LIVERPOOL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2097, 23 September 1875, Page 2

LIVERPOOL.

Ruffianism is still rampant. A number of persons have been charged with brutal assaults with divers weapons. Mr Kendall, the. celebrated tourist, perished on Snowdon. Two ship-knackers have been fined and imprisoned for sending a rotten vessel to sea for the sake of the insurance.

Frank Scudamore, of the General Post Office, has accepted the appointment of the under Turkish Postal Service.

The Good Templars have resolved to raise the sum of £1000 for propagationist purposes among them. A: young lady, Nora Hastings, cousin to the Marquis of Bute, has joined the Romish Church.

The Rev. Jervase Smith has been elected President of the Wesleyan Conference. . ... . '

From Montreal comes the tidings that Fechter, the actor, is dying. Mr Bell, a Liberal, is elected for Hartlepool, by a large majority over Dr Kenealy's son. r The Queen was among the prize-takers at the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting. The weather was cruelly unfavorable to the Exhibition, diminishing the attendance. .

At Wimbledon, the llcho Challenge Shield was won by tho Irish team with 1,506 points. Treman won the Goodwood Stakes; Adventurer the Goodwood Cup. There is a general lock-out of cotton operatives throughout Lancashire impending, owing to a further reduction of wages.

Two thousand men have struck in the St. Gothard tunnel. At the contractor's request, the troops were sent, who, being pelted with stones, fired, killing four and. wounding eight. ;;

The town of Lefke, in Asiatic Turkey, has been nearly consumed, and twenty houses have been destroyed at Constantinople. Grant's six-storied cotton mills in Glasgow, Broadwood, and a weaving factory in Belfast, have been consumed, with large damage. Obituary.—Commander Chas. Jeffries, aged 86, the last surviving Copenhagen hero; Sir Chas. Pocock, physician; Bishop Thirl wall, Singer, sewing machine manufacturer; Hans Christian Anderson, author. ■

Colonel Baker has been cashiered from the army. ■ The Lord Mayor's banquet cost £180,000. It was the grand idea to entertain the mayors of the world. A vote of £40,000 was passed for the administration of affairs in Fiji. Some good purchases of first-class horses "have been made by colonists. King Cole was also purchased for Victoria. He is brother to King Lud, which sold at 6,000 guineas.