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the attaclC Which would come from Oxford, rather than from
Rome --(Oheers..) He; -confilently believed Oxford had'
tarn9l,out more Romish priests in the last ten. years than
Maynooth. Next to Mr. Beresford there was no man he felt
metre inclined to pick a quarrel with tlAti 'Cardinal Wise-
than, but he thought it would have been. far better to have
treated his letters and missives with perfect indifference.
If the Pope attempted' a real aggression he would be pre-
pared to resist it, but he would not lend himself to a false
cry. lie„called on all Dissenters, Churchmen, and RoMan
Cstholics, to split votes for 'him and Lord Grosvenor, not
because he was a Protestant champion, but because he
was a Christian man, who stood up for civil and religious
liberty-to all men, and one who would,never be ashamed of
any vote he had given, or would in any future Parliament.
The meeting stood up at the conclusion of the speech and
eheeyni loudly.
Mr. PRY proposed and Mr. &sow seconded a resolution,
pledging the meeting to use their efforts to _sepre the return
of Lord R. Grosvenor and .Mr. Osborne, which was carried
by acclamation, and the meeting separated.

I_
ee, t 8
r, d
a. y NttOeßnTo
fi NniinatOioßnTfoHrUttißs EdßivLis.AioNnD
of Northumberland took place ' (*if the county
in the market-place, Alnwick,
in the presence of an immense concourse of people drawn
from various
together parts of the extensive district by special
trains.
The High Sheriff, Mr. T. W. c
roster, of Croster-tower,
presided, and after the preliminaries were gone through,
gr. Oun, of Nunnyitirk, .rose for the .
purpose of nominat-
%ton, bat fro
ing Lord Ossa
crowd, ni the incessant hooting that was
kept up bythe_. not a word could be heard from the
Hon. Gentleman. Mr. B. BunttEr.r, met with a similar re-
ception. , TREVEL
sir warann Yaw nominated Sir George Grey
amid loud Cheers.
Mr. F'. szoosecondo4 tip norniag• la
*tiate - 1°-
-..- r. o:PizzOv*Leljoia.. d
,Lord imvaine ;,' Mr. join;
COOKSONseconded t Ina tion. They also spoke in dumb
show. was also ho
Lrrd Ossulston hooted.
Sir G.-Geigr was received with loud cheers, and delivered
a tellidg speech.
Lord vaine met ceptio
a r • n similar to that of Lord Os-
-Lo
f
suiston. . •
...„6,,E left the she* -of hands '
was 'not but
Wheit an? r'r-- would be largely in favour of Sir G.
was no doubt it.
there
ants of the Duke of Northumberland had
Grey. The ten
send their hinds and farm labourersre.
• d instructions to to
re-
ceived .
hands for the Lords, but from the way they re-
hold up their. . •
tectionists it would appear that they were
ceived the Pro
curse free trade, but they blessed it alto-
called upon to
gether.
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IRELAND.
COUNTY WESTMEATH.
Thintax, MoSDI I", —lt was intimated this morning that
Mr. Ennis had retired from the contest.
wCasOUNTY OF LOUTH.
h e t a quarter-past
STATE OF TEE FOtrze
sAtTatiLtor: F-rheesTpoTlilt,naEtE O'CLOCK.
Megan ••• •—•• ... ... 391
Pollard ••• ••• ••• ... ... 313
Levinge •• •" ••• ... 308
The following
eleven o'clock,for the barony of Ardee
Fortescue ••• ••• ... ...
... 171
Kennedy.• '" •• •••... 143
M'Clintock ...
... ... 127
No returns from the other baronies.
The town is in a state of great excitement.

QUEEN'S COUNTY.
Mr. Fitzpatrick resigned this morning.
Sir C. Coote was proposed by Colonel DUNNE, and se
conded by the lion. T. VasEr.
ed MT. FITZPATRICK.
onyhe Rev Mr.d Michael Dann was proposed by Mr.ox, and se-
c
The candidates were then declared duly elected.

CARLOW COUNTY.
Yesterday Colonel Bruen was proposed by the KNIGHT
of KERRY, and seconded by Mr. J. DucKErr.
Mr. M'Cliutock Banbury was proposed by Mr. B. C.
BRUCE, and seconded by Mr. D. ROCHFORT.
Mr. John Ball was proposed by Mr. P. CARTER, and se-
conded by Mr. J. NOLAND.
Mr. T. Keogh was proposed by the Rev. D. LALOR and
seconded by Mr. J. HANLON.
Town tranquil.

GENERAL ELECTION.
CORNWALL (EAsr)—Polling, Tuesday, July 20.
NOMINATION AND POLLING DAYS.
DONEGAL (COUNTY)—Tuesday, July 20.
DOWN (COUNTY)-- Tuesday, July 20.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE' (WEST)-Monday and Tuesday,

July 19 and 20.
ISLE OF WIGHT--Polling, Thursday, July 22.
KILDARE (COUNTY)—Tuesday, July 20.
KING'S COUNTY-4111 y 20.
LEITRIM—Tuesday, July 20.
MAYO (COUNTY)—Tuesday, July 20.
MONAGHAN (COUNTY)—Tuesday, July 20.
MIDDLESEX—PoII, Tuesday, July 20.
NORTHUMBERLAND (Nonnt)—Polling days on Thurs
day, the 22d, and Friday, 23d.
ROSCOMMON—Monday, July 26.
TIPPERARY—Tuesday, July 20.
TYRONE (COUNTY)—Wednesday, July 21.
WEXFORD (COUNTY)—Tuesday, July 20.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.—Oxford, July 16.
CROWN COURT,—(Before Mr. Justice Cmics,swzia..)
Elijah Noon, aged 33, plasterer, was indicted for the mur-
der of Charlotte Noon, his wife, at the parish of St. Thomas's,
in the city of Oxford, on the 2d of May last.
Mr. Cripps and Mr. Sawyer conducted the prosecution ;
Mr. Pigott and Mr. Huddlestoue defended the prisoner.
The circumstances of this case were extremely painful.
The principal witness for the prosecution was the prisoner's
daughter, a little girl twelve years of age. She stated that
she lived with her parents in Portland-place, Cardigan-
street, Oxford. In consequence of her father not returning
home on Saturday night, her mother went to look for him
soon after midnight. They returned together in a few
minutes; he was not sober. Her mother upbraided him
with staying out so late. He took some money out and
counted it. She said he could treat other persons and not
her. He then took down a sword from a shelf, pulled it
out of the sheath, and struck the deceased, who was sitting
down, on the back with the flat part of the sword. The
child ran to the door and got outside • the mother got up
and attempted to follow her, and her daughter took hold of
her hand to pull her through. The father was standing in
the room, and according to the child's first account he went
to his wife at the door with the sword, and ran it into her left
side. It appeared, however, that the witness could not see
the actual thrust; but her mother screaming out the child
pulled her out of the room into the street, where she fell
down. She was then led to a neighbour's, and was subse-
quently taken back to her own house. The prisoner had in
the meantime replaced the sword in its sheath on the shelf.
On examination a wound nine inches long was found in
the left side of, the deceased, of which she died in about
twenty-four hours. The prisoner paid every attention to her
during her last hours. On being brought back to the house
he took held of her hand, and helped her upstairs. The de-
cea..ed stated, in her husband's presence, that he had done it
with a sword. She subsequently said to him, " Elijah, I
freely forgive you, as I hope the Lord will forgive me; but
always avoid passion."
Mr. PiGorr addressed the jury, contending that the facts
proved were consistent with the supposition that the deceased,
in resisting the effort of her daughter to remove her from the
room, fell back on the sword, which the prisoner was too
much intoxicated to know was unsheathed.
chAaranctue.mrber. of witnesses deposed to the prisoner s good

The Learned JUDGE summed up, explaining the distinction
between murder, manslaughter, and misadventure.
The jury retired, and after considerable deliberation re-
turned a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter, and he was sen-
tenced to two years' imprisonment.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 17.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WiGnTraarr.)
Henry Healey, James Sayner, and Thomas Sentor were
indicted for a rape on Charlotte Flocks, at Mirfield, on the
13th of April last.
Mr. Overend and Mr. Campbell Foster prosecuted; and
Mr. Hardy defended the prisoners.
It appeared that the prosecutrix is the wife of a labourer
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and lives at a
cottage at Crossley, near Mirfield. She and her husband
were from the south, and had lived there -about . two years.
On Easter Tnesday there was a tea party at a publio-house
called the Shepiq Arms, at some little distance from Cross-
ncoafetiged:.:
ley, to which the prosecutrlx had been invited by a Mrs.
there, Dyson. Her husband, it appeared, forbade her to go; but
giontwoxiti:
unable to resist the temptation of seeing the amusements,
she walked there about eight o'cl,Pck in the evening, after
the tea party, and joined Mrs. Dyson, in a large room where
a number of men and women were dancing, and singing to a
fiddle, and drinking beer and gm. Here Mrs.
therewen t o(uSotm
Flocks stayed until half-past 11 o'clock, and in
the excitement of the scene, aided by
ghemha:viongsould
IsHaweelltashea,
rta
the gin and beer
e ,
asked cushr h:t
osathhseneel,
hr askedi
eea
rrathomeo I r ,ma
nae
n; sheahmouae
named
n becameßobert
it would seem, that some
the road at a short
then so tipsy
her home, which he did. Before this it appeared she had
given Robert Senior a kiss, and he had called her Ai his
wife," and the landlord seeing it had told him he had better
SenineaorrlYto.
go home with her and not have such conduct there. Senior
that he had
difficulty in getting her along- A number of young men
with her,
ehrerl,B7, dausapellecwaansg,
prosecutrix, followed them down
impropriety would ensue between Robert Senior and the
distance to a lane called 0 The Land," leading to some
fields, across which was a pathway to Crossley. In
this lane Robert Senior was tripped up by them, and the
prosecutrix was pushed aboat and thrown down by the
crowd of men, and, as she swore, forcibly ravished in this
lane by three of these men successively—one of whom she
swore was the prisoner Healey. Robert Senior, by his own
account, got separated from her, and did not see her for half
an hour. She then went over the fields followed by the
crowd of men, and was knocked down twice in a field called
Oates's field near her own house • and in that field ravished
again successively by six of these men—the others stand-
ing around and holding her. She screamed out “ Murder!"
and shouted her husband's name, and maid "If she
was spared she would make an example of them." A
great number of witnesses were caned, some of them
young men who had witnessed these Proceediningen
and who identified the three prisoners as part of themen-
who ravished the prosecutrix under the circumstanlostinn.
Coned. The details are too disgusting for P,_in.dlouse,
About an hoar after their all leaving the P 1"
wueetbeart to
Hellas was going home, after having seen 11,,i5n% distress in
her house, when he heard cries of a woul-14,1went there,
Oates's field, and heard a "din "of people.
knees, attempt-
and saw the prosecutrix on her hande and
ber of men leaving
ing to get up from the ground, and a "in and found her face
her. He went up to her to assist be
forehead. He wiped
covered with blood from a cut on her and assisted her to
her face with his pocket-handkercbier
and assisted her also.
rise, and Robert Senior then came
that
Robert Senior had
It appeared in evidence, ale°, the men from •
vent committing
throughout attempted to P,re dnt
had a
, a fight with one man
the outrages they did, an "a