Widnes Examiner. — 1881-11-19 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

IPHYLLIN.'l, roots,  ,AN  The man, Snell, who is charged with the murder of his master in Nottinghamshire; was on Tuesday committed for trial.  Mr. Nicholson, silk manufacturer, is about to provide a free library and museum for Leak. The steamer Alverton, of Cardiff, while on a voyage from Bilbao to Cette, with pig iron, has been totally lost. Crew saved. . _ _  A verdict of manslaughter has, by a coroner's jury, been retuned against a boy named Joiner, at Birmingham, in connection with the death of a girl shot by him on the  sth." The writ for the election of a member of Parliament for Stafford was received on Thursday by the Mayor of the borough, and the election was fixed to take place on Satur day. • A person named Watson, Of Openshaw, is in custody, being remanded, for tampering with post-office servants at Manchester, with a view to obtaining information from racing telegrams. Tee sum of £B,OOO bequeathed .by the late Mr. James CLirk, of Ralston, senior partner of Mess-s. Clark and Co., Anchor Mills, Paisley has just been paid over to the treasurer or he Paisley Infirmary. The terms of the concession made by Sir Thomas Gladstone to his tenantry are that he has given a deduction of 20 per cent. for crop 1881, and has promised 10 per cent. for crop 1882 whether it be favourable or unfavourable. In a cargo of bones from Turkey now being landed at Dundee. a Russian gun cartridge, loaded, was discovered. 'if this cartridge had gone through the machine it might have destroyed the works and the lives of the men employed in them. ,  Addressing an agricultural meeting at Slough, on Saturday night, Colonel F. Burnaby said that "the Free Trade swindle was devised for the benefit of the rich man, who drew money from foreign securities, and not for ,the tillers of the soil."  On Wednesday morning last the vault of a new church being built at Milan gave way. One workman was killed on the spot, four were picked up in a dyiug state, and two others seriously injured. The disaster is attributed to the bad materials and imperfect construction.  A religious census of Ipswich, taken on Sunday by the East Anglian Daily Times, shows the number who attended places of worship in the morning to be 14,492, out of a population of 53,000. The Church of England had 6,60 A attendants, and the Nonconformists 7,264, while 584 at public institutions where the church service is used.  The strike in the Potteries for an advance of wages is I rapidly extending. It is computed that up to Friday evening more than 30,000 operatives were idle—either voluntarily or by reason of the action of the malcontents,—and on Saturday many additional factories were brought to a stoppage. There is no sign of concession on either side. The Marquis of Lorne' replying to an address presented to the Princess Louise and himself, on Tuesday, by a deputation from the Chester Town Council, expressed himself highly confident in tile loyalty of the Canadians to the mother country. Ile said that England might occasionally he spoken of in Canada as if she were "the old woman who had so many children see did nor know what to do ;' but such language'was probably only used by one person in ten thousand