The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-11-02 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL. A sad calamity at sea is reported from Plymouth. On Friday week, the Atra.to encountered very severe weather in the Channel. Her third mate and two seamen were washed overboard and drowned. Her passengers and emigrants for Melbourne, nearly 500, are well, but, as will be expected, have suffered somewhat from the weather. It is announced that Sir Bartle Frere is to be despatched to Zanzibar with the fullest powers, a great war steamer, very large pecuniary means, and orders to put down the slave trade in Eastern Africa. On Saturday morning, a fire broke out during the lighting up of the cotton mill of Messrs. Cross and Co., of Bolton. The mill, which contained 41.000 spindles, was entirely destroyed. The damage is estimated at between £40,000 and £50,000. At the Marlborough Police Court, on Saturday afternoon, John Dorrington, master of the so-called college at Ripley, Derbyshire, was charged with obtaining money on false pretences. A sister of the prisoner deposed that their father and mother had suffered from paralysis, and that she herself had been affected by the same complaint. Her brother (the- prisoner) had issued circulars, but only gave her a small sum. The cross-examination was damaging to the witness, and it was said that prisoner had been living upon the charitable for 15 years. The magistrates committed Dorrington for six months, two months for each of three offences. The writ for Richmond wasreceived on Tuesday morning. The nomination is fixed for to-day, and the polling on Monday. The Tiverton nomination and polling has been arranged to take place on the same day. The trial of Taylor, accused of the Bermondsey murders, was proceeded with Wednesday, at the Old Bailey, before Mr. Justice Keating. The defence set up was insanity, and ultimately the prisoner was acquitted on that ground. On Wednesday, the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution approving the conduct of the Government with reference to the French Treaty of Commerce, with certain reservations. The Lowestoft fish merchants and salesmen have determined to send a deputation to the Foreign Office to point out that the duties proposed to be levied on fish under the same treaty are believed to be almost prohibitive, in consequence of increasing the price of that commodity 50 per cent. In a letter to the London correspondent of the New York World, Earl Russell declares his wish to see the material wants of Ireland fairly examined, the necessary remedies fairly tried, and means employed to bring about the improvement and prosperity of the country; but his lordship most earnestly deprecates the setting up of an Irish Parliament, which would lead to the waste of all Ireland's energies in political contention. It is declared Lord Penzance will certainly not sit at the commencement of Term. On Wednesday, the Autumnal Conference of the members of the Church Association, sitting at Portsmouth, was brought to a close. The high language of the Odgerites and other agitators of a similar class, which has of late been held forth, has resulted in the question whether or not the Hyde Park regulations—which require notice of all meetings to be held therein—are still in force, being referred to the law officers of the Crown. The Bank directors, at their meeting on Thursday, made no alteration in the officiall'rate of discount. From a letter which appeared in on Thursday's Times, and which will be found in another column, it will be seen • that a coalowner and consumer states that coal has advanced at the pit's mouth in the neighbourhood of Wigan from 130 to 320 per cent in less than a year, but the colliers' wages have been increased only 40 per cent. The result is that one small proprietor has realised this year £100,000; a small company has divided £220,000 against £28,000 last year; another company has returned the shareholders the whole of their capital in two years. Cardinal Cullen has been urging the Pope to take some steps on behalf of the Catholic clergy of Galway, whom he reported as being at the present' time suffering under persecution. It is stated, however, that his Holiness peremptorily rejected Cardinal Cullen's proposal, and told him that he observed with regret that the Irish clergy only obeyed his instructions when they couleturn them to good account, but willingly disobeyed them when called upon to sacrifice their passions to the commands of his Holiness. The flock ought indeed tremble when the shepherds are thus reproved.