English Clippings.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2114, 13 October 1875, Page 2

English Clippings.

THE WRECK OF THE SCHILLER. „ Two more boxes, containing £20,000 worth of dollars, recovered from the wreck of the Schiller, have been landed at Penzance by the Scilly cutter. INTERNATIONAL BICYCLE RACE. Oil Monday, August 9:h, at the East Hunts Cricket Ground, Portsmouth, D. Stanton, the long-distance champion of England, and M. C. Thuillet, the French champion, raced in a fifty-mile match for the championship, when D. Stanton won by about one foot only. The race occupied 3 hours 25 minutes. Tlll3 TITLE OP " BEVEREND." Sir Robert Phillimore, in the Court of Arches, on Saturday last, confirmed the judgment of the Consistory Court of Lincoln, which ruled that Mr Eeet, as a Wcsleyan minister, could nofc lawfully be

described as " reverenrP' in sW inscription on a.tombstone in a parish churchyard. There is \o be, however, an appeal j from his Lprdship* decision to the Judicial Committee. ) THE FHACTIGAL BFFKCT OF MR KJHSOII's ' ' >r ' ' .pfiOTTSST. ' Captain Digby JfTurray, the Professional Adriter to the.Marine Department of the Board of Trade, has been instructed to proceed'forthwith to the principal ports of the United Kingdom to report on the ) appointments"which will be necessary fur .the year, u^der the pro.isigng^Qf the Merchant' Shipping Act of this Session. This arrangement having, beeu.made, the President of the Board of Trtide has left Londgfrtfor hi» sent in Warwickshire.A BEM ASKABLE -ACTION FOE SLANDEE was, in August last, tried at Croydon Assizes. The plaintiff, Mr fcsemple, was formerly^a liieutenant in the army, but left it iv order that he might horsewMp the defendant, Mr IJ. it. Fnsby, a London^ ajpek broker* -whom he believed to have been guilty of adultery with his wife.atfd for Which assault he wasfin^T £50 at the Middlesex Sessions. .Mr Semple 5' theff commenced a divorce suit,' and the slander complained of was contained in,;* statement, said tp. have been ma tie to third 'parties, Ih'a't the plaintiff was the biggest liar he had ever known, and had obtained money from him by talse pretences. The defendant denied having been guilty of adultery, declared that he had,.never used the words charged, and that the.witnesses, called to TJrove the slander were s +rarigers tq'! Him. The 3ury found ibr the defendant. V \ ; ? •.- SEATS EltOM-CHOKIIiIft.:; On Saturday, August 14, Mr Langbam.held an ifjquest,.at the board-room, York street, Westminister, on the body of.James Aitkin, ageii :severtty-f6ur, a bricklayer. The deceased attempted to swallojv a large piece of .beef weighing 1^ 6z., which stuck in" his'throat.- Seizftfg a beer-can -, he tried to wash the meat down his throat -but it got tightly jainm«aaiii the gullet, and in two minutes he. died from suffocation. Verdict, "Accidental death." COLONEL BAKES. The Globe states that Colonel Baker has beenustruck off the roll of the. Army and JNary Club.