Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1870-04-23 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

ELECTION BILL.—A Mr. John Francis Meaher communicates to the editor of the Waterford Mail, vouching for its "authenticity," the following extraordinary election bill : Jim F—r, mob conductor and botheen boy, &c., to Mr. Herring's election agent, for the following work and murder done on the day of the polling, Feb. 26, '7O: ITEMS,  To three shouts for Herring;,-Iti-2-d. per shout ...... £o 0 9 To three hurras for same, at 3d. each 0 1 0 To four screeches, at 4d. each 0 1 0 To three bounces in the air at 4Acl. each 0 1 0 To making a noise for two hours 0 1 0 To hitting a voter for Kickham a rap of a dead , cat, which I spent five hours in ipiling the night before 0 2 0 To making a prod at and giving two strokes of a wattle to one of Mr. Kickhara's supporters, for which I got a most awful battering from the Kickhamites 0 3 9 To gripping one of Kickham's party by the windpipe or throttle; for which I got a slap of a rock over the left ear, leaving me since in care of a ' doctor 0 6 7 To striking a voter over the sconce with a raudbag, for which I received cruel treatment from the  w0men.......... 0 1 6 On the declaration of the poll, when Mr. Herring was declared elected by four majority, I took a fit of hurrooing, shouting, screechin, roarin, bounein, smashing windows, dashing into whisky shops, swallowing half-gallons of porter, six skelping glasses of whisky, rowling peelers, smeg= gin sogers, until I found myself nearly dead in the lock-up the following mornin, and had to pay one shillin fine 0 12 0  £1 10 7 P.S.—lf this bill is not paid before Patiick4s Day; be Herrings theze'll be bad work about it; so look out for suallY•—• Yours to command, .Trai  Mr. Henry William 'Ripley has given £lO,OOO to found a convalescent home at Bradford.  Three boys were drowned on Monday afternoon, at Perth, by the ca.sizing cf a boat in which they were sailing on the Tay. Two others were in the boat, but the we rescued. '  . Although at least 120,000 visitors were at Greenwich on Good Friday, there were only three cases in which persons were charged with drunkenness before the magate on Saturday morning. • A man, styling himself "Professor Allen, vegetable chemist, lecturer on medical botany, anatomy, &c.," has been sentenced at Glasgow to sixty days'.imprisonment for representing himself to be a duly-qualified practitioner. On Friday, while some men were trying a new •diving igitraratue in Southampton Water, one of them, named Soper, .%ho was down in about six fathoms of water, signalled to be brought up. On being raised to the surface blood was flowin from his nose and mouth, and just as he was lifted la.° the vessel he dropped his head and expired.  Two men have been committed for trial at Tipperary, on a charge of having attempted to throw a train off the rails. One of the prisoners placed a wooden sleeper across the rails near Emly ; the other heaped a number of stones on the line at another point. Within four weeks no fewer than six attempts have been made to throw trains off the lines near Emly. "A. Liberal Clergyman," in a letter to the Spectator, suggests that if Lord Russell's plan be carried out, of a chapter of the Bible being read before school to impart a religious odour to the business of the day, it would be desirable to read it in the original Hebrew or Greek. "The reasons for this are obvious. 1. The direct moral effect upon the children would be the same as if it were read in English. 2. The indirect moral effect would be far greater, from the greatly increased sense of awe and mystery. 3. All need of a conscience clause would be entirely done away with."