The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1880-02-10 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

JOHN BRIGHT AND AMERICAN TAMPPB.—MT. John Bright, writing to an American gentleman, comments severely on the United States tariff. He says, "We take everything you have to sell freely without Customs duties except tobacco and spirits, and on these our duties are only for revenue, for we have equal duties on our own spirits and we prohibit the growth of tobacco; while you charge with extravagant duties nearly everything you take from us, and that we cin or could send you If in commercial matters and in agriculture you could annex the United Kingdom, it would be a great and good thing for both." It would be a greater and better thing if in these respects England could annex America, as then that country would be compelled to adopt a sane economic system. As Mr. Bright puts it, we should be reduced tc a depth of protective lunacy which wou'd almost satisfy the member for Birkenhead.  THE Livrarooi Ezzerzox.—Lord and Lady Ramsay left Liverpool on Saturday afternoon, and received a very hearty farewell in Lime-street &aeon. Many of the Liberallead( TS were present on the platform, and a great crowd of the rank and file of the party assembled to gay Am mob• to their cal.& idate. After chatting for some little time with their friends, the Liberal candidate and his wife entered the carriolge in which they were to travel, and the train left the station amid the most tremendous cheering. An occasion ever, of so private a chatacter could not be passed over without an exhibition of Tory higotry and discourtesy. A person said to he in the employ of a Consnvative contemporary pushed his way to the front of the crowd, and began to hoot and jeer. I He was speedily thrust b7ck by the gentlemen soyrounding Lord Ramsay, but his rude and diecreditable behaviour continued to en ate pinch annoyance. It says much for the forbearance rt. the liberals that this impertinent fe.low was nct seized and aound:y thrashed.  Itn A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Premier's official residence in Downing-strret, an the members being present excepting the Marquis of Salisbury. Mr. W. P. Adam, M.P., addressed his constituents at Alloa en Saturday, and while commenting favourably on Liberal prospects, expressed his sense of the gallant struggle lately conducted by Lord Ramsay at Liverpool. The woman Noakes, who, after killiag her illegitimate child by cutting its throat last week, at Reigate, attempted her own life, now lies in a precarious state. She declines to take any newishent, which has to be supplied to her by force. ' The late captain of a ship named the Standard Bearer, William Davies, was brought up at Bowstreet Police Court, on Saturday, charged with killing a coloured seaman named Plice, on board his vessel, on Dec. 25 last. Evidence as to the circumstances under which the prisoner had beer arrested having been given, a remand for a week was ordered.  A meeting of the Association to Promote Women's Knowl-dge of Law was held 0., Saturday ,ight, under the presidency of Viscount Harberton, when it was resolved to adopt a petition to the House cf Commons requesting that a measure might be passed for eNtablishing for women the aline rights and liabilities wi-h regard to property and contract as appertain by law to men.  A governess named Harriet Makins was indicted at the Norwich Assiz,s. on Saturday, for murdering her illegitimate child at Lynn last month. It was stated for the defence that prisoner, in endeavouring to soothe the child, which was suffering from a cold, administered an overdose of laudanum, and that after i's death she threw the body into the water. The medical eviblence not being conclusive, Makins was acquit, ed. lhe date for the execution of the two men and a woman for the Spalding murder has been fixed for the 16th inst. Besides the public petition for the remissim of the sentence a snecial memorial is being signed by those connected with the prosecution on the ground that there was no intention whatever on the part of the prisoners to commit the capital offence, and that the death of Holt was caused to some extent by heart disease. At the Mansion House Police-court, on Saturday, William Henry Walters, licensed victualler, was charged with forging and uttering a cheque on the Bank of England, and Ann Norah Walters was also placed in the dock as an accessory after the fact. The man Walters was charged in 1875 with being concerned in the great Turf frauds, but he absconded from his bail, and was not again apprehended until Friday last. After having taken sufficient evidence for a remand, the further hearing of the case was adjourned. _ _ _ _ _