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

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

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 issu shod
address, in which he asserts that he does not believe in
sectarianism or class legislation. "On all questions relati▪
ng
to Ireland," he says, " I shall endeavour to form a judg-
rnent from the Irishman's point of view, anxious to mai▪
n-
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 Edward
Grogan, who contested Dublin University a)/ 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 Monday 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 ho cannot comply with
their request to appoint a day of humiliation in view of
the present circumstances of the Irish Church, " legal ob-
fections" being an obstacle in the way ; but he advises, as
the Archbishop of Dublin has also done, that on the first
Sunday in Lent, "that which immediately precedes the as-
rambling 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 be
"so ordered and settled that religion and piety may be esta-
blished among us for all generations."

A very singular charge of libel was beard 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 murde-rer, urging on, like 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 iteen-
dale. At a public meeting on Thursday held in that town, the
Leeds Mercury states, it was dotennined to erect a new In-
Ermary in connection with the Dispensary already in
existence, and £3,550 was subscribed l‘y the gentlemen
present towards the expenditure which the enlargement
will entail. A resolution was proposed, and, after a
warm discussion, adopted, deciding that ono ward in
the new building shall bo set apart for treatment of
Patients on the homoeopathic principle. Some of the
speakers expressed their conviction that this concession
would produce an addition to the funds of the charity, but
one of the medical gentlemen present declared that he would
not take office in an institution in which a homoeopathic
Imrd yam termed.