The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-03-04 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THURSDAY.  Mr. Bruce said there was nothing in the state of public business to prevent the introdw-tion of a Licensing Bill before Easter. The adjourned debate on the Marquis of Hartington's motion for a select committee to inquire into the state of Westmeath was resumed by Colonel Wilson Patten, who expressed his surprise at the motion after the reference made to Ireland in the Queen's speech, and he urged the Government to withdraw the resolution. Mr. Gladstone said that any recommendation which fell from the right hon. and gallant gentleman was entitled to the most respectful consideration, but, unfortunately, a senee of their public duty, and a knowledge of the facts of the case, put it beyond the power of the Government to comply with his request on this occasion. Mr. Gladstone then went on to reply to the remarks of the Other speakers in the debate, and emphatically defended the course which the Government were pursuing in the matter.  The debate wee continued by Mr. Chaplin, Sir. it. Peel, and others.  The Cashel election inquiry cost £1219 19s. 10d. The seventh session of the New Testament revision company commenced on Tuesday. The Duke of Richmond, Earl Granville, and Sir Alex. Milne have been elected elder brethren of the Trinity House. William Whalen, charged on remand at Salford with wife murder, was on Monday committed for trial on the charge of manalauglter. A railway porter, named Court, was killed at Bishops Sid:rind, near Taunton, on Tuesday, by falling on the rails just as a train was passing. At Leicester quarter sessions, on Tuesday, John Noon was sentenced to 15 months' hard labour for a brutal assault on his wife.  The Birmingham papers note the death of the Rev. Timothy East, one of the eldest of the English Congregationalist ministers. lie was 88 years of age when he died. A carpenter named Taylor, 26 yearn of age, was fatally stabbed at Newport, in a street brawl, early on Tuesday morning. His assailant, named Evans, of Neath, a labourer employed in the repairs of telegraph lines, is in custody. On Tuesday morning, at Trunworth station, on the Midland Railway, some trucks which were being shunted became loose and ran off, dashing a signal box to pieces. The signalman eavaped with slight injury. The body of a man with his head nearly severed from his body has been found under a conirick at Hints, near Tamworth, and a waggon with blood on the wheel at a short distance. The body is supposed to have lain there some weeks. John Wright, late secretary of the Walsall Perseverance Lodge of Operative Carpenters and Joiners, was on Monday committed for trial, charged with embezzling £7 45., the property of the lodge. Since the present Parliament assembled in December, 1868, there have been 09 elections in the United Kingdom, and of these 51 were in boroughs. Liberals have been returned in 10 eases, and Conservatives in 11.  Another successful raid on the night houses in Glasgow was made on Sunday evening. One result of the labours of the police in this direction is that the lIOUSCB in which the illicit traffic has hitherto been conducted in High-street, Saltmarket, and Gallowgate were all closed on Sunday.