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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1960, 17 November 1874, Page 2

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Temple Bar now has to be propped up ; so it will be formally taken away from its 1 present position, where it is an obstruction to traffice, and re-erected as an entrance to the new law courts near by. The action of the Home Rale members in the matter of the Irish Fisheries has not been altogether without result. In the last days of the session, a Bill, the * Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Bill, was passed through Parliament, which will bring, at all events, some measure of ; assistance to struggling Irish fishermen.. A fund of some L 20,000 will be lent out; to them for the purchase or repair of nets]; 1 boats, and other fishing gear. \ A commercial traveller named Barclay ; has committed suicide at Blackburn. For' i some time he had been in a desponding.state of mind, in consequence of his wife having eloped from him. She had lately' been tried for murdering her child in Liverpool, but was .acquitted on a technical objection. An Act of Parliament has just been printed to render '"personation" a felony,^.; and no doubt resulted from the trial of j the Tichborne Claimant. It is now' i enacted that if any person shall falsely and deceitfully personate any person, or the heir, executor, or administrator, wife, widow, next of kin, or' relation of any person, with intent fraudulently to obtain any land, estate, chattel, money, valuable security, or property, he shall be guilty of felony, and liable to penal servitude for life, or to not less than five years, or to imprisonment not" J. exceeding two years with or without hard labor, and with or without solitary confinement. The offence is not to be tried at the quarter sessions. St. Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh, was struck by lightning on Bth August. One of the turrets in the crown was knocked off, and in its fall knocked off another of them. During the same storm hailstones an inch square fell, and the hail covered the ground at Newington to a depth of* three inches for several hours. The high price of coal has been tellipgn with very marked effect : upon the building! of steamers on the Clyde. For three or four years previous to this year the-build-ing of sailing vessels had fallen off greatly, and the . building of, steamers had ; propprtioately increased. During the first seven months and a half of 1874, however; the sailing vessels launched have reached an aggregate tonnage four times greater than that of those launched, during the same period in the three preceding years. At - the same time the tonnage of the steamers launched shows a decrease — no less than 40,000 tons. ; "; . The usual supply of water to a portion} of the town of Birkenhead was recently Jstopped, in consequence of a man named ' Rickson having fallen down the bore-hole. When the body was recovered, tfye supply • was resumed. At Newport, on the 17th of August, there was a fatal boiler explosion on board the Rescue, atowing-steamer for the ports in the Bristol Channel. She was towing a barque— the Mabel — down the river Usk, when qne of her boilers burst, and shattered the whole of the stern to pieces. Two men, named Pitman and Crowley, were killed, and three, others severely in? jnred. The steamer sank two minutes, after the explosion. The bodies of tb,e two men killed had not beep found. At the Bristol Assizes on August 12, Mr Broad, a gentleman living at Falmouth, brought an action against Dr Lyle, the medical superintendent of a lunatic asylum near Exeter, to recover damages for injuries sustained through the r . alleged negligence oE the defendant. Theplaintiff went mad through b,eing "cr-ossgd in a love affair," and was confined in the defendant's asylum. While there he jumped out of a window, the Bhook brought on paralysis, and he had utterly lost the use of his ■ legs. One singular feature of case was, that immediatly after the accident the young man recovered his reason, and had been perfectly sane from that moment. The medical witnesses said that he would never be able to walk;- . Mr Justice Brett held that there was no evidence of negligence for which defendant was legally responsible, and the' plaintiff was nonsuited. A 25-ton gun — "Woolwich Infant" — intended for the armament of a fort at Queenstown, while being conveyed between two barges from ETaulbowline to Carlyle Fort, slipped from the hawsers and fell into the harbor, a depth of 3§ib. It is. intended to try and rauje it by m.ean§ of air vessels. . A startling incident happened at the Wells assizes. A woman named Grant was condemned to death for the murder of her illegitimate child, and heard sentence passed upon her with seeming impassability. On leaving the Court, however, she fell down in a swoon, from which she could not be recovered fp,r several hours. When consciousness returned, she was found to have lost her | reason. She has been reprieved in conseqnenqe. The Marquis of Bute is endeavoring to acclimatise the beaver in the island from which he takes his title. Ue has imported four beavers, and had them placed in " a very substantial and costly structure," which he has erected for them on Drumriach Moor. The Corporation of the City of London is becoming very rich. Its accounts for: the last financial year show that its revenue amounted to L 430,600, while it has a cash balance in the bank of L 640.000. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham reproved a priest the other day for walking with a woman on his arm, and ' her hand in his. The priest asked the bishop to whom he was talking. "I am the Bishop of Nottingham, " said his lord" . ship. ■ "But we have no such biflhbpin

the English Church," replied the priest. « Oh !" e::claimed the bishop, " then you belong to the English Church. lam delighted to hear it, and I beg your pardon with all my life ; but I wish you wonld not walk about in our uniform." A most shocking crime was committed at Newcastle-on-Tyne by a woman of the name of Rebecca Lewis, the wife of a shoemaker named Levi Lewis, carrying on business in the east end of the town. Both man and wife, who belong to the Hebrew persuasion, were sitting in the house, when she jumped up, seized her husband by the head, snatched up a table knife, and cut his throat. A terrible sfcrugle ensued. The man got away and ran to the infirmary. Immediately after his leavine the house, Rebecca, with a blood stained knife in her hand, rushed into a neighbor's named Raven. Mrs Raven ann her two children, the younger a baby of three months old, were at home, and before them Mrs Lewis attempted to commit suicide. The mother fled m horror, and then a shocking crime was committed, for on Mrs Raven's return with the police, the two infants were lying bathed in blood with their throats cut and Mrs Lewis on the floor beside them, bleeding from some frightful gashes in her neck and throat. After having her wounds dressed she tore off the bandage and attempted to stab herself with a fork. She was too weak to be removed. A mineral train on the Rhymney Railway ran into another at Bargoed station. The first train consisted of forty-one trucks from Dowlais iron works, and in descending the incline to Bargoed, overcame the brakes, and darted into the station at the of fifty miles an hour. Another train of minerals was standing thereon. The collision was frightful. The two engines rolled down an embankment of 40ft, carrying with them a number of trucks. The driver and fireman of the first train went over with them, and when their bodies were found they were literally cut to pieces— arms in one place, legs in another. Thirty-five of the trucks were smashed. The line was torn up for 100 yards, and the traffic was stopped on the Brecon and Newport line, which runs over the Rhymney Railway The guard of the first train, seeing his danger, got over the side of the brake van and uncoupled it from the others as it was coming down the incline. The cause of the accident is said by the guard and brakesman, both of whom are severely injured, to be owing to the driver starttag from Deri at too sreat a speed— the incline from Deri to Bargoed being 1 in 40, and the distance three miles. ANOTHER PRINCE OF WALES. It is rather startling, is it not, to hear that the " Prince of Wales was married on the 16th of last month to Lady Alice Hay, a daughter of the late Earl of Errol, at the Roman Catholic Church, in Spanish Place, London V Such, however, is the fact. And yet ihe husband of Alexandra, "Sea King's Danghter from Over the Sea," ha 3 not committed bigamy. The Prince of Wales, who has just wedded a Scottish lady of old cavalier and Jacobin blood, is the wrong " Prince of Wales." He ia commonly known as "Colonel Count Charles Edward d' Albany, the only son. of CharUss Edward Stuart of Anna, daughter of the Right Hon. John de la Poer Beresford, and niece of the first Marquis of Waterford. When the right Prince of Wales last year went to the Vienna Exhibition, he had the pleasure of seeing thia great-grand-nephew, or whatever he may be, of the Pretenders of the last century figuring in a Highland drees among the officers of the Austrian army. It is rather doubtful after all whether the " Count Charles Edward " is go nearly the direct ' representative of the royal Stuarts as to deserve even in that way the complimentary title of the wroDg " Prince of Wales." As a matter of fact wo believe the direct heir of the English crown in the Stuart line to-day Is Francis V., ex Duke of Modena, "by right divine" Francis I. of Great Britain and Ireland, King. But the Count is conceded to be a Stuart, and his re-appear-ance in England fa marry a Scottish noblewoman is at least a- curious incident of the day worth bringing to the notice of the lovers of historical romance. — " New York World."