The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-03 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

DUMFRIES.-Mr. Jardine (L.) at present M.P. for Ash-
burton, has consented to stand. Mr. Ewart (L.) intends

io resign.

MALDON.-It is stated that Mr. Serjeant Ballantine
(L.) will contest the borough against Mr. Sandford (C.),
one of the sitting members.

NORTH LANCASHIRE.—Captain Stalley (C.) has an-
nounced his intention not to appeal to the constituency of
Preston for re-election. In compliance with a requisition
signed by a large proportion of the electors of North Lan-
cashire, the hon. gentleman has deteimined to contest
that division of the county.

SOUTH HANTS.— Sir J. G. Jervoise,l3art. (L.), has an.
nounced his intention of retiring from ;he representation.
The Hants Independent says that the :tight Hon. W. F.
Cowper (L.), one of the present merwers for Hertford,
will he a candidate.

GLASGOW.-Mr. Graham (L.), in waiting to a private
Friend, announces his intention of again offering himself
for the representation of Glasgow.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE.--A meeting of liberal electors has
been held at Garston in support of the light Hon. W. E.
Gladstone for the representation of South Lancashire.
Resolutions were unanimously agreed to sympathising
with him in his endeavours to secure epitable representa-
tion of the people in Parliament, and to obtain justice for
all classes of her Majesty's subjects in Ireland, and
pledging the meeting to use every effortin their power to
return him and a Liberal colleague to tle Reformed Par-
liament.

LEOMINSTER.—Both the present meml:ers intend to fight
for the single seat left them by the new acform Bill, viz.,
Mr. Arkwright and Lord Mahon. Both tre Conservatives,
and should they persist in their intentbn a Liberal will
easily be returned.

The Court of Common Council has accepted an
offer of Mr. C. Oppenheim to erect a statue to the late
Prince Consort in the City, the civic authorities under-
taking to grant an appropriate site for the purpose.
While many provincial towns have had their statues or
memorials of the Prince, the City of London has been
without either up to this time.
►SEVENTEEN PERSONS BITTEN BY MAD DOGS.
—The Salut Public of Lyons states that in the past week
seventeen persons were bitten by mad dogs. At Saint-
Genis-Laval a large dog traversed the commune, biting
men and animals. Ten persons were injured. A little
girl of five or ai x years bad her face partly torn away.
She is despaired of. At Neyron five persons were bitten
by another dog. At Montluol two persons were bitten.
The number of sheep,' cattle, and other clogs that have
been bitten is very great. The secretary-general of the
police department has ordered an inquiry into the matter.
A DRUNKEN JUROR.—In a case tried at the
Staffordshire Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, the foreman
of the jury handed in a verdict as that of elevea j trymen,
the twelfth, he said, being too drunk to concur or disagree.
Mr. Twemlow, the assistant chairman, ordered the
inebriated juryman into custody, where he was detained
until the rising of the court on' Wednesday. He had
in the meantime attempted to bribe his gaoler, first to
set him at liberty, and then to procure him some whisky.
THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. -- Every one who
has seen Piince Alfred since his return must be gratified
by his healthy bronzed aspect ; and, although he has lost
flesh, he is in excellent health. The serious and very pain-
ful wound which he suffered not only healed with remark.
able rapidity—after a period of acute pain and much
anxiety—but has left absolutely no traces ; and there is
now even barely a skin-mark to indicate an injury which
was within a hair's breadth of causing instant death.—
British Medical Journal.

The Leeds Art Exhibition now temporarily eon.
tains a manuscript Bible which belonged to King Theodore,
and a chain used for the confinement of ono of the English
captives at Magdala; also a brass cannon ball and shell
fired from that fortress, and an album left at 3lagdala by
one of the German prisoners. They were all taken at
Magdala by Major Leveson. The manuscript Bible contains
the Psalms, the Canticles, the Song of Songs, the Weddase
Maryam, or Encomium of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the
Gospel of St. John, followed by some short services. The
book is also illustrated by pictures of St. George and the
Dragon, the Virgin and Child, the Presentation in the Tem-
ple, the Resurrection, with Adam and Eve, Pontius Pilate,
the Entombment of Claudius, King of Abyssinia, and save-
al other pictures.

LIVERPOOL EMIGATION RETURNS.—GREAT IN-
CREASE. —The number of passengers who left Liverpool
during the month of June, under the provisions of the
Emigration Act, was 17,987, or 7,058 more than during
the previous month. During the quarter there were
57,208 passengers despatched from the port, an increase of
14,141 on the corresponding quarter of 1867. During
June 6,443 English, 532 Scotch, 3,023 Irish, and 7,987
foreigners sailed under the Act. Of these 15,460 went to
the United States, of whom 5,564 were English, 489
Scoteb, 2,599 Irish, and 6,808 foreigners. To Victoari
there were 587 passengers, viz., 207 English, 43 Scotch,
313 Irish, and 24 foreigners ; to Queensland 1,740 pas-
sengers, viz., 672 English, 113 Irish, and 1,155 foreigners.
Of passengers not under the Act 525 went to the United
States, 42 to Victoria, 30 to South Anierica, 3 to the East
Indies, and 21 to Africa.

A COAL PIT ON FIRE NEAR BOLTON. One of
the coal pits belonging to Messrs. Andrew Knowles and
Son, at Little Lever, near Bolton, is now-on fire. At a
very early hour on Tuesday morning a large volume of
smoke was observed to be ascending the upcast shaft.
Fortunately none of the workmen, and only a few ponies,
were down at the time. Steps were immediately taken to
extricate them, and the frantic animals were successfully
got out ; meanwhile the pit was found to be thoroughly
on fire, the heat became more intense, and the smoke
came up in larger quantities. It was decided to cover in
both the up and down-cast shafts, and with that object a
number of the men were set to work. They finished at-a
late hour on Wednesday evening, all air, it is expected,
being now excluded from the mine. The pit will have to
remain covered for some weeks.

JEALOUSY AND REVENGE. —A young man, a
letterpress printer, named James Earley, has been brought
before Mr. Traffurd, county police magistrate at Man-
chester, on remand, for having stabbed Sophia Meadows,
his sweetheart, with a penknife. Sophia Meadows, a
young woman of some personal attractions, said the pri-
soner had courted her about four years. He committed
the assault whilst under the influence of intoxication and
provocation. She was talking and dancing with a rival
at the time. He went behind her and statilx..sd her in the
back and hip about six times. A surgeon who had
examined the wounds said they were not deep or dangerous.
Mr. R. B. Cobbett, solicitor, on behalf of the prisoner, asked
some questions of the prosecutrix, as to whether the con-
duct of Earley during the four years of their courtship
had not been marked by kindness and affection. The
young woman, in replying affirmatively, was overcome by
emotion, and the prisoner was affected in the same
manner, so that for some time there was a scene in
court which interrupted business. In reply to an appeal
from Mr. Cobbett who said that the prosecutrix did not
wish to proceed with the case, Mr. Trafford said the case
must 5o t 9 p jury, P. 114 Fol2,p.l.ittc(„l 1'49 prigvr thy
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IPSWICH.—A correspondent, writing on Wednesday,
says :—" The Liberal party in the borough have resolved
to start a second candidate with Mr. H. E. Adair, in order
to eject Mr. J. C. Cobbold, the present Conservative mem-
ber, from the House of Commons. Mr. H. %V. West, the
Recorder of Manchester, who contested the borough
upon the last occasion, has decided to come for-
ward again, with Mr. Adair, in the Liberal interest.
Mr. West conferred with some hundreds of his supporters
on Tuesday evening, when he was unanimously invited to
present himself to the great body of the electors upon an
early day in the ensuing week. The Conservative party
are also very active, and we believe they intend to bring
forward two candidates, but their names have not yet
transpired. There will be some 2,000 new electors upon
the new register."

Tfin t

.11ER MAJESTY.

The Prince of Wales went to the Howe'
Lords yesterday afternoon.
The Princess of Wales drove out ycsterg
accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark.

LONGPELLOW IN ENGLAND.

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(Prom the Times)
Welcome to England ! thou whose strains prolong
The glorious bede-roll of our Saxon song:
Ambassador and Pilgrim-Bard in one,
Fresh from thy home—the home of Washington.
On hearths as sacred as thine own, here stands
The loving welcome that thy name commands;
Hearths swept for thee and garnished as a shrine
By trailing garments of thy Muse divine.
Poet of Nature and of Nations, know
Thy fair fame spans the ocean like a bow,
Born from the rain that falls into each life,
Kindled by dreams with loveliest fancies rife;
A radiant arch that with prismatic dyes
Links the two worlds, its keystone in the skies.
The noblest creatures of those dreams of thine,
From Hiawatha to Evangeline,'
Here thou wilt find, where'er thy footsteps roam,
Loved as the cherished Lares of each home.
What prouder refrain heartens to the core
Than thou ho.ot oung in brave Excelsior?
Where sounds more gladdening 'mid this earthly strife
Than the sweet clarions of thy Psalm of Life?
None but the rarest raconteur may grace
The mimic contest where most yield thee place.
Say which, for either, fairer wreaths produce,
Irving's Astoria or thy Flower de Luce?
Which haunted hostel lures more guests within,
Hawthorne's Seven Gables or the Wayside Inn ?
Turning the pictured page, what Varying dyos
Shine through each latticed margin's new surprise !
Here the swart Blacksmith, smirched with grime and 14"
Tears in his eyes, yet every inch a man.
Here, 'mid the rice-field, heaving his last breath,
The poor Slave-monarch dreams himself to death.
Here, while without raves the tempest's din,
Here, while around the revellers brawl within,
The dying Baron thro' the grave's dark goal
Seeks Christ's redeeming passport for his soul.
Who hears not now, stormed down among thy leaves,
The rain that poured like cataracts from the eaves.
Roared through the kennels, lashed the streaming pene°'
Flooded the sqi a 3 the streets, the courts, the knoll
Raging like seas that o'er some foundering wreck
S will thro' the scuppers from the swimming deck ?
Cool, teeming, plenteous, soul-refreshing showers
Quaffed by parched earth and by the thirsting flowers,
Nor less by those who listened to thy song
As, like Lodore's, thy deluge dashed along.
Where subtler solace than thy gentle voice
From riven hearts can draw till griefs rejoice ?
Answer, what oft' repining woe o'erpowers,
That lay serene, the Reaper and the Flowers ?
So large thy sympathies, thy hand can trace
Charms in each clime and glory in each race :
So penetrant thy love, its gaze can find
God in the flower, His breathings in the wind ;
Mesh with mere hempen coil in rope-walk spun
All human joys and ills beneath the sun ;
Wake with grand echoes of responsive rhymes
Long silent notes of medieval chimes ;
Nay, hear in hush of serried arms arrayed
" The diapason of the cannonade."
'Mid purgatorial fires, in heaven, in hell,
Thy dauntless soul bath lately dared to dwell,
Passing o'er burning marl, where Dante trod
With Virgil's ghost, to Beatrice and God.
Yet, rarely gifted Nature to translate,
Reflect not others, thus : thyself create.
Ring out once more in thy own golden lines
Life's inner meaning, not the Florentine's
Thou who hast given tby dreamings to our sight
And syllabled the Voices of the Night :
Thou who hast sung, as none but thou could sing,
The tender legend of the Angel-King :
Thou who around with affluent baud bast thrown
The heavenly largess of thy benison,
Regarding none as alien to thy breast
Columbia's Poet, hail as England's Guest !

C.l.

NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGEJ.Va'

Prince William of Hesse, an admiral in the ?rug'
sian navy, accompanied by Rear-Admiral Sir J. C'
D. Hay, F.R.S., M.P. (one of the Lords of the Acl'
miralty), Colonel A. Clarke, Royal Engineers (Vi;
rector of Admiralty Works), and other officials, paid
a visit to Chatham dockyard on Wednesday after:
noon, and was conducted over that establishment
by Captain-Superintendent W. H. Stewart, C. 131
and other officers. After inspecting the ironclad
frigate Hercules, 1,200-horsepower, on board which
he was received by Capt. the Right Hon. Lord S'
Gilford, who has recently been appointed to the
command this frigate, and also visiting the ironclad
turret-ship Monarch, 7, 1000-horse power, and the
various departments of the establishment, his Roini
Highness visited the works at the eastern extremity
of the yard, where the new basins and docks are
being constructed. At the close of his inspection
of the dockyard and naval establishments his Royal,
Highness took luncheon at Government House, i°
present occupied by Prince Arthur, and afterwards
returned to town by railway.
The Galatea, 26 guns, 800-horse power, Capt'
the Duke of Edinburgh, was officially inspected at
Spithead on Wednesday by Admiral Sir T. Pall.
The frigate is in the best order, and the drill of her
crew, whether as seamen, gunners, small-arm men+
&c., was found to be highly satisfactory, and
matter of no little credit to both officers and men'
The Galatea will anchor off Osborne during the
Queen's stay at her marine palace, and on the de-
partuie of her Majesty and the Royal family to
Germany, about the 4th of August, the frigate will
proceed to Devonport to refit.

The Essex, sailing Indiaman, arrived at Spit'
head yesterday morning from Calcutta with the
following officers and invalided soldiers from
various corps on board :--Major Graham, 1050
Infantry in command ; Captain Brock, 32d In-
fantry, Captain Willis, 104th Infantry; Lieu'
tenant Parkes, 91st Infantry ; Staff-Assistant'
Surgeon Pout, Rev. A. Lockwood, 206 soldiers,
invalids; 13 soldiers' wives, 20 children, and
one time-expired soldier. The troops will disenr
bark this morning and proceed to the Royal Vie'
toria Military Hospital at Netley by Governmen
steamer.

The Ist Regime* of Life Guards, commanded
by Colonel the Hon. D. F. do Ros, left the
Spital Cavalry barracks, Windsor, on WednesdaY,
for a month's duty at Aldershot Camp. The
regiment, consisting of eight troops, paraded in
tho barrack square shortly before 8 o'clock in the
morning and marched by way of Bagshot to the
Camp, where the officers and men will be quartered
on the I and U Lines, the position occupied by this
corps when at Aldershott some three years back.
The dismounted men lef t Windsor early in the morn'
ing, and proceeded by the Great Western line to
Reading, and thence by the South-Eastern Rail-
way to the Camp. Capt. Fraser, with about 20
men and 36 horses, remains in charge of the Spital
Barracks during the absence of the regiment at
Aldershott, where the troops will stay about a
month and take part in the various field-days and
manceuvres at the Camp.

THE PALMERSTON CITY BUILDINGS.—A mona-
rnent to the honour of a great man may be but a shore
lived way of perpetuating his fame, as we have seen
late in the shifting course pursued in reference to morel
than one statue ; but no more permanent momoria
could have boon devised to render the memory of Lora
Palmerston enduring than the erection of th 3
fine building wl,ieh extends from Broad-street t°
Bishopsgate, and partakes of his name. Hero i°
this noble pile a refined cuisine has been established,
under the management of the late chef of the Refortil
Club, while, moreover, three wealthy wine growers are
its proprietors—an acceptable guarantee for its perinv
nent success. Indeed it is to be hoped that viands WO
brought without sophistication to the palate of the con-
sumer may have the effect of arresting the retrograde
taste of the English—more particularly when they see the
example set them by foreign merchants, there enjoying
the wines of their respective countries in tho simple no,tiYo
,enuinenosa of production.—Globe.

WINDSOR CASTLE, July
The Queen, accompanied by the Princes
Leiningen, drove out yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal IN
nesses Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold,
the Princess of Leiningen, went out this rOt''
ing.
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and I'rlso
Louise arrived at the Castle this morning.