The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-06-07 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  Having been under remand for nearly three months, a labourer named John Preston has at longth been corn. mitted for trial on the charge of wife murder. The Guardian says .—The Church Congress for this year is intended to be held in Bath, and is fixed for the 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th of October. The Bishop of Bath and Wells will preside,and the Bishop of Derry has consented to preach the sermon. The Prince and Pi incess of Wales have visited Wigan this week, and been received most enthusiastically. 011 Wednesday the Prince of Wales opened the Infirmary at Wigan, after which he lunched with the Mayor. On Thursday his Royal Highness proceeded to Bolton to open a new Town Hall there. _ .  Prince Frederick, second son of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louise of HesseDarmstadt, fell the other day from a window of the palace, and was killed. The event has caused a profound sensation of sorrow amongst the members of her Majesty's family, the Princess Alice and children being much beloved. The Court goes into mourning. The Tichborne Claimant made his appearance at the Pomona Pleasure Gardens, Manchester, on Monday, having consented, owing to the pecuniary inducements held out by the manager of that place of amusement, to become one of the Whitsuntide attractions of Manchester during two of the nights of the adjournment of his trial at bar. He was received with mingled expressions of sympathy and hostility. He asked the public not to form any opinion of the trial until the witnesses for the defence had been beard.  The Atlantic inquiry was resumed on Monday, at Liverpool. Captain Williams was examined, and said that the vessel was efficiently equipped for the voyage in every respect as to coals. Before he changed the ship's course, the engineer reported only 127 tonsleft ; bad there been 140 tons he would certainly have gone on to New York. He considered the heating qualities of the coal had been impaired, probably through previous exposure to the weather. Mr. Firth, the first officer, believed they did right in making for Halifax. The enquiry was adjourned. , Though in ordinary eircumstanceethe amusement of skipping may be considered one of the most innocent sports, it seems to be considered an irregular pastime except for lambs—on the greensward of Victoria Park. John and Selina Turner, man and wife—a very young couple, it may be presumed—were charged at Worship. street with having refused to suspend a game of skip. ping-rope when officially required to do so; and the lady was further accused of pulling a policeman's whiskers. She was fined twenty, and her husband three, shillings. The Bath and West of England and Southern Counties Acricultural Association opened their exhibition at Plymouth, on Monday. The weather WRS favourable, and the attendance was 700 in excess of the number present at the corresponding day of last year's show. The collection of live stock is described as the largest and best which has ever been brought together under the society's auspices. The Society continued its exhibition at Plymouth on Tuesday. At the annual meeting it was decided that the next exhibition should be at Bristol, and Sir Massy Lopes president. The annual dinner was held in the evening. Six hundred guests were present.