The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-06-17 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

FATAL LEAI:OF A FEVER PATIENT.—OR Tuesday morning, about two o'clock, a patient in the fever ward of the Mill-road Workhouse Hospital, Live:pool. jumped through the window of the third story, on to the footway of a passage outside, and was instantaneously killed. Professor Leoni Levi has just been piling up columns of figures with the view of arriving at an appropriate estimate of the money value of what Paris has lost since last July. The sum total, including property not produced as well as property destroyed, is put down at £130,000,000. The revenue returns from Ist April to June show the following results, as compared with the corresponding period last year :—Receipts, £12,442,664, againtt £12,227,441 ; expenditure, £13,238,246, against £11,848,279; balances, £5,592,091, against £9,256,010. At a meeting, presided over by the Duke of Norfolk on Tuesday, a report on Catholic eduction was read, from which it appeared that the Roman Catholic population of Ureat Ilritain is about a million and a half, that 138,000 children are at school, and that 92,900 still remain to be provided for.  The milesmen employed on the Irish Northwestern Railway, from •Londonderry to Dundalk, have signed a document expressive of their determination to cease work on the 19th instant, unless their wages are raised from 10s. to 12s. per week. [lt is pretty evident the milesinen of north-west of Ireland have not heard of Barrow.] The eighth annual meeting of the British Association of Gas Managers was held in Dublin on Wednesday, when Mr. Edward White, the vicepresident, delivered the inaugural address, in which he congratulated the society on the progress it had made since its establishment. Papers of a scientific character were read by various members. The coroner's jury which investigated the circumstances attending the death of Hugh Byrne, an Irish labourer, who was kicked to death in Westgate, Bradford, on Thursday week, has returned a verdict of wilful murder against persons unknown, adding a strong recommendation that the Home Secretary should offer a reward for the apprehension of the guilty parties. A number of the admirers of the France Corn. , =mists assembled on Sunday on Clerkenwellgreen, when, amid a great deal of confusion and many objections on the part of the Irish who were present, a resolution was understood to be carried approving a Sunday demonstration in Hyde-park, to sympathise with the Communists, and to protest against the extradition of any refugees. Mr. Jefferson Davis has been making a speech at Augusta, Georgia, which is exciting much attention —we (Daily News) may say much indignation—in the Northern States. It is accepted by many as a proof that "the old rebellious spirit in the South" is not crushed, and that " another war," should circumstances at all conspire to favour an outbreak, is by no meany an impossible event in the future. SUNDAY Taannvo.—A demonstration of alleged victims of Sunday trading prosecutions was held at Renee] Green on Sunday afternoon. Speeches denouncing the act of Charles 11. as iniquitous were loudly applauded, and resolutions were passed in favour of the abrogation of the act, and the waiting of a deputation on the Home Secretary , to ask him to aid in facilitating that object. Tan COMPTON HOUSE FAll.UltE.—Sentous