Widnes Examiner. — 1882-10-07 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MISCELLANEOUS. The time present Lord Mayor of London has received fo.- ‘Li,Jo°oo during his year of office in response to his appeals e charitable The • orning Post states that there will shortly be I,4lo,ther 2pr vacancy on the udicial bench, as the Right Hon. r t Phillimore is expects_cl to resign. sttllnternational Conference will meet on October 16th rorr aris, to discuss the terms of the convention providing ,rt,he protection of submarine telegraph lines. gin'lle office of Mayor of Accrington is almost going begAlderman 'Rhodes refused it a week ago, and now • Councillor Bury has refused the offered honour. 0-el'i;le Steamship Helen Crawford, of Coatbridge, laden with 041%4°11, sank in the Forth of Clyde canal, after collision, tit oaturday morning, and the captain and engineer were O°W, lied. arlics the arrest of Novitsky in Hamburg a few days since, call tile bonds stolen by him in London from a fellowis,,latrYinan have been recovered. Their total value is esti-cited at £15,500, 441)cierby had the lowest annual rate of mortality last week, pe Preston the highest, the figures being respectively 13 7 le,ooo and 32.6 per 1,000. In Liverpool the death rate "3 45 0 per 1,000 per annumn. prk body of Augustinian Friars, who were expelled from ar:llce by the March edicts, have settled at Bodmin. They th ef the same order as the canons who were expelled from ,art town during the Reformation. ti aoproachcng marriage is annoLinced of the Princess thalta Isabella, cousin of the King of Bavaria, and sister of tse tmlpress of Austria, ,with the Duke of Genoa, cousin of "e King and brother of the Queen of Italy. an named Harrine-ton was on'Tuesday committed for ,Tal at Bantry for the alleged murder of his wife. The woman a 8 found dead in a well, and the theory put forward is that re must have been held down in the water until she became d setting aril ;irinking " was the explanation for his misIseedsgiven by Thomas Henry James, who was committed zviF trial from Birkenhead, on Tuesday, charged with embezAllilalg £24 19s. Gd. belonging to M Graham, tallow " !Idler, of that town, in whose service -he had been as a. Hector. a Lovell, the convict, who escaped from Blillbank, was „Wested on Sunday, in Southwark, while in company with Ze other men. Lovell, after re-arrest, stated that he passed etland-yard after escaping in his convict's dress, and was 4ctaally not recognised by two constables standing in the gate Way. This statement is obviously open to much doubt. Sa. Private letter received at Plymouth from Callao, says a peat gloom has been caused in the British squadron on the :211th-east coast by the death of Captain G. R. Hope, late of `l'e Champion, and of A. E. W. Stephens, late of the Thetis 411 e former at Honolulu by a fall from his horse, and the tter at Callao, from diphtheria. ~Nathaniel Coton, describing himself as a" military officer 7 Well as a clergyman," and also as first cousin to Lord llstice Cotton, was charged at Wandsworth, on Monday, being drunk and behaving in an eccentric manner, ig a crow I to assemble in the public street. The ,mer, upon promising not to repeat his conduct, was disand left the court laughing, stating that he was of a frolic. under a hearthstone is not a good place to hide bank notes tkothrifty Irishman, having three £5O notes which he wished , place out of the way of his wife, buried them under the .(earthstone, but he had not taken into consideration the Predations of crickets. When, some months after the ferment, the notes were looked for, only a few shreds of I remained, these extravagant vermin having eaten the aclred and fifty- pounds worth in that short time. Mr. Gladstone, on leaving Penmaenmawr, on Tuesday afternoon, was escorted to the railway station by a large rr of persons. The train being late, Mr. Charles shire expressed the gratification Mr. Gladstone's visit given the inhabitants of Penmaenmawr, and hoped it ssietild be soon renewed. The Premier acknowledged the Znipliment, saying how glad he was to renew acquaintance "ith such pleasant surroundings. He referred Blighty to leVeral political questions, and also to the development of Prosperity, and on leaving was loudly cheered. . 4RE