Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-01-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GLADSTONE ON THE IRISH LAND QUESTION.—hir Gladstone, writing to a correspondent at Belfast, says :—" You may depend on my giving attention to any plan which may seem to me advantageous with reference to the land of Ireland. I do not, however, as at present advised, see the character of practicability in any design based on expropriating with compensation the present landed proprietors." The death isannounced of another Waterloo veteran—Sergeant Leonard Simons, living at Corby, in Northamptonshire. He was born at Bedford in 1793, enlisted in tbefi9th Regiment in 1813, and served in the attacked on Bergen-op-Zoom, the siege of Antwerp, and the Battle of Watfrrloo, for which he received a medal. He claimed his discharge in 1833. and received a pension of Is 6d per day for life. He has left a widow, to whom he was married 65 years since. The Bishop of Manchester's marriage with  It has been decided to form a board of aonciliation in the East Worcestershire and South Staffordshire nail trade. Lord George Bimuclerk died in London on Saturday evening, in his sixty-second year, from bronchitis. His lordship was uncle of the Duke of St. Albans, and served with the 10fh Hussars in the Crimea,. The lion. P. J. Locke-King, brother of the , Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, has remitted 12 per oent. of his farm tenants' rent. The Duke of Northumberland has granted to the temente on his Surrey estates the remission of 12 per cent, on the rent due last Michaelmas. A circular addressed from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds was read on Sunday in all the churches and chapels in the Ecclesiastical Diocese of Leeds, in which Dr. Cornthwaite commands that collections take place some Sunday in the present month to relieve the distress in Ireland. BAD NEWS FOR THE LICERSED VICTUALLERS(?) —The coffee-palace movement is spreading. A company. with £15,000 capital, has been formed at Amsterdam, and an establishment has recently been opened at a cost of £3,500. It is proposed to form an association in New York, and the Canadians Press is vigorously discussing the extension of the movement to Canada. A desperate attempt was made in Leeds on Saturday night by a woman named Mary Ann Shepherd to murder her husband. While the worse for liquor she rushed at him with a table knife and cut his throat. In endeavouring to take the weapon from her the husband was severely cut across the arm. The woman N.% as on Monday brought before the Stipendiary and committed for trial. About midnight on Saturday the French barque St. Louis, with a cargo of logwood, from Jamaica to Liverpool, was run down about 18 miles off Holyhead by a steamer unknown. The barque was cut in two, and the captain alleges that the steamer went on without rendering the slightest assistance. The crew consisting of the captain and 13 men, took to the small boat, and after beating about for 18 hours were picked up and taken to Holyhead. Charles Shoreby, bricklayer, who was condemned at the last Old Bailey sessions for the murder of Louisa Peper, a child two years old, at Kentish Town, was executed within the walls of Newgate on Monday by MarShoreby fully acknowledged the justice of his sentence. and expressed his thanks for the kindness he had received from the officials of the prison. He walked to the scaffold without assistance. The drop was seven feet.