BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 70, 23 March 1907, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] ACCIDENT TO LORD LINLITHGOW. (Received March 23 8.52 a.m.)

LONDON, March 22

While the Cheshire hounds were in hot pursuit of a fox in the Warmingham district, Lord Linlithgow's horse failed to rise to a fence, and fell heavily on Lord Linlithgow, whose col-lar-bone is believed to be broken.' [Lord Linlithgow (formerly Lord Hopetoun), who was the first Gover-nor-General of the Australian Commonwealth, was severely injured in a somewhat similar manner about a year ago.] THE CENTRAL AMERICAN SITUATION. NEW YORK, March 22. The United States gunboat Marietta, has landed marines in Honduras for the protection of American interests. COMPENSATION FROM CHINA. PEKIN, March 22. China has acknowledged her obligation to compensate Britishers for their losses at Shanghai in the famine of 1905. RIOTING IN PARIS. PARIS, March 22. Owing to riots, the Paris morgue has been closed to sightseers. THE BAGHDAD RAILWAY. PARIS, March 22. Germany has ascertained that it is impossible to advance the Baghdad railway beyond the Taurus Mountains, in Asia Minor, without much foreign capital. The French Bourse will not assist unless the management covers French, English and Russian interests. BRIDGING THE ATLANTIC. NEW YORK, March 22. Mr Nixon, an American marine architect, has patented an engine worked by petroleum gas, which, he claims, will enable the Atlantic to bo crossed in four days. .IRRIGATING EGYPT. CAIRO, March 22. The Egyptian Government has adopted a proposal to raise the height of the Assouan dam. The work will occupy six years, and it is estimated that it will increase the annual value of the cotton crop by £4,000,000." RELIEF FOR THE WOUNDED. LONDON, March 22. The Standard states that the Dowager Empress of Russia has given £10,----000 to the Red Cross Society. The interest on the amount will be allocated to three prizes, which will be given for inventions of the best means of relieving the wounded on the battlefield and at sea. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. LONDON, March 22." Tv the chess championship Lasker won five games and Marshall none,, while seven were drawn. ENGLISH RACING. i LONDON, March 22. The Liverpool Grand National steeplechase resulted : —Eremon 1 Tom West 2, Patlander 3. ' INTER-UNIVERSITY SPORTS, LONDON, March 22. At the annual University sports Oxford scored 8^ and Cambridge I£ points. R. L. Robinson, an Adelaid■eian at Oxford, won the putting the weight, his distance being 451 inches. H. Sutton, another Adelaidean at Oxford, Avas third in the mile race THE MURDER OF WILLIAM WHTTELEY.

LONDON, March 22.Rayner has been sentenced to death for the murder of William Whiteley, the " Universal Provider."