The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-28 00:00:00

TEE WAREHAM ELECTION.

Upon the occasion of the recent election at Ware-
ham (consequent upon the death of Mr. Calcraft,
the late member) the numbers at the close of the
poll were—
Drax (Conservative) ... 375
Calcraft (Liberal) ... ... ... 305
Majority ... ... ... —69
At the general election in Novembor the follow-
ing were the numbers polled :
Mr. Calcraft (since deceased, L.), 314 ; Mr. Drax
(C.), 301 ; Mr. Freemantle (C.), 68.
" The return of Mr. Drax so early in the annals
of the new Parliament," said the ConServative organ
on the following morning when announcing the
above, "is an earnest of future Conservative
triumphs whenever and wherever vacancies may

occur."

On that same day, Wednesday, the twenty-third
instant, the Standard, in its Summary of News,
referred to the Wareham Election thus—lt said,
" Al hough the general election is over, and the
retutn of the new Ministry everywhere unopposed,
we have to-day to record a Conservative triumph.
A contet took place yesterday at Wareham to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Hales
Calcraft. The candidates were , Mr. Calcraft
a brother of the deceased member, and Mr. Drax,
who was defeated at the general election. The
electors have now politically reversed their former
decision the numbers at the close of the poll being
Drax (C), 374 ; Calcraft (L), 305 ; majority,
69. This result is mainly due to the absence of
divided efforts and a second Conservative candi-
date, as at the general election the numbers were—
Calcraft3ol ; Fremantle (C),
Since(L) n(cLe) ,
t3hle4n ;Drax (0),
68." , purely by inadvertence, when
reissuing, on Christmas, for the convenience of our
readers, the complete list for the new Parliament, the
name of Mr. Calcraft was retained as M.P. for
Wareham instead of being replaced, as it ought to
have been, by that of Mr. Drax. But—as proof po-
sitive of that circumstance being, as we have said,
simply an inadvertence--,the Wareham election was
distinctly referred to in another part of The Sun of
that same date—Friday, the 25th instant—as a
triumph achieved by the Conservative candidate.
In justice to ourselves, as well as in justice to Mr.
Drax, now M.P. for Wareham, we publish this ex-
planation.—[En. SUN.]

DAATII OF SIR RICHARD MAYNE, K.C. B.

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Sir Richard Mayne, K.C.8., died at half-past
ten on Saturday night at his residence in Chester-
square. The deceased was born in Dublin in 1796,
and was therefore in his 72d year. He was the
fourth son of the late Hon. Edward Mayne, one of
the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ire-
land, the representative of the ancient family of
the Maynes, of Biddendeu, in Kent, which settled
in Fermanagh and•
.Monaghan in the reign of
Elizabeth. He was educated at Trinity College,
Dublin, and was admitted ad eundem to Trinity
College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of
M.A. in 1821. He was called to the bar at Lin
cola's-inn in 1822, and appointed a commissioner
of the metropolitan police in 1829.
He married in 1831 the eldest daughter of Thos.
Carwick, Esq., of Wyke, Yorkshire, and of Moat
Mount, Highwood-bill, Middlesex. Lady Mayne
surtvives her husband, who has left a family of four
sons and two daughters.

Although some of Sir Richard Mayne's regula-
tions subjected him to much adverse criticism, and
occasionally to ridicule, his organisation of the
metropolitan police force, which in these c437s has
assumed almost the proportions of an army, won for
him several marks of approbation of successive
Governments. He received the honour of a Com-
mandership of the Bath in 1847, and was knighted
in 1851, immediately after the Great Exhibition of
that year.

" Whitaker's Almanac" for 1869 is one of the
best general almanacs yet published. It contains a variety
of information on commercial, par:iamentary, statistical,
and general subjects to be found in no other book of the
same description that we are acquainted with.
The " Dramatic Almanack" for 1869, by Mr.
J. W. Anson, secretary of the Dramatic College, and trea-
surer of the Adelphi Theatre, has just made its appearance.
It is a very little interesting volume, and will be found
partially handy for reference to matters thAttrical.

SALISBURY CATIIEDRAL.—A prebendal— canonry
in this cathedral, in the patronage of the bishop of the
diocese, has just become vacant by the death of the Rev.
Richard Waldy, M.A., incumbent of Affpuddle with Tur-
nerspuddle, in the county of Dorset, which latter prefer •
went he has held for a period of 45 years.

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THE BISHOP OFSALISBURY.—This prelate's heAlth
is slowly improving, Lut it will be some time before he
will be able to resume his diocesan duties. The Bishop
of Sodor and Man has been confirming for his lordship,
and his other official duties are performed by a Commis-
sary.