Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1874-12-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOTES OF THE WEEK.  --Tø Bishop of Ossory and Ferns died in London on Monday night.  A tvrnnoc is considered imminent in South _Wales, to resist the reduction of 10 per cent.  SEVERAL persons were injured by a railway. collhiion near Rotherham, on Thursday night THE rebellion in the Argentine Republic has been quelled, and peace proclaimed.  Os Saturday, the miners and furnacemen at Forest of Lean received a week's notice.  GICORGE POPLET, who was sentenced to be -hung for murdering his wife, has been reprieved.  PARLIAMENT will meet on the sth of February "for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs." IT has been resolved by the American ironmasters to decrease the output of iron next year by one half.  Tan West Cumberland miners are out on strike against a reduction of 50 per cent. The masters refused to submit to arbitration.  THE West Cumberland colliers are all out on strike against the reduction of 10 per cent. demanded by the mineowners.  &collier, named Tattersall, hls been sentenced by the Liverpool Assizes to ten years' penal servitude for beating his wife.  JOHN LISTER, colliery manager, has been committed for trial for causing the death of two mmers ,in Winchbank Colliery, in October last.  RICHARD COATE, schoolmaster, Purfleet, has been arrested on a charge of outraging and murdering one of hie pupils, a girl six years of age.  AN Englishman has been carried off by the Carlists at Miollo, as a hnstage for the payment of .270 demanded from the director of the Ca!dames Mines.  THE shipbuilding trade on the Clyde has become so slack that a lock-out is anticipated. One yard has already reduced the number of hands by one-third.  Owl/in to Colonel Grey's death (son of Earl Grey), the Prince of Wales's visit to Studley Royal has been postponed. The deceased was an _Equery to his Royal Highness.  TETE Tichborne Claimant's wife has refused to pay the poor-rate under the name of Orton. If the claim is made against her as "Lady Tichborne" sin will pay it.  TRADE is becoming very depressed in Sheffield; many handshave been discharged, and others are accepting lower wages in order to be retained in constant employment.  THE South Staffordshire ironworkers have selected Mr John Kane, of Darlington, to visit Belgium, and inquire into the iron and coal trades of that country, as they affect the same industries in England.  Tint case for the prosecution in Count Arnim's trial was closed on Monday. The prosecutor demanded the Count's imprisonment for two and a half years, without deprivation of civil rights, as it was not alleged that he held back the State documents for the purpose of mlking pecuniary gain. It is not expected that the verdict will be pronounced before Friday. The disclosures made during the trial have caused great consternation in France.  THE Countess of Dudley's jewel case, stolen from the Great Western Railway Station, and reported to contain £50,000 worth of jewellery, is now valued at only half that amount. Earl Dudley has offered a reward of £l,OOO for the recovery of the case with the contents entire; but the police are under the impression that the thief must have been an expert of the first water, and that the jewels will have been taken from their settings by aquafortis, and 4'le gold melted down. '1 he case was under tl charge of the Countess Dudley's maid when it was _tolen.  Azroxnza serious revolt• has broken out in Peru. The insurgents consist mainly of exiles, many of whom were officers in the Peruvian army. The irsurgents had purchased and equipped an English vessel, the Talisman, which was seized while landing the insurgents and war material. The leader, however, gathered a considerable number of followers, and has taken up an almost impregnable position in the mountain fastnesses. President Pardo is acting with great. energy against the insurgents, and has demanded the increase of the army, and the mobilisation of the National Guard.