The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-08-07 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

TANNERS EXPERIMENT.  THE CLOSING HOURS OF THE FAST.  Dr. Tanner slept badly last night, being oxtremely irritable and weak from nausea and vomiting. Ile complains of cold in the extremities, to countoraat which his body has been vigorously rubbed. Thursday evening the doctor took an alcoholic vapour bath, and on Friday morning a mustard foot bath. He was also sponged with mustard water, which was rubbed in until he was dry. Dr. Tanner maintains generally a reclining position. At half.past one o'clock on Friday afternoon his pulse was 82; temperature, 98 3.sths ; respiration, 13; and weight, 1221 pounds. His strength, as _registered by the dynanometer, was 77 kilogrammes.  On the resignation of Mr. G. it. Waterhouse, Di.. henry Woodward, Fits., haa succeeded him JR silks as keeper of the geological department of the iiish lituseum.—Atlierisrum.  The French gunboat blouette, Commander Clere, has arrived at Hirkwell from Inverness. She is to Le engaged in the protection of the French fishing el,aeln on the north coast of Scotland.  Nor Saint Ouen, Paris, an old house, celebrated as a rendezvous for thieves, is to be torn down. During the last five years the police have arrested more than 300 robbers and vagrants there.  A telegram from Paris states that an illustrated paper at Chartres, the Courrier d'Eure of Loire, has been fined 200 francs for publishing prints of the capture of the Baetille.  A very numerously-signed petition has been forwarded to the Treasury by the Civil Service Registered Writers and Copyists, praying for an improvement in their condition. The promoters of the new expedition to the North Pole, under the direction of Commander Cheyne, have, after some experiments, decided to abandon the triple balloon arrangement and to adopt one auxiliary balloon only.  In the suit a Clarke Y. Braillaugh for penalties for sitting and voting in the House of Commons, an application has been made by Mr. Lewis, on behalf of Mr. Bradlaugh, to compel the plaintiff to amend the statement of claim on the grown" that it unfairly states inferences of law and is embarrassing. Replying to an enquiry addressed to him, as to the likelihood of the early adoption in this country of a system of free education, Mr. Mundella writes that he could not hold out any hope of a realisation of his wishes. He, however, points out that under the Education Act the foe can be paid for indigent children.  "Thoughts in my Garden" is the title of a selection from the papers of the late Mortimer Collins, edited by Mr. Edmund Yates, which will be brought out early in August by Messrs. Bentley and Son. The work will be issued in two volumes, and will contain notes by the editor and Mrs. Mortimer Collins.—Athosessi. We (Atheneum) are glad to be able to announce that Mr. F. C. Burnand, the author of " Happy Thoughts," succeeds the late Mr. Tom Taylor us editor of Posed. Mr. Burnand has for some years been the most popular ot the contributors to the journal, and he will, no doubt, prove a worthy euccessor to Mark Lemon and Shirley Brooks.  Ai Suffolk Assizes Mr. Jenningb, solicitor, pleaded guilty to having unlawfully voted at lye wieb 1 wow+ el,tion. he being a paid agent for the liberalcandidate. The defunct: was inadvertency. Baron Pollock said the offence was not so StriMUS as bribery, and fined defendant 200.  At Derby Assizes, John Wakefield was sentenend to death or the murder of a young girl named Eliza Wilkinson, a hawker. Prisoner had enticed the girl, who ,Alled at his house, to enter, and then cut her throat, going afterwards to the police-station and confessing his crime.  At the Liverpool Assizes, Ezra Male, charged with the murder of Matthew Robert Foulkes, an Orangeman, at Liverpool, on the 17th of July, after deceased's return from an Orange dtmonstration, was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude.