The Poole Telegram. — 1880-11-26 (Poole, Dorset, England)

GENERAL ITEMS.  The agitation for an advance of wages in the cotton trade is being renewed in North-east L aucasbire. MEETING OF BISHOPS —lt is st tted tuat there will be a meeting of hish 4at Ltrobeth or. December 7to consider the winkle- •ie Burials Act. Mr. W. It h'.one (Liberal and Mr. 11. J. Nanney (Conservative) were on Tuesday nominated for Caruarvonshire. The polling takes place next Tuesday The Mark Lane Express says that the delay in wheatsowing, caused by the pre•ient severe weather, is beginning to assume a serious aspect •ri the di, triiiis in which seeding is backward. Thrashing coat:lmes to show that the wheat crop is very deficient. I understand Mr. Gladstone in the canna of last week ri3ceived two letters, "tie from Lord Shatteshuey and the other from Lord Fitzwilli en, urging him to take some immediate action so as to put an end to the anarchy now rampant in Ireland.— World The death is announced of Field-Marshal 3tr Charles Yorke. a Waterloo veteran, aud the olde•it field marshal in the British Army. The deceased officer, who was Ginstable of the Tower and C ilonel-Cornmsnchnt ot the Rifle Briga.le. was within a few ilays of his 90i,h year. The Government of India, on the recommendation of Genera+ Sir F. Roberts. has suggested that a Companionship of the B.ith should be conferred upon all offizers who commanded regiments in the ruereh from Caleil to Csndahar. It is stattd that Colonel Baker is to be created a K.C.B. A Liverpool paper understands that a conftrance of N nconformists will shortly he held to consider vshaesteris shell he taken to get rid of the enactment requirkg that the local registrar shell be present at all marriages celehreted in places of worship other than the churches belonging to the Establishment. General Roberts is to be invited to dine on St i'esedrewea Des, with the Scottish Corporation, and several other eflii!ers who have served in Afghanistan will he present with him. Tne Queen has subscribed 100 towards the expenses of the banquet, aud similar sums have been given by the Duke of Buceleuch and the Earl of Fife. The-hatter nobleman is to preside over the banquet. A fatal railway collision occurred on Monday morning on the Manchester, Seeffield, and Lincoln Railway. A goods train ran inte a coal train, killing the driver of the former, and smashing the rolling-stock. The collision happened at Northoupe station, near Gaintaborough. 3t is said that the signal was against the goods train, but owing to the fi ig it was not seen until too late. Great excitement prevails in the fashionable world to get the first copies of the Earl of Beaconsfield's new novel, Eadymion. It appears that the noble Eirl receiees from the publishers the sum of £12.000 foi• the capyright. Many people have been wondering, Iron' time to time,why Lord Beaconsfield had retired so completely into private life. The mystery is unravelled in Endymion. The convict William Joseph Distin was executed in Bristol gaol on Monday morning for the murder of his paramour, a woman named Daniels. The criminal was RO prostrate with terror at the last moment that he had to be supported on the drop by two warders. and it was found necessary to give him a stimulant to prevent oollapse. Marwood was the executioner. Death appeared to be instantaneous, the drop being nesrly 91 C. The corpse haying remained suanended for an hour, it was Wien down and placed in a coffiu,and a formalinquest was subsequently hel On Monday morning Mr. Bromwich, a grocer and provision dealer in Walsall. heard noises which awl him to believe there was an intruder in the house, and on going downstairs he found a man engaged in ransacking the shop. Without hesitation he fired at hirn with a revolver which he carried, and the fellow male off as fast as he could. Mr. Bromwich discharged another shot at him as he rushed through the sitting-room, and yet another after he hal reached the street. It is believed that the man wea hit on the legs. All thet was missed was acme copper money. "WE DON'T WANT To