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      - . . ^ . The Elections. At The Cirences...

      - . . ^ . THE ELECTIONS . At the Cirencester Petty Sessions , on Monday , Mr . Henry Pole , of Stratton , near Qirencester , and three of his servants , were summoned under the ' Corrupt Practices Prevention Act , for having , by abduction and contrivance , interfered with the free exercise of the franchise by John Kibblewhite , of Cireneester , an old labourer , who deposed that the day before the election he was sent for to Mr . Pole ' s house to open a drain . The woman servant gave him some tea which he says , stupified him . He was then sent to a public house , the landlady of which was told that he was ill , and to give him twenty drops of laudanum in some rum , the next morning . Eventually he got to the hustings in time , and voted . The magistrate committed the three servants , but admitted them to bail . They considered that there was no evidence against Mr . Pole . The Cork Examiner , in announcing the death of Mr . Fagan , M . P . for that city , says that the Liberal party are prepared with a candidate in the person of Dr . Lyons . Mr . B . H . Carroll and Mr . Hood are also canvassing . The last of the elections , that for Kilkenny County , has taken place ; and the following list , in addition to what has already appeared , in our columns , completes the returns of members for the new Parliament : — IRELAND .

      Places. Representatives. L. C. £Iikenny(...

      Places . Representatives . L . C . £ iiKENNY ( Co . ) Hon . L . Agar Ellis > L .. 1 — Mr . J . Greene , L ...... 1 — Kings County .. Mr . P . O'Brien , L ... 1 — Mr . Henessey , L ...... 1 — Limerick ( Co . ) Mr . Monsell , L ... 1 — ColonelDickson , C .... — 1 Londonderry Captain Dawson , C .... — 1 ( County ) Sir F . Heygate ^ C .... — 1 Lotjth ( C 6 unty ) Mr . C . S . Fortescue , L . 1 — Mr . Bellew , L 1 — Mayo ( County ) . Lord J . Browne , L .... 1 — Mr . R . W . Palmer , C .. — . 1 Bo s c o M M o NColonel French , L .... 1 — ( County ) Captain Goff , C — 1 StiGb ( County ) . Sir R . G . Booth , G .. ¦•; .. - * - ¦ 1 Mr . E . J . Cooper , C .. ¦ ¦* - < 1 Wexford ( Co ) . Mr . P . M'Mahon . 1 — Mr . George , C — 1

      The Total Number Of Members Returned Is ...

      The total number of members returned is : — Liberals 353 Conservatives 302 The House of Commons consists of 654 members ; but the above figures give a total of 653 , which is occasioned by a double return for Aylesbury—two of the candidates , one a Liberal and the other a Conservative , having received an equal number of votes .

      Political Foreshapowxlsrgs

      had been passed they would have been better without the Reform Bill of 1832 . Did it ever happen to any Government in this country , or in the world , that upon three great questions their measures should be so ill-cpnsideredj so illrcalculated to meet with the approval of the people , that every one of them failed ? Before the dissolution they were told that the Government- ought to be kept in power , because there was only one man who could maintain the peace of Europe , and that was Lord Malmesbury . Well , the voice of England in Parliament , which might have had some weight , was silenced by the dissolution , and within ten days war was declared . Did they approve the appointments of the Government

      when they put into a high judicial situation a man who knew little or nothing of law ,. having only held a clerkship in an office , and the very mention 6 f which appointment caused him to give it up ? Did they approve the manner in which a great department over which he had once the honour of presiding was made the arena of political jobbery ? These were probably not the grounds on which the Government appealed to the country , but they were at least the facts most patent to all men , and he congratulated the electors of the West Riding on the two

      POLITICAL FORESHADOWINGS . Sin James Graham and the Ministers . — Sir John Pakington and General Peel have both written to Sir James upon the subject of some statements advanced by him in his Carlisle speech . Sir John Pakington is hurt by Sir James ' s assertion that' * Captain -Carnegie informed the First Lord of the Admiralty he had made inquiries at Dover , and he was satisfied success was impossible without the use of means which , as a man of honour , he could not use . The First Lord of the Admiralty said * There is no option , ' and intimated that he must go to Dover . " Sir John declares this imputation to be totally unfounded . General Peel denies that the increased allowance of billet money to publicans was given for electioneering purposes , since it was promised in the House of Commons in February last ; the statement of Sir James Graham as to the new barracks at Berwick he also contradicts . Sir , James lias apologised to both the right hon . gentlemen . Sure CHAnr . ES W 6 o » , M . P . —At an election dinnner the right hon . barfc . congratulated the electors of West Yorkshire on the result of the poll , and said , When defeated on the Reform Bill , Government appealed io the country to reverse the decision of tho House of Commons . Their answer , at least , could not ) bo misunderstood .. The Government were anxious to escape from ihe issue which the decision of the House of Commons raised . They said they did not appeal to the country on that bill , but on the merits of the Government . Well , let them weigh the Government on such grounds . There were three measures of importance , which they brought before the Xjfouae , and what was tb . e result ? There was ,, first , thq India Bill , which was rejected with contempt and ridicule } next they brought ; in a Church-rate Bill , which satisfied nobody , and it was thrown out j tho third measure waB the Reform Bill , of which he would say nothing but this , that if it

      answer which they had given , by sending men who would say , " Forbearing have we been , longsufiering have we been , a fair trial have we given you ,-but your own acts are the strongest condemnation which could be passed upon any Government . " Let the Government take it which way they liked ; they had asked the constituency of the West Riding what they thought of the Reform Bill , and what ; they thought of the Government . There could be no doubt as to the answer . They rejected the one and condemned the other . Lord Charles Rushem-, M . P . —At Bedford , the noble lord has delivered a speech in which he was very hard upon Lord Derby for dissolving Parlia ^ ment , and laid at his door the responsibility of the complications now existing on the European continent . Lord Charles also delivered a vindication of bis brother ' s policy . He said > The limits of an afterdinner speech will not allow me to attempt even a sketch of my . brother ' s Parliamentary life . We can't put the contents of an encyclopaedia into the harrow dimensions of a penny tract ; but did time permit I could , desire no more grateful theme . During a long political life "of more than forty , years , Lord John has not laboured in vain for . a generous and a grateful

      people . And now a word or two about foreign policy . War is abroad , and the only circumstance that cheers me is , that we seem to have no reason to take part in the present war . We can have no interest in Austria , that most hopeless of all governments , that has So systematically suppressed the liberty of a noble people in the fairest portion of the globe . Nor can we feel much hope in the liberty of one nation gained by the arms of another , nor in the . truth of France , with liberty on her lips and despotism on her brow . The application of all this is—that Austria represents the old Tories of this country , and France their present race , with reform in their

      mouths and , reaction in their hearts . We can have no sympathy with either . Then let us take our stand , not in the armed neutrality of Lord Derby , but in the strict neutrality of Lord John Russell ; and while the despotic nations of the continent are on the full march of retrogression , let us free islanders rest secure within our double wall of sea and ships , and at the dictate of our old reforming statesman , so busy ourselves with measures of internal reform as to be a beacon to the nations , burning bright above the lurid glare of war , and teaching that the best hope of a free people is the freedom of her institutions , —her best security , the timely extension of their basis .

      Mr . Urquhart . —This eccentric gentleman delivered the concluding portions of his lecture on the War in Italy last night . Amid much that was strange and incomprehensible in his address there were some passages which , displayed both reason and eloquence . Chatham . —The Liberals of Chatham , believing that their recent defeat at the election was partly owing to the want of a thorough organisation of the party , have resolved to form a Liberal Association to remedy that defect . A meeting was held on Monday night , and it was unanimously resolved to form an association , to bo supported by vqluntary contributions .

      Meetings on the WAR . r-At a meeting of the Plymouth town-council last week , a memorial to Government was adopted , to tho effect that it ia no part of the duty of England to meddle in the contest now going on . *—Public meetings advocating non-intervention hove , also , been well attended at Manchester and Nottingham , and resolutions passed to that effect . — -A great non-intervention meeting has been held" at Norwich . An address to tho Queen , in favour of abstinence from tho present war , was adopted unanimously .

      Gatherings From Law And Politp Courts. ^...

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLITP COURTS . ^ ULIOE At the Central Criminal Court on Saturday " WafftiPi . and his accomplices were tried and found euiltv on another charge of forgery . Wagner and Bateman were then sentenced to be transported for lift . Humphries for twenty years ; and ten years' Benni servitude was awarded to the other two prisoners _ - The man" Hughes who mutilated the pictures in Marylebone Church , and is supposed to have perne trated the outrage at the Colosseum , was tried on the former charge on Satxirday . He was fourid guilty , and as he was obviously insane , he was simply ordered to be detained during her Majesty ' s pleasure . —Joseph A . Zalmanoyicz , clerk , was found guilty of stealing l , 650 Z . in bank-notes ; sentence deferred . At the Court of Bankruptcy the proceedings upon a fresh petition for a winding-up order against the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company have resulted in the petition being dismissed with costs . At the Surrey Sessions on Wednesday Walter Rogers and John Baker , known as the " Camberwell house-breakers , " were found guilty pf breaking into and robbing several houses in that neighbourhood . Several skeleton keys and other burglars' implements were found upon them , and it being proved that they were bad characters , the Chairman sentenced each to six years' penal servitude .

      Criminal Record. A Poob Woman, Named Mar...

      CRIMINAL RECORD . A poob woman , named Martha Page , was stabbed in the street at Howard-road , Ilornsey , by her brother-in-law , Samuel Adams , and died in the hospital on Saturday . Adams , who is a morose , dru Bken savage , when charged before Mr . Tyrwhitt , at Cl erkenwell , on the same day , with the crime of murder , seemed to be the least , concerned about the matter of any one in court . The magistrate remanded the case till to-day . On Saturday a convict , named Henry Edmonds ,

      made his escape from the Model Prison , Pentonville . He succeeded in getting over the top of the wall , which is some 25 feet or more in height . He then hailed a cab , and directed the driver to-proceed to Greek-street , Soho , and at a pawnbroker ' s he pledged some false teeth which he wore for 7 s ., paying the cabman 3 s . Evans then disappeared , and nothing has been Heard of him since . Among the crimes and casualties of the day is to be recorded the suicide of an officer at Canterbury—Cornet A . J .. Bourke Fellowes , of the 1 st Dragoon Guards . The poor fellow was . subject to certain unpleasant visits of the sheriff ' s officer , which he had not the courage to meet , as he took a carbine and shot himself through the head . committed at in

      • A dreadful murder was Leubury , Herefordshire , on Tuesday night . Ihe offices of Mr . Masefield , solicitor , were broken into and robbed , and the housekeeper , a woman of fitty . years ot age , was found in the morning dead . It was evident that she had been strangled ; in addition to winch her clothes had been set fire to , and the body and the floor of the room were half consumed No trace of the trail tv persons has been discoveml . S K gentlemanly appearance honoured an hotel at Weymouth under the assumed name of Lord Henley and ingratiated himselrwi ^ luudtort . TTnon settling his account , " Lord Aleniey drew a £ ue for 40 ? . upon Messrs . Bansome and Co which awii Sss ^ SSSs on a forged cheque . Under the name of Lord ui ford at Torquay , he gave ft cheque ior 15 / . on Coutts % , iSRaftoI . change , and has not since been heard of .

      Accidents. Tub. Inquest On The Bpdios Of...

      ACCIDENTS . Tub . inquest on the bpdios of the five unfortunate men who lost their lives through the ^ c . Oong f wn of a scaffold at the Westminster V'KJd « H tlw opened on Saturday eyenh » g , and adjourned . till « w 23 rd inst . The coroner issued an o ? der for tliotooawfl of the deceased , persons to be delivered up to tnexr fti o " eoroner ' s inquest on the bodies tfg ? "J ^ tunato men who wore killed by the cxp «« lo » * j ^ Hounslow powder-mills was brought to ^ , " ^ tion on Tuesday . The jury returned a . vcidmX ao daring that the deaths had boon ocenswnwrby explosion of gunpowder , but that th ° «> « ere m > means to show nW the accident had take i-pluou They further cast censure upon the way in * Woii »™

      works had boon managed . « ¦ ni . nnv on tho . A eacl event occurred in the Bay of . Biscay on tno 10 th . Admiral Thornton , one of tho iliroet ™ " ) ° Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company , hi "J " out to Alexandria in tho Ripon lor n trip . 1 no g «< lant admiral appeared to bo in his usual . >™ W > g spirits , and was pacing tho dock on Monday , toiiu denly lie wa 9 misled , and there is little ^ ubt oi : wa having fliUen overboard . The body was not soon afterwards .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), May 21, 1859, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21051859/page/4/