Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-06-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1876.  NEAuLy a thousand houses, valued at a million dollars, have been destroyed by fire it Quebec.  Trig first payment of interest by Egypt on the Suez Canal Shares purchased by England, is to be made to-day.  FRENCH and Belgian capitalists are now making extensive explorations for coal in Belgium, the North of France, and Haand.  THE Spanish Government has voted an indemnity to the railway companies for damage done to their lines daring the Carlist war.  A SERIOUS outbreak of yellow fever has occurred at Batavia. A South Shields vessel has lost nearly all hands, including the captain and mate.  A CONFERENCE between the mine-owners and colliers of North Staffordshire is to be held to consider the notices served for a reduction of 15 per cent.  A WHISKEY WAR has been organised by all the temperance agencies in Bradford. A combined crusade will be made during the summer months in the town ani district.  CORNELIUS ASHER, an old man, and an herbalist, has been found guilty of wilful murder by a coroner's jury at Leicester, for causing the death of Mrs Magee.  YESTERDAY, the Committee of the Mansion House Colliery Explosion Fund of 1866 closed its transactions by voting £3,400 to the Wigan Committee, and £l,OOO to the Barnsley Committee.  AT the Westminster Police Court, yesterday, Mr Kimbet, solicitor, applied for a summons against Lady Radcliffe for perjury. The magistrate took time to consider the application.  THE trial of Ellen Snee and William Vance, a student, for conspiring to commit murder, commenced yesterday, at the Central Criminal Court. The trial had not terminated when the court rose last night.  SEVERAL members of the Board of Admiralty are to leave Woolwich this (Thursday) afternoon in the Enchantress steam yacht for the Elbe. They visit Germany in an official capacity, though the nature of their business has not trap spired.  ALEXANDER KENNEDY, lessee of the Aberdeen ferryboat, has been committed to the Circuit Court for causing the death of thirteen persons on a fast day, by the capsizing of his boat through overcrowding.  THOMAS BARR, book canvasser, was executed at Glasgow yesterday for the murder of his wife and mother-in-law. Barr had only been married 18 months, and during that time he had been separated from his wife seventeen times.  YESTERDAY William Davison, a discharged pilot, was committed for trial for attempting to murder Mr Fairley Downs, pilot ruler of Sunderland. The attempt was made on the Bth April, and Mr Downes has been unable to attend the court till yesterday.  Two boys belonging to the ironclad training ship Caledonia, which narrowly escaped being sunk a few days ago, have admitted that they turned on the sea cock out of curiosity and not through any intentiOn of mischief. They have escaped punishment, but the master of the hold has been severely reprimanded for permitting the boys to get below.  YESTERDAY while an old pauper of the Basford Ukion, near Nottingham, was :standing on the level crossing on the Midland Railway enticing a little dog out of the way of a goods train, a passenger train came up behind him. He was knocked down, his head cut off, and carried 15 yards by the eng'ne. The body was frightfully smashed.  THE Neighley Board of Guardians seem determined to set the law at defiance. The Local Gevernment Board threatened them with farther legal proceedings if they failed to see the Vaccination Act carried out in their Union. At a meeting of the Keighley Board yesterday, it was resolved, by a majority of one, to iik,r,te to the Local Government Board that tW*positively refused to give any instructions to their vaccination officer.  VI.II2IICA paper says the . deposition of dui Turkish Sultan was brought about through his refusal to advance money from his private purse for the war treasury. Murad Effendi has accepted the three points which were on his predecessor—namely, the in• stitutionlof an assemblyof nobles; the reduction of the civil list ; and the abolition of the seraglio. The Christian Patriarchs have paid homage to the new Sultan,and they seem satisfied that the Softas will respect their rights and privileges. The accession of the new Sovereign will necessitate a revision of the Berlin Memorandum by the three Powers before it can be presented, and an interchange of views between the various Courts is now taking place.  pressed