The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-03-19 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE EXAMINER  MARCEUI9, 18M.  The rumour that Sir Stirling Maxwell would shortly resign his seat for Perthshire is without foundation. _ . .  --In the House of Commons, on Monday night, the Birmingham and Lichfield Junction Railway Bill was read a second time. The boiler of the Bala, of Dundee, exploded at Selby, on Monday. The captain, engineer, and fireman were severely scalded. •  The iron shipbuilders on the Tyne, who 'lave been on strike for six weeks, have returned to work at their former wages. A t,leg,ram from Berlin states that confidential communications are passing between the German and Italian Governments on the future Papal election.  Enter 7Tuesday has been fixed for the emecutim of John Morgan, who was convicted at .tahe Maidstone Assizes of the murder of a comrade named Joseph Fulstone, by cutting his throat.  We learn from Washington that the negotiations respecting the Virginias were settled by the payment of eighty thousand dollars on the gth inot., and on the 11th Mr. Cushing recognised ling Alphonso's Government.  A thousand men and boys belonging to the Durham Miners' Ass vciation struck work, at Wearmaith Colliery, on Monday, owing to the masteris having refused to discharge 18 non-animists who have for some time been employed at the colliery. 111.. interview at Sheffield between the representatives of the colliery owners of South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire and the npresentatives of the miners. remitted in an arrangement that the wages of the men should be reduced ten per cent. This decision amts 20,000 workmen.  A Gorman, named Wilhelm Kohn, has been arrested on board the Bremen steamer Nuremburg, at Southampton, charged with embezzling £lO.OOO from his employer, at Vienna. Only £.50 were found on him. He was handed over to the authorities, and will probably be tried in London.  The Pope, in his allocution on the appointment of new Cardinals, deplored that the schools should, even in Rome, be withdrawn from the guardianship of the Church, condemned the promulgation of official orders in winch the Vatican decrees were falsified, and praised the German clergy.  rhe total rece:pts from revenue into the National Exchequer from the Ist April to the 13th inst., were £71,413,116; in the corresponding period of last year they were £73,318,117. The expenditure was £69,704,627 against £71,972,691 last year. The balance in the Bank of England on Saturday was £5,247,928, and in the Bank of I..eland, £1,236,789.  The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Birmingham and Staffordshire GasLight Company was held on Tuesday, at the offices of the company, Old Square, under the presidency of Mr. George Heaton. The halfyearly report and the balance sheet were adopted, and a dividend of 10 per cent, per annum on the capital raised under the Bth and 9th Vie., and 7f per cent, per annum on the capital raised under the 21st Vic. was declared payable on the 25th instant. e• The Registrar-General's return for the week ending Saturday last, shows the number of deaths per 1,000 to have been :—Edinburgh, 24; Glasgow, 37; Dublin, 33, Portsmouth, 23; Sunderland, 26; Sheffield, 26; Bradford, 27: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 27; London, 28; Bristol, 28; Leeds, 29; Birmingham, 30; Leicester, 30; Nottingham, 31; Liverpool, 32; Norwich, 32; Manchester, 32; Hull, 34; Salford, 35; Oldham, 40; and Wolverhampton, 44. Average rate, 30.  The adjouvned investigation into the circumstances surrounding the terrible accident on the Great Western Railway, on the 24th December last, was resumed and concluded at Oxford. on Tuesday: The juries found that the fatal injuries to the persons whose deaths had been the subject of inquiry were purely accidental, and were primarily caused by the influence of the atmosphere on the tire of the wheel of the third-class carnage 845. They added a number 14 recommendations, which. adopted by railway companies, would in their opinion have a tendency to prevent the recurrence of such calamities.  A