EUROPEAN NEWS

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 2, 16 July 1874, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS

Ten eases of suicide, and one each of murder and. infanticide,! were registered inLondon during tbeTast week' of" April. A Company is being, farmed to procure' a West-End public park for I 'Edinburgh, ft is proposed to be on the Deau Estate of Colonel Learmouth, M.'P. The Rev. Mr, Knight, of St. Enoch V Dundee, and his congregation have applied for admission into the Established Church. . , A woman has died in Sheffield Infirmary from hydrophobia, caused by the bite of a cat. . " '■'.'.'■; The email-pox epidemic is now rapidly disappearing at Rothe^ay,. It has been settled thai a grand naval review will be held at Spithead, on the occasion of the Czar's visit. It is stated that Rochfort will publish 'La Lariterne' in London. ■ ' The Prince of Wales iV expected t6 a visit to the Isle of Man in the month of August. ,~ The French Assembly rassed a bill removing the sequestration from the landed property of the late Emperor. The Roman Catholic Bishops of Glasgow. Hexham, and Newcastle, have applied to the Prussian Government to visitithe Arcbbishop of Cologne in prison, but have been refused. The Court of Chancery has confirmed decision of the Master of the Rolls that the copyright of the Wesleyan Hymn-Book has expired. The death is announced of tbe Rev. Charles Gloseop, rector of Wolverton, who had belJ tbe : same living for the extraor-. dinary period of 62 years. Tbe Glasgow Chamber of Commerce have resolved to memorialise Government to consider, the propriety of- abolishing the' duty on sugar/ "\ ° •- . A boy, named Bali, who was brutally beaten by his f«th er , at Brighton, bag died. A coroner's jury bas returned a verdict of "wilful murder." A measure has been introduced into the Canadian Parliament to provide votine by ballot.' , ■*■* It is arranged that 15OO'B,elgisn riflemen will visit England in July to take part, in the Wimbledon competitions. A young gentleman, the sou of a Lancashire colliery proprietor,, .fwas condemned in L 350 damages, at Leeds Asaizes, for refusing to marry a y o , mg . lady accor y Hn g t0 " contract. Jhe y«nth appeared in ih-<? wit- ! ness-bux in a shabby coat and dirty linen, in order, it is presumed to gain the compassion of the jury* with a view to lessen the, amount ot compensation; stratagem did not succeed.. -.'".' The Reverend Dr. Ciimraing, London, said in the course -of a sermon that according .to , the, assertions, of those students of prophecy with whom he had conversed, the millennium was imminent. He also remarked that,; Recording to the "prophesies " of Archbishop filanningand of an eruinenj; .statesman who had. lately delivered "'rf 9pie6h- " Europe was upon the eve of the most tremendous, regions conflict which haagyer,occurred. . The member.for East.Es?ex,; w\ iting to to the 'Times,'- says:—M>. Mundella pledges himself to procure euch an alteration in the rules of-the Laborers': Agricultural Union that no strike shall .be possible without a month's notice to the masters. This, Mr. Briee thinks, with the 'abolition' of piecemeal strikes, would tend at once to tbe settlement of the di'pntes; The ' Daily New 3' hears that there ia a -probability\of influential mediation brought to bear on the agricultural dispute?, : and : hints at arbitration on the basis'of mutual" "concession as likely. The.' Times' says it is becoming evident that the struggle in the eastern counties will not be fought out on the lines either of the, Unious or the lockout. ' . . ' '" " ' ' '■"*■■ ' -

Recently, the. 1 Scotsman' mentioned thata bfble-bound in calf, and bearing, .•the name of " William Sim," a man, and thei date 1830, had been di-covered'ih the a"co'dfish. : ''V This "fact alone" was remarkable enough, but 6tiil r mofe" extraordinary. . ig circumstance con v --' neeted s, with the affair, also reported!by the ' Scotsman.' Oh the very on which the discovery was maderkfeowri to the public through its columns,'the heirs of the deceased Mr; Sim sncceededMn bp? taining a warrantin thevOuterittouse of the Court of .Session (frpmj.he .fyotd Ordinary Mure) to uplift s.ey.er l b'l'.mging to 'tbe'' : Baid^V7illiaifi" : was described in the legal as ja saijor.a- native of| Pupdeo,-. fV'sVa 'about 1834?Wia' 'had : .not.'since beenbeard oV be ;: little doubt that tbe bible thus" in the codfish's, stomach belonged iolhe iosfc-William of Dundee. • .-■ ••_ .-- .... .... ; The Presbytery of Dumbarton.;have,>jbyi nine votes to ssven, resolved not,to mit •Vo-W.h'e fjrw-rd by Mr. Storey, ing Mr. Baird for hisgift toVtheJltaeb,ibu^ the terms of the tr ast deed; in.",sp \ i afejas-i theyare not in accordance'.witb, the Gh^rehJss and':affect' the)independence-