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The Week.
stage , and early in the evening the House Avas counted out . In the House on the 2 nd insfc ., Sir George Grey was interrogated ivith reference to the Eev . G . R . Grey , the Worcestershire magistrate , who had committed a little girl for four days on a charge of stealing a penny . He said that the Lord Chancellor had not considered it necessary to remove the rev . gentleman from the commission of the peace . —Mr . Thomas Chambers
moved the second reading of the Bill for legalising marriage ivith a deceased wife ' s sister . There was a long ancl animated discussion , which ended in the Bill being rejected by 17-1 votes to 155 . The other business was of no general interest . GENERAL HOUE NEAVS . —The health of London , although on the Av'hole favourable as compared with other large cities ancl
towns , continues to furnish returns of deaths beyond the estimated average number for the week , corrected for increase of population . The annual rates of mortality last week ivere per 1 , 000—London , 25 ; Dublin , Bristol , and Hull , 26 ; Edinburgh , 27 ; Birmingham and Sheffield , 28 ; JTeivcastle-on-Tyne , 29 ; Manchester , 32 ; Leeds , 33 ; Salford , 36 ; Glasgow , 37 ; and
Liverpool , 38 . A considerable increase is reported in the deaths from typhus and phthisis , there being from the former 63 as against 4-S , and for the latter 227 as against 187 in the week previous . A fatal case of Asiatic cholera is reported from Bristol . The election committees made steady progress on the 25 th ult . The only one in which the proceedings possessed
much interest was that for Wakefield . It was stated that a man , who had absconded since , having embezzled money , had betted heavily on the result of the election , and in order to insure winning had bribed those to whom money had been given . Mr . Leatham was examined , and declared that his election cost him nothing , for that his committee had borne the whole of the expense . At the Mansion House
the man Smith , who is charged with being concerned in the Cannon-street murder , ivas brought up for re-examination . Arabella Robins , the witness who alleges that she saw the prisoner leave Messrs . Bevington's house on the night of the murder , again identified him as the man who passed her and gave her a glance . She was subjected to a somewhat severe
cross-examination , but did not vary her statement . The further evidence was important . AVitnesses were called from Eton who deposed that on the night of tne murder the prisoner had been heard to say he was going to London and that he was seen on his way to Slough in time to catch a train which ivould arrive in London at 8-4-0 . A further witness deposed to seeing
the prisoner the same night at nearly twelve o ' clock coining from the direction of the Windsor station , 'there being a train arriving there from London at 11-4-3 . The prisoner was remanded to the 4 .-th of May . An inquest was held on the body of AValter Robert Marsh , a child seven years and a half old , whose death had been occasioned by starvation ancl
illusage . The details brought out ivere horrible . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the father . If the report is to be believed the conspirators against the Government so far made up their minds that they must be sent for on the 28 th ulfc ., they held a meeting to airnage for a new Cabinet . The meeting is said to have been held at the house of Mr .
Laing , and the names of Mr . Disraeli , Mr . Lowe , Lord Grosvenor , and Lord Elcho are mentioned as having been present . From Dublin we learn that a police constable has been shot dead in that city . Two shots were fired at him . The first did not take effect ; the second killed him instantly . It is said that civilian and two soldiers were seen running away from the spot . A fearful accident happened on a line of railway in course of construction between Mitcham and'Siitton . Abridge
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fell in and buried six men ivho were at Avork . They were all killed . The only election committee which concluded its labours on the 30 th ult was that for King ' s County . Mr . Hennessy ancl his friends had boasted loudly that Sir Patrick O'Brien must be unseated as soon as the case was opened . All the boastings came to nought . The committee perplexed
themselves with the poll-books for four days , and then decided that Sir Patrick O'Brien was duly elected . Mr . Hennessy must therefore betake himself to another constituency . The cases of Cheltenham and Huddersfield are not yet closed . Lord Clarence Paget is going to join the Mediterranean fleet , and therefore has resigned his seat for Sandwich . A new Avrit
for the borough was ordered . Mr . G . Shaw-Lefevre has accepted a post in the Admiralty , and must offer himself to his constituents at Reading for re-election . The writ has been issued . — Another election committee commenced its sittings on the 1 st inst . —the one for Harwich . It appears that the validity of Captain Jervis's election is impugned on two grounds—first ,
because it is alleged that he held an office of place and profit under the Crown at the time of his election ; and secondly , on the ground of corrupt practices . Mr . Phinn opened the case for the petitioners . The office which it ivas contended disqualified Captain Jer ** is ivas that of Assistant Superintendent of the Royal Small Arms Establishment in London . After
hearing arguments ancl witnesses , the coramiteee decided that this was not an office which disqualified Captain Jervis . The allegations of bribery against the captain and his colleague , Mr . Kelk , are to be gone into . The Cheltenham and Huddersfield committees were occupied all day in receiving evidence . — There has been a meeting of the National Reform Union at
Manchester , presided over by Mr . George Wilson . Mr . Bright , M . P ., was present , and spoke briefly . He pointed out the necessity of all Reformers doing what they could to strengthen the hands of the Government . As to the Distribution Bill , he said , if it were as good a measure as the Franchise Bill , it ought to have the support of all Reformers . He declared that if
the Government departed from the vital principles of their hill no measure they could pass would be a permanent settlement of the question . If they maintained their position—and there ivas no reason to doubt thoy ivould—then , if they were beaten , they ought not to resign , but to appeal to the country . —~ Convocation assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber . The first
business done in the Upper House ivas to receive the Queen's reply to a congratulatory address on the approaching marriage of the Princess Helena . In the Lower House a large number of petitions were presented , and there was a long discussion in reference to the proposed court of final appeal in ecclesiastical cases .
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The Week.
stage , and early in the evening the House Avas counted out . In the House on the 2 nd insfc ., Sir George Grey was interrogated ivith reference to the Eev . G . R . Grey , the Worcestershire magistrate , who had committed a little girl for four days on a charge of stealing a penny . He said that the Lord Chancellor had not considered it necessary to remove the rev . gentleman from the commission of the peace . —Mr . Thomas Chambers
moved the second reading of the Bill for legalising marriage ivith a deceased wife ' s sister . There was a long ancl animated discussion , which ended in the Bill being rejected by 17-1 votes to 155 . The other business was of no general interest . GENERAL HOUE NEAVS . —The health of London , although on the Av'hole favourable as compared with other large cities ancl
towns , continues to furnish returns of deaths beyond the estimated average number for the week , corrected for increase of population . The annual rates of mortality last week ivere per 1 , 000—London , 25 ; Dublin , Bristol , and Hull , 26 ; Edinburgh , 27 ; Birmingham and Sheffield , 28 ; JTeivcastle-on-Tyne , 29 ; Manchester , 32 ; Leeds , 33 ; Salford , 36 ; Glasgow , 37 ; and
Liverpool , 38 . A considerable increase is reported in the deaths from typhus and phthisis , there being from the former 63 as against 4-S , and for the latter 227 as against 187 in the week previous . A fatal case of Asiatic cholera is reported from Bristol . The election committees made steady progress on the 25 th ult . The only one in which the proceedings possessed
much interest was that for Wakefield . It was stated that a man , who had absconded since , having embezzled money , had betted heavily on the result of the election , and in order to insure winning had bribed those to whom money had been given . Mr . Leatham was examined , and declared that his election cost him nothing , for that his committee had borne the whole of the expense . At the Mansion House
the man Smith , who is charged with being concerned in the Cannon-street murder , ivas brought up for re-examination . Arabella Robins , the witness who alleges that she saw the prisoner leave Messrs . Bevington's house on the night of the murder , again identified him as the man who passed her and gave her a glance . She was subjected to a somewhat severe
cross-examination , but did not vary her statement . The further evidence was important . AVitnesses were called from Eton who deposed that on the night of tne murder the prisoner had been heard to say he was going to London and that he was seen on his way to Slough in time to catch a train which ivould arrive in London at 8-4-0 . A further witness deposed to seeing
the prisoner the same night at nearly twelve o ' clock coining from the direction of the Windsor station , 'there being a train arriving there from London at 11-4-3 . The prisoner was remanded to the 4 .-th of May . An inquest was held on the body of AValter Robert Marsh , a child seven years and a half old , whose death had been occasioned by starvation ancl
illusage . The details brought out ivere horrible . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the father . If the report is to be believed the conspirators against the Government so far made up their minds that they must be sent for on the 28 th ulfc ., they held a meeting to airnage for a new Cabinet . The meeting is said to have been held at the house of Mr .
Laing , and the names of Mr . Disraeli , Mr . Lowe , Lord Grosvenor , and Lord Elcho are mentioned as having been present . From Dublin we learn that a police constable has been shot dead in that city . Two shots were fired at him . The first did not take effect ; the second killed him instantly . It is said that civilian and two soldiers were seen running away from the spot . A fearful accident happened on a line of railway in course of construction between Mitcham and'Siitton . Abridge
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fell in and buried six men ivho were at Avork . They were all killed . The only election committee which concluded its labours on the 30 th ult was that for King ' s County . Mr . Hennessy ancl his friends had boasted loudly that Sir Patrick O'Brien must be unseated as soon as the case was opened . All the boastings came to nought . The committee perplexed
themselves with the poll-books for four days , and then decided that Sir Patrick O'Brien was duly elected . Mr . Hennessy must therefore betake himself to another constituency . The cases of Cheltenham and Huddersfield are not yet closed . Lord Clarence Paget is going to join the Mediterranean fleet , and therefore has resigned his seat for Sandwich . A new Avrit
for the borough was ordered . Mr . G . Shaw-Lefevre has accepted a post in the Admiralty , and must offer himself to his constituents at Reading for re-election . The writ has been issued . — Another election committee commenced its sittings on the 1 st inst . —the one for Harwich . It appears that the validity of Captain Jervis's election is impugned on two grounds—first ,
because it is alleged that he held an office of place and profit under the Crown at the time of his election ; and secondly , on the ground of corrupt practices . Mr . Phinn opened the case for the petitioners . The office which it ivas contended disqualified Captain Jer ** is ivas that of Assistant Superintendent of the Royal Small Arms Establishment in London . After
hearing arguments ancl witnesses , the coramiteee decided that this was not an office which disqualified Captain Jervis . The allegations of bribery against the captain and his colleague , Mr . Kelk , are to be gone into . The Cheltenham and Huddersfield committees were occupied all day in receiving evidence . — There has been a meeting of the National Reform Union at
Manchester , presided over by Mr . George Wilson . Mr . Bright , M . P ., was present , and spoke briefly . He pointed out the necessity of all Reformers doing what they could to strengthen the hands of the Government . As to the Distribution Bill , he said , if it were as good a measure as the Franchise Bill , it ought to have the support of all Reformers . He declared that if
the Government departed from the vital principles of their hill no measure they could pass would be a permanent settlement of the question . If they maintained their position—and there ivas no reason to doubt thoy ivould—then , if they were beaten , they ought not to resign , but to appeal to the country . —~ Convocation assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber . The first
business done in the Upper House ivas to receive the Queen's reply to a congratulatory address on the approaching marriage of the Princess Helena . In the Lower House a large number of petitions were presented , and there was a long discussion in reference to the proposed court of final appeal in ecclesiastical cases .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
*«* ' All communications to he addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street , " Strand , London , W . C . J . McG . ( Boston ) . —AVe have replied to all the queries and await your news . BETA . —Send us your address and we will send you the information through the post , —the fitting channel for our replies .
P . Prov . AA ' . —1 . Your question is anticipated by the announcement in our advertising columns , of the Anniversary Festival of the Girls' School , ivhich takes place on Wednesday next . 2 . AA'e feel assured that if you address yourself to Bro . Patten upon the points referred to , he will , ivith his accustomed courtesy and alacrity , afford you the desired information . ANON * . —Received with thanks ; we have been compelled to defer them from want of space .