The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-11-22 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

LIVERPOOL.  The Liverpool School Board election took place on Wednesday amid almost perfect quiet. No excitement was visible, the only special feature being the activity displayed in bringing up and instructing Roman Catholic voters, a great many of whom are illiterate.  A ministerial crisis in Hungary appears imminent. M. Deak continues seriously ill. Dr. Brindley, the well-known lecturer on infidelity, died suddenly in New York a few. da3 $ aa.o. _  The Rev. Mr. Wallace, of Ipswich:has-been appointed Roman Catholic chaplain in the Gold Coast expedi.lor, and has left for the seat of war.  The Telegraph says: The next Cabinet Council will Le held on Friday. It is still expected that the present series of meetings will terminate at the end of the month, and that most of the Ministers will leave town at the begir fling of December.  The greatest preparations are being made for the celebration, next Sunday, of the anniversary of the execution of the Fenians who were hanged for the murder of Constable Brett. Contingents will visit Dublin from Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and other towns. At a meeting of the London School Board en Wednesday, a letter was read from Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P. offering £l2O for a scholarship for four years for scholars proceeding from public olementary schools in the metropolis to higher schools. . _ _ _  The death is announced at New York of the Patiia of the American Church, the Rev. Dr. Ezekiel G. Gear, its qldest Presbyter, who had been in the priesthood for 59 years. In his earlier days he was an active worker as a missionary among the Indians, and Bishop Whipple, at his funeral bore eloquent testimony to his zeal and earnestness.  Sir John Coleridge was on Wedesnday morning sworn in before the Lord Chancellor, at Lincoln's Inn' as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. The Attorney. General is to be made a Privy Councillor. a precedent which it is intended to follow in future cases. It is also understood that after the Judicature Bill comes into operation, the law officers of the Crown in Liberal Governments will not have any claim to the Chief Justiceships should they fall vacant.  It will eve some notion of the vastness of the spoil of war that has fallen into German hands, irrespective of the pecuniary indemnity, when it is stated that the share of gun-metal from captured cannon allotted to Bavaria alone, as the due of her two army corps, amounts to no less than 460 tons. Of this King Louis has ordered 50 tons to, be distributed to certain parishes to be turned into the church bells they are in need of. The rest is handed over to the Bavarian Government arms foundry for future conversion into German guns. A singular case of swindling is reported from Wolverhampton. The other day a "London solicitor" called upon the widow of a person who at one time held a colliery appointment under Mr. Gladstone, and upon representing that £5OO had been bequeathed to her, obtained the sum of £ll 10s., and then absconded. It is stated that the swindler has been practising upon Government annuitants, and that he has victimised many poor people. Considerable excitement was caused in the neighbourhood of Liverpool Exchange on Wednesday by the • issuing of dense volumes of smoke from the upper storey of the north side of the buildings. An alarm was given, when it was discovered that the sample room of Messrs. Newgass and Rosenheim, cotton brokers, was on fire, A hose was immediately taken up to the top, and a good supply of water being available, the fire was got under; not, however, before considerable damage had been done to:the roof.  Among the many present tokens of friendliness between Germany and Austro-Hungary, it is to be observed that the latter Empire has lately despatched rome of the chief railway officials from each of its two official divisions to Berlin, charged to study the new iegulations drawn up by the German Railway Department. This is done avowedly with the view of modelling its own upon them as far as possible, and thus making the improved railway intercourse between the Empires .thoroughly available to the subjects of each, under conditions which shall be equally applicable on either side of the frontier.