LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1160, 21 February 1874, Page 3

LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

From our files to hand by the Mongol we extract the following items : — Small-pox is epidemic in Paisley. A new Fish Market has been opened in Glasgow. The weather at Christmas in England was very mild and muggy. Mr Henry Harrison is executing a bust of the Claimant in marble.

The Chinese are selling then: war-ships, finding them too expensive to keep up. A largo conscription for the army has been ordered in Eussia and Poland. Mr C. S. Reed, M.P., has been chosen chairman of the London School Board. For killing a solicitor, the London and Northwestern Railway Co. has had to pay £5000. The Baroness Burdett Coutts is to be pre•ented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh.

Mrs Brigham Young, No. 17, is going to tell Louden audiences what she kuows about Mortnonism. The death is announced of the widow of General Robert E. Lee, the celebrated Confederate commander. The magistrates of Jedburgh have resolved to put in force an old statute and fine people for swearing in the streets. The Danes have addressed a petition to the King of Sweden, to permit them to construct a tunnel under the Sound. The fresh meat imported from Canada in a frozen state was served at a banquet in Liverpool, and pronounced excellent.' The Hour, a London Conservative daily newspaper, is in liquidation. The debts amount to 131,000, and the assets to L 3500. Mrs Babington, the mother of Professor Churchill Babington, was burned to death by her night-dress being ignited by a candle. The first issue of the first volume of the life of Dr Guthne comprised 300>) copies, all of which were subscribed for by the trade on the day of publication. The Times says the foreign supply of wheat during the week ending December 6th, was the largest of the year, being between 300,000 and 400,100 quarters. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Glasgow Technica College, it was resolved that in the meantime steps be taken to establish a weaving school. The fog was so dense in London on December 11th that out-door work of all kinds was suspended. The railway goods depots were closed and the river traffic at a standstill.

The Manchester City Council, which keep 3 the manufacture of gas for public and private purposes in its own hands, has raised the price by 4d per thousand feet in the city and 6d in the suburbs.

The funeral of the Queen Dowager of Prussia took place at Potsdam on December 20th, with imposing ceremonies. Lord Otho Fitzgerald attended as special representative of Queen Victoria.

At an influential meeting of ironmasters held at Wolverhampton, it was resolved to reduce the wages of the workmen at an average rate of 9d per ton, the reduction to be adhered to till September, 1877. At Durham Assizes C. Dawson was sentenced to death for the murder of a woman with whom he lived, by knocKingher down with a champagne bottle, dancing on her, and striking her with a large dish. Lord-Chief Baron Pigott died on December 22nd in Dublin, aged 68. He will be succeded by Mr Palles, Attorney-General. His Lordship was born in 1805, and has presided in the Exchequer since 1846.

A despatch has been received from Teheran stating that Baron Reuter having failed to begin the railway works by October 25th, as stipulated in the convention, the Persian Government has declared the convention null and void.

For stealing a threepenny pie from the refreshment bar at the Farringdon Road Railway Station, London, a young draper named Simmons was sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment, with hard, labour, in the House of Correction.

Typhoid fever has been prevalent for several weeks in some of the colleges at Cambridge, and the epidemic is lapidly increasing. Ciiius College is entirely deserted, and the students are leaving King's, Queen's, and Trinity Hall in large numbers.

While those who are interested in the piosperity of Rugby are discussing the dismissal of Dr l-layman, the Eton world is furnished with a grievance of a similar nature, the head master having announced that he intends in August next to supersede the six senior assistant masters.

The marriage of the Duke of Hamilton and Lady Mary Montagu took place at Kimbolton on December 10th. At Hamilton and Brodick the tenantry weie entertained to dinner, and generally there were great rejoicings on all the Duke's estates in Scotland.

The Linlithgow School Board meetings are, it is said, becoming " disgraceful." At a recent meeting a clerical member gave notice of a motion that a teacher be dismissed, upon which a lav member remarked that "he had heard it said there would be no ministers in heaven, and he was beginning to think so himself now."

A terrible calamity is announced from Stockholm. Fire broke out in the third storey of a building, the upper portions of which were inhabited by the ballet of the Theatre Royal. Out of sixteen dancers eight were killed in trying to escape by the stairs, and of the remaining eight, who leapt from the windows, three were killed at once, and five were, it is believed, fatally injured.

In the Tichborne case on December Bth, several warders from Chatham Prison stated that Jean Luie had been a convict there under the name of JohnLundrew from 1868 till 25th March last, when ho was liberated on ticket-of-leave. Several other witnesses identified Luie au the man who was convicted at Cardiff in 1867. Another scene occurred between bench and bar on December 10th. Dr Kenealy said that the Chief Justice was v perpetually insulting" him, and the Chief Justice declared that he would not Btand such language. The Claimant's counsel retorted that the Judge's "tone" was "most insulting." Further altercation ensued, Mr Justice Lush severely reprimanding Dr Kenealy. who, however, coolly declared ho could not alter his opinion of the Bench's conduct towards him. The Chief Justice remarked that Dr Kenealy had " violated every principle of rule and propriety." On December 11th Luie was committed foi trial on v charge of perjury.