The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-08-05 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

MURDER AT LIVERPOOL. SENTENCE OF DEATH.  At the Liverpool Assizes a young man named Richard Thompson, a labourer,was indicted for having at Liverpool, on the lbth of April last, wilfully murdered another young man, named John Henry Blundell. it appeared that the deceased had forbidden the prisoner to visit a young woman who lodged at Le house, and a good deal of illfeeting was the result. On the night of the 15th of April the prisoner met the deceased in the street, and without the slightest provocation stabbed him no fewer than a dozen times In various parts of the body. The wounds penetrated to the lung, and death ensued two days afterwards. There was evidence to show that at the time of the occurrence the prisoner was in drinl. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and Ms. Justice Lindley Fentel d him to death.  Mr. George Jacob Holyoake, whose health is now reestablished, has undertaken the editorship of a new paper, to be entitled the Secular Review, which pro!ewes to be a new journal of new subjects, testing familiar questions by a new principle, divesting that which is secular from complicity with that which is atheistic, and generally aiming to recast old forms of propagandism in moral, soc al, ai.d political affairs, that now exhaust earnestness e Uhout producing the fnot of riditenc  The monument to Henri Heimann was uncovered On Sunday in the Eonle des Beaux•Arts, Paris.  Covent Garden Theatre will be opened next Saturday for promenade concerts, under the direction of Mears. Gatti, with Signor Arditi aa conductor.  George Hall, an ostler, was last week sentenced at Longton to three months' imprisonment for setting fire to a dog after covering it with oil and tar.  A letter-carrier, who while drunk had endangered the safety of the letters entrusted to him for delivery, has been Sued £lO by the Clerkenwell police magistrate, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment. Mr. W. Henry Penning, F.G.S., of the Geological survey, has in the press a work on Field Geology. Two chapters on Pekeontalogy. by Mr. A. J. JukesBrowne, 8.A., are added.  Professor Huxley is on the point of starting on a tour through the United States. It is understood that .be tour is not a lecturing tour, and that the Professor has Only consented to delver three or four lectures.  The death of the German composer, Joseph Desrauer, of Prague, in hie seventy-eightki year, hi an•need. lie wrote several operas, but his fame will rest on his Lieder, many of which are very popular.  - The death is anrmuneed of Dr. Lonsdsle, the pupil and biographer of Dr. Knox, the celebrated Edinburgh lecturer on anatomy. Dr. Lonsdale was also the author of some pleasant volumes on "Cumberland Worthies."  Mr. Whistler has recently finished a life-size porTrait (,1 Mr. Henry Irving in the character of Philip 11. Besides this portrait, he has also completed four or five others of ladies in the same style, in which his Fowers are well kuown.  The Chaucer Society's Parallel-Texts will ?rob .bly be delayed this year. The second of the Six-Text has been lent by its owner to the Exhibition at Wrexham till October. This will stop the issue of the conduct. int part of the Six-Text Canterbury Tales till Noveut ber.  A German correspondent writes:—On the lit of next January it will be 70 years that the Emperor of Gee, many entered the Prussian army, even before be had scoomplished his tenth year. The usage now is that the Prussian Princes enter the army alter completing their tenth year.  The Council of the Anglo-Jewish AssOcistion hare, Pop, the Jetri,l4 World, determined to present an address te the Emperor of Morocco, through the Moorish Ambarsador, who Is now in London urging that Me Jewish subjects may be taken under Ha special protection. The Prince of Wales has signified to hi. Drouyn de Lcuys, president of the Jardin d'Acelimatation,through hi Coulson Pitman, his willingness to become a view President of the society, and has presented to the antinals forming pert of his Imam'