The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-03 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

WAKEFIELD.—Mr. Charlesworth will, it is said, be a
candidate for this borough in the Conservative interest at
the general election. The sitting member is Mr. W. H.
Leghorn, a Liberal, with whom Mr. Charlesworth corm
tested the representation in 1859.
CARLISLE.—The Conservative member, Mr. W. N.
Hodgson, will be opposed by Sir Wilfrid Lawson, who
sat for the city from 1859 to 1865, and who lately refused
an invitation to stand in the Liberal interest for Sun•
derland.

COCKEEZMOUTH.—It is rumoured that Mr. Isaac Fletcher;
who unsuccessfully contested this borough against Major
Green Thompson a week or two ago, will again come forward.
Both the sitting members—Lord Mayo and Major Thomp-
son— are Conservatives. One of them—most probably the
latter—must retire at the dissolution, as Cockermouth is
one of the boroughs placed in Schedule A of the Reform
Act of last year.
WHITEIIAVEN.—Mr. Cavendish Bentinck is not likely tti
be disturbed in the possession of the seat which he has
held since 1865. He is connected by marriage with the
family of the Earl of Lonsdale, whose influence is very
powerful in the borough.
EAST CUMBERLAND.—There is a rumour that Sir It:
Vane, of Armathwaite Hall, and Mr. R. C. Musgrave,
of Edenhall, will be brought out in opposition to the
present Liberal members, the Hon. C. Howard and Mr.
W. Marshall.

WEST CUMBERLAND.—The Hon. Percy Wyndham and
Captain Lowther, both Conservatives, will scarcely be
opposed. The influence of Lord Leconfield and the Lad
of Lonsdale is powerful in this division.

KING'S COUNTY.—The Liberals intend to fight for both
seats at the next election. The present members are Mr.
J. G. King (C.), and Sir Patrick O'Brien (L.) At the
election in 1865 Sir Patrick had a majority of only six
votes over Mr. Pope Hennessey.
YOUGHAL.--The votes of Sir J. M`Kenna having caused
much dissatisfaction, he will lose the support of the
Liberal party. Mr. Francis Lyons, the present mayor of
Cork, and son to Dr. Lyons, who was the " father of the
Liberal party " in Cork for years, and who represented
the city up to his death, has been favourably spoken of.
So also has Sir John Arnott, as well as a local landlord,
Mr. Little.

NEW Ross.—Mr. Heron, a barrister, is spoken of as a
candidate in the Liberal interest, in opposition to Colond
Tottenham.

ACCIDENT AND GALLANT RESCUE.—A few days
ago Mr. Charles Whitehead, of West Farleigh, Kent.
while leisurely walking by the Pent, near the Crosswall,
Dover, saw a boy of 14 fall from the side of the road into
the water. Mr. Whitehead immediately laid hold of an
iron chain attaching a barge to the quay, swung himself
along it, and, just as the lad was sinking the third time,
laid hold of him and held him above water for some time.
The boy was quite insensible. Neither of them could
swim. The boy was taken to the hospital, where, after a
time, he was recovered.

Tin DARGAN TESTIMONIAL FUND.—Sir Joseph
N. M`Kenna, M.P., in reply to a preliminary circular
from the honorary secretary of the committee of the fund
being organised to purchase an annuity for Mrs. Dargan,
thus writes :—" 84, Lancaster-gate, London, May 28,
1868. My dear sir, I regard the provision by the people
of Ireland of a suitable income for the widow of William
Dargan as an act of duty, which they are just enough,
generous enough, and not too poor to discharge. Of all
the public men I have known, of all the great agents in
the regeneration of our country, in the organisation of its
industry, and in the struggle for its advancement in the
arts of peace, there has not been alive for the last twenty
years ono to whom Ireland was more indebted than to
William Dargan. I enclose a cheque for £lOO, ;ny con.
tribution to the proposed fund.—l am, &c., JosErzrITEALE
WE:ENNA. To Richard Martin, Esq.,
7, Merzion-square,
Dublin."

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heartily
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wouldwould
operate with them in the movement. He had been the
means of slightly increasing the wages in the county by
sending about 100 labourers to various parts of England.
A friend of his in Yorkshire had written thus :—" When
the men you sent me first came they could not do above a
third as much work as my own men do, but it is wonderful
what twelve months' beef and mutton have done for them."
He (the canon) replied : " All that Devonshire men want
when they get in Yorkshire is a proper quantity of beef."
Yes, it was beef they wanted, instead of the dry bread and
musty cheese that they got, in their own county. That
morning a young man had called at the vicarage, and told
him that he had come for his brother ; he had been work,.
ing in Yorkshire as a labourer, and his first earnings were
£l7 a year, and "all found him." He advised the labourers
to go on agitating for higher wages, and he would be their
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ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, SISTERLY SERVICE: Messrs.
Belford, Harcourt; Miss Sheridan.
After which, THE FIELD OF TIIE CLOTH OF GOLD.
Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson; Mesdames Swanborough,
Lydia Thompson, Sheridan, Hughes, &c.
To conclude gith MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE.