English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 86, 2 March 1876, Page 7

English News.

i ! By! the collision -bi (two ; steamers; 'iin! the river Girdride,'ll3 ! per_onV> were killed. -.-•-.

« Pope Hennessy has. been appointed Gove.rnorbfßarbado.es. ;

Mr ""''Proctor, astronomical writer, has seceded/from , the Roman Catholic Church.

£4000 has been promptly subscribed forthe building of a church in '■ Leeds, in response to an appeal from the Bishop of Ripon.

The six frigates of the detached squadron are ordered to leave the East Indies for the Mediterranean.

Mr Salt, member for Stafford, succeeds to the secretaryship of the Local Government Board. ; . " '

The Italian Geographical Society has resolved to send an exploring expedition to Equatorial Africa. < ; Mr Stephen Cave, M.P., has proceeded to Egypt on a special mission, accompanied by ;a large staff in various capacities.

The Turks sustained a severe defeat near Trabengd in an engagement with insurgents, in which 30 were killed and many wounded.

Immense crowds assembled outside Newgate during" Wainwright's execution, although the proceedings' were private. The Prince of Wales' reception at Delhi, Lahore, and Jeyppre were very magnificent, in. the latter place especially. ,

At the cattle market 7600 beasts were sold, as against 6500 ; last year. At the Queen's annual sale at Windsor good prices were realised.: A, case of cholera has occurred on board the Serapis at. Calcutta, the, ship's corporal being the victim^ He died after a few hours' illness.

Eiglit persons were killed by a boiler explosion at Ballymaconnell, in Ireland. They were sitting in the boiler-house, and were blown to atoms.

The town of Arecivo, in Porto Rico, has .been almost destroyed by an earthquake. Only two, churches and six houses survived the shocks.

Two men, the only survivors of the brig Dagmar, have arrived at Liverpool with a. story of sufferings similar to the Cospatrick wreck, twelve irionths ago. . A, bill, for a new railway between [London '-and ' Brighton is to be brought before Parliament. The proposed capiM is '£200,100,000 and" has; been already subscribed. '"- y- The Board of Conservators of the

'Severn have granted permission to Mr ' Frank ; Buckland to take salmon ova "from 'the Severn for export to Australia and New Zealand.

The Eastern Telegraph Company have been authorised, by the shareholders to duplicate their lines between .Rangoon and Periang, and! Suez arid Bombay.

Mr C. S. Read, tenant farmer, 1 finding resistance to agricultural, reform on the part of his colleagues insuperable, retires from the Government. *

:! Lieutenant Cameron reached Londia in safety on November 19, with 57 followers. He has crossed the Continent from the East Coast at the head of the Livingstone. | ; The four directors, the manager, and the sub-manager of the City and Country Bank, are charged : with publishing a false prospectus arid balance-sheets. Theyhave beeri committed for. trial. In the year ended the 31st of March last there were as many as : 253,211 male servants taxed. The Excise duty was 15s, and the amount realised .294,594 10s. ' ; '

During the month of November emigration" from Liverpool decreased to the extent of 1337 as compared with' No/ yember last year. The decrease On the year ending November is 32,711.

Mr W. A. Ryder, /a merchant at Ricester, has been presented with a piece of plate, by a number ofaritiyaccinators at Banbury in recognition of his having gorie r fo prison • for seyen days rather than, vac.mate his child. ' ;

The senior judge of the Jer&y Boyal Court, Mr David- De Quetteville/; has! suspended payment, with liabilities estimated at £3O;000. Mr De Quetteville carried on business as. a shipowner and merchant,; having a fishing establishment in Newfoundland. He was elected judge in 1851. .

'It has ; been decided to; dispatch a special mission to Cooinassie to' bring 'some v buts'tari'dirig - que'-tions to . an issue, the duties, of . envoy, !being entrusted to Dr Goldsbury, who starts froni Accra and r ; proceeds < through Eastern Akim. and !D_uabin to the Ashantee. capital. Mdme. Italia Garibaldi, wife of Menotti .'.Garibaldi, has justrgi.veri ; birth to a son, who has received the name of '"'Borne.'* '' ; ■'-'•' I: / " : '""' l -\

The King of Denmark has presented Mr. John Shajwr, |he.. General Manager of the South-Eastern Railway, ' swit_r5 wit_r a!" diamond' ring, in acknowledgment of the services : rendered by him: to His Majesty and family, on occasions when they have. /tray felled over' the' SouthEastern ;Rail way. ; .

At the Manchester Assizes, a; man named Ingham -was sentenced to ten years' periai servitude for stabbing a .policeman; who arrested 'him % at ;Moss Side j ust after he ' •■ had icomraitted ? a burglary. . j >;The. pJseer : has c lp.s.tj the .use of his right hand from the^wounds fee received, , , but r Mr ., J!ustice; rLush' was unable fo order any reward or gratuity to be paid tohirav •

. /.Two, women of bad repute were "tarred" and feathered.by ttievirtUAUs, male pop-., nla,ce of !yTergennes, tho.o.theV'night., „. A London' correspondent^ sta.es £,that Mr Prince/ of " Prince's," who pur- : chased the patent of the floor skates for £10,000, has already/made) aboutjthrice that sum-froui the skating finks. ! , The Mayor of Birminghana has" an r ~ hounced his 'intention to appoinjt five* special inspectors/in order- -^prevent publicans from allowing their-- customers to' "get drunk.' "It appears that; riot a single publican was summoned-fdr permitting drunkenness last year, although there were 2500 charges of drunken-, ness. • . . : *

Mr R. Bellhas completed his model of the statue of Mr Plimsoll, and will shortly submit it to the fund committee. Mr Plimsoll is represented with outstretched arm as though addressing an assembly. In the 'other hand he' holds a paper as though for reference. ;

A resolution discountenancing the idea of a third Presidential term of office was passed in the American House of Representatives, on the 15th Decern-: ber, by 32 votes against 18. ! <; : ./, The Marquis of Townsend has followed up his recent adhesion to- the principles, of the United Kingdom Alliance by consenting to join the Good Templars. The Marchioness will also join. A new lodge will be opened in a few days at his Lordship's seat, Raynham Hall, Norfolk. :

The* Jewish World' states that- v disastrous fi.e has occurred in Mem el, principally inhabited by Jews, of whom 8000 have been rendered homeless!; Many Jews have been burnt to death, and hundreds 'injured. ! !/. . The Bee'cher scandal, it is expected^ will be revived, Mrs Moulton having demanded a Council of the Congregational Churches, in consequence of her name being* erased froni the rolls of the Plymouth Church.

The ■' Vossiche Zeitung ' makes the extraordinary statement that the Italian Government is carrying on negotiations with ,E,ngland, for .the cession of the island of St.' Helena, on which ie intends £o. establish: a, penal coloriy. An engineer iri Liverpool when going on board his steamer was accosted by a son of Eriri's Isle, " Got all your hands engaged, sur 1" " Well, rib." What can you do?'* " Sure, an. I can either trim or foire." . . '■' Have you been at sea before ?" " D'ye think t; came over from Ireland in a cart."

The Bey. Mr Spurgeon, of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, is laid up at Marseilles with a severe attack of gout. Mr Spurgeon was on his w«iy to the south of France for the benefit of his health. ' • '"•

An extraordinary occurrence has happened with Lord Fitzwilliam's hounds. The meet was at Love.aH, near Doncaster, and the fox swam the swollen river Thome*;. The horsemen could not follow, "but the hounds pursued reynard alone. -They were afterwards rejoined by • some of the horsemen, who had "galloped over a. bridge. The 'hounds' at "la. t had to cross the Midland Railway, -when an express came up at full speed, and ran into them, cutting arid mangling many,:andkilling several-. The chase, however, was continued, and: the fox was eventually run into.

A despatch from Denver, Colorado, on- tlie 2 1st ult, says :■=— Four most atrocious, murders, were unearthed here to-day. ' A ; small; tenement house in the eastern portion. of the city, whicli had recently' been vacated by sorne Italian musicians, was visited; by a policeman to detect the. cause i of ,a stench "tha. issued from it. * He dis--ov.ered in ;the: cellar;; of:_the building the dead and. putrid bodies of an old man/and three". boys, .all apparently Italians.'" Thie" "bodies -bore' ghastly marks of the knife, the ■ throats of " all having been cut. The murderers are believed to have been the Italians who vacated the premises; Intense excitement prevails, and detectives- are ■■ out in all -directions, searching, for. the; murderers', y "■* ; ? f>\ o h y\ !

A petition has been addressed to. the Archbishop. of ;C-3sare>; by ISO nrembers of the, Greek Church . in TJrbug, ! Cappadocia, begging him/to use his influence 'with ! : the Porte for' the ; expulsion of "the- American missionaries^" who are charged-.: not, orilyj with seducing believers from, the true faith, -but! with inciting the .Sultan'- subjects to rebellion-. A -correspondent at Constantinople, without? expressing an opinion on. the- special w.or.k,of the mission, ventures to observe that the inhabitants bf/Urgug should have' been 'the last to sign : sudh? ua , 'document, seeing! that wi|hi n ."^ely.e . mpnl-fs .h e s emission ar ies dis.ributed u '£3{),ubfr4ir the district, and; so .sayed;many, from death by starvation.

The -smallest Bible in the Worl.d is a marvel of the. Oxford University Press Itis about' lialf the size of a prayer .book*} arid -contains: a) completer edition -of the: Holy Scriptures from Genesis to 1 Revelatipri;; The: typography is ismall but rclearj and is on, mib]eached Indian*; paper, . exceedingly thin and tough.. •'The r Vpluh-e i ';is J less-' thaW- haif-ari-inch in thicknessj ,and!,we^ghs, when bound; in naorocco, less than 3| ounces. I As'ja ; 'curiosity ?his r Bible' -i§- Well worth hay-: ing, but it ipperhaps necessary toj state ..that.ano ( the,r 7 sniijl3^_Bible, f yery, likje tfcua one, but hea^ieV ari'd^nbt'so^'heautiful, •has been 'published by aifirin:in:Lo s ndbn/-; It* is;,anleviden.t imitation of the esfc.Bible.qf lhe Oxford University jPress hut unlike it does hot pass throuwK^thei p.ostfor a penny. ... ;

, 'The crop of Horlda, this year^ is',,^-eported/as ", Whgllhe/jargest „ever^ grown.-. ,y,y*.r'.yyy;;y, r . \ ■""■;;.'. An aged inmate,of,the'.Kidderminster work-House hasrecently ;dieds ■ : AShehad spent 60 of the 80 years of her life in the work-house.

A labouring' man, living at Roadwater;in Somersetshire, committed'suicide iby cutting: his throat/. 'because _the floods invaded his, dwelling on „ MrfG^-^foi'H ;i OnsTay, writing Jo the ' Mbrriirig 'Advertiser/ says •:— " -I hope r r before many hours pass away disfiall receive! from Austraha^ the that, evidence; is forthcoining , that • will settle the -'ichborhe ca ! se,'arid releaise the unfortunate Claimant.''- : •'"'"' '''

The greatest cook 1 in the world is M.-, -Jules :Gquffo, ! chief of the 'Paris Jockey •: Club, and his is pastry cook . to her majesty queen Victoria. : *' ! There is an idea'here (says an Edinburgh correspondent) that should: Captain -Nares reach the north pole he-will - be . received ! by-— a' Scotchman. We. shall see—when we see 'Captain N ares'. ... . Soon after the rail wayfrotn.Newcastle ]to Sunderland;was finished,;.an old lady, who was in one of the compartments of ai train going, 'frbnv the -Tyne to- the Wear, passing through the tunnel^ began tofeel about with her hands, and at last she exclamed; ■•■*■ The Lord hay. marcy on .me !- /ia've lost my! eyesight!^ - ..-..•• ■ Mr Richard, M.P.j is now .engaged in/ preparing. Mr- Cobderi's letters for publication, i

Some Babbrsh of a being, who figures at Weston-supper-Mave, has excruciated : that One-tenth of a penny put, put at compound interest : on the fi.rstjof* Jau./, vary A.p., 1, "and kept -it: up to next Christmas Day would then amount to. the very comfortable sum of £1,237,3 10, oop,oop,ooo,ooo,pop,ooo,ooQ,ooo;oooT 000. Another rrialevdleht multiplier makes it a shilling, less." ? Where are the' odd pence; ■"."■'■ ■ - -

, Hanna Cartwright. formerly in the service of th_ Tichborne' Claiment -was sentenced to'a month's imprisonment for robbing .a "lady'in whose servic. she was, at. Hampstead/ . arid ! also; . for robbing 1 another" servant. ' '/ .". ■'■'" .' ' ; '"" - Garibaldi,. it is' stated; has. written a friendly letter to one of the leadersjof'the Herzegovina insurrection/ enc6Uragin° , him' to preseyere'in' his contest with'-the Turks,' and prorii.ising him. future' help.. In the spring Garibaldi .iritends to organise a -volunteer legion.

A'meetingwas .held at. Southampton on the '.lsth Dedemb'er,.for "taking into consideration the best„means of bbtaniug the release of the .'Tichborne claimant. Resolutions were passed pledging the. association never to relax its efforts until a release was obtained. A penny subscription is being raised to bring witneses from Australia and elsewhere.

The Princess of Wales and five children have left for Copenhagen. The initialpaper was read at'tlie Royal Colonial Institute by Mr Edward; Wilson of Melb-'rhe, on acclimatisation

At a meeting of the subscribers to the memorial of. Mr Adam ; ; Black,! held in Edinburgh. Council Chambers— the Lord Provost -presiding— it' was rer. por ted that £!1 500. had, been subscribed by 3,00 individuals, and , that,., the committe were of opinion that the nieinorial should take the form of a>brohze statue, placed in East Princes' Street Gardens, 'the artist emploj'ed to be!Mi s Hutchii.son, R.S.A. The report was adopted on the motion of Mr Cowan, jM.P., seconded hy Mr M'Laren, M.P/, and the committee instructed to carry/but the arrangements". . . „...,. ; Robert Purcell, a laborer, who had beaten -his wife almost to death/leaving.her only just strength' enough, to escape from r hi,m by ..dropping through' a window— which she did at the greatest; -peril—^h'as been ' Sentenced at the Liver-:, pool -assizes,- to ; penal servitude for 'life/ •" A terrible disaster,;happened opposite' Gravesend, 1 when- an .- old-wooden 'train/; ing; ship, the Goliath, with. 500,! boys on board, caught fire. She was soon^, a mass of flames. Boats af once! rendered assistance. At. the last, moment Captain ■; Souchier; and \hisi wdfe _ and/two. daughters leaped from a height bf 25 fee. into'" the 1 water, 7 ahd : were picked up by a'boat. f - The - -schoolmaster and 11 boys are i missing., - Tlie escape pf the rest was wonderful.

Owing to deaths; and official promotion, several elections/for members of Parliament have 'occurred/ !-Mr (pavendish Bentinclj. {J.udge-A^dvocate-Gene-ral) has been returned for 'Whitehaven .; Mr Hurst (Liberal), for Hotham jj Cren;-, eral Gordon. : {C6ns_rv_tiv.)/'f6rj __a'st Aberdeeh'/' I

• 'The extravagant price •-•-' of meat is again, the subject of public discussion. Many persops attribute/it largely to the rigid restrictions- placed by the [Govern; ment r on.' .the importation of foreign cattle. Unfortunately the prospect of effective .succour: from has become lessjcheering; t

• r '■ Extensive ; ' prepaf atioris ;':' are : heing made at the! Albert ;;Memorial ; Hyde 1 rßarkj preparatory to tb c . ( its : ,des.ti,ned;place the colbssal'ftatute bf tlie ' T-i^e^Cp^^^fhe' lairMr J. H. rlfolpy^ fiye-yeay_ engaged Qn„ther statut./ r which/was";orie.,.df. th. lasti completed'AWorksg-whioh left his siiTiSa^^^^jhi^e-th^ and jsrhicb. it^fis;.^ici^;'p||'^jnß b,e one of Ihii^ cTieif^^^'uvre^y The work of beginning. of cthe year it is expected the: tinepi cfrfa'l r will %f~ dbrripMted^ao-bVdinff > ::^m&^- !;■#

- * , ;! Prihcej Pierre Bbhapartejias Just sold M .-his -hotel -at^Aute uil, ..where -he shot If vYicJdr Noir, for £60.0.0, v4 H is Imperial Highness has taken up his residence in Brussels!/ -'- ; -' • •-■ • There is i^a sweet patato on exhibition at Madison / IridibLria^whidlris fp'ur feet eight inches |in lengths-end i$ n*pt thicker •'thian u a ; pipe ;_tem/;; '} yyy yy- s i .. The Sea Nymph s^ has b^4n tow'e to x When she was pumped free' froni water, and search made *belb;w y /fi y e-me^ were found deadih'^tlie cabiri/'fikyihg" either been drowned; or suffocated. / •.The.iyessel had » during the recent Vgales sprung one of the masts, which, having 1 fallen, blocked thb cabin 1 door, ,ahd .p^eyenteoh.m from escaping^./, / --•-'•. , . /." •"'/ •■'

iThe/growing, wealth of Liverpool and of its citizens is exemplified;^ the sums/' y bequeathed by/ some" of ;the leading me& " 4 . ofthe -town .who died/ during ? the past 12 months. It l Will be seen 1 , from the following! list that'the legacies of eight of these gentleman .represent in the aggregate upwards '" ' of /£?4,(306!,600 : — Robertson Gladstone, L350;(J00;r James Houghton, £500 s OOO -; Richard Hough* : ton/ £500j000 -ji Charles -Turner/ M,P., _3?00,00o,,j, James" Tyre., 1 .£2C0,000 5 R. L, Jones, L3!§0,0,GQ. ; J. J. "Rowe, L4oo,ooo^.andH. Dawson, __1,_00, 000. , In,- a pastoral issued in Cardinal jCuHeAYeco^ /tbe^strict observance of a Jubileei,urgihg as a reason for Jso'dbirig -the yiolehl;^lsitifbance of civil •; society now. prevalingj,abroad to danger of;fhe \tru<a/;Gligro^v lii-. many >' , c6u-ttne > -J&^ giving :Oo_ssr. : absolute^ control oVer/sOui and .body, .has , been forcibly, estiablished, and if |tjhis!i system be] -genie'rallycint'l'oduced liberty- will %e- extinguished' and Chri_» .tian rciyilisation. .complete]^ jiestrqyed. ' The/Spamsh/^^ learnt the - cbfaterits :i of a '-circular , 'note from the , United -Stat^.i-toxMiß^^ropeai-Goverriments, instructed .her/representatives; t6;,explain to jth'e/yanpUs Government's that tlie , feuJban.;que'^tion ! 'was not : orily-ari:Americari, but European interest, r andj -that compli^ation.is, ,.. between the United State's /'and £panT might have /incalculable- 1 ; /consequences for Europe/ as 'they would the Carlists r to make-a proionged resistance, arid revive tlief. liopes7.-of-."1?3d-ralism. The ; Austrian/ ,G : overnment v .received the_e declarations in a friendly -manner. „ : We are of .course unable jfq/ypuch for the 'correctness of the '.rumour,;! hut it is confidently/ asserted ; that -the;!' Marquis of Bute'; hai biered a" large" _urn of money to secure the ;early canonisation of the. first, Lady. Inward of Glossop, "whose daughter he has married. This lady/it;may!;he'^ our readers, was the heroine of the_amous Talbot'pase, and^'had a' Vnari-ow/ escape from being,, shut, up- in a convent. In. connection; with; the noble/hbhse of Bute, it ;;s: whispered thkt;an : '!heir may be .expected ; early in. the cominh' year, —« The Rock;' /; ..,-;'•!:. A corespondent of the; Pittsburg ' Commercial,' writing: from Jacktown, Greehe ; County, « Pa./ .ehites ;a !dfegraceful incident r whicli, V he/says/ .recently occurred at, that place, at a? gathering of, drunken; -ruffians' : 'tb; witness! a bull figUt/ , \JiUA aft^r .the fight <one.drunken wretch, nabded Landers^ "shouted to the croWd" 'o_f^tx^^^^>'t^jit^._^/ T^p I_ild1 _ild now H offer a nigger /for keep thb frin ,^£oin£/- The ;,browd' ;r>ceived fiis announcement "wi't_f yells ''"of satisfaction',; and ordered; ;himQ jtpi jbring the nigger,, on, . assuring-,. hip_ that they would ,bid r ,6ri^tlie/anim then'. drove..! hisi' ( waggont among the crowd, and. in tne waggon-: was seated a" cblo.ed'girlTpf ; flight ;l'B\yearsj whom he offered ito, selhtoitheihighest ibidder. One man b]id three; 1 sheeg .and a drink of whislcy all ytMn^l^^p^eT'OM^eeA hogs.'; :anvold/mule!! e.riEinally the r . giri Was sold for?;an olcl horse ancl - ' w niskey for the'^p wd,. and. was actually earned- away;- by > her purchaser, amid : the:cheers ql/thedrttn r k6Eri_bble The authorities are! in ve^ and^pje^; to/be 'able' to ; pttnish the v_liians''as' they stated 'that- Lind'er&rgotipbssessibn^ofthis girl about the .commencemenfe'.'of the war* and has held her ln^bondageever since, cb__pellirig> her td'db iro.flial services, and abusing; h;er^m_-£ fed. fully while in "hisi drunken. state^j-H^ineyer told her she was free, but even' led. her" to believe she! j why bprn '.V'^Mvei .lo , serve him* The 'glrPwasj neyptiX^M;t&;T^ad', arid, had she'-.-ibeenO abl_,'\iwbuldVaprobably never;4iave;'knbwnrthat/shesWas free, as the'-^epjge ; --ate' totf >'|f 6b v tf <ito7sKy for a pa'pei'. I f ? <"-'-* )n - : ' V ' ""•«"--' 1 --- , i:-I).';lyr -

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