The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

DURHAM ELECTION

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short extract from his communication, as tending to chew
the feeling excited amongst the respectable portion of the
Conservative party by the retur❑ of the Anti-Corn-law
Quaker :

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" You will, I dare say, have heard, ere this reaches
you, that we have sent the immaculate John Bright—the
Leaguer—to misrepresent us in parliament; and returned
him through such influence, and by such means, as nothing
but the actual facts could have induced me to believe
possible. The facts in question are these. Mr. Purvis,
the Chancery barrister, is a county man, born and bred
within three miles of Durham. At the last general elec-
tion he was solicited to come forward for our city, and
would have done so, but the requisition was too late in
reaching him. He, however, expressed his willingness
to do so on a future occasion, when opportunity offered ;
and the unseating of Lord Dungannon gave him that
opportunity. He immediately came forward and can-
vassed the electors, but committed the unhallowed crime
of doing so without consulting Lord Londonderry. This
could not be forgiven ; and Lord Londonderry sent his
own man, first in the person of Lord Sealiam, then Lord
Blandford, and lastly of a Mr. Ward,—ail of whom were
rejected by the Conservative Association. This, I pre-
sume, was adding insult to insult, in the eyes of my Lord
Londonderry ; and all his tied votes were instructed not
to promise Mr. Purvis. The day of election arrived
without any compromise between Lord Londonderry and
Mr. Purvis, notwithstanding that his lordship had named
his conditions ; but his lordship's overtures were spurned
by Mr. Purvis, and it was ultimately resolved that he
should fight the battle upon his own merits. We then
hoped that Lord Londonderry would remain neuter, and
not allow his men to poll on either side; but we were in
thisexpectation most lamentably deceived. Bright took the
lead in the morning, and soon headed the poll by between
GO and 70 votes. About 12 o'clock, however, we began to
gain upon him, and by 2 o'clock had reduced this majo-
rity to about 30. Lord Londonderry's men, who had
been in town all day, had then their instructions at once
to poll for Bright; and upwards offifty of them did poll.
Some few polled for Purvis, notwithstanding the strict
orders issued, and many remained neuter, their hearts
being too warm in the cause to allow them to abandon it
under such circumstances. Thus ended our notable
contest, returning Bright by a majority of about 78 ; the
numbers being—for Bright 488, Purvis 410 ; a great many
voters remaining unpolled."

We learn. bia lter advice, from another correspon-
dent and subscriber in Durham, that, so strong is the
feeling excited by the conduct of the crotchetty Marquis,
the Conservatives have resolved to petition against the
return of Mr. Bright, on the ground of the unconstitu-
tional interference of Lord Londonderry in the election.
The conduct of that noble lord has been already, he in-
forms us, in all its details, brought before the notice of
Government; and we really cannot see upon what just
and legal plea such fantastic and grossly dictatorial con-
duct, in a peer of parliament, can be overlooked, much
less defended.

THE GARTER.—We understand the blue riband of the
order of the Garter, vacant by the death of the Duke of
the Duke of Dorset, has been conferred on the Marquis
of Abercorn, at the express wish of the Quecn.—Herald.
Robert Arkwright, Esq., of Sutton Hall, Derbyshire,
owing to the depressed state of the markets for agricultu-
ral produce, has directed 15 per cent.. of the last half year's
rent, and 10 per cent of the previous half year, making 25
per cent., to be returned to his tenants.
RUMOURED FLIGHT OF A REPEAL OFFICIAL WITH
£ll,OOO OF THE RENT.—A. strange rumour was circu-
lated in our town yesterday that a party high in office in
Lhe Repeal Association is missing, with money to the
amount of eleven thousand pounds. Up to the hour of
going to post, however, we have no authentic particulars.
The Earl of Rosse will officiate as president, and the
Earl of Listowel as vice-president, at the approaching
meeting of the British Association, to be held in Cork,
on the 17th instant ; but, on the first general meeting,
Lord Francis Egerton will. in the first instance, as presi-
dent of the last meeting, take the chair, in which he will
be succeeded by the Earl of Rosse.

NORTH UNION RAILWAY COMPANY, AND THE BOL-
TON AND PRESTON RAILWAY COMPANY.-011 Wednes-
day last, the Solicitor-General, in Vice-Chancellor Wig-
ram's Court, moved for an injunction to restrain the
Bolton and Preston Railway Company from using some
slidings or branches from their line, at the Preston ter-
minus. His Honour deferred hisjudgment.
ROMANIST COURTESIES.—The Romanist journal, the
Tablet, of Saturday, indulges in the following inquiries
and remarks relative to the debate on Mr. Ward's resolu-
tion :—" Where was Mr. Sheil ? we say again—the rhe-
torical trafficker in repeal politics ; the man who sold his
repeal opinions for a seat in a whig cabinet ; the man who
never renounced those opinions, but consented to draw
his quarter's wages by means of their suppression ; the
man who once had the confidence of the Irish people, but
now enjoys their supreme contempt for his dishonesty and
shuffling ; the man who, by the double ties of his religion
and his politics joined to his high station, was bound to
make his opinions known at such a crisis as this, on so
vital a measure as this ; where, we say, was Richard Lalor
Sheil on this occasion?

OUTSTANDING DIVInENns.—Tt has been pretty gen-
erally stated by the press that assignees are bound by the
new orders in Bankruptcy to pay over to the official
assignee of the new court any unclaimed dividends in
their hands, declared before the date of those orders. It
would appear, however, that there is great doubt express-
ed on this point, and we have seen an opinion given on
the subject by an eminent Chancery barrister, in which
he says :—" I am of opinion that the 2-Ith of the Orders
in Bankruptcy, relating to official assignees, (12th Nov.,
1842,) does not apply to dividends declared before the
date of those orders. The right of creditors who had
proved to receive such dividends was vested before the
act of 5 and 6 Vic. c. 122, or The Orders came into oper-
ation and were not effected, nor does it appear to have
been the intention of the legislature that they should be
affected by any of the provisions of the new law.
That mountain in labour has brought forth its mouse.
Mr. Thomas Attwood, the quondum leader of the
" masses," and the great stalking. horse of the Birming-
ham agitation during the halcyon days of the Reform

Bill, has at length declared his -nostrum for the cure of
of the political maladies of the state. It is no less than
the establishment of a " sacred league," for the purpose,
.would it be believed, of holding the ministers of the
Crown responsible for all the ills, social and political, under
which the nation labours ! One of the modest conditions
on which Mr. Attwood consents to place himself at the
head of the movement is, that the sum of £lO,OOO be
raised, in the first instance, amongst his " starving suffer-
ing" fellow-countrymen, and when this is done he will
under take to hold her Majesty's Ministers responsible
for the prosperity of the country ! For the purpose of
concocting this notable scheme, Mr. Attwood has been
in London consulting members of Parliament, disap-
pointed whigs, and dissatisfied radicals, with what success
is not yet ascertained.

AFFRAY ON THE BRIGHTON RACE COURSE.-01:1
Friday afternoon, after the conclusion of the races, a se-
rious affrtty took place between a number of soldiers be-
longing to the 7th dragoon guards, at present stationed at
Brighton, and the Brighton police. The soldiers had
gone to the race course to avenge a wrong alleged to have

been committed on one of their comrade;by the keeper of
a thimble table, on finding whom they destroyed his table
and smashed those of the other parties similarly employed.

The soldiers were about one Inindred in nun;ber; The
police then interfered. Serjeant-Major Nutt was on the
course, and seeing a collision likely to take place between
the military and police, went into the mob, and assured
the police that he would draw offall his men if they would
retire. He had scarcely uttered the words, when he was
struck in the most ferocious manner by one of the police-
men. The poor fellow fell senseless by a frightful wound
in his skull. Two or three of his comrades immediately
conveyed him to the hospital. The soldiers became in-
censed at the conduct of the police towards their serjeant-
major and fell on them. A furious conflict then took
place, the military armed with sticks and the police with
their bludgeons. Several dreadful blows were inflicted on
both sides, and the faces of many were streaming with
blood, presenting a frightful appearance. After the fight
had lasted for some time the parties separated, ar if by
mutual consent. The case is to be laid before the secre-
tary of state.

TERRIBLE THUNDER STORM.—A few minutes before
two o'clock on Monday afternoon last, Stamford, was
visited by a most terrific storm. The quantity of rain
was immense; and one flash of lightning and clap of
thunder were so alarming, that many persons felt per-
suaded such a combustion must have been attended with
awful results to some persons' habitations. The surmise
turned out to be too correct, for a ball struck a house at
the back of North-street, and made it a complete wreck.
The house destroyed was tenanted by an industrious
plasterer, named Beale, who, at the time of the visita-
tion, was at dinner with his family (his wife and five
children), in a room on the east side of the house,
adjacent to the open fields. During the clap of thunder
before spoken of, the building was struck, and instantly
shattered in every part ; the floor of the room in which
the family were taking their meal was perforated by
the fire-ball to a considerable depth in several places' and
the floor of an adjoining room extensively forced up from
the joists and shivered to atoms ; the tiling and the rafters
of the roof of the house, and of an adjoining workshop,
were also totally demolished ; and the walls of both build-
ings were riven and forced out of the perpendicular, many
of the stones, bricks, and tiles being hurled to a con-
siderable distance ; and yet, in the midst of this ruin,
Beale and his wife and children miraculously escaped
personal injury, except what proceeded from terror. As
quickly as possible, the father extricated the children from
the suffocating smell of sulphur that prevailed in the
house, in which almost every article of furniture and
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A Grenada journal gives the following details of the late
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that city Fifty-two houses or public establish-
fiireenitn.,
with all they contained, have become a prey to the
circumstances are thus reduced to distress. The com-
mercial houses of Perez del Banat Izquierd I, Lanton,
Avila, Monton, Guidu, Estradas, and many others,
have
sustained irreparable losses in merchandise, ,
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books. The Marquis de T b • I money, and
a uerniga was severely in-
jured in the shoulder by a wall falling upon him. Nine-
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seriously.' ve been more or less hurt, but none