Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-05-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOTES OF THE WEEK.  THE Prince of Wales is about to purcbase an estate near Bangor.  TRUE are fifty small-pox patienta in the Salford Workholise Hospital. The disease is also very prevalent throughout the town.  WILLIAN CITALLONS was on Friday committed by the Hull magistrates for trial at the assizes on a charge of murdering ,his wife on the 22nd April.  THE miners' dispute in Warwickskire has been settled by the acceptance of a reduction of 5 per cent., and an addition of 20 minutes to the working hours per day.  LATEST accounts from Louisiana state that the early rcports of the disturbances were exaggerated. Only one white man and two uegroes have been killed.  THE ramains of the German and French Ainbassadors, who were murdered at &lonics, were interred at that place on Friday with great pomp. The utmost order and decorum prevailed.  MEssns CRAWSRAY, of the Anderford 'lron Work, Forest of Dean, have given notice to their men of a reduction of 5 per cent. in wages. This brings wages to a lower point than they have been for 25 years.  ON Friday, an &cis officer, named Ross, met two men carrying guns on the highway near Wakdield, and asked for their license. They at once fired at him, injuring him so severely that he is not expected to recover.  AT a meeting of the Birmingham Liberll Association on Friday a resolution was passed dec'aring that the estimates of the Government for the national expenditura during the coming year were extravagant and unjust.  THE Bessemer steamer, in which so much comfort to passengers between Cslais and 'Dover was anticipated, has not apparently fulfilled fir_ anticipations of the constructors. She is stated to have cost X 200,000, and a Hull firm have bought her for £20,000.  IN December last the directors of the Parkgate Iron Company, Rotherham, paid an interim dividend of 5 per cent. on the profits of the previous six months' working. Luring the last six mnnths the works have been losing money, and the men have been on strike. The total loss for the year is set down at £5,877.  LORD DERBY has declined to join the three Northern Powers in the Memorandum proposed to be submitted to the Porte. The reasons given are—that England must remain unfettered as to her future action; and that the Powers are preferritg an unreaTonable request to the Porte.  _ A Neiman woman at Folkestww is in custody charged with murdering her illegitimate child.  TIIE colliers of the Ashton Vale Company, Bristol, have accepted a reduction of 10 per cant. in their wages.  I\ in Duxx, a Kilkenny gentleman, and his daughter, were drowned near Drogheda by the upsetting of their pleasure boat.  TwE Dublin Licensed Victuallers have subscribed a large sum, and are organising a Defence Association, to oppose the Sunday Closing Movement in Ireland.  FFRMER, a ptivate in the 103rd Regiment, is in custody at Gosport for attacking and attempting to lob a man named Huntley. Fermer beat Huntley so savagely with a hammer that he is not expected to recover, and his depositions were taken on Monday. Two militiamen have been committed to Warwick Assize.s for attempting to murder a young woman named Carvell on Saturday night. The girl had been with the men on the towpath of the Radford Canal. She resisted their advances, when one of them went away, and the other pushed her into the canal. She rose to the surface, and in attempting to get out He pushed her down again, and ran away. She got out, and a policeman saw the men running away, and apprehended them.  AT the annual meeting of the Royal Geogra phical Society on Monday, the Royal (founders') medal for the encouragement of geographical science and discovery was awarded to Lieutenant V. L. Cameron R.N., and the Victoria (patrons') medal to Mr John Forrest, in recognition of services to gt.,•ographical science rendered by his explorations in Western Australia, and especially for his route-survey across the interior from Murchison River to the line of Overland Electric Telegraph. The President referred in highly complimentary terms to Lieutenant Cameron's explorations in Africa, and it waa also announced that Government had contributed .£3,000 towards the cost of the new expedition.  2