The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

ISLE of Miriam—Sir John Simeon contradicts the
report that he intended to retire from the representation.
AL4.NCHESTEII. —lt has been decided to take steps with-
out delay to secure the election of Mr. Ernest Jones as
third member for Manchester.

SOUTH SHIELDS.—Mr. C. M. Palmer (L.), has declined
to come forward for this borough, thus leaving Mr. J. C.
Stevenson, a rather advanced Liberal, the only candidate
in the field.

CAMBRIDGE.-It is finally settled that Mr. R. R.
Torrens (L.) will he o.le of the candidates for the borough
of Cambridv ; and it is probable that the Hon. G. C.
Brodrick will b.; the other in the Liberal interest.
THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES. - Mr. A. Campbell
Swinton, LL.D., is a candidate for the Universities of
Edinburgh and St. Andrews.
Tlln BORDER.—The Hon. George T. S. Elliot (L.) has
issued an address " to the future electors of the border
113 urghs." It is stated that a requisition to Mr. A. R.
Clark, advocate, sheriff of Berwickshire, to come forward
for the border burghs, is being signed.

Nrxrucow.—Mr. Feter M`Laga,n (C.), the present
member, will offer himself for re-election, and a move-
ment is on foot in the county to place Mr. John Pender
714.) in the field against him.

LEITRIM COUNTY.—Captain Francis Nisbett, of the
Royal Artillery, will come forward as a t andidate for this
3ounty at the coming election.
HADDINGTON.—Lord Elcho has issued an address to the
electors, in which he contradicts the report that he will
lot offer himself for re-election, and he promises that, as

won as he is free to return, he will complete the entire
:mind of the constituency.

MERIONETHSHIRE.—Vigorous efforts are being made in
favour of Mr. David Williams, of Dendrath Castle, Port-
madoc, as a Liberal candidate.
CARDlFF.—Lieutenant•Colonel Stuart has signified his
:ntention of again offering himself.
BnEcoN.—An opposition is talked of in this borough to
:Jr. Gwyn (C.), who was returned at the last election by
a small majority.
HEREFORDSHIRE.—It is stated that the senior member,
:qr. King King (C.), does not intend to seek re-election.
EAST SUSSEX.—It is believed that Mr. J. G. Dodson,
Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons, and
Lore E. Cavendish, the sitting members, will again comp
forward in the Liberal interest.

BUCKINGHAM.—The report that Mr. J. G. Hubbard,
the Conservative member fur this borough, would not
again offer himself to the constituency is authoritatively
contradicted.

WICK BURGHS.—The result of Mr. Loch's canvass of
Wick and Pulteneytown is.thAt he has received the pledge
of six-sevenths of the voters in eue and in posse not absent
at the western fishing.

LEEDS.--Mr. Baines, UP., has been selected unani-
mously by the Liberal Registration Association as one
of the candidates for this borough at the approaching
election.

DENIOGIISIIIRE.—it is mentioned that no opposition will
be offered to Sir Watkin W. Wynn (C.) * The other seat
will be contested for by the Liberals, Mr. Watkin
Williams having consented to stand. Mr. Samuel Mor-
ley's name is also mentioned.
MONTGO3.IERYSIIIRE.—The seats are likely to he undis-
lurbed, no announcement of any opposition to the present
members—the Hon. Charles Hanbury Tracy (L.), the
member for the Montgomeryshire boroughs, and Mr. C.
w.w.Wyzin (C.), the county member— being spoken of.

A great fire has taken place at Sheffield, resulting
in tie destruction of a timber yard, and causing a loss to the
owner of many thousands. One of the local papers says
from £IO,OOJ to £15,000.

• The Bishop of Peterborough (Dr. Jeune) has had
a severe attack of illness. His lordship is progressing
favourably, but is extremely weak, and will be compelled
to take entire rest for some time to come.
it is understood that Mr. Serjeant Cox has been
nominated to succeed to the recordership of Portsmouth,
and that Mr. C. G. Prideaux will succeed him in the
recordership of Helston.

Mr. Justice O'llagan, when opening the City
Commission in Dublin on Monday, congratulated the juries
on the great immunity from crime late!' enjoyed. There
-was (sail his lordship) absolutely no indication of seditious
excitement or social disorder.

TEE COBDEN MEMORIAL AT CAMDEN TOWN. -
The committee for erecting the statue to the late Mr.
Cobden have determined on its inauguration on Saturday,
the 27th instant, the anniversary of the repeal of the Corn
Laws. Mr. Harvey Lewis, has been invited to
perform the ceremony of—unveiling and delivering an
address upon the occasion ; and a number of distinguished
gentlemen have promised to take part in the pro-
ceedings.

An action was brought at the recent Cornwall
Assizes against the South Devon Railway Company on
behalf of Miss Alford, who received severe injuries in an
accident which occurred at Launceston. Miss Alford was
awarded £9OO damages, there being, as usual in such
cases, a contention that the injuries received were not so
severe as represented. Death, however, has endorsed
the decision of the jurors, as Miss Alford died on Satur-
day, fifteen mouths after the accident.—Western Morning
New:.

EPIDEMIC A mosa GEESE.—The poultry-higglers
and geese-feeders on Walton, Chobham, 'Woking, and
Mitcham commons are sustaining great loss by the out-
break of disease among geese during the week, and many
valuable lags of early-hatched goslings have been destroyed
by a type of. disease not hitherto known in the poultry.
yards. . The geese are attacked as if by cramp, and roll
and plunge about in giddiness, and within an hour of
being attacked by the disease die in apparent convulsion.
The old brood geese escape the disease.
FRIGHTFUL FIT OF MADNESS.—Mr. Sullivan,
one of the sanitary inspectors of the parish of Paddington
has been attacked by such a frightful fit of madness—sail
to be in consequence of sunstroke—that he has been
placed under restraint. On Monday he frightened
his wife and children by declaring that he would murder
them, but they at once male their escape from the house,
which is in Irongate Wharf, by the back way. lle then
rushed into the street with nothing but his shirt on.
Ile was at last secured and taken indoors and partially
dressed, but the fit broke out a second time with greater
violence, and, seizing upon a carving knife, he pounced
upon the pet dog he had hitherto been very fond of and
hacked its head off. A policeman was called in, and the
madman was about to attack him with the knife, but upon
the comtable drawing his truncheon in eelf-defeuce,
Sullivan allowed himself to be secured. He was taken to
Malay's Hospital, and from thence was ta -the
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THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The Registrar-General in his usual ret'irn states: In
he week that ended on Saturday, June 13, 5,093 births
and 2,709 deaths were registered in London and in
thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual rate of mortality was 22 per 1,000 persons
living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 20
per 1,000 in London, 2G in Edinburgh, and 20 in Dublin ;
19 in Bristol, 20 in Birmingham, 25 in Liverpool,
27 in Manchester, 25 in Salford, 30 in Sheffield, 17
•n Bradford, 22 in Leeds, 22 in Hull, 21 in Newcastle-
iron-Tyne, and 29 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was
34 per 1,000 during the week ending the 6th inst., when
the mean temperature was 12.8 deg. Fahrenheit
higher than in the same week in London, where the
rate was 19. In London the births of 1,175 boys and 1,088
girls, in all 2,273 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years,
185867, the average number, corrected for increase of
population, is 2,035. The deaths registered in London
during the week were 1,195. It was the twenty-fourth
week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for
that week is, with a correction for increase of population,
1,268. The deaths in the present return are less by 73
than the estimated number. The average rate of mortality
was 21 per 1,000 in West London, 18 in North London,
19 in Central London, 22 in East London, and 20 in South
London.