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The following notice was posted o tw „. ,„"
the Shirehall this morning : -
" GLOCESTER ELECTION INQUIRY COMMINIONfI S
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"The Commissioners having power, under the
Act of Parliament, to award costs to witnesses who
have been summoned before them, and who have
appeared and answered all questions put to them.
to the full satisfaction of the said Commissioners,
this is to give notice that the secretary will attend
from 10 o'clock to four o'clock on Thursday, Oct.
27, in the Shirehall, to consider and satisfy the
claims of all witnesses who can show that, owing
to their condition in life,they absolutely require re-
muneration for their loss of time in appearing to
give evidence before the said Commissioners. No
persons making application will be attended to un-
less they produce the original summons served upon
them, nor will any costs be allowed to any witness
who has been called in court and not answered to
his name, although he may subsequently have been
examined.

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, SD•

WIFESLAUGHTER AT IF EDNESBURY,

Yesterday afternoon Mr. G. H. Hinchliffe
coroner, reopened the inquest upon the body of Jane
Owen, who was killed by her husband, Benjamin
Owen, at Wednesbury, last week. Owen is a beer-
house keeper at Wednesbury.
Hannah Rogers, a girl of 15, heard deceased
screaming in her husband's house, and also heard
him tell her to leave the house, and declare with an
oath that she should have no place to put her head
in. Afterwards saw the deceased leave the house

and go to Cresswell's, Owen following in a few
minutes afterwards. He demanded admission at the
closed door, and was at length let in. He went to
the pantry, where his wife was concealed, and said,
" I'll give you Moggy," pulled her out by the
shoulder with one hand, and with his other fist
struck her a violent blow under the left ear. He
kicked at her also, but witness could not say
whether his foot reached her. Owen then said,

" By order of the Commissioners.
"CHARLES EDWARD COLERIDGE, Secretary."
The appearance of this notice has created not a
little stir among the large number of Glocester wit-
nesses who consider that they are entitled to com-
pensation from being kept in attendance on the
Commissioners, and who nevertheless consider that,
in older to entitle themselves to remuneration, they
must place themselves in the position of paupers
before they can receive any allowance for their loss
of time and detention from business.
The following is an extract from a letter read by
Mr. J. Lovegrove yesterday to the Court. It was
a communication made by Mr. Cooke, the barrister,
to Mr. Lovegrove, as the result of the interview be-
tween him (Mr. Lovegrove) and Sir R. Carden as
to the inspection by the latter of the accounts of the
election of
1857:
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imaginary or trumpery description. In much of
this I concur."
The commissioners to-day proceeded with_ the
examination of witnesses in reference to the elec-
tion of 1857.
Mr. Brewer Monk deposed that he undertook
the management and control of the messengers en-
gaged on that occasion. He could not tell the
number of messengers employed, but the amounts
paid were £6B 16s. and £2B 12s. 6d. A portion of
these were voters and some non-voters. On the
morning of the poll the agent, Mr. Viner Ellis,
having somewhat mysteriously disappeared, and he
being in want of money to pay the out-voters, lie
applied to Mr. Hughes and Mr. S. Jones for money
to pay them. Received £lO from each, and also a
sum of money from Mr. Potter, which he stated
was £94 ; it was in gold. He had gone through
the register of 1857, and believed he paid the fol-
lowing sums on that occasion :—To Wm. Probert,
jun., £9. It was a very small sum of money, but
had no doubt he did what lie could to buy votes.
Had the greatest confidence in Probcrt, who had
always worked with him. Gave George Allen
about £B. It was for the purpo-se of winning the
election, if we could. He did not ask for it, but
witness said, " Here, Allen, we've got some money;
take the £8 and do the best you can with it."
Gave Thomas Green £l2, William Wingate £2,
H. Merrett £2, and some other sums, which left
him a good balance in hand, which he distributed
shortly.
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electors to arrange evidence in support of the peti-
tion against Sir it. Carden's return. The witness
enumerated a number of sums of money paid to dif-
ferent persons, electors and non-electors, for services
rendered on the Liberal side during the election of
1857—tavern bills, &e. The gratuities which he
dispensed, after payieg all the claims made upon him,
amounted to about £26. He should not have hesi-
tated in giving this money before the election, but
had not got it then. Did rot receive the money until
the other party had bought up all the purchaseable
commodity. Did not offer J. G. Gardner a bribe.
Should like to see the man that dared to offer him
one. Ile asked for money at 11 o'clock in the day,
and if he had got it then it would have been of ser-
vice ; but lie did not get it until 2, and it was t4o
late then. The voters had nearly all polled, and
there was no one left to bribe, so that he had no
chance of bribing. From information he had re-
ceived he found the other party was going to bribe,
and if he had had the money he should have done
the same; but on representing the matter to the
committee they said that if the others chose to bribe
they must, but Mr. Ellis declared that not a penny
should be spent in bribery or treating.
Joseph Clarke, a pilot, who had been blind ever
since 1857, was paid £5 for his vote in 1859, and
nothing in 1857, for voting for Sir R. Carden.
Harriet Clarke, wife of the last witness, had not
received any money on account of her husband's
vote in 1857, and corroborated her husband's testi-
mony in other respects.
Mr. William Stephens was canvassed by Sir R.
Carden and Mr. Butt in 1857, and refused to give
him his vote. The witness went on to say that he
was arrested the same evening for a debt of £l4 at
the suit of Mr. Compton. On the morning of the
election his (witness's) late father came to him, lie
was a partisan of Sir R. Carden. He said he had
seen Mr. Lovegrove, and Mr. Lovegrove would ar-
range with his detaining creditor if he would vote
for Sir R. Carden. He said this in the presence of
the governor, the turnkey, and a fellow-debtor
named Greening. Told his father he'd sooner have
his tongue cut.
Commissioner Welford—You refused then?
Witness—Yes. I refused, and my father then
said I had better remain where I was. Had never
requested my father to see Mr. Lovegrove in refer-
ence to this. I had fully determined not to vote for
Sir It. Carden. I was agent for the Conservative
party before that.
Mr. Lovegrove here stepped into the witness-
box, and said lie had unfortunately had some diffe-
rences with the last witness, he having in April,
1857, recovered a judgment against him in a supe-
rior court for £l5O, and an offer had afterwards
been made to witness by Mr. Wilkes of Gs. Bd. in
the pound in payment, but he declined to accept it.
In reply to Mr. Commissioner Vaughan, Mr.
Lovegrove said most decidedly that he never offered
to Mr. Stephens's father to settle with his detain-
ing creditor if he would vote for Sir R. Carden,
and lie had never seen his father respecting such
an offer.
Mrs. Dowers, wife of Robert Dowers, stated that
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James Brown voted for Carden in 1859, and re-
ceived £lO. Received nothing in 1857.
William Bowkett received £lO from Thomas
Evans to vote for Price and Monk at the last
election.
Mr. Goodrich deposed that he owned a good deal
of tenement property in Glocester, and was a sup-
porter of the Conservative party. He canvassed
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Sir R. Carden at the last election.
John Haling voted for Price and Monk at the
last election, and received £6 from Harry Jacobs.
Was a messenger in 1857, and voted for Carden.
Received £1 ls.
William Woodcock received £6 from Jacobs for
voting for Price and Monk at the last election.
John Llewellin received £5 from W. Fletcher for
voting for Price and Monk at the last election.
William Lee received £6 for voting for Price and
Monk at the last election. All these voted for Car-
den without pay in 1857.
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Pick the drunken -- up," and then left the;
house. Mrs. Owen was not sober and could not walk
straight, but her husband was sober. When he
was fetched back to Cresswell's, after his wife's
death, he scorned much affected, said it was the first
time he struck her, and he was willing to die with
her. After he struck her down in Cresswell's house
deceased did not move again nor speak.
Hannah Pitaway, wife of Thomas Pitaway, a
puddler, deposed that she was passing by Owen's,
when she saw deceased leaving her house, followed
by her child in her night clothes; and Owen was
behind them. Witness got into Cresswell's before
Owen, but left when he obtained admission.
Ann Williams, a married woman, saw three
women drinking in Owen's house on Tuesday last,
at about 20 minutes to 10 ; deceased drinking with
them at their solicitation. She was "fresh," and
was sitting down in the bar when Owen came in.
She had been crying, and had told witness that
because she had spoken to her sister Emma at the
door her husband " had been having words with
her." Owen said, " What's the matter with you?"
She made some reply, and Owen several times
asked her to go to bed, but she refused, and Owen
struck her. Witness saw her on the floor, but
could not tell if the blow knocked her off. Owen
told her to leave the house. She replied " Yes,
Ben, I will," and went out. After she went out
Owen said the deceased began to drink six weeks
before, that she had respectable neighbours, and he
was surprised that she harboured such women in
his absence; that he worked hard to keep a good
home, but if she continued that course he would
break the home up. He did not seem in a passion,
and remained in his house talking to witness a
quarter of an hour before he followed his wife.
After she fell on the floor he kicked at her. Saw
the deceased's daughter pull a pint cup from her
mother's mouth. The daughter asked witness to
try to get her to bed.

Edward Williams, husband of last witness, gave
similar testimony.
Jemima Owen, daughter of the deceased before
her marriage, but who had passed as her sister,
deposed that her mother drank with other women
till she became intoxicated, on Tuesday. Took the
cup from her mouth twice. Saw Owen strike her.
Owen was a good father to witness, and a good
husband to her mother, but did not know deceased
was her mother till the day of her death.
Police-Inspector Blayney deposed that when he
arrested Owen and charged him with the murder,
Owen said, " I did not, Sir ; I pulled her out of the
cellar, and she, being drunk, fell against the door-
jam. lam very wry for it. No two ever lived
happier together." The distance from Owen's to
Cresswell's hou4e is 117 yards.
Mr. G. W. Ilowitt, surgeon, who had made the
post mortem examination, deposed that death had
occurred from congestion of the brain, occasioned
by diffuse extravasation of blood all over the brain.
There was a mark of a severe contusion under the
left car, and at this point the brain was like a jelly,
The extravasation was not the mere clotting occa-
sioned in cases of apoplexy. This extravasation had
occasioned death, and it was produced apparently
by the injuries that were found on the left side of
the head. Those injuries, in his opinion had not
been occasioned by kicks.

The coroner then summed up, and
The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, two
f the 14 jurymen, after two hours' deliberation,
Lolling out for a verdict of wilful murder.

COLLIERY EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF
FOUR LIVES.

On Saturday morning,-about six o'clock, an ex-
plosion of fire-damp took place at Washington' Col-
liery, situated a few miles to the south of this town,
by which three men and a boy 'save lost their lives.
It appears that the colliery is being worked in three
seams, and that in the scam in which the explosion
has taken place the only persons at work were the
unfortunate deceased. Their names are William
Richardson (horse-keeper, William Mould and
Christopher Mould (hewers), and William Elgee (a
driver-boy). Richardson and the Moulds have each
left a wife and family. One of the Moulds has
five children and the other three ; Richardson one.
The immediate cause of the explosion is yet
unknown. Ever since it occurred unremitting
exertions have been made to recover the bodies.
That of Richardson was found close to the
shaft. lie was quite dead, and had evidently been
killed by the after damp. The bodies of the other
three sufferers have not been reached. That part of
the pit in which the unfortunate fellows were work-
ing is still charged with gas, and consequently it
has been impossible to reach tke bodies, or to ascer-
tain the extent of damage which the pit has suf-
fered ; but it is needless to say that every possible ap-
pliance has been had recourse to in order to get at
thcmen. Immediately after the explosion Mr. Crud-
das, the viewer of the colliery, was at the pit, and he
has been aided in his exertions by a great many
of the viewers belonging t olthe surrounding colleries.
Though nothing is absolutely known as to the
cause of the explosion, it is considered more than
probable that the Moulds bad been working with
naked lights instead of lamps. Richardson had
evidently run from the stables on hearing the ex-
plosion, and had endeavoured to reach the staple or
communication with the lower seam, but the after-
damp had caught him when within a very short
space of a place of safety. It is reported that a
man named Bowes, an overman, ran to the staple
and escaped by sliding down the rope to the next
seam. The pit has always been considered in a
good and safe emdition. It is the property of
Messrs. Kimpster, Bell, and Co.
Another account says :—A terrible explosion took
place in the Maudlin seam of the Washington Col-
liery, between five and six o'clock on Saturday
morning. The overman (Mr. Bowes) went down
with the men about an hour before the explosinp
took place, when all seemed right with the cur-
rent of 'air in that portion of the seam where
the workmen were to work. The workings in
this portion of the pit consist of an upper and lower
seam, which were connected with a staple. At the
time of the explosion the overman was in the lower
seam near the staple, and feeling a concussion of
air, which he concluded must be caused by an
explosion in the upper seam, effected his escape
from the pit by means of another outlet. By the
explosion the brattice was broken and the ventila-
tion of the steam stopped ; but it was afterwards
partially restored by means of a temporary brattice
of cloth. The body of Richardson, the horse-keeper,
was found near the staple. It was impossible to
effectually explore the scene of the disaster until a
permanent brattice could be constructed, which was
immediately commenced with, and it is expected
will by this have been completed and the bodies of
the unfortunate men and boy found. At the time
of the explosion there was a supply of fresh air to
the seam equal to 120,000 cubic feet from a large
furnace which has been but recently built.— N -
castle Ch onicle.

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Rev. James Olathe Franks, M.A., to the rectory of S`.
Margaret's, Canterbury, vacant by the secession of the
Rev. E. 11. Woodhall. Mr. Franks has not recently done
any parochial duty, but we (ilentish Gazette) believe thi.t
formerly he held the curacy of tit. Mary's, Whittlesen
Cambridgeshire. It is understood that the views ofithe
new rector are those of a moderate high churchman.
PIIIOE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris
is about 1 dig. and the short exchange:on London is 25.121
per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the Eng-
lish Mint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is at about 1-10th per cent. dearer
in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the
price of gold is 423 per mark, and the short exchange the
price go
London is 13.4 per £1 sterling. ld at ton
English Mint price is therefore at about the same rice
in London as in Hamburg. The course of ex-
' sight
change at New York on London for bills at Oared
p dayitthe
is about:lloi per cent.,
Mint par between the two c,ountries., bowsand,after making
which, "lien com- that the ex-
change is in favour of England , . e
toffnrethncect
un.ofpoinrtate:
tion of gold from the United States,
rest,
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