The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-11-01 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL.  The inquest on .711:1'3. 2,.'aeleol, wife of Dr. • Macleod, Surgcon-Major of the Madras army, who died from the effects of an overduse of morphia administered by her hu3band, NV:IS re.sumed: at Carlisle on Sfaturclay. The coroner stronoy disst-u:ded the jury froM 'returning a verdict of wilful murder. Aftcr deliberating three hours and a half it was stated they c)uld not agree, and the coroner adjcatrned the inquest to the a.e•siz..24. Dr. 11,tcleod was then apprehended by the police on the charge of causing the death of his wife, but was iannedia,toly admitted to bail.  A large farmer, named a ohn Maraller, of Casle Eden, w3s on Sanrday last committed for ttial for having sto'en 7G sheep. The price of coahi was again advanced in 'London on Saturday morning. Best Wallsends are now 42,4. per ton.  Seven men were drowned in the Thames on Saturday in!,rniAig through the capsizing of a small boat.  Since his re+Airn to England, Sir Samuel Baker has been suffering from a severe cold and inflammation of the lungs. _ _  It was suggested at the great Home Rule meeting which was held in London on Sunday afternoon last, that the Irishmen throughout the world should snhscrihe froraf:2o,ooo to 1:30,000 as a testimonial to Mr. Butt, in order to make him independent of his profession, and to rescue his untrammelbd services for Ireland. The subscription will be opened soon after Christmas. At the Central Critpinal Court, on Tuesday, Chirles.May, 19, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, for forging and embezzling from £3,000 to £l,OOO from his employers, Messrs. Phillips, foreign merchants. At Glasgow, on Turalay, a decree of divorc3 against Mrs. Annandale, of Esk Tower, Dalkeith, was granted, and the co-respondent, Mey.idejohn, was found liable in the expenses.  The Mites of Tuesday has a letter from Lady Franklin, in which she denies that Sir Robert M'Clure was. the discoverer of the North-West Passage ; asserting that Sir Leopold M'Clintock brought back proofs in 1859 that Sir John Franklin had found the waterway between the two great oceans at least two years and a half earlier than Sir Robert M'Clure. This hs been acknowledaed by the Geographical Society and by the leading Arctic authorities.  On Tuesday m(,rning another rise of is. per ton took place in the price of coal in London, best Wallsencl now being 435. per ton. The Secretary of the Durham Coalowners' Association denies that that association has agreed to reduce the price of hard coke 53. per ton ; but the Times still holds out the belief that coke will be reduced to the extent of ss. per ton shortly after Christmas. Three men have been washed overboard from a Yarmouth fishing smack and drowned. It is rumoured that muskets and gunpowder ot an inferior quality 'ate being collected at Birmingham for.tlip. mtip.nteQs,  collision .occurreil near Wantage station on. Wecinesday between two goods trains, but no loss of life was sustained. In the case of. an itif‘int. who Was found the other evening in -a field at Devonport, strangled, a jury, after sitting two days investigating the circumstances, has returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown. On Wednesday the wife of Bidwell, the notorious Bank forger, was committed for trial, at London, on a charge of concealment of birth. A railway collision occurred on Tuesday night between a passenger and a luggage train at West bury station, between Shrewsbury and Welshpool. The passengers were much shaken, but none were seriously injured. Mr. Roebuck's health has undergone a slight improvement, and he left Usk on Tuesday for London.  Sir Henry Holland, the venerable physician, author, and traveller, died on Tuesday night, which was the anniversary of his 86th birthday.