The Welshman

FRANCE. I PARIS, May 30. The Moniteur announces that the Electoral Colleges are convoked for the 21st of June, for the purpose of electing a deputy for each district. The electors of the Department of Corsica are summoned, with the same object, for the 28th of June. According to intelligence from the Departments, people are beginning to stir themselves in the various electoral districts on the choice of candidates for the Corps Legis- latif. PARIS, May 31. The Moniteur publishes a circular from the Minister of the Interior to the prefects on the subject of the elections, stating that the Emperor calls to the ballot nine millions of electors, and expects from all a free and loyal vote.

PRUSSIA. I BERLIN, May 30. The Emperor and Empress of Russia are expected here in June.

SWITZERLAND. I BERNE, May 30. It is for the purpose of ratifying the treaty with Prussia that the Federal Assembly has been convoked for the 9th of June. The bodies of 54 workmen have been taken out from under the ruins of the tunnel of Hanenstein.

PERSIA. I Letters from Teheran state that the Persian army on the frontiers of Affghanistan was already evacuating the districts occupied by it. It had already quitted Farrah and would soon evacuate Herat.

EVACUATION OF MOHAMMERAH. I The Constitutionnel publishes a private letter from the Persian Gulf, received through Bagdad, which announces that on the 21st of April the British troops evacuated the town of Mohammerah, of which they had taken pos- session at the latter end of March. The steam corvettes Comete, Planete, and Assyrie, brought the British troops back to Busbire. General Outram continued to evacuate the Persian Gulf. The British troops were beginning to experience rather severe losses by disease.

AUSTRIA. I VIENNA, May 30. The little Archduchess Sophia died at Buda yesterday evening. Their Majesties will return to Vienna to-day.

THE PERSIAN TREATY. I VIENNA, May 30. Mr. Stephens, British Consul at Teheran, arrived here to-day with the ratified Anglo-Persian treaty. He leaves for London this evening.

?. 1. -?l-. AMERICA. I LIVERPOOL, May 31. The Europe has arrived with advices from New York to the 19th, and Boston to the 20th. She has brought £ 1,065,459 dollars on freight. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald writes on the 17th Despatches have been re- ceived from England stating that the position of our Go- vernment, as laid down in the reply of General Cass to Lord Napier relative to the Chinese affair, is entirely satisfactory to the British Cabinet. Joint armed inter- vention was asked for and decidedly declined. Our Go- vernment agreed to co-operate by representation and joint remonstrance, and this is believed to be satisfactory to England, as it was obviously the only proper course for us to adopt." The same journal publishes another despatch one day later, which says -11 Lord Napier has not received any reply from the Secretary of State to his proposal to re- open negotiations respecting the Central American Ques- tion. Lord Napier has again called the attention of our Government to the claim of certain British subjects for indemnity for losses at Greytown." The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says:—"Whenever the ratification of the Treaty between Great Britain and Honduras shall be received, all the obstacles to the completion of the Dallas-Clarendon Treaty, including all the amendments of the Senate, will have been removed, and Lord Napier will be enabled, in the name of his Government, to reopen negotiations." The treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Honduras, together with the additional article guarantee- ing the neutrality of the inter-oceanic railroad through the Republic of Honduras from Port Cabello on the Atlantic to the Bay of Fonseca on the Pacific, had been ratified by the Honduras Government, but the two conventions re- lative to the Bay Islands and to Mosquito, which were signed at the same time by Senor Don Victor Herran on the part of Honduras, and by Lord Clarendon on the part of Great Britain in London last autumn, have not been ratified. It was reported that Major M'Culloch had declined the Presidentship of Utah, and that recent information had caused a change in the policy hitherto contemplated, the condition of Utah now being such as to require vigorous measures. Troops in large numbers would be sent thither, probably under command of General Harney. The reported flight of Brigham Young from Salt Lake City appears to be untrue. Advices from the City of Mexico state that Crabbe's California Filibustering party had been attacked at Cor- borea by the Mexiean troops, and forced to surrender at discretion. The Fillibuiters, including their leader, had been shot.

"#v. "#'# "#V" #v"' A./>V' INDIA AND CHINA. CALCUTTA, April 2 I. The mutinous spirit in the army appears to have received a check. The fate of the 19th Native Infantry has frightened men who, whatever else they may wish, do not wish to cease to be soldiers. The men of the 36th who taunted the pupils in the Umbella school of exercise are under trial. The 34th, though still sullen, are completely cowed, and the wavering regiments—notably the 2d Grena- diers-seem, native-like, to have made up their minds to side with the strongest. The fate of the 24th Native In- fantry is not yet decided, but I hear that Government will probably discharge the disaffected, without breaking up the regiment. There is a hope very generally expressed that the punishment will be accompanied by some compliment to the Mussulmans, who have behaved conspicuously well. The vacillation of the Commander-inChief somewhat im- pairs the energy of the military authorities at Barrackpore. The jemadar commanding the guard which refused to assist Lieutenant Baugh has been sentenced by a native court-martial to death. Such a sentence on a commissioned officer must be confirmed by the Commander-in-Chief. It was confirmed by telegraph, but on the morning of the execution an order was transmitted, staying execution till General Anson had received the evidence in detail. The men who attempted to tamper with the Mint Guard have received 14 years' transportation. This leniency is to be regretted, as a plan did really exist for seizing the Mint and plundering the vaults. It is the only instance in which the native court-martials have failed in their duty. They have been throughout the affair somewhat severe, a fact the more remarkable as they are chosen almost by lot, and are abso- lutely independent. The affair will blow over, but it has brought up the question of a reorganization of the army. It is the opinion of the ablest officers in the service that the Sepoy army is hopelessly effete. The men are as good as ever they were, but the organization has broken down. Discipline has been relaxed by the tendency to deprive commanding officers of power. The connexion between officers and men has been broken by incessant draughts for civil employ, and the change in morals, together with the new facilities for reaching Europe, have 44 un-Hindooized" the officers. That this state of agairs can be remedied is evident from the condition of the Irregulars. They neither mutiny nor murmur, are always ready for service, and always devoted to their leaders. Two distinct plans, therefore, have their advocates in the country. By one plan, supported by men like Sir Henry Lawrence, Colonel Edwardes, Col. Jacob, and successful officers generally, the line will be reduced in strength. It will be somewhat over-officered, in order to act as a depot, or, rather, reservoir, of irregular officers. The vacancy will be filled up by an additional of 20,000 Europeans to the army, and the creation of say 60 new irregular corps. The opponents of this plan, comprising most Queen's officers in the country, prefer to reinvigorate the ancient system by compelling all officers to remain with their regiments, by oreating a civil staff corps, and by introducing the harsher discipline of continental armies. The news of peace in Persia has been received without pleasure in Bengal. The war was never very popular, but Anglo-Indians are educated in the belief that war should end in conquest, in the utter destruction of the opposing power. The treaty is condemned, therefore, as producing no permanent result. The surrender of Herat to its native chiefs sounds like a joke. Herat has no native chiefs who could defend it for a month, and it may be retaken just when the Shah chooses to repeat his experiment. The news of war with China, however, has been received with universal congratulations. Nobody in this country ever doubted that Sir John Bowring was in the right, but many feared that the nation, misled by dreams of peace, would decline to support his acts. According, the merchants of Calcutta are about to attend Lord Canning with an address expressing their unanimous sympathy with the policy of Lord Palmerston, and their conviction that the time for concession to the Chinese has passed. The news of events in Sarawak has increased the prevailing enthusiasm. Those events are beyond my province, but Sir James Brooke is one of the heroes of the Anglo-Indian com- munity. When the commission of inquiry was ordered it was difficult to find two commissioners from the extraordi- nary prepossession in his favour, and I have known quiet officials who actually resented abuse of the Ilajah as vehemently as a personal insult to themselves. You will observe that at Singapore the very men who, in 1851, called for the commission of inquiry, have passed at a public meeting an address, congratulating the Rajah on his just severity." Fruzl Alee, the dacoit chief who murdered Mr. Boileau, the deputy-commissioner of Secrora, Oude, has been put to death. He was pursued by Captain Boileau at the head of a party of Irregulars. Another party, commanded by Lieutenant L. Clarke, was detached a little to the westward of the main body. Fruzl Alee tried his old game, diving at once into the jungles of the Nepaul Valley. The officers pursued, and Lieutenant Clarke came on the bandit while reposing in the full confidence of security. A short but desperate engagement ensued, the Irregulars and the dacoits fighting hand to hand. It terminated in the slaughter of the entire band. Fruzl Alee, his brother, his nephew, and the principal followers were left dead on the field. The example will be of the highest benefit in Oude. There is little domestic news stirring. Two wars and half-a-dozen mutinies give the Governor-General enough to do, and till the Governor-General moves internal reform is impossible. There is a general feeling, however, that Lord Canning, who was greatly distrusted by the com- munity, has behaved well in a very difficult crisis. lIe is understood to have followed his own course, to have re- pressed wild counsels, and to have laid down a course of action to which he has firmly adhered. During the height of the discontent, while every night produced a new plot, he still eutrusted Government House to the custody of the mutinous regiment. The sentry at his own library door was one of the party suspected of the most violent designs, and any hint of danger to himself only produced a smile. Firmness of this kind is perhaps over appreciated in India. BOMBAY, May 1. None of the troops that had actually reached Dushire have yet returned to Bombay. Some of the latest depar- tures have been overtaken and recalled, as I mentioned in my last. Among them is one squadron of the 14th Light Dragoons, which has gone back to its old quarters at Kirkee, without even having landed on the enemy's ground. The number of vessels in the service of Government is however larger than ever, and commissariat stores are still forwarded in large quantities. No fewer than 96 sailing craft of various kinds, besides several steamers-the ships averaging fully 1,000 tons-are at present carrying the pennant at a total monthly cost of about £ 100,000. The great majority of these will no doubt remain in the Gulf till after the monsoon. One of the-larger steam frigates, probably the Assaye, will proceed from Bushire to Suez, perhaps touching here first to take on board Lord Elgin and convey him to China. Major-General Ashburnham is expected to arrive here on his way to China by the next mail. We have nothing of importance from Affghanistan, save the announcement that Major Lumsden and the British mission was at the fort of Koorun (in the valley of that name, which was lately entered by a force from Peshawur), on the 20th of March. The commandant of the fort turned out his garrison to receive the party, and showed them all the civilities in his power. A troublesome clan being in arms to impede their further progress he detained them in his fort while with a strong body of men he advanced to clear the way for them. From Madras we hear of General Grant's investiture at the hands of Lord Harris with the insignia of the Bath. Here it is getting very hot and very empty. SirH. Somerset and the head-quarter staff of the army went up to Mahab- leshwur last week.

CHINA. HONGKONG, April 15. Since writing on the 30th ult. the occurrences we have to report have been unimportant. Her Majesty's steampr Sampson came down the river on the 14th inst., but brought no news of any interest. The Chinese warjunks and boats, which were at one time so numerous in the vicinity of our vessels, are said to have nearly all disappeared. Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour has his Bag at pre- sent on board Her Majesty's ship Calcutta in the harbour. On the 2nd instant the boats of the Hon. Company's steamer Auckland, at Tung Chung bay, cut out a mandarin junk, which was brought in here by the steamer. A bat- tery on shore, which opened fire on the boats as they were pulling in, was also taken possession of, and held till the junk was got under way. In this service I regret to say that two officers and one seaman were severely wounded, and four men wounded slightly- I have also to notice an engagement which took place when the boats of Her Majesty's steamers Sampson and Hornet and ship Sibylie, under Commodore Elliot, attacked a strong force of mandarin boats and three lorchas in Deep Bay, at the entrance of the Canton river. Ten boats and the three lorchas were destroyed. The firing that was kept up on our boats from the shore, where a great number of Chinese soldiers were congregated, was very heavy, but the only accident on our side was one man severely wound- ed. Some important papers are said to have been found on board the junks, but their contents are not at present made public. The Company's steamer Auckland left here for Singa- pore on the 6th inst. During her short sojourn here she succeeded on several occasions in rendering good service. The Company's steamer Zenobia left on the 7th instant for Lingapore and Madras. Iler Majesty's steamer Barracouta left for England on the 13th inst. His Excellency Sir John Bowring, after the receipt of his despatches by last mail, 10th of February, visited Macao, where he had a conference with the French and American Ministers. It is understood that instructions have been sent out by the Imperial French Government that the French forces in these parts are to co-operate with ours in the present crisis in China. The American Minister had not received similar orders from his Govern- ment. The French minister, M. Bourbillon, is at present here on a visit to Sir John Bowring. We have to report a most atrocious murder which has been perpetrated here. Mr. Charles Markwick, Govern- ment auctioneer, formerly a servant in the East India Company's service in Canton, and one of the oldest Eu- ropean residents in China, was strangled while confined to his bed by sickness, by one of his house servants, for the sake, it would appear, of some little property which was in the house. ihe miscreant has for tne present escaped, but, as the Government have offered a reward of 500 dollars for his apprehension, it is likely this may ulti- mately lead to his being secured. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Lady Mary Wood arrived yesterday from Shanghai with dates to the 6th inst. The steamer touched at the other ports on her way down, and reports that quiet prevailed. Above Chimmoo the steamer fell in with two large rice junks, which were being attacked by eight large piratical boats and a heavily armed lorcha. On the steamer ap- proaching the pirates made off. The junks were taken in tow by the steamer and brought to Amoy. The crews reported they had been fighting for three days and nights. A great number of the men on board the junks were killed or wounded. Pekin Gazettes reach to the 2nd of March, but still no mention is made of the Canton question. The Shanghai officials, with, it would appear, the con- currence of the Imperial Government, have imposed a duty of 12 taels per chest on the entrance of opium into Shan- ghai. The money goes into the Imperial Treasury for payment of troops. At Ningpo a collision had taken place between the French and Portuguese lorchamen. Two of the former were wounded. The matter has been reported to the French Minister, and an inquiry will, no doubt, be in- stituted From Canton we have no reliable information. Great distress, we hear, prevails in the neighbourhood from the high price .of rice. ITEMS OF FOREIGN MEWS. Although considerable sameness continues to characterize the terms in which the foreign news is told, the world is moving, and not very slowly in some parts. In Hungary, the nobles are petitioning for a restoration of their language, institutions, and representation only two families, distinguished by diamonds and horse-racing of a very cosmopolitan kind, wittholding their signature to this new draft charter. The answer of the Austrian King John is not stated. The Neuchatel question is at last really settled; the King of Prussia surrendering his sovereignty, but re- taining the title of Prince" for he declines, says re- port, a modicum of cash originally stipulated. In Italy, the Pope is making a progress under favour of Austrian congratulations preferring residence at Bologna in order to show that he does not need French protection. At the same time, new disclosures establish a state of the prisons in Ilome as hideous as in Naples. Piedmont has been receiving the Empress of Russia with a most signi- ficant cordiality. If international anger smoulders in Europe, the reports from the West are not all reassuring. New Granada is said to contemplate a concession to the United States; but in Washington there is some irritation at the absolute failure of the Dallas-Clarendon treaty while reports are put in circulation, that Great Britain intends to renew her position in Ruatan on a stronger footing. The most incomprehensible report we find in the Morn- ing Post-that the British Colonial Government has sent troops to support the Hudson's Bay Company in resisting an unexplained encroachment. The writer anticipates a squabble, placing the Canadians in opposition to the British Government; a political blunder that might have lamentable consequences throughout the whole of the American continent.

Terms of amalgamation between the Wesleyan Refor- mers and the Wesleyan Association body have now been finally arranged.—Nonconformist. Somebody has written a book on The Art of making People Happy without Money. We are in excellent con- dition to be experimented upon.-Neiv York Dispatch- The greatest recommendation for articles used for food, is that their wholesomeness has not been interfered with. TEA,—-our favourite domestic solace,-is, according to Parliamentary Evidence, subjected to injury, as the Chinese employ mineral powders to colour that intended for Eu- ropean supply. They were led to this strange and mis- chevious practice, by finding out that the brown withered appearance of the Autumn leaves might be disguised with powdered colours; this adds to the profit, for when the Spring and the Autumn Crop are coloured alike, the fla- vourless dingy sorts arc readily passed off for the b-vst. Now, as this practice is undesirable both on the score of healthful indulgence and real economy, ITomiman and Co., London, are importing Tea that has not been made bright or black on the surface. It is obtainable in Packets from LOCAL AGENTS as advertised in our paper. i

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 1 Bank notes have been counterfeited in New York by means of photography. A petition has been presented against the return of Mr. J. Bramley Moore for Maldon. The three electors who present the petition allege bribery, &c. On Sunday Mr. Spurgeon preached at the Surrey Music Hall to about 11,000 persons, among whom were the Duchess of St. Albans, Baron Brainwell, and between 60 and 70 members of Parliament. On Friday the omnibus circulation of Paris diminishes 25 per cent., proving how strong is the superstitious avoid- ance of doing anything that can be avoided on that day. The working men of Blackburn and neighbourhood have already placed nearly £ 1,000 in Messrs. Cunliffe's bank towards the fund for the erection and endowment of an in- firmary. Mr. Alexander Brady, a furniture dealer, of Wakefield* has been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for feloniously receiving a shilling's worth of horse hair. It appears that the attorney's bill for defending Wooler in the Darlington poisoning case (tried at Durham assizes in 1855) amounted to fl,(197. It is reported in clerical circles that Mr. Labouchere has offered the vacant see of Sierre Leone to the Rev. Samuel Crowther, a man of colour, once a slave boy, one ot the Church Missionary Society's clergy stationed at Abbe- kutha. The Athenmim of Saturday has an article showing that nearly 200 pages of the sixth volume of Sir A. Alison's "History of Europe" are copied, with very slight verbal alterations' from Mr. Kaye's work on Affghanistan. The Lutheran clergymen in Wurtemberg are resolved, if possible, to introduce what they are pleased to call "stricter church discipline," and the laymen are so incensed at their conduct that they openly accuse them of being masked Roman Catholics. Mr. Distin has constructed for the Handel Festival a drum, the diameter of which is between six and seven feet and the tone of which more resembles an organ bourdon pipe, both in quality and continuance, than that generally obtained from an instrument of percussion. A Parliamentary return gives the names of all the offi- cers who were present with the army in the Crimea throughout the war, together with the particulars of the arrival and departure of those who left or arrived during the occupation of the Crimea by the allies. The number of officers who remained the whole time was 231. A number of fowls of French breed have just been in- troduced into Southampton. They are called the French Dorking. Their plumage is glossy black, speckled slightly on the back with gold spots. They weigh heavy, and are capital layers of large eggs, but are bad sitters, so that their young are usually reared by fowls of other breeds. The Greenock Advertiser states that, in the neighbour- hood of Bishopston of Moss, last week, two females were seen yoked in a plough, which was guided by an ungallant male. The only way of accounting for this eccentric pro- ceeding is the suggestion that the land is too light to admit of horses being employed. '1'L r'1- ri1. .Liie vommanuer-in-umer, nis itoyal nigtiness the Duke of Cambridge, has issued a general order with the laudable object of checking that extravagance at the mess table which is so detrimental to officers of limited means. This order fixes the maximum charge for dinner at 2s., and for breakfast at Is., and forbids the use of expensive wines. Baron Marochetti is at present engaged in a colossal monument to the Duke of Wellington, which will be raised in St. Paul's, if the design meets the approval of the Go- vernment. An initiative door of bronze is to be placed between two of the interior pilasters, and on the steps leading to it will sit a gigantic figure of Victory, with outspread wings, supposed to be the constant companion of the hero even to the tomb. Above the door will stand an equestrian statue of the duke, while on pedestals on each side of the steps will be stated two figures symbolising civil and military honour. Some curious bronze axes have lately been discovered in Scotland in the neighbourhood of Banff; and some ex- cavators lately struck, twelve feet below the surface, upon a mass of hardware, including a great variety of scissors, metal snuff-boxes, razors, knives, fleams for bleeding stock, and shoemakers' awls. Of this last article there were pro- bably near 1,000 in the mass. The whole wasjcompletely covered with rust, which had acted as a kind of cement, and it was with difficulty that the different articles were separated. They are suppesed to have been the produce of a robbery. The IVestcrn Times mentions a rumour that Lord Bar- rington has resigned the chairmanship of the Great Western Railway Company, and it has been offered to the Hon. F. Ponsonby, brother to Lord Bessborough. The Rev. Father de Wattewl, of the Society of Jesus, has by his will bequeathed to the Canton of Berne the greater portion of his patrimonial inheritance, which amounts to more than 100,000 francs ( £ 1,000 sterling), to be distributed by the Cantonal Government—the majority of whom are Protestants—amongst the poor and indigent of all sects and creeds without any distinction, whether the indigent be Protestants, Catholics, Jews, &c.zl)ni de let Religion. The French Corps Legislatiff has passed a bill to in- crease' the pay of captains, lieutenants and sub-lieutenants in the Line, by 150 francs a year. Travellers to Russia via Cronstadt now meet with much less obstruction on account of passports and luggage than formerly. According to advices from Bagdad, Mr. Murray, who had been staying there, was to leave Bagdad on the loth of this month for Teheran, to resume his diplomatic func- tions. The new-born child of the Emperor of Russia is his fifth son and sixth child. He has been christened Sergins, and has been appointed to the command of two regiments and inscribed on the rolls of several others. The first voyage of the Great Eastern, when the leviathan has been got afloat, is to be to Portland in the State of Maine, under arrangements with the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. The health of President Buchanan is reported to be by no means good" he still suffers from the effects of the National Hotel disease" and he is much worried by the cares of office and the importunities of office- seekers. The guardians of the Athlone Union passed a resolution at the last meeting for admitting Sisters of Mercy to visit the Catholic inmates. A resolution to admit Scripture Readers was rejected. The estates of Castlehyde and Castlegrace, both bought by John Sadleir, are for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court, by the mortgagees. Sadleir gave £ 19,000 for Castle- grace, which, says the Limerick Chronicle, will now pro- duce E44,000 the overplus, L25,000, will turn up for the creditors of Sadleir and the Tipperary Bank. An influential meeting of Irish militia officers was held in Dublin on Thursday, at which Captain Butler, Kilkenny Fusiliers, proposed-" That the present position of the officers of the militia force in the United Kingdom is unde- fined, anomalous, and unsatisfactory, and calls for con- sideration and redress." A committee was appointed to bring the matter under the notice of the Government. His Royal Highness, whilst in one of his rambles, at Grassmere came upon a flock of sheep that was quietly grazing the novelty of the scene induced him to chase them about, but being caught in the act by Our Dame," his ears were assailed with" Noo, then, young man, ye'll gie ower can't ye gang quietly by wiout melling et sheep, 1'se be at ye, gaily seam, if ye dunnet." On being told who she was scolding, she replied undauntedly: I carent wha he be, he's nae business to mell et sheep." Colonel Ellers Napier, in a letter to the Times, suggests a mode of protecting the Cape colony from the Kaffres. lie proposes to "grant to the Boers the territory extend- ing from the Keiskama to the Kye, on condition that they keep the Caffres out of our Colonial settlements at the Cape of Gool Hope, If the Boers accept these terms, rely upon it there will be no more Caffre wars, at an aver- age cost of C3,000,000 sterling each." The town of Orleans has paid a graceful compliment to England. Its municipal council, profiting by the presence there of Dr. Gillis, Catholic bishop of Edinburgh, has presented him with the heart of Henry II of England, with the desire that he may offer the same to the British Government in the name of the town of Orleans. Henry II., it is scarcely necessary to say, died at Chinon, and was buried at Fontevrault; his heart, enclosed in an iron urn, fell, during the revolution, into the hands of a col- lector of curiosities, who presented it to the museum of Orleans. An innovation has been introduced this week into the practice of the House of Lords Hitherto division-lists have been supplied to the journals by the tellers." There were frequent inaccuracies, and, at the instance of Earl Stanhope, the house agreed to adopt the practice of the House of Commons. In the Minutes of Proceed- ings" on Monday are published the lists of voters in several divisions which occurred in Committee of the whole House (when proxies are not admissible) on the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill. The lists are not alphabetical, as in the House of Commons, but arranged according to priority of rank and title, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor taking precedence by right. INTERFERENCE OF PEERS AT ELECTIONS.—An im- portant petition is to be presented to the House of Com- mons from certain electors of West Norfolk, praying for an inquiry into alleged interference in the late election for the division by the Earl of Leicester, lord-lieutenant of the county, Lord Hastings, tiord Sondes, and Lord Wal- singham. The petition commences by citing an ancient resolution of your honourable house" as follows That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom for any Lord of Par- liament or other peer or prelate (not being a peer of Ire- land at the time elected, aud not having declined to serve fot any county, city, or horough of Great Britain) to concern himself in the election of members to serve foi? ,htoL? Commons in Parliament (except only any peer of Ireland at such elections in great Britain respectively where such peer shall by himself or any others be proposed to be elected), or for any lord-lieutenant or governor of any county to avail himself of any authority derived from his commission to influence the election of any members to serve far the Commons in Parliament." The petitioners then state that they have reason to believe that procc-ed ings in direct violation of this resolution were practised at the last election by the noblemen mentioned, and par- ticularly by the Earl of Leicester, lord-lieutenant, so as to compromise and supersede the electoral tights of the constituency, and they therefore pray for inquiry. The j petition is to be presented by Mr. Roebuck, M.P., soon after the Whitsuntide recess, < EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF MURDER.—At the Police-court on Tuesday Philip Clare, a miner, was charged before Mr. J. Leigh with the murder, on the 30th ult., of a young woman named Elizabeth Hopley. Police- constable Ponder stated that on the 30th ult about 5 o'clock, he was called by a man named Buckley, with whom he went to the banks of the canal at Bradley, where he found the body of a young woman, whose name he afterwards ascertained to be Elizabeth Hopley; George Powell, a watchman in the employment of Mr; David Rose, then made a most remarkable and circum- stantial statement, to the following purport:—He said that shortly after 12 o'clock on the morning upon which the body of the girl was found he was upon duty, and observed the shadow of two people on the canal bridge. On going up he heard the girl exclaim, Philip, don't kill me you said you would kill me before." The prisoner then knocked her down. Witness on that said to him, Philip, you'll suffer for this." Tiie prisoner replied that if witness told anybody he should serve hint the same way. Witness then watched, and saw the pri- soner put the girl in the water, he expecting every moment to suffer the same fate. Witness the returned towards the works, and was overtaken by the prisoner, who again threatened to use him the same way if he told anybody and this threat he repeated on several subsequent occasions. He lodged information with the police on Saturday morning last. After this statement the prisoner was remanded for a week. The girl Hopley was a native of Shropshire, and had formerly worked for the prisoner Clare. NARROW ESCAPE.—Mr. Penrose, of Trevorrian, in the parish of Sancreed, recently sent a bag of wheat to Nan- cothan Mill, a short distance from that estate, but in the parish of Madron. Mr. Pool, of Nancothan, has been in the habit of clearing out his mill on Saturdays, laying poison for rats, and clearing away the poison on Mondays. Mr. Penroe's wheat was the first to be ground on Monday week, and, as the top of his sack was afterwards strongly impregnated with arsenic, while the bottom was very slightly so, it is presumed that arsenic was left in the hopper. The man (a new hand) who was told to clean the mill on Monday morning has been discharged for careless- ness. The deadly sack was taken to Trevorrian, and on Tuesday the first lot of flour was converted into a pudding for dinner. Mr. Penrose, jun., was from home, and his wife being in delicate health did not partake of the pudding. After dinner all were seized with nausea and sickness, which was not improved by the next meal, tea, when a loaf from the same flour was eaten by the whole family, in- cluding Mrs. Penrose. All night the family were in a dreadful state, and on Wednesday morning Mr. J. R. Quick, of Penzance, surgeon, was sent for, who found it necessary to prescribe remedies. Up to last night two members of the family were still suffering severely. Mr. Penrose, sen., is much swollen, and the two women ex- perience great pain and are still weak. Portions of the pudding, bread, and flour have been analyzed by Dr. J. B. Montgomery, of this town. The pudding and flour at once yielded arsenic; the flour required a very careful analysis, but at length was found to contain the poison, the greater portion of which, it is supposed, was on the top of the sack. Toll" was taken at the mill, and a cake made from it. The miller's boy ate of it, and was also sick and ill.— Cornish Telegraph. THE BROMLEY HURST MURDER.—Since the committal of George Jackson and Charles Brown, charged with the murder of Mr. W. Charles worth, as reported in the Welsh- man of Friday, both the prisoners have made confessions. That of George Jackson is as follows I went to the Coach and Horses on Friday night, and was looking at them bowling, and they made me make one. This young man was then in the house. I sat in the house on the contrary side to Mr. Bamford. Mr. Bamford and Mr. Charlesworth were quarrelling, and I listened to them. John Cresswell (called Dulcimer Jack') and Brown were making a bargain to go and frighten Charlesworth. Cress- well said, I'll go and put another jacket on, so he won't know me and when against Mr. Fitchett's hedge he said, You must not say anything, we shall have something to night.' He said to me and Charles Brown, Go on after him, and follow him, and lay hold of him, and I'll follow.' I felt very tipsy, and me and Brown went on, and I was going back and Brown said, Oh, come on, we shall have some money to-night.' I was that tipsy I did not know what I was doing. I pulled a stake out of the hedge as I was going along, and Mr. Charlesworth asked me where I was going, and I rold him I was going along the road, and he catched me a stroke with his stick. He said, I know you are after me; you mean to rob me.' Then he up with his stick to hit me again, and I got this stick and I hit him on the back of the head and knocked him down, and I was so sorry I tumbled down myself. I was very tipsy, and I did not know what I was doing or I should not have done it. That was all as I did at him, and Charles Brown picked his pockets and gave me the money, and I put it into my pocket; and he picked up the stake, but whether he hit him I cannot tell, for I was that put about I sat on the hedge, and was rather sick directly after. He (Brown) said, 4 Come on,' and we did, and we went off the road across the fields. When we got towards our house he asked me for some money. I gave him three half- crowns. He said, The other will do at night,' and we parted at that, and I never saw no more of him till next day at the Coach and Horses. Dulei Jack' came to me and said, 4 You must not say anything so that's how it was settled." Brown said, 41 I did not pick up the stick, nor did not persuade him to go with me. I picked one pocket, he picked the other I gave him the money. He gave me two halfcrowns. That's all." GREAT Loss OF LIFE ON THE LANCASTER AND UL- VERTONE SANDS.—During Friday night or early on Saturday morning several persons were drowned on the sands between Lancaster and Ulverstone. On Saturday evening, when our report was of necessity despatched, it was not known at Lancaster what was the precise number of those who had lost their lives, but there was reason to suppose that it was not less than 14, and the bodies of eight of the deceased had been recovered, having been washed ashore at Hest-bank, about three miles from Lan- caster. It was at this point that the fact of the calamity first became known on the morning of Saturday. From the sands, which it will be remembered, skirt Morecombe- bay, there were seen Boating in the water a number of men's hats, some boxes, and other things, and it was at once conjectured that the hats, boxes, &c., were the pro- perty of persons who, in crossing the sands, had either been overtaken by the tide or had left the proper track and so got into the water. A number of men went out in boats and recovered the hats and boxes, and a further search revealed the bodies of eight men floating as nearly together as possible' They were brought ashore, and in the course of the day recognized and it was rumoured at this place that at Silverdale, two or three miles higher up the sands, some bodies had been washed ashore. It is believed that all the persons who have lost their lives are single young men, in service. Some persons suppose that there were two young women with them, but owing to the difficulty of obtaining information from the other side of the sands our correspondent had not learnt whether this was true. Suffice it that a party of more than a dozen persons who had been living in service at Poulton, Heysham, and other places on the Ulverstone end of the sands, left Kent's-bank on Friday night, intending to be present at the Whitsuntide hirings at Lancaster on Saturday. Their route was along the sands by the edge of the bay, being the same that is taken by the over-sands coach between Ulverstone and Lan- caster. The party spent some time drinking at Will- cocks's Kent-bank Hotel, and they started in two light one-horse carts. According to the tide-table it was high water at Ulverstone on Saturday morning at 10 minutes past 4 o'clock, and in order to cross the sands in safety and avoid the tide the journey should have been commenced at either end at 41 minutes past 9 o'clock on Friday night but this party, besides being intoxicated, are understood to have started later by an hour or more. Some who intended to have crossed with them declined to do so because of the time they started, and so saved their lives. Nothing more is known of the party until the bodies of some of them were washed ashore as already described. We have omitted to mention that at Hest, along with the bodies, was re- covered on Saturday one of the carts, with the lifeless horse attached to it. Two conjectures are hazarded as to the way in which the accident may have occurred, which no one is left alive to explain. One supposition is that the carts were floated at one of the streams that have to be forded. At the most dangerous one there is a guide sta- tioned from sunrise to sunset, so that be would not then have been on duty. One young man of the company named George Ashburner knew the track <vhich ought to have been taken, but the probability is that no one thought of using his experience. Another conjecture is that the whole party had fallen asleep, that the horses bad been left to take their own course, and that they actually fol- lowed the tide until the sleepy occupants of the carts were fatally immersed. The appearance of some of the bodies has led to the supposition that suffocation took place during sleep. Upon the eight bodies recovered at Hest- bank money to the amount of between E30 and jE40 was found, being the wages they had received before starting. ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A MANUFACTORY.—Early on Thursday morning the inhabitants of the village of Conis- borough, near Doncaster, were alarmed by a violent explo- sion in the sickle manufactory of Messrs Booth. On examining the place it was found that a bag containing a quantity of gunpowder had been placed in the drum of a machine, and that it had been ignited by means of a long fusee which passed through the adjoining premises, a dis- tance of upwards of ten yards. The project of blowing up the place, however, failed, and only a very trifling amount of damage was done, principally to the roof, the tiles of which were thrown off. A watchman employed by Messrs Booth, named Itichard Swallow, was apprehended on Friday on suspicion of being concerned in the offence. On the same day tie was examined before the West Riding magistrates at Doncaster, but remanded. About a year ago an explosive missile was thrown into the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Booth in the dead of the night, and they both had an extremely narrow escape with their lives. These diabolical attempts to injure life and property have arisen, it is supposed, out of disagreement on trade matters. A FACT FOR TEETOTALLERS.—The consumption of wines in our public hospitals constitutes one of the heaviest items of their expenditure. The wine account at Guy's Hospital last year was 11,083 the spirit account, £ 376. Total, £ 1,459. At St. Thomas's, the wine account was E629 spirit account, E521. Total, £ 1,150; or zC2,609 in the Borough hospitals alone.-Medical Times. 1" t-