Widnes Examiner. — 1883-01-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

FUREIGN INTELLIGENCE. needay night at Alford, accompanied by heavy rain. Heavy rain fell in South Wales, on Wednesday night, and M. Gustave Dore, the great French artist, died at an early at Cardiff the canal flowed over into the North-road. hour on Tuesday morning. H.M. gunboat Redwing is in Sligo harbour for the perFifty lives have been lost by the explosion of a powder pose, it is said, of bringing food to the starving inhabitants mill at Oakland, California. Nearly all the victims were on Innismurray Island. , Chinese. The Freeman understands that Mr. Mayne, T.C., Dublin, The ex-Empress Eugenie, a Paris correspondent says, will be invited to become the National candidate for the has declared that the object of her visit to France is to representation of Tipperary. mark her sympathy with Prince Napoleon and her approval Lord Greville died suddenly, on Thursday morning, of of his manifesto as a real expression of Napoleonic pringout, at Clonyn Castle, county Westmeath. lie had attended ciples. the funeral of Lis wife on the previous day. Another railway disaster has occurred in America by which fifteen lives have been lest. It appears that a long At a meeting of the Conservative party in Salford, on Thursday night, Mr. Bowles, of London, was chosen as a coal train went off the rails near Cumberland, in Marycandidate to contest the borough at the next election jointly laud, and was precipitated over an embankment 100 feet with Mr. Edward Hardeastle. high. a Mr. Devitt has received the following telegram from Mr. Cetewayo has arrived at Ulundi. Affairs are reported to Jos. Cowen, M.P., for Newcastle-on-Tyne :—" If you desire be quiet in northern Zululand, and the act of restoration, a to give bail I shall stand as one of your bondsmen ; or for Durban correspondent says, is likely to pass off peacefully. Healey, if he desires it. All the chiefs, except the well-known irreconcileables, are, it An exhibition is proposed to be held in Cork this year, is said, likely to be present or represented at the coronation with a view to developing the industries of Ireland, and of of the King. improving the condition of the industrial classes throughout On Saturday Omar Ismal, condemned to death by courtthat country. martial for the murder, on the 11th June, of the engineer of The vacant judgeship of the Supreme Court of the Gold the Superb and the steward of the Helicon, was hanged out- I Coast Colony has been offered by the Earl of Derby, Secre- aide the gates of Alexandria, near Pompey s Pillar. About ' tary of State for the Colonies, to Mr. Chailes Frederick zOOO Europeans were present, and a -few Arabs. The Lumb, M.A., L.L.M., barrister-at-law, of the northern cir- execution was Conducted by the police. No English soldiers cult, but has been declined by that gentleman in deference assisted. to the opinion of his medical advisers. , Prince Charles brother of the Emperor of Germany, Recently societies for the relief, education, and improve- died on Sunday. after a short illness. The deceased Prince ment of the blind have been established in Burnley and was born in 1801, and was consequently four years younger Blackburn. It was thought there were only 15 blind than the Emperor. He was the grandfather of the Duchess people in Burnley, but 69 have been found out, and 30 in of Connaught. His son, the rell-known Prince Frederick Colne, Nelson, and Brierfield. In Blackburn it was only Charles, is also ill and confined to bed. In these gloomy known there were 20 blind, but the society has found 90 circumstances the festivities in honour of the silver wedblind persons. At Accrington there are over 30. ding of the Crown Prince have been postponed. A cotton mill at Heywood, belonging to Mr. Wm. Todd, M. Geefe the distinguished Belgian sculptor, died on Jun., was burned down on Wednesday evening. The loss of Sunday, aged 77. He was a native of Antwerp. There is property is estimated at £6,000. A beetling mill at scarcely a. town in Belgium that does not contain bronze or Broughslane, county Antrim, the property of Mr. Joseph marble Katues from his chisel. In Brussels there is a , Barnes Black, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday, together monument in the Place des Martyres commemorative of with a large quantity of yarns. The estimated damage is the Revolution of 1830, and a statue of General Belliard. about £B,