... ELECION MVICOMTIEES. COCKERMOUTH. The committee assembled again yesterday morning, when Sir WV. Riddell proceeded to sum up the evidence adduced for the petitioners. He relied mainly on the cases of Graves, Dempqter, and Smethurst. Graves, he said, had been carried off, onl the eve of the election, in a beastly state of intoxication, with the knowledge and consent of Mr. Aglionhy, to prevent ...

... I LFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PARIS, SATURDAY ETENING. The decision of the Tribunal of Correctional Pblice of the Seine, in the affair of the foreign correspondents, has excited considerable surprise here, not because out of the ten persons accused eight have been convicted, but because two have been acquitted. A prosecution at the instance of the Government before the Correctional Police ...

... The Countess of Clarendon held a reception last evening, at the official residence of the Foreign Secretary, in Downing.etreet. The invitations comprised the whole of the corpa dipto- iseotique, and almost all the members of the aristooracy at present in London, to the number of upwards of 800. The r2itnion ewas by far the most numerously attended party ef the season., The company began to ...

... The following members voted en the motion for the repeal of the tax on advertisements:- ON THE 12TH MAT, 1852, ON TnH 74Tn APRIL, 1853, AGAINST THE RNPEAL. FoR THE REPEAL. Adderley, C. B. Adderley, C. B. Arkivrigbt, 0. Arkwright, G. Barge, W. Begge, W. Bailey, Sir Joseph Bailey, Sir Joseph Baillie, H. J. Bai lie, H. J. Baird, James Baird, James Bankes, Right Hon. George Bankes, Right Hon. ...

... i ! Io I MORNING C'HRONICELE OFIFICE, 2'iu6spsd, 11 a.m.! EXPRESS FROM PARIS. [Fnom OUR OwN CORPBE5ONDENT.] PARIS, WEiDNESDY EvNimnG. M. Schneider has been appointed by the corm- mittee on the budget to draw up the report. The labours of the committee were not very serious. It determined to accept the budget just as it was pre- sented, and the report will be to that effect. I mentioned ...

... The' following are the main points of the memo- randum of the Cabinet of Turin on the difference which has arisen between Piedmont and Austria, relative to the sequestration of the property of Lombardo-Venetian emigrants who have become Sardinian subjects, after having, first obtained the legal sanction of the Austrian Government to emi- grate. The memorandum, copies of which have been ...

... THE NA V Y. AIMP NTMENTS. Captain-Charles Eden (1841), formerly private secretary to Sir Francis Barinig, when First Lord of the Admiralty, to command the London, 90, at Portsmouth, under orders for the Mediterranean station, vice Captain George R. Mundy, who has commanded that ship since April, 1852. Inspector of Hospitals-John Wilson (b), M.D. (1841), to be medical inspector at the Royal ...

... SIR JAMES IHOGG AND INDIAN PA TRWNA GE. At a Quarterly General Meeting of Proprietori of East India Stock, held but a few weeks since Sir James Hogg, the Chairman of the Board ol Directors, found himself in the disagreeable positior of having to answer certain strictures, passee by Mr. Lewvin, upon the description of met usually selected by the proprietary body to fill us vacancies in the ...

... IETHfNOLOGICAL SOCIETY OFLONDON. The sixth ordinary meeting of the Ethnological Society of the present session was held on Wednesday evening last, the 13th instant, at 71, Mortimer-street, Caveudish sqttare; George B. Greenough, Esq., F. R.S., &c., vice-president of the society, in the chair. After the announcement of numerous donations of books to the library of the soolety, the following ...

... ECCLESIAS7TICAL. The Bishop of Oxford has instituted tile Rcv. Thonrae Benfield ,Ludlow, BA., chaplain of Cisristchurchl, Oxford, to the rectory of Slapton, near Leighton Buzzard, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Phitlirnore, M.A.; on the nomination of the dean and chapter of Christ Church. * The Bishop of Rochester has instituted the Rev. William John Deape, ?? rector of South ...

... [FROMI OUR OW-N CORRESPONDENT.] DUBLIN, WEDRESWDY MORNING. t But for the extension of the income tax to Ireland, the financial statement of Mr. Gladstone would have produced universal satisfaction in this country. The only intelligence regarding the Irish fportion of the budget that reached Dublin yester- fday was the very imperfect'version supplied by the electric telegraph. A strong feeling ...

... LONDON: &STURDAY, APRIL 16, 1S53. In the HousE of LORDS, last night, Lord Binxxns, after some discussion, withdrew the Poor Removal Bill. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE expressed his hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would adhere to the statement he had made to a deputation ou the subject of the Irish Consolidated Annuities. The Earl of ABEnDEEN stated that he was not aware of the ...