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London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

LONDON, W F.DNESDAY EVENING-, APltli, 8, 1857.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

'WHITEHALL. APRIL 4.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be ulased under the Great Seal, granting the dignities
of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon. Henry R. C.
Baron Cowley, G. 0.8., her Majesty's Ambassador Extra-
ordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the Emperor
of the French, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully
begotten, by 'the names, styles, and titles of Viscount
Dangan, ha the county of Meath, and Earl Cowley.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 6.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, appointing
The Most Reverend the Archbishop of Canterbury,
The Right Honourable the Earl of Harrow by,
The Right Honourable the Earl of Chicester,
The Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole,
The Right Honourable Stephen Lushington,
Travers Twiss, D.C.L., Vicar-General of the Province of
Canterbury,
The Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair,
The Venerable Archdeacon Wigram , and
The Venerable Archdeacon Jones,
to be her Majesty's Commissioners to consider the state of
the several Dioceses of Canterbury, London, Winchester,
and Rochester, with special reference to the circumstances
of the said Dioceses, and the extent and boundaries
thereof.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO THE
NEW PARLIAMENT.

(Front the London Gazette of last evening.)
CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 3.
Members returned to serve in the Parliament summoned
to be holden at Westminster, the 30th April,
City of Coventry—The Right Hon. Edvrard Ellice, of
Arlington-street, London' Sir Joseph FrAzton, of Rock-
hills, Sydenhauo, Kent, Kot.
Borough of Horsham—William R,Jbt. Seymour Vesey
Fitzgerald, of Holbrook, Sussex,
County of Kincardine—Gen, the Hon. Hugh Arbuth-
nott, of Hatton.
County of Roxburgh--The Hon. John Edmund Elliot ,
of Beim, Roxburghshire,

APRIL 4.
Combined Counties df Elgin and Nairn--Oha'rles
Lennox Cumming Bruce, Esq., of Roseisle and 72iin-
naird.,
County of Monmouth—Chas, 0. Swinnerton liorgan,
of the Friars, Monmouthshire, Esq. ; Lieut.-Colonel
Edward Arthur Somerset.
. Combined Counties of Ross and Uromarty—Sir Jas.
Matheson, of the Lewis, Bart.
County of Northumberland.--_y.-orthern Division—The
Right Hon. Algernon George Percy, commonly called
Lord Lovaine ; the Right
'won. Charles Bennett, com-
monly called Lord Ossulst'jn.
Southern Division—W/entworth Blackett Beaumont,
Esq.; the Hon. Herrg George Liddell.
Borough of Abingdon—John Thos. Norris of Satton
Courtney, Berkeidire, Esq. ,
County of Marionette—Win. Watkin Edward Wynne,
of Peniarth, Merionethshire, Esq.
County of Denbigh—Sir Watirk Williams Wynn, of.
Wynnetal; Denbighshire, Bart. ; Col. Robert Myd.del-
ton Biddulph, of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire.
County of Aberdeen—The Hon. George John Jaames
Gordon, commonly called Lord Haddo.
City of Aberdeen.—Colonel William Henry Sykes:.
County of Berwick.—The Hon. Francis Scott, re-
siding at Mertoun House.
County of Dumbarton.—A. Smollett, of Bonhill, Esq.
APRIL 6.
County of Sunderland.—G. G. W., Marquis of Stafford.
County of Argyle.—A. S. Finlay, Esq., of Castleto w and
County of Wigtown.—Sir A. Agnew, of Lochnaw, B, wt.
County of Ayr.—Patrick James Herbert Crichton
Stuart, commonly called Lord James Stuart.
Ayr District of Burghs.—Edward Henry Craufurd,
younger, of Authenames.
County of Hereford. —SirHenry Geers Cotterell, Bart.;
Thos. Wm. Booker Blakemore, Esq.; J. K. Kind, Esq.
County of Huntingdon--James Rust, Esq., Edward
Fellowes, Esq., John Moyer Heathcote, Esq.—equal
number of votes.
Stewartry of Kirkeudbright—James Mackie, Esq., of
Bbngaly.
Borough of Shaftesbury.--George Grenfell Glynn, Esq.
County of Stafford, Northern Division.—Charl es
Bowyer Adderley, Esq.; Smith Child, Esq. Southeen
Division—Henry John Wentworth Hodgetts Foley,
Esq.; William Orme Foster, Esq.
County of Essex,, Northern Division.—The Right
Hon. William Berestord, of Hampton Court, Middlesex;
Charles Da Cane, of Braxted-Park, Essex. Southern
Division—Thomas Wiliam Bramston, of Skreens:,
Essex ; Richard Baker Wingfield, of Orsett Hall, Esser,
Esq.

County of Montgomery—Habert Watkin Williams
Wynn, E3q.
Borough of Huntingdon—Major-General Jonathan
Peel, of Marble hill, Middlesex ; Thomas Baring; o
Norman's-court, Hampshire, Esq.
APRIL 7.
County of Bedford—Francis Charles Hastings Rus-
sell, Esq. ; Richard Thomas Gilpin, Esq.
County of Caithness—George Traill, of Ratter, Esq.
Isle of Wight, County.—Charles Cavendish Cliffurd,
of Westfield House, Ryde, in the said Isle, and of Eaton-
square, London, Esq.
County of Derby, Southern Division—Charles Robert
Colvile, of Lullington Derbyshire, Esq. ;.Thomas Wm.
Evans, of AlleAtree Hall, Derbyshire. Esq.
County of Dorset—The Hon. 'William Henry Berke-
ley -Portman, of Bryanstone, `Dorsetshire ; Henry
Gerard Shirt, of Critchell, Dorsetshire, Esq.; Henry Ker
Seymer, of Handford, Dursetshire, Esq.
County of Cambridge—Edward Ball, Esq. ; Henry
John Adeane, Esq. ; the Hon. Eliot Thomas Yorke.
County of Berks—Robert Palmer, Esq. ; The Hon.
Philip Pleydell Bouverie ; George Henry Vansittart,
Esq.

County of Leicester, Northern Division—The Right
Hon. John James Robert Manners, commonly called
Lord John Manners ; Edward Basil Farnham, of Quorn-
don House, Leicestershire, Esq.
Southern Division—Charles William r,acke, of Prest-
wold Hall, Leicestershire, Esq. ; The Hon. George
Augustus Frederick Louis Curzon, commonly called
Viscount Curzon.
County of Norfolk, Eastern Division—Major-General
Charles Ashe Windham, of Myton, Warwickshire, C.B. ;
Sir Edward North Buxton, of Caine House, Cromer,
Norfolk, Baronet.
Western Division—George William Pierrepoint Ben-
tinck, of Terrington St. Clements, Norfolk, Esq. ;
Brampton Gurdon, of Letton, Norfolk, Esq.
County of Anglesea—Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams
Bulkeley, Bart.
County of Northampton, Northern Division—Augus-
tus Stafford O'Brien Stafford, Esq. ; William Alleyne
Cecil, commonly called Lord Burghley.
Southern Division—John Poyntz Spencer, commonly
called Viacount Althnrp ; Rainald Knightley, Esq.

Convention between her Majesty and
the Emperor of the French.

(From the Gazette of last evening.)

Signed, at London, March 7, 1857.---[itatifications
exchanged at London, March 25, 1857.]
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the Emperor of the
French, being desirous to prevent all future cause of mis-
understanding with regard to the right of trading at and
near Portendic, on the west coast of Africa, and at Al-
breda, in the River Gambia, asserted or assumed respec-
tively by the Governments or subjects of Great Britain and
France, have resolved to conclude a Convention for that
purpose, and have named as their respective Plenipoten-
tim ies ; that is to say :
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable George William
Frederick, Earl of Clarendon, Baron Hyde of linden, a
Peer of the United Kingdom, a Member of her Britannic
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the
Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, her Britannic
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
and the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, a Member
of her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coun-
cil, a Member of Parliament, her Britannic Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretary of State for the Colonies;
And his Majesty the Emperor of the French, the Sieur
John Gilbert Victor Fialin Count of Persigny, Senator,
Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Hon-
our, Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Meijidie
of Turkey, Grand Cross of the Order of St. Maurice and St.
Lazarus of Sardinia, Grand Cross of the Order of Danebrog
of Denmark, his Ambassador to Her Britannic Majesty ;
Who, after having communicated to each other their re-
spective full powelm, found in good and due form, have
agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :

ASSIZE INIELLIG.ENC.E.

OXFORD OrRCIIIT.—GLOUCESTER, APRIL 7.
(BeTore Mr. Justice Willes.)
ELEr_ITION RIOT AT CIIELTENHANI.

G. smith, R. Ellis, F. Buckland, T. Addis, A.
Shirer, F. Williams, G. Oldship, J. Edmonds, F.
Birch, G.
.Mullis, T. Griffin, H. Clark, J. Pititin;
J. S,tubloins, and G. Edwards, were indicted for a
rieit at Cheltenham on Dec. 4 last, and assaulting
W, Boodle. The case occupied the Court half
a day, and excited the utmost interest. One-half
the town of Cheltenham, attended the court, which
was crowded to suffocation. Ten counsel were en-
gaged, viz., Mr. Sergtiant Pigott, Mr. Powell, and
Mr. Fuller for the prosecution;Mr. What eley, Q. C.,
Mr. Keating, Q.C. Mr. Skinner, Mr. Cooke, Mr.
Griffith, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. M‘Galm, for the de-
fendants. A number of the defendants were re-
spectable tradesmen of Cheltenham. It appeared
that a local act having been obtained, for the town
of Cheltenham, the inhabitants proceeded, under
that act, to elect certain town commissioners, and
the two political parties in the borough proposed
opposite candidates, there being an angry contest
for the party government of the town. In the con-
test for the north ward the opposing candidates
were Messrs. Holies and Downing on the one side,
' and Mr. F. Marshall on the other. Mr. Boodle,
who is a well known electioneering agent in Chel-
tenham, proceeded a few minutes before the close
of the poll 'to record his vote at the hustings for
Downing and Hollis. At
,this time a crowd sur-
roundedthe booth, and, as the prosecutor alleged,
was determined to keep out all those who would
not vote for Marshall. The defendants were among
the crowdclosetothepollingbooth,and Mr. Boodle,
in attempting to get up to the booth to vote, was
jostled and several times struck, his hat knocked
oil', and his coat torn up the back. A number of
persons were called, amongst whom were Mr. Har-
ford, a magistrate, and two or three policemen,
who, however, desCribed the conduct as peace-
able rather than disorderly. At the close of the pro-
secution ten of the, defendants were discharged by
order of the Court; they not having been identified
as taking an k.active part in the affair. Witnesses
were called to prove the peaceable conduct of the
crowd, and the case ended in a verdict of acquittal
as to all the other defendants.