Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1874-03-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OOO. Army expenses are set down at £257,000 ; Navy, £361,000 ; Captain Glover's expedition, 12,1 62,()00 and a like sum for contingencies.  THE alleged wife murder case at Darlington has come to an end through the somewhat curious verdict of the coroner's jury. " That the deceased died from blood on the brain and lungs."  THE high tide of Friday has proved very destructive to life and property. At several ports throughout the country the water rose to, a great height and inundated a number ofdwellings. At Lambeth and Rotherhithe, several children were drowned  ON Monday a fatal om accident occurred at Wickham. A boy named Kidd, four years or age, with a brother a few years older, went into a neighbour's house and lifted a loaded gun. The weapon exploded, killing the younger brother on the spot.  TNE South Staffordshire colliers held # meeting at Bilston, on Aonday, and resolutely determined _to withstand the reduction of 15 percent. Unless some arrangement is come to, or the question submitted to arbitration, 8,000 men will come out on #trike con Saturday.  THE remains of Mr Candlish, late M.P. for Sunderland, arrived at Sunderland on Monday from Cannes. • he funeral took place on Wednesdao, and was attended by the Mayor and Corporation. the mamba's of the Sunderland Liberal Club, and other public bodies.  THE Army and Navy Estimates were published on Monday night. Tale charge for the Army amounts to £13,293,800, as against £14,416,100 last year, the number of men being about the same. The Navy estimates amount to £10,170.415, or an increase of £279,790.  ---- THE Carlists having secured an important victory at Minglanilla, are reported to be marching on Madrid with a force of 1%000 men. The Government has prohibited the publication of war news. A fort, with the entire garrisons' stores and ammunition, fell into the Carlist hands.  •  THE first division of the session took place last week, on the motion of Mr Butt on Home Rule. Although the qnestion before the House was an amendment on the address to the Throne, it indicates the strength of the Home Rulers in Parliament. Only 50 voted with Mr Butt, and 314 against him, giving a majority of 264 against the Home Rulers.  THE Carlists appear to be gaining ground on the Republicans throughout Spain. Valencia has been blockaded by 5,000 Carlists. Their position before Bilbao has also been considerably strengthened by the falure of the maritime expedition under Marshal Serrana. The Marshal, being unable to land, returped to Sanatna with his troops, leaving the Carlist position untouched.  WOLVERHAMPTON was the woe of another brutal murder on Monday. A miner, sixty years of age, attempted to take any egg from his paramour while she was attempting to eat it. He had apparently felled her with an iron last, as it was found beside her. When apprehended he admitted having knocked her down, but did not intend to kill her; and he alleges that she struck him. Deceased was a widow and only thirty years of age.  THE Home Secretary was waited upon on Friday by two deputations—one to urge modifications in the Factories and Workshops Acts, and another to urge on Government the necessity of legislative interference with railway management specially for the prevention of accidents. The deputations also touched on other important points requiring investigation. The Presider and th/. Postmaster-General were also waited on by deputations regarding the appointment of a Minister of Commerce, and the reduction of the telegraph tariff. The Government will therefore be compelled to adopt some useful legislative measures, so that the session may not pass over them so easily as they predicted.  A RUPTURE is already threatened between the labrur representation in Parliament and the Unionists. According to Mr George Potter, the two labour representatives who obtained seatA in Parliament have no right to think and act for themselves. Mr Disraeli, we think quite naturally, nominated Mr Macdonald as a ',ember of the Royal Commission to inquire 'lie working cf the Acts affecting labour. •v given offence to a section of the the result is that he has lost ; and if this step. on the part ' should be followed by .'”ection, he may lose the • constituent-. We ing at the recent • 'his point of • • of the ,been