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London, England, 1849-09-05 00:00:00

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li_IDDERIVINSTER"ELECTION.
KIDDERMINSTER, TUESDAY.— 1:110 nomination of a
candidate for the represrntation of this borough, in the
room of the late Mr. Godson, took pkce in a field adja-
cent to the town this morning. The banners and various
deviceS•displayed upon them were pretty nearly-equal.
The liourning-officm• (the MAvon) having called
upon any elector to name a candidate.
Mr.-13oircoTT, proposed Mr. John Best (Cnnser-
vative) as 4 fit representative for the borough in Parlia-
ment. He had known his young friend from hia youth.
He admired his pricciples, and his birth, parentage, and
education, constituted a sufficient guarantee for his future
conduct.

Mr. CHELLINGWORTEI seconded the nomination.
The proposition was received with mingled groans and
hisses.

• . .
Mr. J. HoEstEs, in prc•posipg Mr. Gisborne, described
the Hon. Candidate as a gertlernan of progressive prin-
ciples. He was in favour of the principles in 'virtue of
which they had obtained the eleCtive franchise, and his
past conduct in Parliament was a surety f,,r the future.
Mr. BRINTON, in seconding the nomination of Mr.
Gisborne, stated that it was not upon personal acquaint-
ance, nor from early intimacy, for be had known Mr.
Best from his infancy, that he advocated the cause of
Mr. Gisborne, it was upon principle.
The MAYOR having asked whether the electors had any
other candidate to propose, and no reply being given,
Mr. BEsr addressed the assembly. He complained of
some personal insult which had been diered to himself
and friends; declared himself an advocate of old Con-
servative and Tory measures, and expressed his belief to
be that the opinions he entertained were those of the
electors of Kidderminster.—(The Hon. Gentleman was
loudly cheered by his friends).

Mr. Glsti3llNE next addressed the electors. He ap•
peared extremely ill, and stated that in all probability
that was the last occasion upon which he should appear
before a Parliamentary constituency. lie advocated the
doctrines of froe trade, and expressed the greatest confi-
dence as to the result of the present election.
Upo❑ a show of hands the numbers were declared to
be in favour of Mr. Gisborne; but it was a very scanty
majority.
A vote of thanks was returned to the Mayor, and to-
morrow the poll commences.
The prevailing opinion is that Mr. Best must win.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTS3IOUTU, TUESDAY. -By the death of Rear-
Admiral 11. H. Christian, Captain George Edward Watts
(1814) becomes Rear-Admiral. His services are thus
epitomised in the New Navy List :—G. E. Watts served
at the attack upon the French frigate squadron and the
capture of the Desii 4% in Dunkirk-roads. In 1807,
when Lieutenant of the Comus, he commanded the boats
of that vessel at the cutting out of six vessels at Grand
Canaria; was severely wounded in cutting out an armed Spanish vessel, the San Pedro, exposed to a heavy fire
from the enemy's guns; the s..me year assisted at the
capture of the Danish frigate Frederickscoarn, on which
occasion he headed the boarding party. In 1809 he
commanded the Ephira at the capture of Cuxhaven and
the destruction of the battery; and also highly distin-
guished himself by his gallantry at the destruction of
the batteries at Gussendorf, and the defeat and disper-
sion cf the French troops on the banks of the Weser.
In 1810 he destroyed a Danish privateer under the fire
of batteries and field pieces. The same year he destroyed
a privateer under the batteries of Fludstraud. In 1812
he engaged a Danish flotilla in the Malmo Channel. In
1814, when commander of the Jaseur, captured the
Grecian of 20 guns. The same year was engaged in a
series of operations on the Patuxent, comprising the
capture of the towns of Benedict and Marlborough, and
the destruction of consid:rable property on the banks of
that river, Ho has been altogether forty times under
fire, and has received seventeen wounds, sixteen of which
were while engaged hand to hand with the enemy in
command of boats, in the harbours, and under the bat-
teries of Spain, France, and Denmark. He saw sixteen
years fullzpay service, and has been " on the shelf "
thirty-four years. Lord Auckland gave him a pension
of 1504 per annum in July, 1848, as some reward for
his distinguished so vices, which he must now give up.
Sir William Burnett, KC 8., M.D., ER S., Director-
General of the Medical Department of the Navy, is at
this port making his half-yearly inspection of the medical
establishment.

WOOLWICH, SEPT. 4.—Commodore-Superintendent
Henry Eden has gone on leave for a short period.
The Retribution stearri-vessel was taken into the basin
yesterday to receive new boilers.
PROMOTIONS IN HONOUR OF THE QUEEN'S
VISIT TO IRELAND.
As a matter of course, a brevet promotion will speedily
take place in honour of the Queen's visit to Ireland, in
addition to the annual promotions which are due to the
officers of the royal yacht, Victoria and Albert. Re-
port has already assigned promotions to between sixty
and seventy officers of the army, and if this should turn
out to be true, assuredly the promotion of officers of the
navy will be equally liberal, seeing that the navy bad
most of the active service on the auspicious occasion.
We have heard that three commanders will be made
captains, six lieutenants to be commanders, and one or
two mates to be lieutenants; but this is rumour only.
We trust, in common fairness, that every class of officers
will share in the honours about to be conferred on the
navy and army. Commander Harris, of the flag-ship,
Ganges, 84, at Cork, will doubtless be one of the first
considered. This officer is well known as a first-rate
' seaman; he commanded the Flying Fish, 12, in the
experimental cruise, and afterwards on the
coast of Africa, for which service ho fairly
earned his advancement. Then there are two or
three lieutenants, first lieutenants of the Ganges and
Hogue, and lieutenants in command. The mates in the
royal squadron are low, but at the head of the list for
promotion is Mr. Burton, gunnery mete of the Ganges.
Between the army and navy, also, are the marines, per
mare per terrain, and we are quite sure the opportunity
will be taken advantage of to do honour to this gallant
corps by the promotion of the senior officer, who, wo
believe, is Captain Johns, of the Ganges—an officer of
ability and popularity, and who, if we remember rightly,
commanded the guard of honour turned out at Woolwich
to receive the Emperor of Russia at Woolwich Dock-
yard, on his embarkation for his own empire, and who
ought in all fairness to have succeeded to his majority on
that occasion. It has been reported that Rear-Admiral
Manley Hall Dixon, the Commander-in-Chief, will have
some distinguished honour conferred upon him. No man
deserves it more, no less so for his own gallant career in
the navy, than as au acknowledgement of the late Ad-
miral Sir Manly Hall Dixon's services to the country.
This will also afford an opportunity for giving Captain
Macdougall, of the Hogue, his decoration of C. 13.; which
as service goes he earned at China in the recent expe-
dition with the Vulture, Espiegle, &c., the gallant officer
being in command. We repeat our hope that as there
are few opportunities now a days for reward and en-
couragement to deserving officers, full advantage will be
taken of her Majesty's visit to Ireland.—Heraid.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
ABERDEEN.—The directors of this company have
With the Scottish Midland Company to trans-
mit of their traffic north over the line of the
arranged With
latter company, the couditioti being .that the Aberdet
Comiiny are to receive 20 per cent. out of the earnings,
which 'are to be taken as 75 pet cent, of the gross sum
received for traffic. This arrangement will prevent the
Dundee and Werth Company receiving any of the north
'traffic.

SOUTII-EASTERN.—The directors have determined on
opening the Bricklayers' Arms Station in the Old Kent-
road, now used only for the goods traffic, and which cost
300,0001., as a west-end passenger station for the North
Kent line. The electric telegraph is laid upon this line
es Tar as Erith, and will soon be completed to Gravesend
and Rochester.

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.—This company's ex-
tension line to Farnham was opened on Saturday.
CALEDONIAN.--To meet the accommodation of the
working classes of the two capitals, this company notify
that they have resolved on attaching third-class carriages
to the trains leaving London and Edinburgh every Sa-
turday, by which a passenger can go through either way
for the sum of 30s.
MONMOUTHSHIRE.—This company have just opened
their improved lines for mineral traffic, being obliged by
Act of Parliament to do so, and become carriers by the
Ist of September. They will commence passenger traffic
presently.

CRUELTY TO A CHILD.--At an inquest held by
Mr. J. W. Payne, deputy coroner for the City, at the
Goldsmiths' Arme, Southwark, on the body of an infant,
aged two years, alleged to have died of cholera, the fol-
lowing gross case of cruelty was detailed:—The mother
of the infant was a street-walker,, and she rented the
half of a back kitchen in a house in Rodney-street, and
in this miserable place—not large enough to admit a
bedstead—she lived with a man with whcm she coha-
bited, and with her infant child. She was constantly
out, as was also her companion, and the child used to be
left locked in this den without any one tocare for it for
'h
many hours together. On Saturday, ethe mother
"ehnou se.entered
was out, a woman residing in
the room through the window. 91'n sahecmhild appeared to
be dead, as it was lying .motionless upon a chair
quitewhilst she was looking at
it the companion of
cushion. She took ithuep'maocher entered the place. Ho
was told that the child was in a dying state, and he re-
plied that it was all
d d stuff, the child was very well.
He put a sheet over it, and went out. The
mother returned at four in the morning, and
as soon as she could she procured some medicine,
and administered it. A medical gentleman who
came to see another child in the house saw this infant,
and ho directed that it should be wrapped in blankets,
and some beef tea given to it. Tke mother paid no at-
tention to these directions, and went out as usual, leav-
ing the child alone. Mr. Rendell, a surgeon, saw the
child on Thursday, and gave the mother an order for
some beef, which she obtained, and after boiling it for
a short time she ate it herself, giving the liquor to the
child. The child was also to be placed in a warm bath,
which the mother also neglected. The mother used to
beat the poor infant in a shameful manner, and often
wished it dead. When it died on Friday, she said,
" Thank God, my hands are free at last." (This wit-
ness was severely reprimanded by the Coroner for not
informing the police of the conduct and expressions
of the mother.) Mr. Rendell, a surgeon, proved that the
child died of diarrheas ; of course, the neglect it had
ea-
perienced would be prejudicial to it, but the noxious
not
in-
fluences of the locality were such that he could
1 d
venture to stelte that the treatment the child la re-
ceived from its savage mother had caused death. The
Coroner having adverted to these facts and to the opinion
given by Mr. Reticle'', the jury returned a verdict of
" Natural Death."
The commercial public will regret to learn that
Christopher Leyland, E,q., banker, of Liverpool, died at
his residence in that town yesterday morning.
lIAnEAs CORPUS ACT.—This piece of Whig legis-
lation expired on the 31st ult,—Cork ,Examiner.