The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-05-29 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE EXAMINER.  SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1875.  The premises of Mr. J. Morgan, varnish manufacturer, Bromley, has been destroyed by fire. The damage was estimated at £50,000.  The Duke of Abercorn has accepted the captaincy of the Irish Rifle Eight for 1875, and proposes to present for the ninth time, a silver cup for the All Comers' Match in June.  A man named Wiesinger has been arrested at Vienna, for attempting to extort money from Father Beckx, General of the Jesuits. He is suspected of having offered to assassinate Prince Bismarck.  The sum of £I,MO was on Tuesday voted out of the Mansion Home Explosion Feud for the relief of the sufferers from the Bunkea's Hill Colliery explosion, VIM more being offered, if necessary. provided a similar sum was raised in the district.  The revenue returns from April Ist to May 2203, 1875, .were as follow :—Revenue, £10.776.068; experidittuv, £12,488,112; balances. £4.215,119. In the corresponding period of last year they were :—Revenue, £10,120,032; expenditure, £11,932.952; balances, £5,132,521.  The Registrar-General reports during the week 4,785 births and 3.303 deaths in twentyone large cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The average rate of mortality in these towns was 22 per 1,000. The rate in London was 20; Edinburgh. 20; Glasgow. 28; Dublin, 23; Leicester, 15; Sunderland, 18; Newcastle, 19; Nottingham, 21; Bristol, 22; Birmingham. 23 ; Liverpool, 23; Wolverhampton, 24; Sheffield. 26; Leeds, 27; Manchester, 27; and Bradford, 32. At Owestry, Arthur Morris, son of a former Mayor of the town, has been committed for trial at the next Shropshire Assizes for attempting to murder Mary Mason, a servant at his mother's house. The prosecutrix, who appeared to be very ill, stated that she was about to leave her situation for Liverpool with the prisoner on the night of the attack, and they were to be married there. He was in her bed room talking for half an hour, when suddenly he stabbed her in six or seven places. The annual Council of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union was opened on Tuesday at the Cherry-street Schools in this town. Mr. Macdonald, M.P., presided, and delivered an inaugural address. He took the opportunity of replying to Mr. Bright's remarks with respect to trades unions, and endeavoured to prove that it was owing to the formation of unions that the moral and social condition of the working classes had so greatly improved of recent years. He impressed upon the delegates the necessity of having their interests represented in the House of Commons. Mr. Joseph Arch and others afterwards addressed the conference, and the general business was then proceeded with. In the evening a public meeting was held in the Town Hall, at which Mr. J. S. Wright presided. Mr. Anthony J.Biddulph, of Kilburn. a justice of the peace, and cousin to the late Sir Roger Tichborne, is naturally indignant that his portrait should have been published in the Englishman" without his conient, and fears lest some of his friends and the outside public should, therefore, judge him to be a partisan of Dr. Kenealy. Mr. Biddulph says, "Apart from my co-operation during the Tichborne trial with Dr. Kenealy in the defence of the man I believed, and still believe, to be my cousin. I have had no communication with Dr. ' Kenealy, his revolutionary principles being being utterly repugnant to my ideas of order.'  Mr, a arks Bmdlaugh, of Loudon, has a 4. dressed a letter to a Newcastle paper, in which he says. Hearing that Dr. Kent%ly has been invited te attend the Northumberhuid Miners' Fete, I beg ha state that I refuse to be on the same platform with him." The result of fLe election for Breconshire a signal Liberal victory. inasmuch as for the past forty years the county has returned Conservative members only-. At the general elee. tion which succeeded the passing ,d the Reform Act of 1832, Colonel Thomas Wed. a follOwer of Sir Robert Peel, was selected as its representative. He was returned unopposed in 1835, and in 1837 the seat was contested by Major Holford. in the Liberal interest, but he polled only 570 votes, as compared with 1.222 recorded for Colonel Wood. Front that time until the oeneml election of last year Brecon. shire sent Pence to Parliament umhallmmed. At the dissolution in January. 1874. Mr. Fuller Maitland, the successful candidate upon the present occasion, entered the lists against the Hon. Godfrey Morgan. the eldest :sat of Lord Tredegar, and who had sat f r the eounty more than fifteen years. Mr. Maitland then, how. ever, polled only 1,030 votes, as against 1,594 mustered by Mr. Morgan.  •