ENGLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 55, 16 May 1874, Page 11

ENGLAND

A shocking case of neglect of chiMren was brought before th# Blackburn magistrates. The prisoner, Elizabeth Ann Bancroft, had systematically starved her four children. She was drunk when arrested. The bench sent her to prison for three month.- 1 .

The dead body of woman was discovered in the ante-room of the ffT'inT f tu * r y of Olerkemrell, with a dog belonging to the master of the workhouse by her side, in a dying state, andVe keeper of the fwTT T n n r ra - ed M<Leod -also tying dead. It is supposed hat on Sunday afternoon M'Leod, after attending to some of Ins duties allowed the females to entor the building for the purpose IT*""? *?erßelf? erBelf bythe g a9 « fo ™. »nd that he having shut the door and there being no means of ventilation they were suffocated by the lumes of the gas. The Hon. Jefferson Davis, who for some time has been suffering from dropsy of the heart, arrived in Liverpool in the State Line steamer State of Alabama, from New Orleans. His physician had ordered him to take a sea voyage in the hope that it would improve hie health. r As two sinkers were descending a coalpit near Hnnley, tho cage acquiring a sudden velocity, waa forced through the scaffold on which they were to work, fifteen yards from the bottom, and jerked both iis occupants out. One of them, Thomas Jones, was dashed to pieces, and the other seriously injured. The inspectors of factories report that the number of accidents to life and limb in weaving and spinning mills have, in proportion to the hands employed, materially diminished since 1850. By consent a verdict of £150 was taken iv tho Court of Exccquer, to compensate the widow and children of an army accoutrement make.r, wbo, sustained a mental shock by a gas explosion which happened as he was passing the house of tho defendenr, and died, after a painful illness, raving mad. During the year 1873, according to returns issued by the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, the number of persons who emigrated from the United Kingdom was 310,512. This is the largest exodus that has occurred since the jear 1854. •Two lads, detected in robbing a henroost at Bethnal Green, confessed that they had been stealing poultry and pigeons on a large scale, at the instigation of a shoemaker named William Lovet, who had taught them how to stupify the birds wish sulphur, so as to prevent tieir making a noise. The young thieves and their tempter were committed by Mr Hannay to take their trial. ' Mr Cardwell and Mr Chichester Fortescue (tho defeated of Louth) are to be elevated to the peerage. Lord Enfield is also to be called to the Upper House. Two other peers are to be created— both for distinguished civil service— the Right Hon. Thomas Frcemantle, late Chairman of the Board of Customs, and the Right Hon. Edmund Hammond, late Permanent Under secretary of the Foreign Office. The ' Home Ifews ' for Australia and New Zealand is reduced in price fo7d, and will m future be published every fortnight, for dispatch via Brindisi and San Francisco alternately. At Huddersfield Frederick Meller, wbile repairing a lightening conductor attachud to a chimney forty yards hujh, missed kis footing and fell to the ground, a distance of about eighty feet. He was killed instantaneously. Irish night mail train came into collision, near the Stafford Station, with the mail traiu from Liverpool. The worst effects of the accident were the blocking of the line and a slight injury to the guard of the Liverpool train. The city of London lias sent its third contribution of £10,000 to the Famiue Relief Fund. This shows not only its wealth but its liberality. The city of Glasgow has also remitted £5,000. The Benchers of Grays Inn have ordered an inquiry into the conduct of Dr. Kencaly with reference to the Tichborne Case. The letter addressed by the Emporor of Germany to Ear] Russell wis entirely in the Emperor's handwriting, and was delivered by Count Muneter to Earl Russell. It is not worth the priuting. The War Office is said to pay the printers employed on work marked "confidential" at double rates. _In the lust twelve months the value of cocoa imported was £G05,828, which was a considerable increase on the previous year, when the amount was £470,595. Accordmg to the ' Standard,' 30 deaths from cholera occured on board un Itahun emmigrant ship from Genoa to jßuenos Ayres. Fitfy-two deaths from violence were recoided in London in one week, seven being suicide, and six were caused by horses or vehicles in the streets. According to a Parliamentary volume just issued, church rates nra still levied where mortgages exists on their security. In the year ended Eaattr, l£>72, the receipts were £23,346, and the expenditure was £22,030. The out standing loans amounted at that period to Ihe year 1873 was the first in which the imports of foreign and colonial merchandise into the United Kingdom exceuded the value of £1,000,000 a day. The total is stated at £370,380,742. Thi exports of British and Irish produce and manufactures averaged nearly £700,000 a day the total being £255,073,336.