The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-06-10 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

COVENTCY.-UT COMPANY. 200 500 Total Lieut. Wyley Sergeant Willson Corporal Chinn Corporal Howard Private West Private Fawson Private Gorsuch 2B .. 23 .. 51 Private Haywood Private Willson l5 .. 14 .. 29 Private Bagshaw Privateld  The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Royal children arrive 4 at Bathingham on Monday afternoon.  The Boston Courier says exorbitant prices for food and drink are in vogue at the restaurants within the Centennial grounds. The Baroness Brirdett-Coutts has intimated, through her private secretary, Mr. Wills, her intention to patronise the Hackney Commons Local Defence Fund, supplemented by a munificent donation of £l5O towards the purpose in view. A young man named Thomas Surtees, aged nineteen years, is in custody in Whitehaven charged with setting in motion a locomotive engine on the London and North-Western Railway, and thereby endangering life He was drunk when he set it In motion. The engine ran into and smashed a carriage. . .  Great dissatisfaction is expressed among the South Yorkshire miners by the action taken by their secretaries in accepting a reduction of 121 per cent. They are openly denounced as traitors, and it is believed that a large number of men will stand out against the reduction.  " What i; your business sir?" asked the court in a sharp voice. " A concholist." "What's that ? " said the judge. "I open oysters." Fish, the Blackburn murderer, has again sent a letter to his wife. He writes that he is weary of his life in prison, and wishes for its speedy termination ; laments the disgrace which he has Inflicted upon her and her children, and prays to God to support his wife in her heavy trial. At Liverpool Sessions, on Saturday, William Rigby, cashier to Messrs. W. H. and S. Jones and Co., was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for stealing £4,770 belonging to his employers. William Richard Thomas and John Thomas Evans, were sentenced to five years' penal servitude as receivers.  The Channel Islands are unfortunate in being subject to frequent interruption of the telegraphic communication with England. The cable is again broken, some thirty-five miles off the Island of Jersey, and, until the repairs are effected, telegrams will be forwarded by mail packets to and from Guernsey, and those for Jersey will be wired on from Guernsey. Last year the islands were for upwards of five months deprived of the benefits of the telegraph. At the Horse Show, which was opened at the Agricultural Hall at Islington, on Saturday, the Prince of Wales exhibits, but not for competition, the charger " Coon:tussle," which carried him in India, a beautiful Arab called "Jung Bahadoor," ridden by his Royal Highness at the Nepaul elephant hunt, another fine Arab named "Hussar," and two ponies from India. .  A very exciting and smartly•contested polo match was played on the ground of the Manchester Polo Club, Old Trafford, near Manchester, between four gentlemen of Manchester and four from Staffordshire. The latter were Sir Charles Wolseley, Captain Hyde Smith, Mr. Charles Hartley, and Mr. T. P. Kempster. The play was so close that at the close five goals were credited to Manchester and four to Staffordshire.