The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-27 00:00:00

PONTEFRACT.

Mr. Milnep was proposed by Mr. Carter, Knottingll'
and seconded by Mr Richard Morgan, Pontefract ; Mr.
Oliveira was proposed by Mr. Jefferson, Pontefract, BO
,ecouded by Mr. J. Moron, Pontefract; Mr. Word wag
roposyd by Mr. Moorhouse, Knottingly, and seconded
cry Dr. Simpson, Pontefract. The show of bands was in
savour of Mr. Oliveira. Poll demanded by Mr. Milner.

THIRSS.
The proposer of the candidate for Thirsk was Mr•
Rhodes, and the seconder Mr. Irueson ; after which
Wlll,am Galway was elected.

• Stroud.—Mr. George Poul,tt Scrope, Right lien.
Ed, and Horsman, arid Mr. M. M. Turns r.
Sunder:and.--Mr. George Hudson, Mr. Henry Fen-
Wick, Mr. R. Hoare, and Mr. R Walters.
Taunton.—Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Mr, Arthur
Mills, and the Hon. W. F. Cainobell.
Tavistock.—Hon. Ge.,rde M. C. Byng, Mr. RohertJ.
PbilHarare, Sir John S. TrArtrvney, Bart., and Mr. S.
Carter.
Totnes.—Mr. Thomas Mill, Earl Gifford, Mr. Mac-
kenzie, and Mr. Gregory.
Wallingford.—Mr. Richard Malirs, Captain Sartorie,
and Mr. J. Morrell.
Wareham.—Mr. JS.W.S. E. Drax, C,lonel Barton,
and Mr. Calcraft.
Wells.—flight Hon. W. G. Hayter, Capt. H. H. Jol-
life, and Mr. E. Webster.
Weymouth and Melcornbe R..gis.—Mr. G. M. Butt,
Col. W. L. Freestun, Mr. R. J. R Campbell, and Mr.
M`Waller,
Wigan.—C.d. Hon. Jas. Undsay, Mr. Joseph Acton,
Mr. Woods and Mr. PoNal.
Winchester.—Mr. John Bonham• Carter, Sir J. Bul
ler Eaqt, Bart., and Mr. W. Portal.
Worcester.—Mr. Wm. Laslett, Mr. Osman Ricario,
and Mr. Alderman Sidi,ey.
Yarmoutb.—Sir E. H. Lacon, Part., Mr. Chas. E.
Rumbolel, Hon. C. S. Vereker, Mr. T. M'Cullagb, and
Mr E. W. Watkin.
York..—Col, J. G. Smyth, Mr. J. P. B. 'Westhead,
anU Mr. Malcolm.

• SCOTLAND.
The following 38 seats are uncontested up to the time
WO write ;—A.berdeenehire, Lord Harldo (C) ; A.rgyll-
shire, Mr. Findlay (L) ; Banffshire, Earl of Fife (L) ;
Berwickshire, Hon. F. Sclott (C) ; Biveshire, Hon. J.
A. Stuart Wortley (L) ; Caithness-shire, Mr. Trail!, of
Ratter (L) ; Clacktoatinanshire, Lord tYlPlgund (L) ; Pum-
hartonshire Mr.Sinollett, of Bouhill (C); Duinfrieqihira,
Mr. Hope 'Jillin,tone (C) ; Dumfries burghs, MEdW.
Ewart (L) ; E linburghshire, Earl of Dalkeith (C);
- burgh, Mr. Adam Black (L), Mr. C. Cowan (L) ; Elgin-
shire, Mr. Cumming Brune (C) ; Elgin burghs, Mr. G.
Skene Duff (L) ; Forfarehire, Lord Duncan (L) ;
Gree-
nock, Mr. Dunlop (L) ; Haddlngtonshire, Lord Elcho
(C) ; Haddington burghs, Sir H. Davie (L) ; Inverness-
shire, Mr. H. J. Baillie (C) ; Inverness burghs, Mr. A.
Matheson (L) ; Kilmarnock burghs, Hon. E. Bouverie
(L) ; Kincardinusbire, Hoe. H. Arbuthnot (C) ; Kirk-
aldy burghs, Colonel Ferguson (L) ; Linlithgowshire,
Mr. George Dundas (C) ; Montrose burghs, Mr. W.
E Baxter (L) ; Orkney and Shetland, Mr. Frederick
Dundas (L) ; Peeblesshire, Sir Graham Montgomery (C)
Perthshire, Mr. Stirling of Keir, (C) ; Perth, Hon. A.
Kinnaird (L); Renfrewshire, Sir M. Sbaw Stewart (C) ;
Ross and Cromarty, Sir James Mathrton (L) ; Roxburgh-
shire, Hon. J. E. Elliott (L); Selkitkshire, Mr. A.
Elliott Lonbart (C) ; Stirlingshire' Mr. P. P. Blackburn
(C) ; Sutberlandshire, Marquis of Stafford (L) ; Wigton-
shire, Sir Andrew Agnew (L) : Wigton burghs, Sir W.
Dunbar (L). The other features of the present election
are the facts that nine seats are contested by Liberals
against Liberals—viz., Aberdeen, Glasgow, Leitb, Kirk-
cudbrightshire, Paisley, Stirling (burghs), St. Andrew's
(burghs), Wick (burghs) ; also, that four seats only are
contested by Tories against Liberals, or vice versa. These
are—Fifeshire, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, and the Falkirk,
blargho.—North, Briton, March 25.

STATE OF THE POLL—(THIS DAY.)
HERTFORD.
Queer to Eleven
104
93
76

Cowper: ....................
Chambers .................
Farquhar .... . .............

WINDSOR,
Quarter to Eleven
. 176
177
188

Grenfell .................• ••
Ricard 0....................
Yank ttart ...............•

CARLISLE.

H0dg50n................
Graham.. ................. .
Ferguson ................

Ten n'elos.k.
210
168
1:. 152

COVENTRY.
Q carter to Eleven
~1,024
859
222
109
108

Ellice
Paxtin ...........................•
Mellor
Treherna

NOTTINGHAM.
Quarter to Eleven.
573
438
138

Paget ................
Walter .................
J0ne5.................

MURDER AND ROBBERY.

The Court of Assizes of La Manche has just
tried a lad named Legouey, aged only fifteen, for
murder and robbery, and two men named Benoist
and Leparmentier for complicity in the robbery. A
widow named Legouey, of Houerville (not related
Who first named prisoner), was on the 30th Dec.
last found lying dead in her house in a pool of
blood, having been murdered by blows with a
hatchet. Her pockets were torn off, and the
drawers in the house were ransacked ; so that it
was evident that the murder had been committed
for the sake of robbery, and suspicion fell on,
Legouey, who was a mauvais sujet, and he was
arrested ; his clothes were found to be stained
With blood, and on being confrcnted with the
corpse, he burst into ' tears and confessed that he
Was the murderer. He had, he said, been recom-
mended by Benoist and Leparmentier to rob the
Widow, who was supposed to be rather rich ; and
on the day in question be had undertaken to do so,
and was to give part of his booty to the two men.
Accordingly he went to her home, whilst the
3170 men remained in a public house. His inten-
tion was simply to rob her, but finding that was
!)0t so easy as he had imagined, he murdered her ;
I!f3 then stole 30 francs, which was all the money
he, could find; after which, though covered with
blood, he returned to the public-house, where he,
gave the other two men 6f. each. On this confes-
‘,„ the two men were arrested. When before the
• Legouey rope cted his story and wept bitterly
as he did so ; the other two pi isoners energetically
denied that they had commilt d the robl.ery or
,L •
profited by it ; and They still more eni-rgetic,ally
`The
being in any way responsible for the murder.
jury, After examining all the circumstances,
acquitted Leparmenti. r, and convicted Le.:ouey of
murder and robbery, and Benoist of complicity in
the robbery. The court sentenced Legouey, on
account of his youth, to twenty years' Imprison-
lent, and Benoist to five years' hard labour.

DUBLIN, Thur-day Morning.—The late members for
YoughAl, Kinsale, and Brandon will be re-elected with
out opposition. Mr. Windsor has withdrawn from
atut
SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—The South Eastern Rail-
Way's direct., daily, tidal service to Paris, via Folkestone
aid Boulegne, with V‘rough registration of baggage,
Will be resumed on the let of April.
ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS —The 119th anniver-
sary festival of this highly useful charity took place at
the Freemasons%hall yesterday, whet about 130 mem-
bers,,subscribers, and visitors sat down to an excellent
dinner.
FRUIT AND POTATO METAGE.—Yesterday a meeting
of the trades concerned in the importation of fru.t and
vegetables took place in the tale-room of Messrs. K,.el-
ing and Hunt, Monument-yarJ, for the purpose of adopt-
ing measures to resist the payment of the unnece-sary
charge for metage on these articles. Mr. Keeling, the
chairman, observed that the interference of the city
meter,' was uncalled for, and useless to the trade.
FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Yesterday morn-
ing, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, the
various passengers travelling by the Pailiamentary
train, which left, Dover at half-past six o'clock the
same morning, for London, were painfully excited,
in consequence of the following deplorable occur-
rence, which was attended with fatal results to a trades-
man much respected by the company, and who had
been rkcently married ;—From the particulars ob-
tained, it appears that the unfortunate man was a brick-
layer, and was in the act of crossing the line, with a
scaffold-pele upon his shoulders, when he stopped to
speak to his wife, who was standing on the platform.
Whilst so engaged, the down Paatatneatary train
came in sight, and the guard_elsoowu,nded the whistle
no doubt, ex-
in the usual way. The poor f I
time to get
pected that he would have plent
out of the way before the train reached the
not the case,
station, but unfortunately such
and while he was taking leave of his wife ife for the morn-
ing, the locomotive struck either the pole or tne man's
body, and hurled him
half-way across the metals. The
engine-driver at once shut off the steam, the guard ap-
plied the breaks roost vigorously, and every endeavour
was made to reverse the engine, but the same
could not be accomplished until the wheels of the toe
niotive and nearly the whole of the carriages and trucks
bad passed over him. Blood immediately flowed in
Copious streams from the poor fellow's body, and when
picked up several pieces of bone from his legs were found
on the permanent way. The mangled remains were re-
moved to the Tonbridge station, a medical gentleman
was sent for, who promptly attended, but not to be of
any assistance, as life was quite extinct, Not the least
blame can be attributed to any of the company's servants
in charge of the train. The body now lies to await a
coroner's irque-t.
THE 'MIDDLE AGES. AND OUR OWN TIMES.--There is
another fact I would dare to match with all the upholstery
confession of the middle ages. Show me the equivalent
to a money-loving people putting its hands into its oa
pocket, tot to build proud towers, but to ecnarcipate de-
graded savages ; giving 20,000,000, not at the bidding of
an imperious monarch or a tyrannical priesthood, but at
the spontaneous esll of the national conscience, and by
the immediate instrumental ty of the national will. There
is a moral grandeur in this money erant " that sinks the
Pyramids into littleness. As for Christian heroism, what
can history chronicle or poetry invent of Godfrey,
Richard, or St. Lou s, that does not rale before the
simple details of that poor despised Patagonian mis
Rion of the other day I I will not be content myself
with even the names of "Nightingale" and her noble
aisterao—ltev. Edward Young oft Fee Fa, idztriam.