LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 299, 4 August 1875, Page 6

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Lady Franklin, the widow/of {Sir John Franklin, is dead. Keen and Stanton attempted to rid? bicycles 100 miles in hours but failed. There have been cockfights for SIOO each at Furness. Two Welsh iron companies have failed for a million and a quarter j also Sandersons the bill-brokers, for several millions; * The Prince of Wales will proceed to India on board the sloop ship Serapis. An attendant squadron will join the Prince at Aden, thus avoiding the expense of passing through the Suez Canal. Admiral Lambert will command the squadron. The Prince will land at Bombay first, and is to be accompanied by at least one of his brothers. The natives of the north-west provinces propose to raise £20,000 to get up a provincial testimonial to his Highness. It is rumored that the Duke of Buckingham will succeed Lord Northbrook as Viceroy, and that Lord George Hamilton will become Governor of Madras. A handsome service of plate, subscribed by his admirers, has been presented to Sir Jules Benedict. The Millbank Penitentiary is confessed to be a failure, and is to be pulled down, as soon as the new prison at Wormwood Scrub* is ready. On the departure of the Arctic expedition special trains from London brought down multitudes of visitors. They started amid cheers from 10,000 spectators. The Queen sent a parting message. The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a letter cordially approving of the work of the American revivalists in the main, but objecting to the after meetings for the confession of sin and.the guidance of conscience. On Whit Monday holidav the Metropolitan Railway carried 230,000 passengers. Cricketing is now in full swing. Southerton, Lillywhite, and the brothers Grace are carrying all before them. Several very disastrous fires have occurred. The Theatre Royal at Leeds was totally destroyed. In the Spanish town of Cabanal, iii Valencia, 209 houses were burned, and 000 families rendered homeless. Messrs Colliers’ roasting mills at Whitechapel have been burned, and 500 hands thrown out of employment ; and Messrs Oistler and Palmer’s timber and tan yards at Bermondsey ’ with a damage of £40,000. A anpalling accident occurred in Jndenberg, Stvria. A religions procession, on iti way to church, had to cross a river, and overcrowding the ferry-boat, it drifted with the current and capsized. Seventy-six persons are missing. A terrible disaster also took place on the Tagus. A party of 100 holiday makers was proceeding down the river to be present at the procession of Corpus Ohristi, when the boat upset in a squall and sixty of the partv perished. Mr Kenealy has been making a series of speeches to his constituents surpassing alibis previous performanses in foul language and libellous vituperation. The appointment of a Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, with a seat in tha Cabinet has been discussed approvingly, hut Mr Disraeli has relegated it to soimTdistant period.