The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1865-06-03 (London, England)

AND WORKMAN'S ADVOCATE. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1865.  SUMMARY.  The east of London has now a working-men's exhibition. It was opened on Monday by Sir John Shelley, with the ceremonies usual on such occasions. There were comparatively few persons present on the occasion, and it appears from that and other circumstances that the supply of this kind of exhibition has for the present rather outrun the demand. The contents of  the present exhibition, however, it is but fair to say, are fully equal to any of their predecesSOTS.  The manufacture of the telegraph cable intended for another attempt to connect this country with America was finished at the factory on Monday. It will be conveyed on board the Great Eastern with all convenient speed, and the great ship, conveying the whole cable as its cargo, will start on its important mission of laying down the cable towards the end of this month. An application was made on Monday to Mr. Commissioner Goulburn for the release of Colonel Waugh from imprisonment on his . second bankruptcy; but as it appeared he was detained under a capias, the commissioner • decided that bail could only be taken by the judge who issued the capias, and refused the application. The Rev. Mr. Wagner was assaulted on Sunday night as he was leaving his church, and - knocked down. We are glad, for the credit, of Brighton, to find that the ruffian assailants were chimney-sweeps who had just been released from militia drill, and that they were immediately taken into custody. . The inquest on the body of Captain Newberry, who was killed by the fall of a wall and a quantity of coal at the Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway, was resumed on Tuesday. Witnesses were called who proved that they had called the attention of the agent of the Lilleshall Colliery Company, who had • stored up the coal at the place, to the dangerous condition of the wall several hours before it fell down. The inquest was again adjourned. A shocking Murder was perpetrated at • Middlesboro on Saturday night by an Irishman named Henry Hughes. The crime was cora• raitted in the public street, and within sight of several persons. The name of the victim was Francis Coates, who was stabbed three times . by Hughes, and apparently without any provocation on his part. A proposal for electoral reform was brought forward in the Spanish Congress on Friday but the Government opposed it, and it was rejected. The object of the proposal was to put . an end to the present withdrawal of the Progressistas from political business. The Emperor of the French has politely declined the invitation of the Queen of Spain to visit Madrid on his return from Algeria. A dinner was given at the St. James's-hall, on Saturday, to Mr. Gavan Duffy, who, after having been tried several times for sedition in Ireland, without ever finding a jury that would agree upon a verdict, came afterwards to sit in the House of Commons, then went out to Australia, where he was a member and a minister in the Legislative Council of Victoria, and is at present in England on a visit. The chair was taken by Sir George Bowyer, and the principal persons attending were Irish or Australian friends of the guest. Mr. Duffy made a long speech, which was chiefly devoted to the defence of the system of representation in the Australian colonies against the recent attack made by Mr. Lowe, Mr. Gregory, and others, in the House of Commons. Some time ago, the Master of the Rolls made an order that .a„child of three years old, the daughter of a Roman Catholic gentleman,