ENGLISH ITEMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 348, 31 December 1875, Page 2

ENGLISH ITEMS.

Mr Thomas Jessop, steel manufacturer, Sheffield, has offered to defray ( the entire cost of a hospital for women i in the town, amounting to £22^000. ' Mr Eoberfc Crawford, a working man, has been elected "Senior Magistrate " by the Commissioners of the newlyconstituted borough of Milngavie, in Stirlingshire. In 1842-3, the first year of the inconie tax, the profits on trades and professions were estimated at £52,787,348, and in 1873-4 at £148,853,731. At Newbury last week the revising barrister held that "parsonage" was an" incorrect description of the residence of a Dissenting clergyman, and dis- ' allowed the claim for a vote, j A bunch of grapes weighing 26ilb was shown during the recent great fruit show at Edinburgh by Mr Carror, gardener at Esk Bank. Another, over/ 251 b, was Bhown by Mr Jardine/ gardener at Arkleton, Dumfries. A married woman, who lived with her husband at Keighley, has eloped with a local preacher, taking with her £300 belonging to her husband. She ia the mother of ten children. Both have passed the meridian of life. The fifteenth Congress of the Church of England ♦hae opened afe Stoke-upon- ■( Trent, under the presidency of the,' Bishop of Lichfield. Much interest was taken in the discussion of " Woman's Work in Eelation to the Euglish Church," at the sectional meeting in the Town Hall, which was crowded. The ratepayers of Birkenhead, a town of about 65,000 inhabitants, recently voted on the question of the establishment of a school board in the town. The number of votes recorded in favor of a board was 345 ; against, 2075. A sad fatality, resulting in the death of a little girl, and severe injuries to several other persons, has taken place in Dublin, owing fa the sudden fall of two houses in G-eorge-street, whilst the occupants were in their beds. A serious charge has been brought against Thomas Hughes, a clerk in the Bank of England* who has been formally remanded previously to being coinmitteed for trial for embezzlement; The professors of Queen's College, Birmingham, recently resolved, by i&dta to three, that they could not undertake the medical instruction of women students in Queen's College, and the College Council has '^consequently/ unanimously declined to admit women students to the institution. \ An outrageous assault upon a lady has, by her death, compelled the police to seek for a man who will be charged with murder. Miss Soper, housekeeper to a wine merchant in the -Borough, London, was struck on the head one Sunday morning lately by a scoundrel to whom she had opened the door, and who evidently intended to rob the premises. As she was able tj give an alarm he made off. Misa Soper gradually sank and died subsequently. Mrs Maria Denman, who holds a cab-driver's license, and drives her own cab, at Sarbiton, in Surrey, caused another cab-driver named Kemp to be fined £1 7s 6d, with the alternative ofy fourteen days* imprisonment, for pre-/ venting her from taking up a fare/ Mrs Denman«appeared before the magistrates at Kingston-on -Thames wearingher badge. ? About 500 delegates and ministers or the Baptist Union assembled at Ply\ mouth on September 22, 1875, to\ commence the session. A peculiar interest attaches to the selection of the town for the holding of the present conference, from the fact that exactly y 250 years ago the Mayflower sailed out/ of Plymouth harbor for the JSTeva World. <0 The dairymen of Ohio arej^ated I be preparing to manufactures cheel > to weigh 29,000 pounds fairly thirteei . tons), the cost of whicbns expected ti be 18,000 dollars. Tnisis to be showij at the Centennial at Phila . del phia next yeaj^ ■■ i lyord Aylesford's borsfs were sold a - i