The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-05-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

RESPITE OF THE LIVERPOOL MURDSRESS.—In response to a memorial sent by Mr Ballard, the foreman of the jury who tried the case, and who had added a strong recommendation to mercy, the Home Secretary has informed Mr Ballard that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to respite the execution of Emily Jones, who was sentenced to death at the Liverpool Assiees for the murder of her child, fifteen months old, by strangulation. FIRE Is Mescnatiran.—On Saturday night the premises of Messrs S. and W. Beresford, wholesale grocers, With), Grove, Manchester, were almost completely destroyed by fire, which is believed to have originated from a , fine in the adjoining premises. The damage is roughly estimated at £lB,OOO, and is partially covered by insurance in various offices. A deputation of the Northumberland colliery enginemen, headed by Mr Weighill, the secretary, waited on the Northumberland coal-owners on Saturday afternoon, at the Coal Trade Office, Newcastle, requesting an advance of wages. The owners gave a similar reply to that given to the delegates of the miners on Thursday, and that was, a 'refusal to accede to their request. WHAT A PATRIOTIC CORPORATION DID IN A Caisis.—The following quaint paragraph anent an old Yorkshire corporation is worth reproducing. It is from the Monthly Magazine for 1798, and reads 'The Corporation of Hull have very patriotically resolved to sub. scribe £5OO towards the exigencies of the State in this alarming crisis. For this purpose the salary of the Mayor is to be discontinued, and an address has been agreed to, reoommer ding his Worship to give no more public dinners on any acaount whatever." Deprived of his salary, and then asked to depense with his public dinners, the Mayor of '9B must have felt that all the swects of offie were departing from him. BREACHES or Puostisz.—A. correspondent points out the interesting fact that actions for breach of promise of marriage, though not as hold as the bills, have the sanction of antiquity. This is shown by an extract from a collection of sermons printed in the year 1558, which reads as follows:—' And bicause for lacke I knowledge how sortie contraries" [viz., the' contractes of Matri. media") "ought to be duely piade, and for omittyng of soche thynges as be necessarie for the same, it cha,unceth oftentymes that the parties change their myndes, and will not kepe that promise of mariaga whiche seemed to haue passed retwene them before; whereupon cometh and groweth betwene soche persones and their fredes ffrierds] grete grudge and hatered, and greate suit in Lawe."  TRE GOVERNMENT AND ME ANDERSON'S RACE CounsE Bu.x.—A contemporary asks the sober and respectable portion of the supporters of the present Government be surprised to hear that they have actually issued a whip in the House of Lo,ges with the object of defeating tile Bill for tbe Suppression of the Suburban Race Nuisance? The allian3e of Beer and Bible was bad • enough; the effusive gratitude of the Premier towards his ruffianly supporters from the music-halls was still worse; hut in the lowest depth there is still a lower deep. The Government extends its protecting togis over4hose suburban gatherings of blacklegs and pigeons, of rogues and fools, which are so profitable to a certain , class of publicans, and which sometimes have the patronage of men who ought to be better employed than in the demoralisation of the people. Is the support of the betting fraternity so valuable that the Government allows , twit thus to be dragged through the mud?  hinsurus Pasha had audiences of the Premier and Lord Salisbury on Tuesday. Trotts Hall farm, Sittingbourne, was entirely destroyed on Tuesday by fire, supposed to be the worn. of an incendiary, and a young man is in custody on suspicion. By the fall of a scaffold in Sheffield on Tuesday twelve persons were precipits,ted to the ground, but only one was seriously M.  Mr Chaa. Potts, an Oxford undergraduate, and the son of Archdeacon Potts, died at Oxford on Tuesday morning from injuries sustained through being thrown out of a trap. Justice Lus`i is the learned judge presiding at Warwick Assizes. A prisoner after being convicted on Thursday was heard to say that it was the only time he had ever had to complain of having too much "lush." The Congregational Union of England and Wales on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution strongly condemning the foreign policy of the Government, declaring the Afghan and Zulu wars tranecessary, and therefore criminal, and calling for an effort tr,wards the adoption of more worthy policy.