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has been seen of him since , and the poor woman is too much injured to give any very clear account of him . Some month ago the body of a child was picked up near Dolgelly . It was wrapped in a copy of the Manchester Examiner and Times , upon which was written the name of Mr . Griffin , a draper , of Stafford . ¦ Inquiries were made , and there were good reasons for believing that Thirza Tunstall , Mr . Griffin ' s

liousekeepeer , had given birth to the child . She and Griffin were committed for trial , and the case came on at the Merionethshire assizes at Bala , on Saturday , the 17 th insfc . The woman Tunstall was admitted to give evidence , and stated that the child was born dead , that Griffin was the father of it , that he had taken it away , and that he told her he had thrown

ifc out of the window of a railway carriage near Dolgelly . Griffin was found guilty , and sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment-The nomination of candidates for Tewkesbury took place on the 12 th insfc . Mr . Martin ( Liberal ) , and Mr . Lechmere ( Conservative ) , were proposed . The show of hands was in favour of Mr . Martin . A poll was demanded for Mr . Lechmere , who

proved successful by a majority of three votes . A supplement to tbe Gazette , issued on the 19 th , contains an Order in Council enforcing the cleansing and disinfecting of _ afcfcle trucks by railway companies . At the Middlesex Sessions , William Osborne Burden , a telegraphing clerk , pleaded guilty to defrauding the Government departments and his employers . He

was tbe clerk employed to do the foreign telegraphing of the Government , and he had made great overcharges for messages . He was sentenced to nine months' improvement with hard labour . An inquest was held touching the death of a ivoman named Connor , who , after having eaten a single mussel , became violently unwell , and shortly thereafter died . The medical evidence did not clearly state that the woman was poisoned

by the shell-fish ; and the jury returned a verdict that deceased died in a fit after having eaten a mussel . The election committees got to work on the 20 th inst ., and began inquiries into the petitions respecting Boston , Bridgnorth , Nottingham , Totness , and Yarmouth . In the Nottingham case there are cross petitions . That of Mr . Paget against Sir R

Clifton was proceeded with . The opening statement of counsel was to the effect that the most lawless violence and intimidation had been used to ensure the return of Sir R . Clifton . The Boston case is resolved into a scrutiny . Mr . Parry had a majority of twelve votes over Mr . Staniland ; of these eleven were struck off before the committee adjourned . Tuesday ,

the 20 th insfc ., was generally observed as a day of humiliation and prayer in the diocese of London . Dean Stanley was the preacher at the Abbey in the morning . He deduced from the cattle plague many practical lessons both of resignation and charity ; and illustrated his idea that great calamities were often the means of accomplishing great ultimate good , by

referring- to the great fire of London . In the afternoon the Lord Mayor and Corporation went to St . Paul ' s , where the Bishop of London preached . There were services in all the London churches . The Prince of Wales has consented to be present at the Easter Monday review at Brighton . In the Divorce Court Mr . Justice Wilde gave judgment in

the case of Hyde v . Hyde and Woodmansee . The petitioner prayed for a dissolution of his marriage with the respondent . The marriage had taken place at Utah according to the Mormon rite , and the question really at issue was whether a Mormon marriage was valid in this country . Justice Wilde held that it was not , and dismissed the petition . A poor old woman , who has been an inmate of Lambeth Workhouse for several years , and who has been permitted to officiate as nurse , had saved up

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during that time seventeen shillings given to her in small dona tions . Finding ifc almost impossible to conceal this accumulating treasure , she requested a friend to pawn it for her , which was done . Another inmate , however , having caught sight of the duplicate , went to the pawnbroker , and having gone through the usual ceremony of swearing she was the owner of the property for which the duplicate was missing , received the old woman's

savings , less the interest due to the pawnbroker . The latter applied at the Lambeth Police-court for a warrant against the thief , which was granted . At the Surrey Sessions a woman named Payne was found guilty of having conveyed into Horsemonger-lane Goal a crowbar for the purpose of facilitating the escape of a prisoner under sentence of penal servitude .

The magistrate granted a case for the Court of Criminal Appeal , it having been maintained that a crow bar was not mentioned in the Act , and sentence was deferred . At the Middlesex Sessions , a man named Butcher was charged , along with some boys , with having stolen six oil-calces from a barge in the river Lea . Ifc was shown that Butcher had incited

the boys to the theft , and had afterwards received the stolen property . The boys were set at liberty , but Butcher was sentenced to imprisonment wifch hard labour for two years . —<—One of the election petitions has been decided . Mr . Staniland has succeeded in striking off as many votes given to Mr . Parry at Boston as reduced the latter ' s number below that of tbe

former . The committee have therefore decided that Mr . Parry was nob duly elected , and that Mr . Staniland was . The Nottingham case is only yet at the opening . The committee resolved , on the 21 st insfc ., that agency must be first proved by the petitioner , Mr . Paget , and the sitting was adjourned until the 23 rd . The inquiry seems likely to last over the whole of the Easter recess . The Bridgnorth case appears to be closing . It

has very little of interest . Totnes and Yarmouth are coming ; out very badly . Ifc is evident that whoever found the money , large sums were paid at both places for votes . Those who speak of the apathy of tbe country in respect to the Reform Bill are likely soon to have another tale to tell . Already three expressions of opinion have been given—Leicester ,

Manchester , and Norwich have all declared for the bill . They do not think ifc Jail they could wish , but declare ifc to be the duty of every honest Liberal to support the measure as being a substantial instalment of what is due . The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been written to by Messrs . Harrison , timber merchants , of Hull , in reference to the duties on wood , and

that pending the decision of the House the duty will be remitted from the 1 st of April , on the merchants undertaking to pay the duty should Parliament subsequently require ifc . AVe regret to announce the death , after four days' illness , of Mr . Frederick David Goldsmid , M . P . The honourable gentlemen was a Liberal , and was first returned to Parliament afc the last general election .

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