Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-02-06 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

BRITISH BRAVERY.  In the beginning of November, 1873, the Spanish brigantine schooner Nueva Union was seen in distress off Santander, and it was apparent that un less succour was speedy thoseon board must perish. Seven Englishmen—Captain Win. Smith of the steamship Wolsing ton of Newcastle, Captain George F. Freeman of the steamship Miuo of Liverpool, John Parkes and J. M. Eaves of the same vessel, Herbert Thomas, stoker of the Wolsington ; and George Brooks and Henry Welsh, divers at the wreck of the Spanish steamer Cid (sunk in Santander Harbour)—per. ceiving the danger, risked and, as it unfortunately proved, devoted their lives to the chance of rescuing fellow-creatures from a position of peril. They launched the lifeboat of the Mincyand, with Captain Freeman steering, went out on the rough sea raised by a furious gale from the north-west. They reach ad the vessel only to perish. As they approached, and while pausing for a moment, as if to seize a favourable opportunity, a huge wave struck their boat and dashed it against the wreck, and instantly both the vessel and the boat and their crews disappeared. The conduct of those victims of selfsacrificing bravery was brought under the notice of the Spanish Government by the Board of Trade, the Foreign Office, and the Spanish Minister in Lou. den; and after careful inquiry the Spanish Govern• ment determined to award for division among dependant relatives of the men the sum of 25,000 pesetas (El,OlO Bs. 4d.). The money has been distributed, as apportioned by the Spanish Government, as follows:—Mrs Suasannah Smith, Stephenson Street, North Shields; Mrs Eva Thomas, Bute Docks Cardiff; Mrs Caroline Brooks, Mark's Terrace, Old Ford, London; Mr John Eaves, Preston, Lancashire; and Mrs Millis Webb, Waterloo Place, Whitstable, each £l6l 13s. 4d. each. Mrs Mary Ann Winifred Freeman, Everton, Liverpool; and Mr John Parkes, Paddington, Liverpool, each £lOl Os 10d.  The Oxford and Cambridge boat race has been finally fixed for Saturday, March 20, at one o'clock p.m.  A large meeting was held at Exeter on Saturday, the Lord Mayor presiding, to protest against the 3ontinnance of the income.tax.  A movement has been started in London by a number of infinental ladies to improve the position of the needle women of the metropolis. - . _  Mr Justice Field, the newly appointed judge, will go the northern circuit, instead of Mr Baron Amphlett.  The Rev W. H. Dyer, an eminent Dissenting minister at Bath, who twenty years ago sumeeded Mr Gay, has resigned, and after passing the requisite examinations haa been celled to the bar. Mr. Carlyle has (the Daily Telegraph states) gratefully declined the offer of a Grand Cross of the Bath, which has been made to him by the Queen. The same paper states that Mr Tennyson has declined to be made a baronet. The man Frenth, who murdered a railway engineer on the Moravian line, has been executed at Olmusk. It was the first execution in private which has occured in Austria. Mr W. F. Denning of Cothdm Park, Bristol, finds that there have only been three instances in 103 years of a January so mild as that which has just passed.  The following is, says the North Tl'aies Chrni,i, 1 a copy of a notice put over a booking-office at a' station on a Welsh railway:—" List of You passengers passengers must careful. For have them level money for ticket and to apply at once for asking tickets when will booking window open. No tickets to have after departure of the train."  AN APPRENTICE WANTED, about sixteen years of age, strong and active. Apply to Mr T. MILLICAN, Draper, Alston.  TO