The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-19 00:00:00

ANDOVER.—Captain Wellesley, of Cornholt Park, near
Andover, has announced his intention to contest that
borough in opposition to the present sitting member (the
Hon. D. F. Fortescue), who has been one of the repre-
sentatives of the borough for the last eleven years. The
gallant captain is the heir presumptive of the Duke of
Wellington, and grandson of the great Duke. As Andover
will in future only return one member to Parliament it is
thought that the contest will be a severe one.

COVENTRY.-Mr. Alexander Staveley Hill, QC., has come
forward as the second Conservative candidate. He con-
:iested the representation of this city iii March last with
Samuel Carter.

PRESTON.— Mr. Thomas Farrics, barrister, of Stockton.
m-Tees, has come forward as a Liberal candidate. 'There
are now five in the field, three Liberals and two Corserva.

BANDURY.—Mr. Mewburn, a gentleman connected with
the locality, has accepted an invitation from a section of
the Liberal party to become a candidate for this borough
in opposition to Mr. Samuelson. Both gentlemen are
carrin,s, on an active canvass.

HERTFORDSIIIRE.—It is now decided that a contest win
be fought in this county, the Liberals having determined
to bring forward another candidate with the Hon. H.
Cowper against Mr. Abel Smith and Mr. Surtees.
OXFORDSHIRE.—AIthough Mr. Henley and Colonel
North have not yet issued their addresses, it is understood
that they will offer themselves for re-election. Colonel
Fane will retire in favour of a Liberal in the person of
Mr. W. C. Cartwright, of Aynhoe.

ROCHESTER.—The division threatened in the Conserva-
tive party in this city has been avoided by the formal
announcement of Mr. H. Haymen that he does not
intend comint forward as a candidate for the representa-
tion of the city There are consequently only two Conser-
vative candidat. now before the electors—viz., Mr. Alfred
Smee, F.R.S., Ld Mr. Aldborough Henniker, special
pleader.

WAftwicK.—The election for this borough is over,
according to present arrangements. The committees on
both sides have decided that as Mr. Repton had resigned
no other candidate would be brought fo:ward by either
party, so that Mr. A. W. Peel (Liberal) and Mr. E.
Greaves (Conservative) will have a walk over.
GLASGOW.-Sir George Camborne, of Succoth, has con.
sented to come forward as a candidate in the Conservative
interest.

HUNTINGDON.—GeneraI Peel has issued his farewell
address, and Mr. J. Baring asks the electors for a con-
tinuance of their confidence.

EXETER.-At a meeting of the electors Mr. J. D. Cole-
ridge refeixed to a report that some employers of labour
in that city had intimated to their men that a vote given
in the intereet adverse to those employers would be
attended with loss of work, and expressed his fear that
such a course would promote trades-unioni. m as a means
of obtaining political freedom.

THE MURDER NEAR LEWES.—Martin Brown, a
man of 21, who is suspected of the murder of David
Bally, an old man, near Lewes, a few clays ago, was
arrested on Saturday at the Maidstone Barracks. He
had enlisted in the Royal Artillery. He neither admitted
nor denied his guilt.

ACTION AGAINST SIR RICHARD MAINE.—An
action is likely to take place next term, in the Court of
Common Pleas against Sir Richard Mayne by two ex-in.
spectors of police, lately connected with the omnibus and
cab department, for libel, when it is expected most extraor-
dinary disclosures will be revealed respecting the system
adopted. No little amount of anxiety is manifested by the
proprietors of omnibuses and cabs, as well as the police,
as to the result of the action, it being the first in which
proceedings have been taken against the Chief Commis-
sioner at a court of law by two of his subordinate officers.
THE LICHFIELD NOTICES TO QUIT. —The Hon.
Major Anson, M.P., addressed a meeting of his con-
stituents on Saturday night at Lichfield. He said that in
justice to his brother (Lurd Lichfield), in justice to him-
self, and in justice to the Liberal party who had adopted
him as their representative, be felt bound to reply to the
charges which recently appeared in the Daile News, and
which were subsequently nude by Colonel Dyott, in
reference to the notices to quit served in the name of Lord
Lichfield. There was not one particle of truth in the
accusation. The notices had been served ; but they were
served in the ordinary course of Lusiliess, and had no
connection with the contest for the representation of the
borough.

SINGULAR STORY.—The death of Mr. F. IL
Wiggin, proprietor of the NortLumberland Arms, Ber-
mondsey, took place on Thursday morning, the Bth inst•
Mr. Wiggin retired to bed the previous night in his usual
health and spirits, but at five o'clock in the morning he
ruptured a blood-vessel, and in six hours he expired from
exhaustion. It seems a remlrkable presentiment of his
death was made known to him two months previously,
when, to amuse his children, he drew upon a slate a coffin,
and wrote an inscription, a verbatim copy of which was
inscribed on his coffin plate, on his interment, as follows:
" Frederick H. Wiggin, died October Bth, 1868,. aged
40." This sketch and inscription he showed to his wife,
and others who happened to be present. The remains of
the deceased, who was much respected, were, on Monday,
taken from London to Horton,. for interment by the side
of his father's grave.