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willingly injure any one. A man in his position in life must
have many about him to execute infer ior function, and I
certainly have heard in my canvass; and believe, that they
have created great unpopularity against the Duke of Marl-
borough. In returning me, I promise you to redress all the
grievances that 'come to my knowledge as far as I can; but
at the same time, be it understood, I will not dictate to my
father. I will •do all I can for you. I hope prosperity
will return to your town, and I can only say I will do all in
my power to make it do so.—(Cheers.)
• Three cheers were then given for the Noble Marquis, and
they were followed by three cheers for Mr. Humfrey.
. A vote of thanks was passed to the Deputy Mayor for his
conduct in the chair, and the meeting then separated.'
The Marquis of Blandford was afterwards chaired.

HUNTINGDON ELECTION.
(FROM A CORRESrotantNr.
Yesterday (Monday) morning, at ten o'clock, this election
was proceeded with. 'After the Town• clerk had read the Acts
against bribery and corruption, the Mayor, in calling on some
elector to propose a candidate, made a*few judicious remarks,
desiring for every speaker a fair hearing, and the ascription
of a candid and impartial motive for anything which might
be advanced ; for, however opposite the views different per-
sons might express on that occasion, he, would give credit to
every one for being actuated by a sincere desire for the public
good. His Worship's very excellent and well-timed observa-
tions elicited repeated marks of general approval; and at the
conclusion of his address, Mr. David Veasey rose to propose
Mr. T. Baring as a fit and proper person to represent the united
boroughs of Huntingdon and Godmarichester in the Com-
mons' House of Parliament ; in doing which Mr. Veasey
took occasion to refer to the regret expressed, alike by
his political adherents and opponents in the constituency, at
the retirement of Sir Frederick Pollock, whose impartial at-
tention to his representative duties had earned for him the
esteem of all classes of the electors. Mr. Philip Zillard, of
Godmanchester, seconded Mr. Veasey's nomination of Mr.
Baring, and no other candidate being pi:nosed, the Mayor
declared Mr. Baring duly elected. Mr. Baring then came
forward and thanked the electors for the honour they had
just conferred upon him; and after a brief address, detailing
his views on several political topics, and expressing adeter-
initiation to follow the example of his distinguished prede-
cessor, Sir Frederick Pollock, in the course of his public
life, by according to the local interests of his constituents, as
well as to the affairs of the nation at large, his diligent atten-
tion and care, he proposed a vote of thanks to the Mayor for
his conduct in the chair, which proposition being seconded
by Mr. Veasey, and carried by acclamation, his Worship, in a
few words, returned thanks, and the proceedings terminated.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 22, 1844.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. David
Drummond to the church of lonerwick, in Olenlyon, in the
presbytery of Weem and shire of Perth, vacant by the transpor-
tation of the Rev. Charles Stewart •to the church and parish of
Kilmorie, in the presbytery of Kintyre.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 23.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Nodes Dickin-
son, Esq., to be one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the
colony of New South Wales.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Aram 22.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet-Major
C. Dalton to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice J. Gordon tetired on
full-pay ; Second Captain C. W. Wingfield to be Captain ;
Second Captain A. Tulloh to be Captain, vice Dalton; First
Lieut. W. H. 1* lliot to be Second Captain, vice Tulloh ; Se-
cond Lieut. A. C. Gleig to be First Lieutenant, vice Elliot ;
Second Captain John Sidney Farrell to be CaptaiO, vice Dy-
son, retired on full pay ; First Lieutenant Peter Maclean to be
Second Captain, vice Farrell; Second Lieutenut C. Frye to
be First .Lieutenant, vice 14laelean ; Second Captain H. Poole
to be Captain, vice Fi•nwick, retired on fall pay ; First Lieut.
C. R. Wynne to be Second Captain, vice Poole ; Second Lieut.
the Hon. W. C. Yelverton to be First Lieutenant, vice Wynne,
April 15.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of ithe West Riding o 1

Yorkshire.

Second Regiment of West York Militia—J. Hardy, Esq. to
be Captain, vice Boynton, who retires, April 17.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of 'Worcestershire.
Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Majoi J. Cox to be
Lieut.-Colonel, •ice J. Patrick, deceased, April 17; Captain
T. C. Brock to be Major, vice J. Cox promoted, April 17.

Middle Halton, Lancashire, May 16, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court—C. Reesby, miller, Stamford, May 15,
at one; at the Birmingham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the
contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
W. Cheesman, J. Hodson, and W. 0. Cheesman, chinamen,
Brighton, May 16—T. M. Morton, eating-house keeper,
Bishopsgate-street Within, May 14—R. J. Craneis, butcher,
Maldon, Essex, May 14—W. R. Hawker, common brewer,
Brighton, May I4—J. Lark, boot maker, Seymour-street,
Euston-square, May 14—H. Edwards, coal merchant, St. Al-
ban's, Hertfordshire, May 14—J. Scholefield, cutler, Cheap-
side, May 16—J. Conaway, cheesemonger, Gray's Inn-lane,
May 16—E. Tuck, silversmith, Haymarket, May 16—J. J.
Johnson, carpenter, Lant-street, Southwark, May 21—T.
Bayley, licensed victualler, West Smithfield, May 14—G.
Foord, seed merchant, Lenham, Kent, May 14—C. Couch-
man, carpenter, Edward's-square, Kensington, May 14—C.
Teesdale, furnishing warehouseman, Westminster-bridge-road,
May 15—C. S. Jackson, cloth merchant, Leeds, May 18—H.
R. Osborne, grocer, Truro, Cornwall, May 15—H. Rhoades,
spirit dealer, Manchester, May 16—T. Millar, hosier, Liver-
pool, May 15 —T. Fisher, linen draper, Selby, Yorkshire, May
14—C. Reesby, miller, Stamford, Lincolnshire, May 14—R.
Thompson, draper, Stroud, Kent, May 14—R. Brown,
butcher, Sunderland, May 14—T. Trapp, tallow chandler,
Church-street, Southwark, May I4—M. J. Dyke, innkeeper,
Romsey, Hampshire, May 14 R. Toulson, furnishing
warehousemen, Westminster-bridge-road, May 14—T. P.
Trapp, tallow chandler, Church-street, Southwark, May 14
—J. York, banker, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, May
14—J. Bohn, bookseller, King William-street, Strand, May 14.

the cabman when he engaged him, and did not say a
word to him in my presence. The cab was driven to
the railroad at Euston-square.
Mr. ComnE---llid you stop on the way there ? Miss
Wortham—Yes, to take up a leather trunk, near Char-
ing-cros, I think. Never SAW that trunk before. I
thought all this time we were going to Furnival's Inn.
Mr. COMBE—Do you mean to say you understood
that from what the prisoner said to you ? Miss Wor-
tham—That is what I mean to say. Mr. Newenham
took me to the railroad-carriage when we reached
Euston-sqnare. It was a first class one; he told me to
get in. I did so, and he followed me. There were four
other persons in the same carriage ; three gentlemen and
a lady, The train moved on immediately. I never saw
a railroad before. He took me to Birmingham, where
we arrived at half-past ten, having left London about
half-past five. I asked him in the train where we were
going to, and he sail I should know presently. I asked
him the same question again, and when I should see
mamma. He replied in a day or two: We had no
further conversation until we reached Birmingham. We
stopped in Birmingham that night, and went next . day
by train to Carlisle, and on to place- they call Gretna.
Mr. COMBE—What happened- at Gretna ? Miss
Wortham—A person went through a form of marriage.
Mr. COMBE—What sort of person ? Miss Wortham—
A person who appeared to be a clergymin:
Mr. COMBE—How was he attired, ? Miss Wortham—
Ile ha I no surplice on, but he wore white bands.
Mr. COMBE—How was the ceremony gone through ?
Miss Wortham—l cannot well describe it.

Mr. COMBE—Did you ever see a wedding in London ?
—Never. There was no prayer-book, I know. I was told
to say the words after the clergyman, and I did repeat
them.
Mr. Southee—Was it the blacksmith or the inn-keeper
that married you ? Misa Wortham—The innkeeper, I
believe. _ _ _

OMB E —His name ? Miss Wortham—Mr. Liston,
I think. _ _

Mr. Humphries—l do not dispute the fact of the mar-
riage, and it is unnecessary to go into all these minute
particulars.
Miss Wortham (recollecting herself)—Mr. Liston
wore a white stock and white bands. He had no sur-
plice, and no prayer nook of any description. We went
back to Carlisle next day. _

Mr. COMBE—How soon after leaving Gerard-street
d'd he (the prisoner) speak t,) you about marriage ?
Miss Wortham—At Birmingham, about eleven o'clock
at night, after tea.
What did he say ?—He said he intended to marry me.
That was the first intimation he gave me of marriage.
Mr. COMBE—Attend to this question. Would you
have left home if you knew that his intention was to
marry you ? Miss Wortham (in a loud tone of voice)—
I would not, Sir.

(The prisoner groaned audibly.)
Mr. COMBE—Would you have consented to go to
Birmingham with him ? Miss Wortham—l would not.
To Al r. Southee—Had gone with the prisoner to the
West-end previous to the 13th to look at some pianos
with mamma's leave. Mamma at first refused, but after-
wards consented.

To Mr. COMBE—Took so clothes with her on leaving
Gerard-street but those she wore. I hail not the slightest
suspicion of where I was going to. I believed it was to
Furnival's Inn. I was frightened when I got into the
train at Euston-square. I had no idea whatever I was
going to stop out all night—not even when we got to
the railway. I did not discover his intention until we
reached Birmingham. •
M. CoMßE—Then it was without your knowledge and
against your consent you went away with the prisoner ?
Miss Wortham—lt certainly was.
Cross-examined by Mr.Humphries—l received letters'
from the prioner when at school, but I burned them
when I read them. I did not tell my mamma. I re-
ceived these letters. Mr. Newenham told me not to
mention anything about them to my mamma. The pri-
soner told me several times be had 500/ a year. I saw
money with him frequently, not very large sums. I saw
large sums with him last summer. 'There were four
persons with us in the train to Birmingham. I did not
converse with them. I never spoke to the lady passen-
ger. I did not get out of the train on the way at all. I
wrote the paper produced awhile ago in evidence as a list
of articles and servant's requisites in a new house, which
Mr. Newenham said he was about to take. That was
an arrangement which we made for the purpose of our
future living together.
To Mr. Soul bee—The contents of this paper were dic-
tated to me by the prisoner. I wrote it by his directions.
The clerk (Mr. Mould) then read over Miss Wortham's
deposition to her, and asked her if it were in any re-
spect erroneous ? Miss Wortham—lt is perfectly car-
rect.

Miss Wortham, accompanied by her mother and two
other ladies, then left the Court. From the time of her
entrance to her departure she never once suffered her
eyes to wander in the direction of the prisoher, nor did
she seem in the least affected.

Esther Downing, Mrs. Wortham's servant, was next
examined. Her evidence went merely to corroborate
that of the last witness as to her leaving Gerard•street,
on the 13:h, without any parcel or dress other than
that which she wore.

After some further discussion Mr. CoIBE said he
would remand the prisoner till Tuesday next, so that
evidence might be produced to show Miss Wortham's
title to the property.
Prisoner—l hope, Mr. Humphries, that the case. will
be completed to allow of my being tried at the ensuing
session of the Central Criminal Court.

The worthy Magistrate assured the prisoner that there
would be as little delay as possible, and at the same time
told Mr. Humphries it was his intention to commit for
the felony.
The prisoner was then remanded, Miss Northam and
the servant having been bound over to prosecute at the
Old Bailey.
MARYLEBONE.

' The public may not be well informed as to the best rgode
of reforming a drunken wife. Mr. Rawlinson was kind
enough to enunciate from the bench the important fact, that
the " strappado" was the grand wonder worker in such a case.
Catherine Coyle was placed at the bar.
Spicer, 142 D—Between nine and ten yesterday eveninghe
saw the prisoner and her husband quarrelling inCambridge-
street. He endeavoured to get them both home, but the
female said that she would go to the station-house, as she
was afraid of her husband's violence. She would not leave
witness, and he. was ultimately obliged to take her to the
station-house. She was drunk, as well as her husband.
Prisoner—That is true, Sir. I was afraid that my husband
would beat me, and I went with the policeman for protection.
Mr. RAymissoN—Well, but if you get drunk, he will beat
you again. It is the only cure for a drunken wife that I
know of. Go away ; you are discharged.
Thos.. Smith, a ragged creature, was charged with begging.
Wm. Horsford, Sic well-known officer of the Mendicity
Society, stated that, on the previous evening, at twenty
minutes to seven, be saw the prisoner in Upper Rathbone
place, begging. He stated that he was a mechanic out of
employment, and that he was in great distress. He wasvery
drunk. There was found on his person elevenpence in copper,
and two loaves.
Mr. RawimisoN—..Now, I think I shall send you to prison,
for of all characters a drunken beggar is the one least deserv-.
ing of pity.
Prisoner—l assure you I won't be here again your Worship:
Mr. RAwuNsoN—Well, on that assurance, I'll let you go
this time. You are discharged.
QUEEN-SQUARE.

William Garlick, a young man, was charged before Mr.
Pond, by ➢lr. Pocock, a tradesman, carrying on husiness in
Paris-street, Pimlico, with being found on his premises at an
early hour this morning, under very suspicious circumstances.
It appeared that Mr. Pocock was awoke by the barking of
his dog, which induced him to proceed to the back of his pre-
mises, where he found the defendant in the act of climbing
into an adjoining yard. He tried to make witness believe
that be was intoxicated, but he was not in liquor. The de-
fendant was accordingly given into custody. A policeman
on duty in Paris-street deposed to seeing Garlick loitering
about the street for some time before he was fotind on Mr.
Pocock's premises: He had also been s,i,en in company with
youngmen of bad character.
The defendant, who made a very lame defence, was re-
manded until inquiries are made respecting him.
Frances Newland, a prostitute, was charged by Robert
Howells, a groom, with stealing 2/. It appeared that the
prosecutor accompanied the prisoner to a house of ill-fame,
where they slept. On dressing himself in the morning, he
found that the money had been taken from his puhe, and,
having had it when he entered the house, and the only per-
son who could have had access to it being the prisoner, he
gave her into custody. He was in liquor, but not " tossicated"
at the time. _ _ _ .

The prisoner, who denied the charge, was remanded.
A wretehed, emaciated' young man, named Wm. Hewitt,
was charged with begging on the previous evening in Ebury-
street, Pimlico, with another man, who, on the appearance of
the officer, who was attired in private clothes, ran away: The
officer said that Hewitt begged of every one that, passed.. Tour-
,pence half-penny was found on him. It appeared that the
defendant has been in the habit of begging for some time past
in that part of the town.
Hewitt said he was willing to work, but he, could get none
to do.—Committed for fourteen days.
MARLBOROUGIT:STREZ.
George Dyer, and Wm. Browne, notorious thieves, were
charged with committing the following daring- robbery at
the shop of Mr. William Wilson, of Vigo-street, Regent-
street, cheesemonger and Italian warehonseman.
Between eight and nine o'clock last evening, the prisoners,'
in company together, -were seen lurking about the-prosecu-
tor's shop for a considerable time. At length the prisoner
Dyer walked boldly into the. entrance of the shop, and by
main force, tearing down a Westphalia ham from a. nail on
which it was hanging, set off running with it, followed by
his companion. A. cry of " step thief" being raised, police-
constable 112 C put-Sued, and eventually captured both of
them. Dyer threw away the ham as he was running, but it
was picked up, and restored to the owners.
The prisoners made no defence, and were fully cordniitted'
for trial.

THAMES POLICE.
Monday Thomas Anson, a man about. twenty-five
years of age, who appeared to be in much pain from a
severe wound in the hand, was brought before Mr.
Broderip on a charge of stealing a portable writing-
desk, containing ten sovereigns in gold, 21. in silver, nine
silver spo3ns, and various other articles, the moneys
and property of Daniel M'Beath, the landlord or the &-
bares Arms, Devonport-street, Commercial-road;
The prisoner hat lived in Mr. Beath's service as pot-
man for nine months, and during that time property
to a considerable amount had been stolen from the
house. On the 28th ult., the prosecutor went to
Gravesend, and on- the evening of the same day Mrs.
M‘Beath directed the prisoner to go up stairs and fetch
his master's desk from the bed-room, where it was de-
posited. He brought it do►en stairs, and before he
handed it to his mistress he shook it, and said he could
hear her locket and chain, and then gave it another
shake and said there was plenty of money in it too.
Mrs. M'Beath said there was. both money and
plate in the desk, and that it contained all she and
her husband were possessed of, and if she was to
lose it, they would be ruined. The desk and its con-
tents remained in 'the bar-parlour till the next day,
when Mr. M'Beath returned home, and deposited the
desk in his bed-room again. On the Ist of April ,he put
two sovereigns in it, and on the following afternOon he
entered his bed-room for the purpose of adding *other
to his hoard, when he missed his desk. He-immediately
Called' in Murray; police-constable No.- 68 4-Ki, 'whose

suspicions at once fell upon the prisoner, whom he knew I
to keep very bad company. No one had access to the
bed-room but the prisoner and the family, and on the
night previously to the prosecutor missing his desk the
prisoner absented himself. He was apprehended, and
detained for a fortnight, when the magistrate, for want
of evidence, was obliged to discharge him. On Satur-
day morning last, Murray was passing along a no-
torious place, called Vinegar-lane, St. George's-in-the-
East, when he met the prisoner with his right hand
dreadfully shattered and bleeding. The palm of the
hand was carried away, the thumb broken, and the
wrist severely injured. Murray asked the prisoner
what he had been doing ? and he said he had just been
firing off a pistol, which he had loaded to the muzzle
witlipowder and shot, and, owing to the powerful na-
ture of the charge, the barrel of the pistol was dislodged
from the stock, but did not burst, and the stock itself
was broken to pieces. The prisoner also stated that
he had another pistol loaded in a similar manner, and
plenty of powder and shot. Murray immediately con-
veyed the prisoner to the London Hospital, and, in his
way there, asked him what he had purchased the pistols
for ? The prisoner first said he intended to shoot birds,
and afterwards declared he intended to shoot the woman
who had brought him to ruin. After the prisoner's hand
was dressed, and while.he was labouring under great
pain, Murray was about to leave him, when the prisoner
called him back, and said he would tell him all about the
robbery. The prisoner then confessed that he had
stolen the desk, and after taking out the money And
plate, had thrown the desk into a water-butt. Murray
asked him if he meant the water-butt of the house,
No. 41, Vinegar-lane, where he had been lodging with
some loose women. The prisoner replied, " No, you
will find the desk in my master's water-butt. I com•
mitted the robbery, and have spent all the cash on the
- woman." On searching the water-butt the desk
was found there, as the prisoner had described, with two
pieces of iron in it, to keep it down. There was nothing
else in it, except a butter knife.
. Mr. M‘Beath identified the desk as his property, 'and
said he had been a great loser since the prisoner had
been in his service.

Mr. BRODERIP—It is my duty to commit you for trial
fir this felony.—Committed.

THE NEW FACTORIES BILL.

Last night the new Factories Bill was read a second time.
This is one of the stages of the affair which Was to have
been performed in dumb show, in order that nothing might
detract from the solemnity of the final struggle. In consi-
deration of the "free and gentle passage of arms" arranged
for the 3d of May, we were warranted to have not a single
jar, or squabble, or skirmish in the interim. The two hosts
were to pile their arms, and repose on the plain, while the
readers were to stand surveying one another, with that deep
and silent reverence which brave must ever feel for brave.
But, alas, for the uncertainty of all human expectations !
One army, at least, has all but disbanded, as if the fighting
was all over; and the armistice was a peace or something
worse. But, instead of one war, we have a dozen. The
battle array is broken up into guerilla bands. The head and
centre are gone. The spirit has evaporated. In spite of the
contract between the two belligerent chiefs, the second read-
ing has been almost drowned in the clash of mutinous arms,
the charges, and threats, and recriminations of combatants.
In the first place one of the chiefs himself, viz., the Home
Secretary, rather spoilt the repose and mutual confidence
which there was to have been, by letting out that lie was
not aware of any arrangement except such as Lord
Ashley had publicly, singly, and spontaneously pro-
claimed. Then Mr. Ward took care the House should not
forget his motion against all interference with labour what
ever. Then, Mr. Roebuck announced his intention of pressing
his motion for an instruction to the Committee, notwithstand
ing the strong opinions expressed as to the disorderliness of
that proceeding. He might be unwise for doing so, but he
had a right to do so, and was quite satisfied with the course
lie had chosen. On this, Mr. Duncombe, considering 'him-
self as much at liberty as anybody else, informed the House
that lie meant to move for a Select Committee up stairs.
Such a measure certainly was not calculated to bring the
question to an early and decisive settlement; but under pre-
sent circumstances there was no hope of this, and, as we cer-
tainly were booked for a protracted deliberation, we might
as well have a thorough one, and give the operatives an op-
portunity of conferring with their legislators. At this crisis,
Mr. Stuart Wortley judiciously interposed to add the horrors
of anticipation to present discomfort. It struck his far-
seeing mind that it would be exceedingly inconvenient to
have all these motions discussed at once, and he thought it
would be as well if the Speaker settled their precedence. The
Speaker assigned the palm of priority to Mr. Duncombe's mo-
tion, after which he said any Hon. Member might. move a reso-
lution, so long as it was to the purpose. On this cruel
hint Mr. Stansfield spoke, and announced several alterationi
and amendments in the Bill. It was now the order of the
day for every one to do what was right in his own eyes; so
Mr. Ross gladly. improved the occasion to announce an altera-
tion and amendment, not prospectively, in the Bill, but
already taken place in his own mind. Starvation, not over-
working, is the malady of Ireland; and Mr. Ross's Irish con-
stituents, whom ke had consulted, had given him quite a
new view of the case; So, without further ado, he marched
off to the lines of the enemy. That the present leader of this
cause may achieve some great and sudden mastery over his
present difficulties—that he may impress a noble conclusion
upon the minds of his hearers, as deeply as his opening
speech impressed the gloomy premises of his argument, is
just possible. It is never known what there is in man till the
hour of trial. Till then no one knows either what he can
do or what he cannot G. We know fast which of these
two discoveries it is reserved for Lord Ashley to make. For
the present the dry rot has seized his cause ; not the cause of
the factory women and young rersons, which is too vital for us
to doubt its imperishableness—but the cause of Lord :Wiley.
He has tied his own hands without tying any other person's ;
and now discovers that it is easier to answer for him-
self than for others. Mr. Roebuck had already ilone his dray
to the poWers that be in the above rnaee; and if his forward
affections had been content with the modest rule, nu/la dies
sine lined, he might have retired for the evening. But lie was
anxious to -be more than ordinarily serviceable. Without
any notice, therefore, without giving the least ground of
expectation, he suddenly put Mr. Ferrand on his defence for
having " charged a Minister of the Crown with the use of
his power as a Minister to induce an officer employed •by the
Government—viz:, an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner—to
' make a false report to this House, for the purpose of
crushing a Member of this House." The attack once
begun, Mr. Ferrand was forthwith assailed on all
sides for what he had said, for what he had not
said, for what others had said, and for what nobody had said.
Sir James Graham is singularly favoured in possessing so
warm an adviscate in the very ranks of his political foes.
We know not which of his own party feels for him so keenly,
so thoroughly understands his wishes, and so exactly antici-
pates his intentions, as the Hon. Member for Bath. Scarcely
for any one of his own party, scarcely for himself, could
Mr. Roebuck have been so touched, so emphatic as he
was for the Home Secretary. The subject, with which
our readers are already familiar, is one the rights of which,
it is evident, never can and never will be dragged
from official obscurity. A false report, containing false
charges, against an opponent of the Government by an officer
of that Government—the report unexpectedly and trium-
phantly used by a Minister of the Crown—inquiry long re-
fused, and only by a necessity granted—that officer longand
almost indecently shielded—a fresh inquiry, in the shape of
returns, with difficulty obtained—the charge proved false—
the officer dismissed in time to prevent a thorough investi-
gation—all this may not carry conviction of downright con-
spiracy to all minds, but may very well leave in the most
candid an impresSion of some culpable, though indefinable,
management. That Mr. Ferrand, who, through believing
what he has publicly stated—through suspicion of a sort of
conspiracy, and also by dint of the greatest determination,
succeeded in clearing himself from a false charge, should
still believe what he then believed, is of course most natural,
if not inevitable. The correctness of that belief is another
question ; as also is the proof of it to the world. Mr. Roe-
buck, however, in his blind zeal for the Home Secretary,
cannot see how a man may thoroughly believe what he has
not certain and undeniable proofs for. " If," said hei "it
should turn out that the charge is false, I want to know! the
value of the authority of that gentleman who should ',thus
employ his powers as a Member of Parliament in propagat-
ing such a falsehood." This was rather strong langiage,
and, as it was humanly certain to provoke a retaliation,
might, in prudence only, have called for a measure of ithat
official rebuke, which the retaliation, when it game,
did not escape. By the help of Mr. Hume and Mr. IL G.
Ward a speedy transition was.made to Mr. Ferrand's aeeount
of what he witnessed when Mr. Hogg " haggled and higgled"
at his explanations about the return of the Nottingham Elec-
tion Committee. We are far from distressed to find'from
Mr. Hogg's own words that an article on Mr. Ferrand's State-
ment, last Thursday week, has given it prominence hi that
gentleman's eyes. As Mr. Hogg's affair, as well as Mr.
Metes, is to be brought before the House more deliberately
this evening, little need now be said of the former. An• elec-
tion committee, a troublesome member whom it would be
convenient to unseat, a chairman with the name of a lawyer
and the offhand decisions of a partisan, the report and its
long explanations received with surprise by the
.chairman's
own side of the House, and singly cheered by the hostile
Minister,—these, and other more unmentionable circum-
stances, wilt have their weight so long as man is .man,
and not a mere abstraction of the law of evidence. Of
• course, they can be shown to go for nothing, to
have no kind of relation to one another, to be
barren, insulated facts. Of course, Mr. Hogg can defend
himself. The misfortune is that his view of the case is
too legal, his defence is too Parliamentary. It - Proves
too much. It covers with its ample protection the
returns of all the election committees that ever sat in the
chambers of St. Stephen's. An unjust return, he says, aided
' by Ministerial influence, is the grossest and vilest perjury.
The least suspicion of it should and will banish the miserable
wretch from the respect and society of the House of iCom-
Mons ! Here I am, respected and conversed with, and here
• I shall remain to be, for all you can ever prove against me.
If we could forget a thousand election committeess the de-
fence would be valid ; but who can forget the almost uniform
certainty with which their returns have been predicted from
the prevailing opinions and interests of their members'? So
to-night is to be a night of questions and answers ; of charges
and explanations. Impertinencies are to be the etiquette of
the evening. Mr. Ferrand is to be tbe general butt ;, with,
however, the liberty of rejoinder, and answering questions
with other questions still more difficult, if he can think of
any. This is the time for same curious person to ask Mr.
Hogg.whether he did not (as was stated in the pagers). some
time about the above-mentioned return of the 'Nottingham
Election Committee, apply- for a certain important office ?
If the. report was without foundation, Mr. Hogg will doubt-
less ;be obliged to anybody for such an opportunity of con-
tradicting it.— Times. • • •

ART-UNIONS.—On Saturday evening a meeting of
the Society of British Artists was held at the Society's-rooms.,
in Suffolk street, for the purpose of discussing the recent
Treasury minute declaring Art-Unions to be illegal. The
meeting was attended by several of .the first artists in town.
After a great deal of conversation, Mr. J. IV, Allen, the
Vice-President of the British Artists Society, moved a re-
solution to the effect that a general meeting of the profession
be called, for the purpose of inviting the Committee of the
Royal Academy, the two Water-colour Associations, and that
of the Art-Union to a conference upon the best means to be
adopted for the protection of an Union which, in its exist-
ence of eight years, had conferred acknowledged benefits on
the arts and artists of this great country. The resolution
was carried unanimously.
DAMSON'S PARLIAMENTARY AND NEWSPAPER LILT.
—Messrs. Dawson and Son, of Cannon-street; have published
a list of all the newspapers in the United Kingdom, distin-
guishing the party bias of each by a certain colour. This list
contains a great deal of very valuable information relating
to newspaper statistics, and must be necessarily of consider-
able utility to all who, at any time, have occasion to ad-
vertise.
INDIAN OXEN.—Five of these extraordinary beasts,
bred by LordCombermere, have just arrived in London by the
Birmingham Railway. It is stated by competent judges that
they are the finest both in quality and form that have as yet
been seen in this country. They have been consigned to her
Majesty's purveyor, Mr. Giblett, of Bond-street.