The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-10-29 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  • The quantity of Indian tea imported to Engle: d from the, lot of January to the 31st of August. thi. year was 13.888.:0.1h.. as compared with 8,973,00013. during the same period last year. A: the Preston County Petty Sessions, on Saturday, John Harrison, of Fishwiek, was fined .45 and cos ,s for neglecting' to give information that two of Is Ipifers were affected by the foot and mouth  We kTimes) regret to announce the death, on. Saturday, of Sir James Hill, the Chief Charity ...lointuissioner. Sir James who was returning fro the Continent, where he had m d been spending a portion of the vacation, was talf,ti ill at Folkestone, and died there rather suddenly from heart disease. Mr. George James Taylor a middle-aged gentleman, was riding on the Brighton Downs on Saturday afternoon. when a couple of boys frightened his horse. causing it to bolt. Mr. Taylor was thrown. and died on the way to the hospital. Singular to state, there were no external marks of injury. John Hodge, a labourer, employed at a sugar refinery at Greenock, suet with a fearful death on Saturday morning, through falling into one of the cauldrons through which the hot -liquor was massing. He was literally boiled to death, and his body WWI not recovered for about two hours after the occur. cube. Two soldiers, privates in the 20th Hussars. stationed at Hounslow, were remanded at the 13reutford Petty Sessions, on Saturday, for assaulting a pawnbroker of Hounslow, the prosecutor having received so serious a shock from the assault as to be unable to attend to give evidence against his assailants. The Government of India have awarded the sum of .22,800 to be distributed among the Bombay detective police force, in recognition of services rendered in die. covering the plot to murder Colonel Phayre, late resident at Baroda, and for recovering valuable jewels and other property belonging to the Baroda State. Peter Farrell, a Genoese seaman, was charged at Bow Street, ow Saturday, with the wilful murder of a brother sailor. The case against him had been heard previously before the British consul at Marseilles, but sent to an English Court as the proper tribunal. The man, who is said to have confessed the crime, stands remanded. Dr. Neilson Hancock has published his volume for 1875 of judicial and criminal statistics in Ireland. He stales that, in every case, with the exception of drat, kermess, a diminution of crime has been manifested for the past four years. Last year there was an increase of ejectments, chiefly for non-payment of rent; and litigation in questions under the Land Act shows no abatement—rather the opposite. We iegret to announce the sodden death of Mr. James Francis Danby, the well-known artist. The deceased went to bed in his usual health on Thursday last, but in the conrse of the night had a fit of apoplexy, and died the next afternoon. Mr. Danby was the son of the late Francis Danby, A.R.A., and was born at Bristol in 1816. He was a constant exhibitor at the Academy, and at the Society of British Artists.  The first steamer ever seen afloat in Cashmere was launched at Srinagar on the 13th of last month, in the presence of the Maharajah and a large number of European and native visitors, the former of whom were entertained afterwards bythe Maharajah at a splendid banquet. The steamer was presented by the Punjab Government for assistance rendered by his Highness to the Yarkand expedition.