The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-07 00:00:00

RBP.RESIINTATION OF BODMIN.

Considerable excitement was created at Bodmin
on Tuesday by the announcement that ou, of the members
for the borough, the Hon. Edward Fioderick Leveson
Gower, had resigned his seat 'tad accepted an invitation to
be nominated for Ssitherlandshire, which constituency is
now vacant by the succession of his relative, the Marquis
of Stafford, to the dukedom of Sutherland. During the
course of the sfternooa Mr. Edward W. Cox, of the
Western Circuit, and recorder of Falmouth, Penryn, and
Holston, telegraphed to Bodntin that be would be a candi-
date for the vacant seat. Mr. Con unsuccessfully contested
Tewkesbury ma • moderate conservative in 1857, bat
he obtained only 25 votes on that occasion. Hs
has also, we believe, offered himself to the electors
of Taunton, in which town he has been a resident.
It was rumoured in Bodmin on Tuesday night that Mr.
John 'l remayne, of Hellion, who appeared as • candidate
at the last general election, but retired without going to
the poll, would come forward. The fact that Mr. Tre-
mayne--whoes father was for many yenrs representative in
the conservative interest for the Eastern Division of Corn-
wall, has recently allied himself to the family of Lord
Vivian, who is a whig, will, it is thought, give him • fair .
chance of being returned. The electors favourable
to the return of this gentleman believe that there
is little doubt of his complying with a memorial
that may be presented to him to contest the seat,
inasmuch as at the last election he dressed that he would
try his fortune on another occasion. The Hon. Captain
Vivian, who unsuccessfully contested Truro at the last
general election, and who also put out an address to the
electors of Bodmin, is likewise spoken of as a candidate.
There is certain to be no lack of applicants for the
vacant place, Bodmin being one of thee boroughs of con-
venient size which are always looked upon with favour by
the aspirant to parliamentary honours. In addition to
the candidates who will be likely to appear as connected
with the neighbouring estates, there is a probability that
the promoters of the ballot will send • champion to fight
their battle in what has always been a favourite constituency.
of theirs. Mr. Wyld, the sitting member, is • well.known
supporter of their views ; and at a former election Mr.
Whitehurst put forth au addrese to the electors in behalf of
the same cause. At the electiou for 1859 the poll showed
215 votes for the Hon. F. F. !Ammon Gower, 193 votes for
Dr. Wm. Michell, and 187 fur Mr. James Wyld. Subse-
glassily, • petition having been preferred against Dr.
Michell for undue influence, that gentleman accepted the
Chiltern Hundreds in the following August, and Mr. Wyld
was then elected without • divison. The population of
Bothnia is 6,337, and the registered electors 38d, including
six freemen.—Westera Morning A' etre.

Traz Yin.vntrox CARL —The London corre-
spondent of the Dublin Ereniter Pere writes :—" I have
heard that the resignation by Major Yelverton of his
commission as captain in the Royal Artillery, for-
warded from Dublin on Friday last, has been received at
the Horse Guards. Further I have learned that General
Sir George Brown, Commander of the Forces in Ireland,
bad received orders from the horse Guards carefully to
watch the proceedings in the Yelverton trial in the Court
of Common Pleas." The Scofewors save : "An action is, we
believe, still in dependence before the Court of Somion,
having for its object to establish the validity of the alleged
ANOTHIR EF.Ft'sAL OF AN OATH.—At the West The action bar beeduMallajoorwelYietelv'vle.rtapwloi•tha solirtissolL°DgmconseOrtht of
Bent quarter sessions just held, a man named John Bigg both parties till the result of tie action in the Irish Court
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attended to prosecute a girl for stealing a shawl. Previous of Common Pleas, indirectly involving the same point,
to being sworn Mr. Ribtou, counsel for the prisoner, inquired I should have been concluded ; Lot is now likely to resume its
of the prosecutor whether be believed in the existence of a I Pr
God. The prosecutor replied that he believed in the exist- i iresiße - ..11)1,13Lie DEBT OF INDIA.—A parliamentary
tepee of some uukuown power or being that governs the I return shows that the total amount of the loans of the Dr
universe. Mr. Radon then inquired if he (prosecutor) be- 1 gotialde public debt of India,airounling to the latest advice,.
bared in future rewards and punishments, the MUM . was 61,21,78,280 rupees, the interest thereon varying from
'Belted being that he could not conscientiously believe in 13j to 8 per cent. per annum • the proportion retained in
the existence of an avenging being, and therefore did not I India on the lit of May, ltiMs, seas 48,89,30,801 rupees r
believe in a future state of punishment. Upon this Mr. I the properties registered at the Indiseoniee under enlace.
Ribton submitted the prosecutor's evidecoo could not be ' meat for payment of interest, or for transfer into stock, on
received, and the court concurring, the accused was ordered .the 31st a J
to be discharged.
~ I amount drawn for In bills upon the governments of Calcutta,
HAIR CUTTING ON SUNDAY.—At the Council- I and Marna, in payment of the interest due upon the per-
house, before the sitting justices at Bristol on Tuesday, thin of the public dohs of India registered at the India-
Henry Llewellin, hairdresser, came up to receive the deci• office under enlacement for ponent of interest, or for
don of the bench with regard to a charge preferred against transfer into stack, was 41,15,6 Ti rupees ; the deductions
him of hair cutting on the Sabbath day. Mr. B. Britten, made on account of Indian income tax were 12,183 rupee.;
as before, appeared fur the prosecution, and great interest aid the deductions made on account of income tax claimed
was excited anioept the hair dressing fraternity as to the on behalf of the Imperial government were 1,86,381 rupees.
result of the case. The defendant was stated to have had EXHIBITION or 1862.—Thu Journal of the Society
his shop opined again last Sunday, notwithstanding the of Arts says :—" The Lieutenant-Governor of New Bruns-
judgment which was hanging over him. The bench, after wick, in his opening speech to the legislature, refers to
carefully considering the case, tined the defendant Is. for a provincial exhibition to be held there this year,
the offence complained of. and suggests that the inquiries and arrangements connected
The number of patients treated at the Samaritan with this exhibition maybe combined with preliminary step
Free Hospital for V. omen and Chiklren. Edwards-sire", for the due representation of the province, both in natural
Portmanaquare, during the week ending March 2, was 916, products sod articles of sosnufactore, at the International
of which MI were new came. Exhibition of 1862."