The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-13 00:00:00

JLECTION INTELLIGEIVCE.

BRADFORD.—Mr. W. M. Thompson, having been chosen
by the " independent " Liberals as their candidate for the
seat vacant by the unseating of Mr. Ripley, has issued his
address, in which he asserts that he does not believe in
sectarianism or class legislation. "On all questions relating
to Ireland," he says, " I shall endeavour to form a judg-
ment from the Irishman's point of view, anxious to main-
tain the union between the two countries for the good of
both, and, above all, to do what is just."
DUBLIN.—A large meeting, comprising the different sec-
tions of the Liberal party in the city of Dublin, has been
held for the purpose of choosing a candidate in the room of
Sir Arthur Guinness. The Lord Mayor presided. It was
unanimously resolved that Sir Dominic Corrigan should
be the Liberal champion, and a subscription list was
immediately opened to defray the expenses. Nearly £2,000
was subscribed in the room. The Conservatives have not
yet succeeded in obtaining a candidate. Sir .:dward
Grogan, who contested Dublin University Of the last
election, has declined to come forward.
CITY OF LONDON.—The Star denies that Baron Roth-
schild has been selected as the Liberal candidate. Our
contemporary states that Sir Benj. Phillips, Mr. Kirkman
Hodgson, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., and Mr. Thomson
Hankey have also been respectively mentioned as eligible
candidates. A meeting is to be held on Moniay next,
when it is probable that Baron Rothschild will be selected.

The Bishop of Ossory (Dr. O'Brien) has issued a
circular to his clergy, stating that he cannot comply with
their request to appoint a day of humiliation in view of
the present circumstances of the Irish Church, " legal ob-
jections" being an obstacle in the way; but he advises, as
the Archbishop of Dublin has also done, tbat on the first
Sunday in Lent, "that which immediately precedes the as-
rembling of Parliament," the people should be urged, in
.heir church and family devotions, to pray specially that,
by the consultations of the Legislature, all things may bo
"so ordered and settled that religion and piety may be esta-
blished among us for all generations."

A very singular charge of libel was heard on Thurs-
day at the Sheffield Police Court. The defendant 'was
Thomas Orton, secretary of an anti-compulsory vaccination
,:ommittee, and he was summoned for the publication of
an anti-vaccination handbill, in which libellous state-
ments were made about Alderman Saunders, the late chair-
man of the Sheffield board of guardians, on account of his
attempts to enforce the Vaccination Act. The handbill
made out vaccination to be the mark of the beast spoken
of in Revelation ; and described Alderman Saunders as a
wholesale murderer, urging on, liko another Herod, the
slaughter of the innocents. The bench held the handbill to
be a libel, and publication being proved, they committed the
defendant to the assizes for trial.

A rather novel experiment is to be made at Itocn-
dale. At a public meeting on Thursday held in that town, the
Leeds Mercury states, it was determined to erect a new In-
firmary in connection with the Dispensary already in
existence, and £3,550 was subscribed by the gattlemen
present towards the expenditure which the enlargement
will entail. A resolution was proposed, and, after a
warm discussion, adopted, deciding that one ward in
the now building shall be sot apart for treatment of
patients on the homcoopathic principle. Some of the
speakers expressed their conviction that this concession
would produce an addition to the funds of the charity, but
ono of the medical gentlemen present declared that he would
not take office in an institution in which a homoeopathic
.
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