The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-10 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The French schooner St. Marie Reines des Meres,
from Nantes for Cardiff, has been abandoned off the
Lizard, waterlogged.
The barque Ellen Nicholl, of Liverpool, from Ardros-
san from Valparaiso, put in at Queenstown on Sunday,
having suffered considerable damage by the recent gales.
A gas explosion occurred on Saturday at a new glove
factory in Yeovil. The ceilings of two rooms were laid
bare, and some rafters caught fire, but the flames were
soon extinguished.
On Saturday night Mrs. Sorley, of Dovehill, Glasgow,
temporarily left her baby Margaret sitting in the room.
Upon her return she was horrified to find that it had
crawled to a basin in which there was water to the
depth of only four inches. in which it had drowned
itself.

At the Bucks Petty Sessions on Tuesday, the Duke
of euckingham in the chair, it was unanimously
resolved that, in consequence of the danger incurred by
persons frequenting the river Thames and its vicinity,
and the damage caused to stock, by the use of firearms
from boats, the Court should represent to the Home
Secretary that, in their opinion, it is expedient for
measures to be taken to prohibit the use of firearms on
the river. It was stated that in several recent instances
persons had narrowly escaped being shot by reckless
sportsmen.
Mr. Val Prinsep, A.R.A., in distributing the prizes to
the successful students of the Manchester School of
Art on Tuesday night, spoke of the value of art studies
in their relation to the improvement of the working and
industrial classes. The study of art and kindred occu-
pations would do away with the temptations of the gin.
palace, and, b,y making a man proud of his own home,
cause him to understand that there was a limitless
realm of imagination and poetry which it was the
artist's vocation to cultivate. He was in favour of
opening art galleries on Sunday, and also of free enter-
tainments for the people, occasionally of a high-class
dramatic character, as a powerful agent towards the
end in view, and as one of the surest means of opening
up the minds of the working classes.
At a special sitting of the Nottingham magistrates on
Tuesday, `paptain " Spratt and William Marriott were
charged with assaulting a lacemaker named Samuel
Price on the 25th of December. From the evidence of
the prosecution, it appeared that on the evening men-
tioned Price met the Salvation Army in Duke-street,
Basford. The avmy and its followers occupied the
whole width of the street, and while Price was trying
to make his way through the crowd he was struck on
the nose by Marriott with a brass instrument which the
latter had been playing, and was knocked down in
sensible. While he lay on the ground he was assaulted
by Spratt and others. Witnesses for the defence stated
that the prosecutor was drunk and very violent, and
that he ran against the instrument played by Marriott.
After a lengthened hearing, the magistrates fined
Marriott and dismissed Spratt.
A stack ot pig iron tell on z•_,:aturday morning at the
Monkbridge Ironworks, killing instantaneously awork-
man named William Britton, and seriously injuring
another named Joseph Carr, who lies at the infirmary
in a critical condition. Both men were buried under-
neath the fallen iron, and some time elapsed before they
could be got out.
Two serious bursts of water mains occurred on
Sunday in Buchanan-street and Paisley-road, Glasgow,
flooding many shops and causing considerable damage
to furniture and other articles, and the churches in
the vicinity having hydraulic organs were deprived of
their instrumental accompaniments. A sudden thaw is
supposed to have been the cause.
On Saturday an inquest was held in Manchester on a
little boy named Farrington, 'who received fatal injuries
at a ragged school treat on the preceding Saturday.
After tea the children were going down stairs to receive
presents, and in the hurry he was pushed and fell upon
his head. He died on New Year's Day. No blame was
attributed to any one, and a verdict of "Accidental
death" was returned.
On Saturday morning Anthony Ware, who WAS com-
mitted on the coroner's warrant on the charge of wil-
fully murdering Matthew Smith at the Bicton Lunatic
Asylum Shrewsbury, on the 10th ult., was removed
from Sl;rewsburyd'rison to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic
Asylum by order of the Home Secretary. The man was
tightly bound with straps, and was in charge of two
warders from Broadmoor. -

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On Saturday, at the Liverpool Police-court, Arthur
Kavanagh, John Teggart, and James M‘Narnara were
remanded on a charge of causing the death of a Nor-
wegian seaman named Yaunsen. Evidence was given ns
to the prisoners attacking Yaunsen, cutting him, knock-
ing him down, kicking him, and beating him over the
head with a belt buckle and empty ginger beer bottles
until he was insensible. When taken to the hospital
he was dead.
Special thanksgiving services were held in the
churches and chapels of Kidderminster on Sunday for
the abatement of the typhoid fever epidemic in the
town. The vicar of Kidderminster had invited the
mayor and corporation to be present at the service at
the parioh church, and there w&sprocession to the
church headed by-the-pi:dice force. The Bishop of St.
Albans preached to a large congregation, his address
being specially directed to the epidemic and its lessons.
There were collections throughout the town to augment
the NIA for the relief of the poorer sufferers.

At Durham Quarter Sessions John Heffernan, drill
instructor and sergeant-major to the 3rd Durham Rife
Volunteers, and Thomas Miller, gunsmith, have been
each sentenced to two months' hard labour, after being
strongly recommended to mercy, for stealing 10,230 bail
cartridges from the Sunderland Garrison.
A coroner's jury has returned a verdict of "Wilful
murder" against Arthur Kavanagh, James MiNamara,
and John Taggart, who attacked a Norwegian seaman„
named Johnson, and beat him to death in a low part oê
Liverpool on New Year's night. The man was dragged
from his house and beaten over the head with a belt,
knocked down and otherwise maltreated. When taken
to the hospital he was dead.
At an inquest held at A7lesbury on Tuesday a man
named Eggleton was commitecl for trial charged with
the manslaughter of his wile. It was stated that on
Christmas evening the woman went to her home the
worse for drink, and that her husband refused her ad-
mission. It was further alleged that he pushed her
down, whereby she sustained injuries to her head and
arm. She died on Saturday from bronchitis and ery-
sipelas, accelerated by exposure.
At Yeovil Sidney Hall, an ostler, has been charged
with disturbing the Salvation Army at their barracks.
It was stated that he and other young men 3umped
over the seats and behaved in a disorderly manner, and
that the police had to be sent for. The service was
obliged to be stopped. The defendant refused to pay
a fine, and was accordingly sentenced to imprisonment
for seven days. Frederick Denman was also fined 10s.
for interfering with the Salvation Army.
At Stoke-on-Trent on Tuesday a quarterly meeting
of the North Staffordshire Coal and Tronmasters'
Association was held, Mr. F. Wragg, Earl Granville's
agent and chairman of the association presiding.
Trade throughout the district and in all departments
was reported to be dull. Several questions which had
been brought under the notice of the association-by
the Mining Association of Great Britain were discussed.
It was resolved to give the support of the North Staf-
fordshire Association to the steps which the Mining
Association intends to take on the subjects of railway
rates as proposed to be varied by bills deposited in the
House of Commons by seven of the great railway com-
panies.
At the Hull Police-court, on Tuesday, a fisherman
named James Howchin late of the Hull smack
Spiratus, was charged with stealing a ton of rope and a
jib while the smack was at sea in July last. The evi-
dence of the cook on board the vessel was that while
the Spiratus was at sea the skipper boarded another
vessel. During his absence Howchin and another of
the crew took about a ton of rope and a jib, which they
placed in a boat and rowed away with it to a" cooper"
at a short distance, returning with 201 b. of tobacco and
20 bottles of spirits. The skipper came on board again
shortly afterwards, and it was alleged that he partook
of some drink, that the crew (with the exception of the
witness) continued drinking for a week, and that the
vessel during the whole of this time drove about, and
that had she been run into she must have been sunk and
all hands lost. Of five jibs on board the vessel when she
left Hull only three were on board when she returned,
and a ton of rope was missing. The prisoner was re-
manded for a week to permit of the arrest of another
of the crew. _

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Sir Charles Dilke, addressing a gathering of science
and art students in Chelsea, on Tuesday night, alluded
to the-advantages which they inssessed in having close
to their doors the finest science and art collections in
the wcrld, remarking that there was no loan collection
in any other country which could rival that at South
Kensington, nor was there any other collection of
pictures which surpassed that in Trafalgar-square.
Between seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday mornir g
a fire broke out at 27, Mincing-lane, London, upon the
first floor, where Mr. H. Snell and Messrs. Powell Bros.
have their places of business. The two rooms on the
first floor were nearly burnt out, and other damage was
caused. _ _

A desperate poaching affray took place early on
Tuesday morning between three poachers armed with
guns and bludgeons and several gamekeepers, in the
wood on Mr. Smith Bosanquet's estate, near Brox-
bourne. One of the poachers escaped, but the other
two were captured. They gave the names of George
Taylor, engineer, Stratford, and William Coote, car-
penter, Canning TOWEL Two air guns, a muzzle-loading
gun, and a bludgeon were also secured. Two of the
gamekeepers were dreadfully injured, and are unable to
leave their beds. Coote was also knocked about, and
was unable to leave his cell to appear before the
magistrates.
From an early hour on Tuesday morning a snow-
sterm of considerable severity raged over the greater
portion of the north of Scotland. On Speyside the
ground on the previous night was covered to an aver-
age depth of four inches, while the hills assumed a very
wintry aspect.
A meeting of representative working men was held
at Anderton's Hotel, London, on Tuesday, to support
the projected scheme of subways in London on the
ground that they would afford employment for many
men now unable to obtain work. Resolutions in sup-
port of the objects of the meeting were passed.
George ;Bland, bootmaker, was charged at the
Worship-street Police-court, on Tuesday, with per-
sistently following and besetting a fellow-workman.
Evidence was given clearly showing that there had been
intimidation, but there was some doubt about the
identification of the accused. He was, however, com-
mitted for trial.

Jonathan Sharp was on Tuesday charged, at the
Berkshire Quarter Sessions, held at Reading, with
having unlawfully wounded Constable George Winch,
of the county force, on the 31st ult. The constable
stated that he was on duty at Wink&ld on the morn-
ing of the assault, and hearing three shots fired, he
proceeded in the direction of the sound, and met
Sharp, who is a notorious poacher, on Long Hill.
Having his suspicions aroused, the constable searched
the poacher, and found in one of his pockets a pheasant.
Whilst pulling it out, Sharp hit him on the head with
the barrel of a gun, and a fearful struggle ensued. Both
fell together, and a fight took place on the ground.
The constable endeavouring to procure his handcuffs
from his pocket enabled the poacher to slip from under
him and regain his feet. Sharp dealt the policeman a
terrible blow on the head with the stock of his gun, in-
flicting a severe wound. The constable was too much
exhausted from loss of blood to pursue his would-be
murderer. The jury found the prisoner, against whom
there were many former convictions, "Guilty," and
he was sentenced to 15 months' hard labour.

At the East Kent Quarter Sessions at Canterbury on
Tuesday, Charles Ellis, an engineer, a ticket-of-leave
man, was indicted for stealing a watch and chain, value
£B, belonging to Lieutenant E. Baring, of the 13th
Hussars, stationed at Shomcliffe Camp. The prisoner
pleaded guilty, and the prosecuting counsel put in a'
long list of convictions showing that the priscner had
led a career of crime for many years. The court sen-
tenced him to tea years' penal servitude, to commence
on the completion of the unfinished term of a previous
sentence.
An accident occurred to the mail train on Tuesday
night between Hull and Driffield, on the Hull and Scar-
borough Railway. As the mail was leaving Cottingham
for Scarborough the crank of the engine snapped. The
train had not got on at full speed, or the results might
have been disastrous. No injury was occasioned to
those in charge, or to the passengers, who were very
numerous. A delay of about an hour and a quarter was
occasioned by the occurrence.
Preston great horse fair, the principal in the North
of England, commenced on Tuesday and ended on
Thursday. Many sales were effected in the yards of the
chief hotels. The attendance at first was not quite as
large as last fair, but buyers and dealers have arrived
from London, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edin-
burgh, Dublin, and all parts of the Kingdom. There
were some splendid heavy horses on sale. Prices were:
Heavy horses for road and field, 70gs. to 100 gs.; good
carriage horses, 75gs. to 100 gs.; harness horses, 30gs. to
48gs.; rough cart horses, 30gs. to 50zs. There was a
small number of ponies on sale.
Emily Preece, 21., a domestic servant, in the employ
of Mrs. Lawrence, of Tybrith House, Moemouthshire
and whose home is in Herefordshire, was sentenced by
the 'Usk bench on Saturday to six months' imprison-
moat for theft. Her mistress suspecting her a few
weeks ago of haeing stolen some money, a police-ser-
geant was called in. The prisoner admitted that she
had had the money and had paid some of it to a dress-
maker. Upon searching her box, the sergeant found a
pair of pearl ear-drops, two gold rings, a silver clasp,
two silk pocket-handkerchiefs, and other articles, all
the properly of the girl's mistress. He also discovered
in her possession jewellery to the value of about £7O,
which she said her mother had given her, but which she
is believed to have stolen, one of the articles being a
valuable set of mosaics, set in gold, and worth at least
50 guineas.
The reported murder near Athlone, county Roscom-
mon, turns out to have been merely death from ex-
posure, but under very peculiar circumstances. It
appears that on New Year's night between thirty and
forty people, men and women, assembled at the house
of John Murray, Craigaun, to spend the evening. A
half barrel of porter had been provided by subscription,
and those present drank freely of it. There was some
dispute about half-past ten at night about the accom-
modation for daacmg, the dancing being performed on
a door laid on the earthen floor. A tussle followed and
some blows were struck, but it does not appear that the
young man Murray, who, it was thought, had been
murdered, suffered any violence. He was found shortly
before midnight lying on his face acrpss a low wall
quite dead, and with nothing on him but his trousers
and boots. The medical evidence was to the effect that
Murray had died from congestion of the lungs' which it
was believed had been caused by exposure. The jury
returned a verdict accordingly.
General Campenon, the French Minister of War. and
M. Casimir Perier, the Under Secretary of State in the
War Department, have resigned their posts; General
Lewal has been appointed to the office vacated by
General 'Campenon, who has been promoted to the
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. General
WarnPt succeeds M. Casimir Perier.

Lord Richard Grosvenor addressed an enthusiastic
meeting of his constituents at Caergwrle, near Mold,
on Monday night. In responding U a resolution ex-
pressing cordial approval of the policy of
her Majesty's Government and conveying thanks
to Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues fer the
passing of the Franchise Bill, he stated that
the Government had carried the general measure
of reform with very little time at their disposal simply
because every method of ingenuity and advice was
resorted to by the Opposition to make the Government
devote as much time as possible to other matters, know-
ing that by no other means could they frustrate the
passing of the bill. Lord Salisbury and the House of
Lords saw that the inevitable was to come to pass, and
therefore he accepted the position frankly. The result,
first of all, was the passing of the Franchise Bill, and
another and important result was this, that no matter
what Government was in power, the Redistribution Bill
would be passed during next session of Parliament. The
Liberals had always worked for the people. They had
confidence in and trusted the people, and in return the
people trusted them, and his lordship believed that
under the increased franchise the Liberals would have
an enormously increased majority. His lordship spoke
strongly in favour of Free Trade, and then proceeded to
say tat one of the first matters for the consideration of
the new Parliament would be the revision of the Rules
of the House of Commons. He concluded by an-
nnuncing that he wculd contest Flintshire at the next
election..

The Limerick Corporation haring asked that the duty
of protecting that city at night may be transferred to
the Royal Irish Constabulary, the Lord-Lieutenant has
offered to appoint a Commission as a preliminary to
proposing an Act of Parliament next session to enable
the request to be complied with:-
The French report that they have gained a great
victory in Tonquin, completely routing the Chinese, six
hundred of whom were killed, besides a considerable
number being wounded.
The second mate and boatswain of the American
ship J. F. Chapman, who have been examined at
Birkenhead upon a charge of murdering a Russian lad
by a course of brutal treatment at sea, have been handed
over to the authorities at Bow-street, in anticipation of
application for their surrender under the Extradition
A grocer's assistant named Sweeney on Monday sued
Mr. D. Diet; a publican, of London-wall, to recover
expenses incurred in keeping a stray dog and in adver-
tising for its owner. Mr. Commissioner Kerr said the
plaintiff could not recover, but he had acted no
humanely and properly, and had been treated very
acurvily.
EI:A-bert Percy Freund was on Monday charged before
the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, with disturbing
the congregation at St. Paul's during Divine serviee.
His lordship pointed out that the dofendant had nine
times been brought to that court fa the Guildhall on
a similar charge, and sent him to prison for two
months.

Mr. J. W. Grace, the chairman of the Darlington
School Board and a well-known follower of field sports,
has died.

An alarming outbreak of scarlet fever is reported
from Kirby Stephen, over 200 children out of a small
population having been attacked, and many deaths have
occurred. The Board and Sunday-schools have been
closed.
The platers and riveters have resumed work at most
of the Tyne shipbuilding yards on the. old terms. The
yards of Messrs. Wood and Skinner, at Pelaw Main, on
the Tyne, which have been idle since their completion
12 months ago, enter into active operations this week,
and there are other signs of returning activity.
As the engine was Jaeing started on Monday morning,
at the stitching factory of Mr. John Maxwell, at Lurgan,
a bov, named Smith, 14 years of age, attempted to
catch the fly-wheel, in order to increase its speed. A
portion of it struck his head, and his legs being caught
in the wheel he was whirled round and literally torn to
pieces.
A foreigner, whose name is unknown, has been dis-
covered dead in a Liverpool temperance hotel. He
went to bed apparently all right on Sunday evening,
and was found in his bedroom dead, with a revolver
grasped in his right hand and a bullet wound in his
head, one chamber of the revolver being discharged.
The strike of labourers and unskilled workmen at the
Gateshead railway shops has been terminated. They
have been conceded the nine hours' movement pure
and simple, night work being paid at the rate of time
and a quarter, and Sunday work at the rate of time and
a half. _ _ _

The annual returns of the Cleveland Ironmasters'
Association Just iszned show a considerable decrease in
in the output and the shipment of pig iron as compared
with any. year since 187-9, when trade was depressed.
The stocks stood at 338.000 tons, or nearly 85,000 more
than at the end of last Year, and 37,000 tons more than
at the end of November last.

William Fryer, a young man in the service of the
Leeds Tramway Company, pleaded guilty at the Leeds
Police-court on Monday to having been drtmk while in
charge of a steam tram-engine on Saturday evening. In
consequence of his carelessness the engine he was
driving ran into another tram-car, doing considerable
damage. He was sentenced to one month's imprison-
ment with hard labour.

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A sad accident occurred at the Jane Pit, Low Walker,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Monday afternoon. A number
of children whilst picking up coal at the pit-head
undermined a portion of it, and a great mass fell upon
them. A girl named Mullen was afterwards taken out
suffocated. Two other children have been very badly
injured.
At Douglas sessions, Cork county, on Monday, Mary
Leahy was committed for trial for causing the death of
Matthew Newton, aged four years, who had been put
to nurse with her b 3 the guardians of Cork Union.
,For care of the child she received but sd. per day, out
bf which she, it is said,realised a profit. It was further
alleged that she fed the child badly and beat him
cruelly until at the end of five months he died, no
medical aid being called in.
At Dolwydden, North Wales, an inquest has been
held on the body of Mr. Robert Weston, the station-
master at Roman-bridge Station. Mr. WestOn was
standing on the steps at the station, when he slipped'
and fell some distance to the bottom. He was picked
up suffering from concussion of the brain, and diel
without recovering consciousness. A verdict of "Acci-
dental death " was returned.
At the Durham Quarter Sessions on Monday, before
Mr. Poland, the recorder, Tbothas Holden, who belonged
to Newhaven, and was formerly in the service of Lloyd's
agent at that place, was charged with obtaining £2 by
false pretences from Mr. William Grant, managing
clerk to Lloyd's agent at Duver. The prisoner's career
during the last few years, according to his own state-
ment, has been an extraordinary one. He stated that
he owned some oyster beds at Newhaven, which cost
him £7OO. Matters went wrong with him; he became
demented and wandered about England and America.
Since 1883 he has spent a great part of his time in
prison. In that year he was convicted at Hastings and
Lewes of stealing tricycles, and in the following
December he stole another tricycle at Tunbridge-wells,
and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The
prisoner stated that he had an aptitude for writing
poetry, and on him were found acrostics addressed to
various distinguished personages. He was sentenced to
three months imprisonment.
A case of brutal assault by a Swedish sailor was heard
at Poole Police-court, on Monday. Prisoner was walk-
ng along the quay, when it is alleged, without the
smallest provocation, he struck a man named Legg
with a knuckle-duster, breaking his nose and inflicting
severe wounds on his forehead. The evidence was in-
terpreted to the prisoner, whose only excuse was drink.
He was sentenced to one month's hard labour.
At Manchester, on Monday, Herbert Charles Drink-
water, of Westminster, was remanded on a charge of
obtaining money by false pretences from Captain-W.
Harkness sth Dragoon Guards. The prisoner; it is
stated, had represented that he was promoting a com-
pany for the management of a French railway, and
had produced forged coupons to prove his statement.
It was alleged that he had obtained £6OO from Captain
Harkness, and other large sums from various persons. -
On Sunday afternoon and evening the picture
galleries and museums at Leek were opened for the
first time on Sundays, and about 3000, or nearly one-
third of the entire population, passed the turnstiles,
while hundreds could not obtain admission. The
visitors were chiefly of the working class, and showed a
most intelligent interest in the pictures and other art
objects. Mr. Frith's pictures of the "Road to Ruin"
were especially attractive, and the Rev. J. Hankinson
delivered a short address upon them.
On Monday afternoon, at Sedgley, George Golleck
was committed for trial for a daring robbery at the
workhouse, Duitng the past few years prisoner had
been in the habit of breaking into workhouses in various
parts of the country and decamping with property be- •
longing to the inmates and he has been no less than
fourteen times convicted. In consequence of illness the
prisoner was admitted into the workhouse infirmary,
and when convalescent he broke into the workhouse
wards, and helped himself to the property of the -
inmates.
Mr. H. Puleston, M.P., addressing his constituents
at Devonport on Monday night, characterised the late.
agitation against the House of Lords as all leather and
prunella. The Conservatives by remaining firm, had
obtained all they wanted, and he believed that men of
both parties we now ready to thank God for a House •- ••
of Lords. With regard to the affairs in Egypt, he re-
marked that it had been the fashion to speak Of the
Egyptian trouble as a legacy from the late Government • '
It was the custom of all Governments to leave legacies. -
to their successors, and anticipating the speedy return
to office of his own party, he shuddered to contemplate
the legacy they would inherit from the Liberals.
Touching the New Guinea question, he said the Colonial
Office had been difficult to move at all, and it was only
owing to the overwhelming sense of what WAS due to
public opinion that any action was taken. He in-
sisted on the importance of carefully guarding our .
nolonial empire.
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Archdeacon Farrar delivered the New Year's address
to the annual gathering of Band of Hope workers on
Saturday evening in Lower Exeter Hall. ••

William Butler and William Whitcrell were coin-
mittkl for trial at the Thames Police-court on Satur-
day, for the manslaughter of a man named Russell, who •
it was alleged had died from injuries inflicted with the .
buckle ends of belts used by the accused in the course. 6
of a disturbance which - occurred in Gerard-street,
Poplar, on Dec. 22 last. •
The charge of conspiring to obtain cattle to the value •
of .076, preferred stgainst W. Ffolliott Regan and F. •
Stewart Barstow, was fully gone into, at Westminster
Police-court on Saturday, and, at the close of the in- •
quiry, the accused were committed for trial to the 7%
Central Criminal Court.
Joseph Leyshon, a mason, is in custody at Newport !--
(Mon.), charged with attempting to murder Sarah -4*
Rees, a woman with whom he lived. The pair quar-
relied on Saturday night, and the prisoner, it appears,
inflicted a wound upon the woman's throat.
Much speculation was caused at Portsmenth by the -* •
receipt of a peremptory order, telegraphed from London '
on Saturday night, for the starboard division of the
Channel Squadron—consisting of the Minotaur (flag- 5.
ship), the Neptune, and the Sultan, to prepare for sea-
at once.
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An inquest was held at the Royal Free Hospital, „„,
Gray's-inn-road, on Saturday, on the body of Robert B.•
Davis, firemen of the engine of the Great Eastern train,
which came into collision with a Midland train at St. •
Paul's-road passenger junction. At the close of a
lengthy inquiry the jury found that death was acciden-
tally caused by injuries received in the collision, which
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police made inquiries, which led to the apprehension of „
the prisoner, who was committed for trial at the assizes.
The wood consisted of two large pots, and the stones 4,
were so placed as to upset any passing train. The dis-
covery was only made half an hour before a crowded
market train was due.
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Sir M. W. Ridley presided on Saturday at the apn Att..
dinner of the Newcastle Farmers' Club, and in pro-
posing the toast of " Prosperity to the Institution
alluded to the question of protection. He said he did
not believe that the country would ever consent to the
imposition of any duty which would raise the price of
food. If it was to be understood that those who were
demanding an inquiry into the question were prepared
to advocate any scheme which would make agriceltural.
products more costly he was not with them, nor was ho •
with any other body who, having reaped Ldvantagee
horn the reduction of wages consequent upon the
abolition of the Corn Laws, now sought to get protec-
tion for themselves without giving orotection to agri.
ulturista.