The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-05-28 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE EXAMINE:EL  FRIDAY, MAY 28, 18M.  The premises of Mr. J. Morgan, varnish manufacturer, Bromley, has been destroyed by fire. The damage was estimated at £50,000.  The Duke of Abercorn has accepted the captaincy of the Irish Rifle Eight for 1875, and proposes—to present for the ninth time, a silver cup for the All Comers' Match in June.  A man named Wiesinger has been arrested at Vienna, for attempting to extort money from Father Beckx, General of the Jesuits. lie is suspected of having offered to assassinate Prince Bismarck.  The sum if £1.500 was on Tuesday voted out of the Mansion House Explosion Fund for the relief of the sufferers from the Bunkea's Hill CO.lipry explosion, £3OO more being offered, if necessary, kroyided a similar sum was raised iii the.distnet.  The revenue returns from April Ist to May 22nd, 1875, were as follow :—Revenue. £10,776,068; expenditure. £12,488.112; balances. £4,215.119. In the corresponding period of last year they were :—Revenue, £10,120,032; expenditure. £11,932,952; balances, £5,132,521. The Registrar-General reports during the week 4,785 births and 3.303 deaths in twentyone large cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The average rate of mortality in these towns was 22 per 1,000. The rate in London was 20; Edinburgh. 20; Glasgow, 28; Dublin, ' 23; Leicester, 15 ; Sunderland. 18; Newcastle. 19; Nottingham. 21; Bristol, 22; Birmingham, 23; Liverpool, 23; Wolverhampton, £4; Sheffield, 26; Leeds, 27; Manchester, 27; and Bradford, 32.  At Owestry, Arthur Morris, son of a former Mayor of the town, has been committed for trial at the next Shropshire Assizes for attempting to murder Mary Mason, a servant at his mother's house. The prosecutrix, who appeared to be very ill, stated that she was about to leave her situation for Liverpool with the prisoner on the night of the attack, and they were to be married there. He was hi her bed room talking for half an hour, when suddenly he stabbed her in six or seven  places. The annual Council of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union was opened on Tuesday at the Cherry-street Schools m this town. Mr. Macdonald, M.P., .presided, and delivered an inaugural address. He took the opportunity of replying to Mr. Bright's remarks with respect to trades unions, and endeavoured to prove that it was owing to the formation of unions that the moral and social condition of  the working classes had so greatly improved of recent years. He impressed upon the delegates the necessity of having their interests represented in the House of Commons. Mr. Joseph Arch and others afterwards addressed the  conference, and the general business was then proceeded with. In the evening a public meeting was held in the Town Nall, at which Mx. S. Wright presided.  Mr. Anthony J. Biddulph, of Kilburn. a justice of the peace, and cousin to the late Sir Roger Tiebborne, is naturally indignant that his portrait should have been published in the Englishman without his consent, and fears lest some of his friends and the outside public should, therefore, judge him to be a partisan of Dr. Kenealy. Mr. Bidaulph says, "Apart from my co-operation during the Tiebborne trial with Dr. Kenealy in the defence of the man I believed, and still believe, to be my cousin. I have had no communication with Dr. Kenealy, his revolutionary principles being being utterly repugnant to my ideas of order."