The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-03 00:00:00

BOROUGHS.

Ashton-ender-Lyne.—The Right Hon. T. Milner-
Gibson has been elec'ed for this borough, in the room
of the late Charles Hindley, Esq.
Elgin Burghs.—Mount Stuart Elphinstone Grant
Duff, Esq., in the room of George Skene Duff, Esq.,
retired.

Paisley.—H. E. Crum-Ewing, Esq., in the room of
of Archibald Hastie, Esq., deceased.
Scarborough.—John Dent Dent, Esq., in the room of
the Earl of Mulgrave, appointed Governor of Nova Scotia.
Whitehaven.—George Lyall, Eiq., in the room of
Robert Charles Hildyard, Esq.
The following seats are vacant :
Reigate, by the death of William Hackblock, Esq.
The candidates are Mr. Doulton (Liberal), and Sir Henry
Rawlinson (East India Director) and the Hon. Mr.
Monson (Liberal Conservatives).
Limerick (City).—A vacancy has been created in the
representatio❑ of this city by the elevation of Mr. Ser-
geant O'Brien to the judicial bunch. The candidates are
Mr. Ball and Major Gavin, both Liberals.
By the succession of the Earl of Burlington to the
Dukedom of Devonshire, Lord Cavendish, M.P. fur
North Lancashire, becomes Marquis of Hartington.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official
residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-
street. The Ministers present were—ViQcount Pa'-
merston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Sir
George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary
111),Nuch.-re, Lord Panmure, the CLanc..lior of the
Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R.
Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right
Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.
REFORM MEETING AT NORVi7IOII.—A great meeting
was held here last evening, in favour of parliamentary
reform. The city members were present, and declared
for a substantial extension of the franchise, vote by
ballot, and more equal electoral districts.
TILE PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about per mills discount, and the short exchange
on London is 25.15 per 1/. sterling. On comparing
these rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100.
per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly the same price in London as it is in Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 419 per
mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.4. f. per
11. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is
therefore about 1 1-10th per cent, dearer in London than
in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York
on London for hills at 60 days' sight is 1091 per cent.,
which, when compared with the Mint par between the
two countries, shows that the cx3hange is slightly in
favour of England ; and, after making allowance for
charges of transport and difference c f interest, the present
rate leaves a trilling profit on the importation of gold
from the Unite,l States.

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. -A. court was held
yesterday, Mr. Deputy Christie in the chair. Dr. Le-
theby's report stated that the total number of deaths in
the City for the week bad been 72, those of last year
having been 64, and of the year before, 40. Disease of
the respiratory organs bad been the principal cause of
death. Dr. Letheby had visited the Moorfields burial-
ground, and reported that the recommendations which
he Submitted to the court on the 12th ult. had been
fully carried out. The ground had been levelled and
paved, and every available precaution necessary for the
healthof the public had been taken. Deputy Barnard con-
sidered the communication quite satistactery. Mr. Abra-
ham inquired whether the solicitor was authorised to
make anycoomunication from Messrs. Piper and Young
as to the expenses which the commission had incurred in

prosecuting them 1 Mr. Tyrrell replied in the negative.
Dr. Letheby said that the two objects he had had in
view in bringing the matter before the public had been
fully established. Tile public had been protected from
danger, and a very important precedent had been
established as to the necessity of consulting local boards
before taking steps of the kind. It was ultimately
unanimously resolved that the required works hating
been done by the defendants, the prosecution against
Messrs. Piper and Young be discontinued.
THE WADSWORTH-MOOR MURDER —Joseph Shepherd,
the young man in custody on a oharge of murdering a
cattle dealer named Bethel Parkinson at the Commons
Farm, Wadsworth-moor, on the 13th ult., and against
whom the coroner's jury have already returned a verdict
of wilful murder, was taken before the West Riding
magistrates at Halifax on Monday for further examina-
tion. Mr. Marsden, solicitor for the West Riding, again
appeared on behalf of the prosecution, and produced a
voluminous amount of evidence similar to that given
before the coroner. It is stated that the prisoner is to
be charged with highway robbery with violence as well
as with the capital offence. His demeanour on Monday
was more serious than on soy former occasion. Great
excitement prevails in Halifax on the subject of the
murder, and the Court-house Was densely crowded during
the clay. Is is reported that the mother of the prisoner
is in a distressing state of illness and not likely to survive.
PAUPEIIISIE IN 1856 AND 1857.—A parliamentary
returr, recently issued, gives a comparative stetetnent of
the number of paupers of all classes (except luna'ic
asylumsrelief
oand t h vealgarsat ndt
as
yr eilni e ve
each
(el
hout e
week
kf
it doors)
inqu pauperar e ctet-
rips
it•'elonfded Michaelmas 1856 end 1857 reTectiselY,
iu unions, &c. From this document it appears that the
numbers of paupers relieved in the unions on the last
day in the fourth week of Oct., 1856, were—in-doers,
27,726 ; out-door, 63,775 ; total, 91,501. l'Jis year on
the same date, the numbers were—io-door, 27,927 ;
outdoor, 64 931 • to al 92,858, being an increase of
1,357. The' # • #
L ,
._,4. u 946' total,
1856
midland,
Wales was, •
t
deOr,
75.946
Ont-door
cent. The divisions
aseereltp.tzta: of the 11 divisions of England and
~,,,..a ..822,271. In 1857—in-door, 116,d8o5o1r;
, 614, or 6.):Tt°34 ; total, 822,885, being an increase of
which show a
. 2,59,;
the
w'resli eastern 2,676; the south-western,
\
nsOrtho-nifte-gtern
cl T 4911 _ mi increase o 4 FM
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