The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-12-28 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL.  Mr. Gladstone distributed the prizes at Liverpool College on Saturday, before an immense audience. The right hon. gentleman, who was most .enthusiastically received, said that 30 years had Passed away since he delivered the inaugural address at the opening of that institution. It was to be-an institution having religion for its base, and that the•religion of the Church of England. He considered no education was better than that given in public schools and universities. It was all very well to stock the mind with knowledge, but the best use of information was to improve the mind itself. :England did„not . stand well in relation to many other countries in the matter of education. The Germans, though he did not think them superior to Englishmen in national attainments, were more earnest about their education, and •they had not yet learned to undervalue, as he feared we had, simplicityof life. They had great concentration and energy. The right hon. gentleman showedit was by no means impossible for the arts 'and sciences to flouriO. side by side with commerce. He impressed Upon. his hearers the neces‘ sitfy for . trying with no half hearted feeling, but with all their might and all their strength. The bottom and foundation of earnest effort was religion. Christianity was attacked by modern sceptictsm, and against this scepticism they had - to- fight with faith engrafted in them. He concluded by deprechting a servile adherence to the past, but urged them to regard it with reverence and gratitubde,, and accept its accumulations as the patrimony which it was their part in. life both to preserve and to improve. Mr. Bruce presided:at the distribution of prizes at Cambridge Grammar School on Saturday, and, pointed but the vast importance of sound, earnest study, illustrating this by reference to the many prominent men ofithe day who had taken honors, and were known for their high classical attainments. Mr. Bruce then' discussed the views expressed by Mr. Talbot, from which- he dissented. The right hon. gentleman .pointed to the fact that education among the farmers meant better husbandry, and in its turn more food for the people. • Mr. Gladstone, in acknowledging the receipt ,of, resolutions passed at the recent amnesty meeting in Bradford, says he must rest content with repelling generally the allegations of ill-treatment. He denies also that there is any similarity between the present case and that of the Neapolitan prisoners, who Were not soldiers. Lord Huntingdon died on Saturday. _  The Globe is able to state that there is no foundation for the report that Mr. • Forster will leave the Education Office.  In many. places of worship throughout the country on Sunday, prayers were read for fine weather.  A murderous attack was made by a young labourer upoh his father at Cheddington on Monday. The young viper attacked his parent, with whom he had-been working, with a bill-hook, and succeeded in almost cleaving his face in two, besides otherwise injuringshim. A private meeting of gentlemen interested in election matters, was held at the Canton Club on Saturday evening. At Leeds, on Tuesday., two miners named Benjamin and Samuel Seanor were remanded on a charge of a murderous assault upon Peter Holland, foreman of a colliery at Churwell, where the prisoners were working. The rumour is again current that Earl Spencer will shortly resign the Lord-Lieutenancy of .Ireland, and that he will be succeeded by Earl Kimberley, or Mr. Chichester Fortescue. Some new facts have come to light with regard to the shocking murder on Tuesday night, of 'Clara Burton, an Alhambra artiste, rBsiding at No. 12, Great Corarn-street, Russellsquare. A man will be an important witness at the inquest who was with the girl Alice Nelson, who lives In the adjoining room, at the time, that the girl ißurton went into her own Iroom. He heard all she said, from which it seems that she met her murderer in Russell-square while she stood listening to the traits, and he went with her to her home. It further appears that when the unfortunate woman came down stairs to the landlady with a halfsovereign, she had a red morocco clasp purse in her hand, and put a shilling into it and took it upstairs with her. That purse cannot be found, nor a pair of earrings which she wore on Tuesday evening, and which had been lent to her, as she had none of her own.