The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-11-14 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

BRUTAL MURDER.  A shocking murder was perpetrated at Upton, an extensive colliery village, three miles from Con' pett, in the county of Durham, on Saturday. Hugh Daley, a married maa, returned home drunk betwcen five and six o'clock in the evening. After partaking of some food he was assisted into bed by his wife sail a neighbour. Subrequentiv, Philip Burdy, a single man, entered Daley'. house, and immediately afterwards, Daley, who had part of his clothes off, jarnped out of bed and picked up a heavy iron poker. Burdy ran outside, but was followed by Daley, wise dealt him a violent blow on the head. After delivering the blow Daley returned to his , own house, but about ten minutes afterwards be , returned to where l'iurdy lay unconscious, and with ' the poker in both hands commenced to batter in the man's head, and continued to do so until the arrival of a police•officer, who semsed him. Joe. lousy is supposed to have been the OMNI of the murder.  The Earl of Dudley has joined in the oontroversy reepectiag the nse of th.• Worcester Cathedral for mnsical festival.. In a letter published no Saturday he says that the Dean and Chapter never p'edged themselves either to gr,nt or to refuse the woe of the Cathedral for festivals. 'Party polities are ignored in Nevada," wrote the editor of the :Her Spun,'led Banner. Ells intelligent compositor set it up, "Party politicians are ignorant" The editor got mad, hut the subscribers wanted to promote the compositor t editorin-el:lief for his knowledge of the situation.  The chief item of general news by the China mail, arrived on Monddy, is that Prince Rung has been degraded to the second class of princeship. and his son shares in the punishment. The cause is said to be spite on the part of the Emperor. From Japan there is little news. With a view of adding to its force, the tiovernment had resorted to a general conscription oF all melee between twenty and thirty years of age. A robbery has been committed at the Eaal of Armes .town house during the absence of the family In Ireland. It was discovered on their return that a number of locked pressas and wardrobes had been cpened with fahe keys, and a quantity of valuable property stolen. The knowledge displayed of the various parts of the premises and the places where property had been deposited, leaves, it is stated, little doubt that the robbery vas effected ether by or with the connivance of some person or Lorsons acquainted with the house and its contente.  A London correspondent writes :—I hear that the Queen will leave Balmoral in the early part of nest week in order to arrive at Windsor on the -rning of the 19th instant, and that the christening of her infant grandchild, the son of the Duke and Dnchess of 1-:dinburgh, will take place at the e.istle within a day or two afterwards. There has teen some little doubt and curiosity as to whether the Empress of Russia would be present at the ceremony, bt,t I have good reason for stating that her Majesty will take part in the proceedings, and that she will act leave England before the 27th I inst. The Grand Duke will return to the continent I next Saturday. Mr. Gladstone's book on the Vatican Decrees" is as yet ( writes a Dublin correspondent) corn. n eutel upon only by tin, Protestant Irish press. 'lle Roman Catholic journals are silent regarding it. The Jr. ming Mail treats it as a bid for ,power— ' a higher, but not more honest, Protestant bid than I Mr. Ineraeti's. This, substantially, is the view taken by all the Conservative Protestant Press. The Dublin Ereninr, Post, Roman Catholic journal, , complains that Dr. Meaning's recent language is , ealcalated to induce the idea that the general , supremacy claimed by Ultramontaniszn for the Pope is temporal and not spiritual only, which it represents as the true dogma of the Roman Catholic Church  BIfiTHDAT OF