The Sun. — 1870-03-07 (London, England)

THE BRISTOL ELECTION.  We understand that Mr. Berkeley really has resigned his seat for Bristol. In the event of three Liberal candidates being brought forward, as seems likely—Mr. Hodgson being the choice of one section, Mr. Odger coming out as a working man's representative, and MrRobinson urging his claim as a local man—the Conserva. tives will bring forward Mr. Phillip Skinner Miles, whose family influence in the town is great, and who previously contested the borough.  It is said that the Marquis of Bute is about to jolt_ his yacht at Gibraltar, and go a long voyage to Australia and New Zealand.  A verdict of wilful murder has been returne against the men concerned in the death of Smith, the tramp, at Ecelesfield.  John Bull states that the Bishopric of Sierra Leone has been offered to the Ituv. Henry Cheetham, Vicar of Quarndon, near Derby.  The ✓ohn hull learns with great pleasure that the Bishop of Hereford bag conferred the vacant canonry in his cathedral on the Rev, Dr. Jebb. The great Conservative banquet in the City takes place next Wednesday. John Bull, and its correspondent, complain earnestly that a tolitical dinner party should be called for a Wednesday in Lent.  Bishop Twells, according to the Church Review, is present in London, and has recently been examined by three medical men of high standing, who have pronounced him not to be of sound mind.  On the third reading of the War Office Bill, by which Mr. Cardwell proposes to create two new Under Secretaries in the War Department, Mr. J. Feilden, member for the East Riding of Yorkshire, will move its rejection.  The case of Henry Goodwin, charged with maliciously destroying a number of pictures at his father's residence, Wigwell Hall, was before the Crown Court at Derby assizes. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and sentence was deferred.  The South London Press contradicts on authority a a ateinent which has been made, that the illness of the Roy. Newman Il;:11 has become alarming. Mr. Hall was last heard of at Jerusalem, and was no worse than he had been.  A petition, asking for inquiry into the conduct of the Norwich Election Commissioners during the late inquiry, has been forwarded for presentation to the House of Commons. Some of the local Conservatives are dissatisfied with the manner in which the inquiry was conducted.  The directors of the Brighton Railway Company are preparing a statement on the question of compensation, more especially as it may be illustrated by the experience of the late New Cross accident. The Railway News believes it will be shewn that for every £lOO paid by the company for compensation, nearly £BO are absorbed by tke lawyers. • The Rev. Dr. Steere, Rector of Little Steeping, who went out with Bishop Tozer on the formation of the Central African mission, writes stating that he has roceived letters from the bishop, in which the right rev. prelate informs him that the whole district as yet occupied by them them is being ravaged by cholera, and that the people of Zanzibar are dying by hundreds or even thousands.  Among the Parliamentary papers issued to day was a return of the number and tonnage of transports employed in the Abyssinian expedition, the time each one was employed, the rate per ton, &c. An account of the receipts and disbursements connected with the Duchy of Lancaster. for the year ending December 21st 1869, has been published, and also furnishes correspondence relating to the impoitation of South Sea Islanders.  The Western Daily Standard of Saturday announced its own decease. This paper was started at Plymouth about a year ago, in order to advance the Conservative cause in the western counties; it ascribes its failure to the apathy and indifference of the party. Just before this paper started another journal, the _Herald, originated with the same obj,ct, died, after a brief existence of ninety days. The Nail, a weekly Conservative journal, projected by Mr. C. J. Mare, who was unseated at Plymouth, was discontinued in 18G2, after ten years' existence.  • "