ENGLISH NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 829, 8 March 1878, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

o At the meeting of the University of Lou. don, held on the loth, it was decided, by 242 to 132, to grant degrees to women. John Freeland, who died lately at Rice, bequeathed 1.4000 to the Glasgow Western Infirmary. In the event of Stanley, the African explorer, accepting the invitation of the Royal Geographical Society, the reception will be held in the Albert Hall. The Pan-Anglican Synod will open at Lambeth on July 2, and will last for a week. Terrible distress exists in South Wales. Lord Aberdare has taken the initiative in organising relief. The Lord .Mayor, in view of the many recent public appeals, declined to inaugurate a special Mansion House fund. Many of the younger men in the Principalityare stated to prefer emigrating to Australia Chief Inspector Clarke, who was tried foi complicity in the recent turf frauds, havini been reinstated on full pay, at once retired on a pension of LI 85 per annum. General Grant has had a magnificent reception at Malta. An International Telegraph Congress will meet in London on July 1. The principal b isineas will be to agree upon a uniform international tariff. Lard Shaftesbury, the Rev. John C Jo Miller, D.D., and a couple of other leading men have retired from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, on the ground that two of its publications— Bonney’s “Geology” and the Rev. Mr Brownlow Maitland’s “ Argument trom Prophecy”— are heterodox. Temple Bar has been removed. All the outside stones were previously removed. The Bethnal Green Vestry- has asked thai the bar may- be re-erected in Victoria Park. A woman named Martha White has died at Market Harborough, who is said to have f aken no food for four years. Very riotaus proceeding todc. place at Birkenhead on the night of the 31st ult., in consequence of Protestants playing autiPapal airs in the early part of the evening. 2000 persons assembled, who marched through the street, smashing windows, and doing other damage. St. James's Church was attacked, and every ’pane of glass broken. The police were taken by surprise, and were powerless. A marriage has been arranged between Carl Roseben-y and Miss Hannah de Roths child, daughter of Baron Meyer de Rothschild. At a meeting of the Homo Rule Conference, held at Dublin tnis waek, it was resolved that the Home Rule party should take counsel together and decide on their line of action as -a. party respecting the Eastern question. Mr Butt, M.P., emphatically declared he Would engage in no war upon tho House of Commons, and asked if the House imprisoned the members would the Conference come over and silence them. Mr Bigear advocated war with Russia in the interests of tho Irish farmers. Tho four liberated Fenian prisoners arrived at Dublin on the night of the 13th. The streets were crowded, and ten hands, with a numerous procession, e-corted them to the European Hotel Several Irish M.P. ’s

took part in the proceedings. Their release I was in consequence of tho Queen directin'' the discharge, on account of his youth, of Lawrence Walsh, the gunner, latterly sentenced by a court-martial at Aldershot to 10 years’ peual servitude for writing a letter of a seditious character. Walsh was only 17 years of age, and Mr Cross pointed out to Her Majesty that if ho were released the other military Fenians ought also to be discharged. They are on ticket-of-leave. The masous’ strike still continues. About 27 s Germans and 50 Englishmen are employed at the Law Courts. Many other German masons are at work elsewhere In London. A few tights have taken place between Germans and Unionists. There have been several railway accidents during the month, but not attended with serious consequences, though in a collision between the Xema, plying between Bristol and Cork, and the Italian barque Pensiers, on the night of the Bth instant, the latter foundered, with 10 of her crew of 11. The steamer Friesland, from Java to Holland, with a valuable cargo worth 1.200,000, has been lost off Cape Einisterre with all on hoard, 144 in number. A large lira broke out on the morning of the 12th at Messrs Crocker and Son’s Manchester warehouse, Watling-street. The premises were being telfailt. The Are was caused by ihe overturning of a naptha lamp amidst some shavings. Altogether 18 warehouses, lying between Watlmg, Bread, and Friday streets and Oheapside, were more or less injured—damage L 200,000. The hydrants were found very efficient in quenching the fire. Messrs Woods’ cotton mill Manchester, were burnt on the 10th instant'; loss 1.20,000. A block of five ■warehouses, containing jute, fiax, kc., was burnt at Wapping on the 31st nit. On the 4th, a cotton mill at Stockport was destroyed by fire, through the falling of a lighted lamp amidst a quantity of fluff. There has been another large jewel robbery in Surrey, the residence of Mr Gottenham at Fandridge Court, Godatone, having having been broken into and a quantity of valuable jewellery carried off. A daring attempt at murder was made on a Mr Hamburger, a diamond merchant, in some chambers at the Holborn Viaduct on Tuesday. He had a hag containing LIOOO wortlijof diamonds with him, and the wouldbe murderer tried to kill him with a revolver. Mr Hamburger was seriously wounded, I rut the mar?, being alarmed, made off without the diamonds. Frederick Drinsdale Potentor, for the forgery of deeds, by which he obtained L 300,000, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. The sorb of clothing lawyers like— Chancery suits. Nothing hut court-plaster will stick on the bronze cheek of a lawyer. An artificial florist lately described himself as “ head gardener to the ladies.” W hen are sportsmen like fashionable tailors ? -When they get good “ bags.” A good sermon is like a kiss—it requires i but two heads and a little application. j Every landscape has oars of its own, for ! wc have often surveyed the landscape o’er, j A foolish fellow having a house to sell, took a brick from the wall to exhibit as a sample. Some genius proposes to introduce paper shirts. But a shirt made out of a story paper would have too many talcs. “ That parrot of mine’s a wonderful bird,” said Smithers. “Be cries ' stop thief!’ so naturally that every time I bear it I always stop. What are you laughing at, any way. The bishop of Lichfield is to provide a fioating Church for the benefit of the boatmen in his diocese. The curate in charge of this will undertake the first “cold water cu:c" of souls. There is a precious six-year-old hoy who is wonderful on spelling and definition. The other day his teacher asked him to spell “matrimony.” “M-a-t-r-i-m-o-n-y,” said the youngster, promptly. “Now define it,” said the teacher. “ Well,” replied the hoy, “I don’t exactly know what it means, but t know mother's had enough of it.” Things worth knowing. - That the mountain’s brow is usually close to the mountain snows, on mountains high. That a drunkard, however fond he may ho of ardent .spirits, usuallyobjects to stand on a “hard tack.” That a miss is far better than a mile, if she is an heiress. Married folks are sometimes matched and mated—sometimes scratched and rated. Throat Arf fctioxs and Hoarseness. All suffering from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will he agreeably surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by the use of “Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” these famous “lozenges” are now sold by most respectable chemists in this country at Is 14<1 per box. People troubled with a “ hacking cough,” a “slight cold,” or hrnr - chial affections, cannot try them too soon as similar troubles, if allowed to progress resultiu serious Pulmonary and Asthmatic affections. See that the words ‘' Brown’s Bronchial Troches ” are on the Government Stamp around each box, —Manufactured by John I. Brown & Sons, Boston, United States. Depot, 493, Oxford-street, London Holloway's Pills.— Blood to the Head, with Symptoms of Apoplexy.—Holloway’s Pills are undeniably the finest medicine in the world for biliousness and indigestion. In all cases of deranged stomach, determination of blood to the head, biliousness, sick headache, liver complaints, which frequently end fatally, by producing apoplexy or paralysis. There is no medicine known that will give such immediate relief ns these renowned Pills. Young and old, rich and poor, patronise them, and so many cures are effected by their use that their praise is sounded from the torrid to the frigid zone ; in truth, persons who travel consider them a necessary requisite. Frequently the blood becomes overheated, the liver torpid, the skin irritated I y prickly heat, and the whole system languid and exhausted. Nothing so soon gives relief as Holloway's Pills.