The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-04-19 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

TIII*NDEILSTOIISI.—The village of Llanfairfechan, situate on the coast midway between Bangor and Conway, has Suffered terribly from a thunderstorm which broke over the locality on Wednesday evening. Such an immense volume of rain fell during the storm thnt the little streams in the locality rose almost without warning to the proportions of mountain torrents, which swept away everything in their devastating course. The amount of damage is very great, and it is feared that several children have been drowned.  The Lord Mayor of London opened the exhibition of apparatus for saving life at sea, organised by the Isiorthfleet committee, on Tuesday last. On Tuesday the Forfar county magistrates (Scotland), by a majority of 14 against 2, resolved to alter the .hours of closing public-houses from eleven to ten o'clock p.m. In the last three months the declared value of butter imported was C 1,460,274; in the like period of.ltird, £1,341,866.  The imp; rtatiim of 1,,c0n still increases. Li the last three months the declared value was £1,557,908, against Cl .117,575 in the same period of the previous year. Ihe West Lancashire colliery proprietors on Wednesday passed a resolution declaring that they could not entertain the request made by their workmen for an advance of wages. THE Tiennomie Casz.—The Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday granted a rule calling upon Mr. Gong° Bontledge to answer for contempt of Court in publishing a book called " The Tichborne Romance," which was calculated to prejudice the Claimant in the forthcoming trial at the bar. Henry Unkles, a Cork magistrate, was on Wednesday sentenced to a week's imprisonment for a breach of the Ballot Act in declaring bow an illiterate elector bad voted at the election in December last.  The arriv.ll of the Challenger at ltermuda is announced in the New ork telegram dated Tuesday. During the stay of the Challmiger at St. Thomas the scietititic stalf made a large collection of interesting and beautiful objects. The magistrates of Edinburgh heh' an adjourned licensing mart on Monday. Several publicans obtained a renewal of their certificates on condition that they would cease selling the liquor known as hard ale."  A deputation from the Manchester Trades' Council on Wednesday waited upon Mr. Jacob 3right, M.P., Mr. Birley, M.P., and Mr. Cawley, 3f.P., to request their co-operation in attempting to repeal or amend the Criminal Law Amendment Act, and an laws " invidiously directed against trades' unions."  This year's first monthly return issued by the Poonlaw Department shows, at the end of Jan., 84?4,616 persons in receipt of relief from the rates in England and Wales, being less by 88,798, or 1.5 per cent., than at the end of January, 1572. A numerously signed petition has been forwarded to the Home Secretary praying for a commutation of the sentence of death passed on the man Seobbie at Buddee for the murder of Spalding, a gamekeeper. The convict has been visited by his wife and child and by the Bishop of Bechin. He has not vet made any confession. . . . _ _  On Monday, the body of a lady of independent means, named Mahala Cain Davies, was found on Margate sands. • For some time past she had been greatly depressed, and she recently told a friend that she intruded to throw herself off the jetty. When found her neck was broken, and it was ascertained that she had thrown herself from the cliff nearly opposite the Clittonville The action taken by