Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1870-12-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1870.  ROBERT HEDLEY WRS tried on Tuesday at the Durham Assizes for manslaughter, and acquitted.  SIR RODERICK MURCHIMON, wbohasbeen severely indisposed for some time, is now gettiug better.  THE committee appointed to examine the bill for the transfer of Rome has resolved that the [ transfer take place before the 31st March.  PRESIDENT GRANT is said to have fixed upon a successor to Mr Motley. General Schenck is to be the new Minister at the English Court.  THE Prussians have evacuated Dieppe, after taking free quarters from the inhabitants and levying money, cigars, and provisions. They took the road to Paris in one solid. column.  IT is reported in Florence that Garibaldi has got disgusted with the shabby treatment he has received at the hands of the French, and has resigned the command entrusted to him.  AT the Newcastle Police Court on Monday, Jas. M'Elhone was remanded on a charge of murdering his mother on Saturday last, by brutally kicking her. Both mother and son were under the influence of drink.  NOTHING new has transpired before Paris during the last few days. It is now confidently anticipated that the bombardment will be commenced forthwith. The Prussian soldiers are very much annoyed at the delay, which they consider unnecessary.  DURING the month of October, the export of coals from the United Kingdom amounted to only 937,647 tons, as compared with 973,550 tons in 1869, and 1,008,426 in 1868. The exports to France during the same period showed a decrease of 56,856 tons.  FEARS are entertained for the safety of the " Swiftsure," which left Leith for New York on the 3rd September. She had a cargo of coal, and a crew of twenty men, with a gentleman as passenger. It is supposed that she must have foundered during some of the late fearful gales.  Awn:,Es from Monte Video state that the war was still progressing, although it was expected soon to be brought to a close. The Spanish Admiral was endeavouring to arrange terms of peace between Branco and Colora.dos. Lopez Jordan had been defeated by the Government troops in six successive engagements.  ON Wednesday evening, a fire of a very destructive character broke out at Preston, in Mr Kennedy's mill. It required the greatest exertions of the fire brigade to prevent the flames from spreading to the mills of Messrs Raweliffe and Bibby, and of Messrs Horrocks, Nailer and Co. In a few hours Mr Kennedy's mill was entirely consumed. The damage is estimated at about £55,0007 and nearly 300 people will be thrown out of employment.  WE have again to record a disastrous railway collision. Each succeeding catastrophe seems to outrival that which preceded it in the number of killed and injured. On Monday, a passenger train on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway had drawn up at Stainfoot Station, when a number of goods trucks ran down an incline and smashed the break-van and two carriages. Fourteen persons were almost instantaneously killed, and more 'than twenty so seriously injured that more deaths are certain to take place. The line was torn up for a considerable distance, and some delay was occasioned before assistance could be obtained.