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G, MAY 17, 1847.

ELECTION MOVEMENTS.
TOWER HAMLETS.—Mr. Hutchison, who unmc-
cessfully contested this borough at the last election, has
announced himself as a candidate on the approaching
dissolution. Another candidate is also announced as
likely to come forward on the Dissenting interest.
NORTH DURHAM.—Mr. Robert Duncombe Shafto, of
Whitwortb, has issued an address to the electors, and
has become a candidate on the Whig and Lambton

interest.
NORTH CHESHIRE.—The only names as yet men-
tioned as likely to go to the poll are E. D. Davenport,
Esq., of Capesthorn, and J. Cheetham, Esq., of Staly-
bridge, both Liberals.—Manchester Express.
UNIVERSITY 9F OXFORD.—There will be a contest
for the represerntation of this University at the ap-
proaching general election, Mr. Estcourt having inti-
mated his intention of retiring from Parliament. The
names of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Sir W.
Heathcote are severally spoken of as being the most
likely to occupy the vacant seat. The Guardian states
that Mr. Gladstone will come forward, and that it is said
the Hebdomadal Board intend to put forward Mr. Card-

well, the nephew of one of their members.
Ipswicet.—Mr. George Rennie has announced him-
self as a candidate for this town on the occasion of the
general election. He dates his address from the Reform

Club.
NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.—WC are requested to
inform our readers that two gentlemen of stanch and in-
dependent principles will at a very early period offer
themselves to the notice of the electors as candidates for
the representation of the borough at the next election on
the liberal interest.—Hampshire Independent. •
ATHLoNE.—According to one of the local newspapers
Mr. William Keogh, a young barrister and a Roman
Catholic, has been during the past week canvassing the
electors of the borough on the Conservative interest;
and, according to the same authority, Sir George Beres-
ford also intends coming forwards on similar principles,
and will present himself to the constituency in the course
of a few days. Meanwhile Mr. John Collett, the present
Member, has declared his intention of contesting the
representation against all opposition at the coming

election.
KisanEsponounli.—We are glad to learn that there is
a good prospect of relieving Knaresborough from the
discredit of being represented by Mr. Ferrand. Our late
fellow-townsman, J. P. Westhead, Esq., and the Hon.
W. S. Lascelles, brother of the Earl of Harewood, and
now M.P. for Wakefield, have offered themselves as can-
didates, in opposition to Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Lawson ;
and we are glad to hear that they have every prospect of
success. Mr. Lascelles, though a Conservative, has
shown himself anything but a party man ; and we should
be sorry to see him excluded from the House of Com-
mons.—Manchester Guardian.
WARRINGTON.—Mr. J. I. Blackburne, the present
Member for the borough has issued his address to the
electors, a step, he intimates, rendered imperative on him
in consequence of Mr. Allcard having announced his
intention of becoming a candidate for the representation
at the ensuing election.
It appears to be generally understood that, at the ge-
neral election now approaching, the present representa-
tives of the borough of Sunderland, David Barclay and
George Hudson, Esq., will be again returned without
opposition. —Newcastle Guardian.
ORKNEY AND SHETLAND.—Mr. Anderson has pub
lished an address to the electors of Orkney and
Shetland, from which the following are extracts.—
" Not less than two hundred and eighteen effective
voters having pledged themselves in writing to give me
their active support at the poll, besides a considerable
number who have verbally promised their support, to
entertain a doubt of success would be to betray such a
want of confidence in the integrity of my kind coun-
trymen as it is impossible for me to entertain for one
moment. Our success must appear, I think, still more
certain, if we refer to the state of the polling in the con-
test between Mr. Balfour and Mr. Traill, in 1835. At
that time the whole number of voters on the register
was 476. It is now, I believe, about 510. That con-
test, most of you will recellect, was rather a sharp one,
and its object nearly the same as that of the present one.
On the occasion the total number who voted for Mr.
Balfour was 114 : for Mr. Trail!, candidate on the Dun
das interest, 84. You will at once see that the number of
electors who have pledged themselves in writing to
vindicate the independence of the county at the next
poll amounts to nearly double the number who
brought in the successful candidate at the last
contest, while the whole increase on the register since
then only amounts to 34. With such facts before us,
can we entertain a doubt of the most triumphant success?
While on this subject, I deem it necessary to advert to a
misrepresentation of the nature of the contest which has
been spread abroad by our opponents. They have
endeavoured to mislead the public, by representing it as
a contest founded on merely personal and local consi-
derations, involving no public principle, and conse-
quently, of no public importance. Now this is the
reverse of the fact. We are struggling to assert
a great and fundamental principle of the constitution,
namely, that the representatives of the people, in
the people's House of Parliament, shall truly be
chosen by the people, and really represent them,
instead of being, as nearly one half of them now are,
the nominees and representatives of the peerage. The
question you will be called upon (probably within two or
three months) to determine, is, whether the Member for
Orkney and Shetland shall represent the feelings and
interests of the people of Orkney and Shetland, or the
feelings and interests of the Earl of Zetland. This is
the real nature of the contest, involving a principle which
cannot fail to insure for us the sympathy of every true
man of independent mind, and every friend of the Con-
stitution throughout the kingdom, and with the success-
ful vindication of which, on the remote shores of my
native islands, I shall feel more pride in having my name
associated, than to represent the richest and most popu-
lous place in Britain.—John O'Groat's Jourual.

MURDER OF A WOMAN BY HER
HUSBAND AT BIRMINGHAM.
On Friday evening an inquest was held at the Grand
Turk, on Ludgate-hill, on the body of Margaret Leonard,
about 40 years of age, wife of a man named Peter Leonard,
a paper hawker, and residing in Tanter-street, who died in
consequence of injuries received from being thrown down
stairs by her husband, on the morning of Saturday last.
They had for a long time past been in the habit of having
quarrels, which often resulted in blows, one or both being
generally in a state of intoxication ; and from the evidence
it will be seen that this was unhappily the cause of the
quarrel in the present instance, which resulted in the death
of the woman. The husband himself was present in custody,
and cross-examined one or two of the witnesses. He did
not appear much concerned as to the result of the investi-
gation ; but when any portion of the evidence was parti-
cularly against him he became agitated, and trembled very
much. The excitement created by the event became very
great in the neighbourhood of Tanter-street, when it was
known that the death of the woman had taken place;
and towards the close of the investigation the room
was crowded by persons anxious to bear the pro.
ceeding. The first witness called was Mary May, wife
of James May, comb-maker, and residing nearly oppo-
site the house of deceased in Tenter- street. She
knew the deceased, Margaret Leonard, who, she believed,
was quite well on the morning of Saturday last. About half-
past seven o'clock that morning witness saw deceased and
her husband come home together, and go into the house, both
of them appearing to be intoxicated, as might be inferred
from their staggering walk. On going in they shut the door
after them. Witness heard loud talking between them, the
husband cursing the wife, calling her bad names, and order-
ing her to get up from the floor, where she was lying, to
fetch some coal and make him breakfast. She answered, " I
will, Peter." After this, witness went on with her employ-
ment, and did not hear any more, until the husband himself
came over to her door, about ten minutes past eight, when he
said, " Will you come over to my house, and help to get Mar-
garet out of the cellar? for I've shoved her down there; but
passion is the devil " Witness went over immediately, along
with a neighbour, Mrs. Forty, who had also been asked. On
looking towards the cellar, down the stairs of which the man
said his wife had fallen, they found the door shut; but
having got a light, they discovered the unfortunate woman
lying with her legs and feet on the two lower steps, and her
body stretched outwards, with the head doubled up under
the right shoulder. Her face was covered all over with clotted
blood, and there were also two pools of blood on the cellar
floor. Leonard himself was asked to help her up stairs, but
he said, " No, let the dirty - lie and die ;" but witness,
with the assistance of Mrs. Forty and another neighbour
who came in, had the deceased removed up stairs, where
they laid her down by the fire-place, and washed her,
being all this time in an insensible state and speechless,
but groaning heavily, and making a noise; blood was
streaming, also, from both ears. Witness and the other
neighbour wished to put the deceased into bed, but her
husband said he would not allow her to go into a bed of his,
and when they wanted to put the pillow below her head he
refused, using words equally indecent with the above. He
was still drunk, but soberer than when he went into the
house. Other evidence proved the determined purpose with
which apparently the prisoner had sought to murder the
unfortunate woman, and his heartless indifference to her
agonies. The jury, after a consultation of about ten mi-
nuteg, returned with a verdict finding Peter Leonard Guilty
of " Wilful murder."

A MURDERER ARRESTED.—On Wednesday se'n-
night, Mr. Brown, an officer in the Irish police force, arrived
in Cardiff, having in his custody two Irishmen, named Te-
rence Curboy and Michael Banan, who had contrived to
escape from Ireland to this country after committing very
serious offences against the law. Curboy, who appeared a
young man about 20 years of age, is charged with having
barbarously murdered a man named Gleeson, at Toomavara,
in the county of Tipperary, by shooting him with a blun-
derbuss, and then, when his victim lay struggling in agony,
terminating his existence by beating his brains out with the
butt-end of the piece. This atrocious outrage was, it is said,
committed without the slightest reasonable provocation. The
prisoner was taken at the Drim colliery, in this county, by
Mr. Brown, after a protracted and arduous search, which he
continued under great difficulties with unabated ardour and
determination. He left Tipperary in order to trace the pri-
soner (if possible); and after making minute inquiries
through the several iron and coal works of Monmouthshire
and Glamorganshire, he succeeded in capturing the suspected
murderer, as above stated. In the course of his search he
accidentally fell in with Michael Banan, who escaped from
justice, after being involved in some Whiteboy transactions,
about two or three years ago, his comrade in that outrage
having been transported. The prisoners were lodged in the
county gaol on Wednesday night, and left by steamer on
Thursday morning for Bristol, whence they proceeded to Ire-
land by one of the Irish packets. Curboy seemed to feel
acutely the position he was placed in.
CAUTION.—IRISII BANK BILLS.—It would be well
that the public should be extremely cautious in receiving
10!. Bank Bills, as a number of bills of that amount which
are supposed to be in circulation at present, have been stop-
ped at the Bank of Ireland, Dublin, under the following
circumstances, Some bills of that amount were lately
sued in favour of a person named M. S. Persse, but were
never received by him. Two of them, one of which had been
received by a gentleman residing near Bailin hass'g, the other
by an establishment in the city, were cashed lat the bank
here, but when sent up to the bank in Dublin, it was found
that they were already stopped there. These two notes
were indorsed in the name of Mr. Persse, their date is the Ist of
January last, and their numbers 42,148 and 42,149. The
entire matter was made known -before the magistrates on
Friday, by head constable Condon, in order that the public
might be cautioned against receiving therm.—Corp
aminer