The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-06-28 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  Victoria Mill, occupied by Mesbrs. T. and W. Hall, manufacturers, at Windhill, near Bradford, was burnt down in about two hours on Friday night. Sir Bartle Frere, who is now in London, ham been warmly congratulated by bis friends on the success of his expedition to the Kat Coast of Africa. Sir Bartle is in excellent health. •  It is announced that small.pox has broken out in a violent form at Chatham, and that in one of the setzkria factories 29 women and girls have been at.  Dr. Charles Belie, the well-known traveller, has been suffering from diarrhoea :,nd suppressed gout, and be is still seriously ill at Paris, where he is stopping on his way from Nice to London. The Bishop of Norwich has consented to preach the usual sermon at the approaching meeting at Norwich of the National Association for the promotion of Social Science. The sermon will be preached on the let of October.  At the inquest on the victims of the fire at the Alexandra Palace on Monday, the evidence showed that there was a good supply of water, but no means of carrying it to the spot where the fire on mated. A new college has been opened in London, under the name of the London Civil Service and Military College. The principal is Dr. Heinemann, F.R.G.S., whose lectures at the Crystal Palace upon Modern History and the Literature of the Fine Arts are no doubt familiar to many of our readers. A young man named Thomas Irving has been sem tenced to a year's imprisonment by the borough magistrates for having taken part in a murderous assault on ,three police-constables in a beerhouse on Saturday night. The prisoner, with several other men, had thrown the officers from the top of a flight of stairs over the bannisters, a distance of sixteen feet. The Sunday Rest Association held a most successful meeting in London on Wednesday. The primate pre. sided. The report indicated that the society's sphere of action was rapidly extending, a strong appeal, however, being made for an increase of funds, in order to perfect a scheme which will tend to greatly further its objects. . . _  --Wo-iiiisea beach was the scene of an alarming accident on Sunday afternoon. About a hundred persons had collected on a long and narrow landing stage, although cautioned as to its insecurity. Suddenly the stage broke, and the whole party were plunged into deep water. The majority were rescued by boats, but it is feared that many were drowned. The parishioners of the Rev.lV. E. 1). Carter, one of the magistrates who tried the seventeen women at Chipping Norton, have presented to him an address of sympathy in his present trying circumsbinces. Speak. lag from a knowledge of the rev, gentlemen daring a quarter of a century, they testify to the uniform kindness and sympathy with the poor which helms displayed among them, . .  The. Royal Geographical Society met on Monday under the presidency of Sir Bartle Frere, who announced that the Queen, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, has given a pension of £3OO a year to Dr. Livingstone. The pension is to date from July, 1872, and will be paid to Mr. James Young O'Kelly and Mr. John Murray as *ustees. Sir Bartle Frere Lauded to Mr. Young the gold medal which he had received from King Victor Emanuel in trust for Dr. Livingstone. . . . . .  Th; Tichborne trial was nigh coming to a collapse on Saturday front a cause wholly unexpected. The Claimant Was "on view" at Leeds, and visited the Royal Park, where he narrowly escaped what might have proved a very serious accident. He had just mounted the orchestra, and was stepping to the front to address the crowd, when the flooring gave way, and Claimant and company disappeared, falling a depth of eight feet into a cellar beneath. Fortunately, none of the party were seriously hurt—not even the Claimant. An excursion train that was conveying Midland Railway employi's from the Bradford and Leeds district to Buxton, on Saturday, met with a serious accident at Wingfield, near Chesterfield. The tyre of the driving.wheel broke, and the engine fell down an embankment, dragging with it the first carriage. A railway clerk and a lady from Leeds were killed, and fourteen other persons sustained severe injuries. The driver saved his life by jumping from his engine, but the stoker was very badly scalded.