres of land, a large portion Of which is capable of cultivation, is about to be reclaimed. Proposals having that object in view have been made by the Alnwick freemen to the Duke of Northumberland, and his Grace has returned a favourable answer."

Mr. Shepherd, managing cleric in the money-order department of the Derby Post-office, has been detected in embezzling, apparently by entering more money as paid by him than be had actually disbursed. It has been found that Shepherd has used 1501. of the public funds. The prisoner was considered very trust- worthy; he had been a draper in a large way at Derby, and an active Wedeyan.

Schofield, a weaver of Bolton, returning home late on Saturday night, intoxi- cated, was stopped at Tootal Bridge, a short distance from the town by two men who demanded his money : he said he had none: they searched him, but found nothing. Apprehensive, apparently, that Schofield would rouse the neighbour- hood, the villains determined to throw him over the bridge. "The battlements are at least four feet high, and he struggled with the men; but in vain. He begged that they would let him drop down so that he might have a chance of escaping with his life. This they consented to do; and they pat him over with his feet first. When hanging over the bridge, he got hold of the coping-stone, and kept himself suspended for a second or two; but the murderers struck his hands with a bludgeon, or something of the sort, until he could hold no longer, and the unfortunate man fell to the ground, on the bank of the brook, a distance of fifteen yards." He was found in a dying state at five o'clock next morning, and expired at noon. He described the circumstances narrated above, but could give little information of a nature to lead to the detection of the criminals. It is supposed that they were two men who attempted to commit more than one rob- bery on the same night.

The inquest on the body of Nathaniel Batton, the man who was supposed to- have been a victim to the Essex "white-powdering" crime, was concluded at Ramsey on Monday. Professor Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, had made a chemical examination of the viscera: he could discover no trace of arsenic; bat as the man died in September 1814, and as one of the products of animal decay is ammonia, which readily dissolves arsenic, forming a compound that might have been drained away and lost, Button might have been poisoned though no poison was. now discovered. On the other hand, Professor Taylor said the symptoms of the man's disease immediately before death could be accounted for by ascribing them to English cholera in a violent form. Evidence was given that seemed to support the suspicion that poison had been administered. But the Jury, from the doubt- ful state of the matter, could only return a verdict that Button "was taken ill with a violent retching and diarrhoea, of which he shortly afterwards died : but how such retching and diarrhcea was produced, there is no evidence before the Jury to show." The Coroner then made a statement with respect to the other suspicious cases that had been brought under his notice. He said he had arrived at the conclusion,

that at present there was not sufficient evidence to justify him in going at once into the inquiry. There was strong ground for believing that many of the chil-

dren had been unfairly dealt with; but up to the present time no direct or positive case had been reported to him. He concluded by expressing a hope that medical men in the suspected districts would pay particular attention to the symptoms of dying persons; while those cases where death occurred in the absence of a profes- sional man ought to be narrowly watched.

An accident similar to that which occurred at the Shrivenham station of the Great Western Railway, though, happily, not fatal in its results, happened at Bull's Bridge, near Southall, on Tuesday night. As an up-train approached, the driver perceived that the "all right" signals were displayed, and therefore pursued his course: the fireman, however, saw that there was an obstruction, just as he came close upon it, and reversed the engine; but it was too late. The engine dashed into a loaded coal-waggon which was standing across the line, cat the waggon in half, broke away from its own tender, left the rails, and turned over. The driver and fireman held on by a rail, and they escaped unhurt. The tender and two carriages also left the iron- but the other two carriages in the train did not. A passenger received a slight in the head, and a guard some bruises. Herbert, the police signalman, and Berwick, the foreman porter, were taken into custody; and they have been examined by a Magistrate at Uxbridge. It appears from the evidence as yet adduced, that these men had the control over the lug- gage-waggons at the place, and that they gave the signals when the vehicles might be moved across the rails. On the Tuesday night, some carters saw a signal that they might drag the coal-waggon over the up-line by means of horses; they were doing this when the train was observed approaching, and there was only time to save the horses by unhooking them from the waggon. Berwick had called out to the carters that it was "All right" before they moved the waggon; and Berwick, in excuse, said that Herbert signalled to him that the waggon might pass. Herbert denied this: he showed a red light. The accused were remanded till Monday next.

The Rother Viaduct, a great railway work in construction about six miles East of Sheffield, fell down on Saturday morning, and killed three men. The viaduct was comprised in the works of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail- way, and was designed to consist of thirty-six arches thirty feet in span, built with brick. Twenty arches had been completed, and the timber supports generally with- drawn,—the masonry being approval by the inspectors as unusually strong. The centering of the nineteenth arch was eased a few days ago, and no danger was ap- prehended until lately; but in consequence of heavy rains which have fallen in -the neighbourhood and inundated the valley, Mr. Carlisle on Friday gave orders to his workmen to reshore the nineteenth arch. While seven or eight men were employed upon this work, the arch fell in, without a moment's warning; and four of the men were overwhelmed. In a few moments a dozen more of the arches followed the nineteenth in regular succession—the noise and concussion resem- bling those accompanying an avalanche or an earthquake. Ultimately the whole structure became a ruin. Of the poor men overwhelmed, one was rescued alive, but maimed; a second was taken out alive, but died of his hurts in a few hours; the other two were crushed to death on the instant. A local report states that Mr. Carlisle found on his examination of Friday that the clayey subsoil of the foundation under the nineteenth arch was yielding under the weight of the structure and that the arch had sunk from its designed height as much as 144 inches. "That the workmanship of the arches was good, was proved not only by the fact of the piers remaining erect, but that to some of them a portion of the arch, to the extent of nine feet, remained adhering. The place presents a desolate appearance, partof the ruins being covered by the flood; the extent of which may be imagined from the fact that the water has risen to the height of fifteen feet above the bed of the river."

A Coroner's inquest was held upon the three bodies at Sheffield, on Monday; and the Jury found the following inculpatory verdict-

" That the deceased were killed by the falling of the Bother viaduct, while in the course of construction, in consequence, it is believed by this Jury, of the insufficiency of the foundation."