The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1880-12-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

GENERAL ITEMS.  In the Queen's Bench —Division on Monday, Lord Coleridge delivered judgment in Vo. cOOO ef IMWI2 111 the Rev I'. Pelham Dale. The court decided against ?sir. Dale on every point raised by his counsel; and the rev. gentleman was taken back to Holloway prison. The rule for a wilt of habeas corpus in the Case of the Rev. It. W. Enraght, of Bordesley, subsequently came on for argument; but their lordships holding that there was no real distinction between the two cases, discharged the rule with coats._  Two murderers were executed in Newgate on Monday morning—Williami Herbert, for the murder of his sisterin-law n Finsbury-park ; and George Pavey, for outraging and then murdering a child at Action. Both men appeared penitent, anti were firm while OD the drop. Marwood was the executioneer. A service paper says that the carpenters of the navy are beginning to think themselves entitled to rank as commissioned officers, contending that they ate not educated in the service, but bring a profession afloat with them. The truth is, they are jealous of the diitinction conferred up di the engineers; but our contemporary says there is not the sdghtest chance of the present Board of Admiralty listening to their claims. The Socialists are being attacked with great energy by the authorities in South Germany. The total imports of foreign stock into the port of London last week amounted to 9,160 head. The agent of Mr. Peacock attended at Ballinger on Saturday to collect rents, but he was mobbed by the villagers. The Dublin University Senate has conferred the onorary degree of LL.D. upon General Sir F. Roberts. The Government are about to institute inquiries into the shameful extent to which infant mortality prevails throughout the country. The South-Western Railway station at Ilfracombe has been burned out by a fire, said to have been caused by an explosion of gas in the ticket office. Information has been received at the India Office that the Marquis of Ripon is very much better, and is making satisfactory progress towards recovery...  Sir Alexander Campbell, of Barcaldine and Glenure. county Argyll, died on Saturday at Wimbledon, from congestion of the lungs, in the 62ud year of his age. The Radnorshire magistrates have resolved that in consequence of the "Rebecca" riots constables shall be permitted to carry cutlasses in the disturbed districts. The Chinese Government have made a contract with the Vulcan firm in Stettin for the construction of an ironclad of 7,500 tons. At the Sheffield Police-court on Monday Mary Annie Wilmot, one of the professional nurses at the Nurses' Home, was again brought up charged with attempting to kill Mrs. Booth, wife of the local surgeon, by the achninstration of morphia. Nearly the whole day wsa occupied in the examination of Mr. Pye-Smith. He gave it as his decided opinion that Mrs. Booth was suffering from morphia poisoning. The nurse, Mary Annie Wilmot, was committed for trial on the cha-ge of administering poison to Mrs. Booth. The accused declared her entire innocence of the charge. Mime. Thiers died in Paris on Saturday. In Russia there are at last signs of a general fall in the price of bread. President Hayes has arranged to leave America for England in May next.