The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-10-29 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  The quantity of Indian tea imported to England from the lot of January to the list of August, thi* year was 13.&38.:m01b.. as conmared with 8,03,M1b. during the same period last year. At the Freston Comity /Jetty Sessions, on Saturday, John Harrison, of •E'ishwick, was lined £5 sod 1.08 o for neglecting to give information that two of bis heifers were affected by the foot and mouth dine me. We (Times) regret to announce the death, on Saturday, of Sir JalliC,l Hill, the Chief Charity Commissioner. Sir James, who was returning from the Continent, where he had been spending a portion of the vacation, was taken ill at Folkestone, and died there rather suddenly from heart disease. AD. George James Taylor, a middle-aged gentleman, was riding on the Brighton Downs on Saturday after. noon, when a couple of boys frightened his horse, musing is to bolt. Mr. Taylor was thrown, and died on the way to the hospital. Singular to stato, there were no external marlin of injory. John Hodge, a labourer, employed at a sugar re. finery at Greenock, met with a fearful death on Saturday morning, through falling into one of the cauldrons through which the hot liquor was passing. Ho was literally boiled to death, nod his body was not recovered for about two hours alter the occur-01108.  Two soldiers, privates in the 20th Hussars, stationed at Hounslow, wore remanded at the l3rentford Petty Sessions, on Saturday, for assaulting a pawnbroker of Hounslow, the prosecutor having received so serious a shock front the assault as to be unable to attend to give evidence against his assailants.  The Government of India have awarded the sum of .£2,800 to be distributed among the Bombay detective police force, in recognition of mervices rendered in discovering the plot to murder Colonel Yintyre, late resident at Beretta, and for recovering valuable jewels and other property belonging to the liaroda State.  -Peter Farrell, a Genoese seaman, was charged at Bow Street. on Saturday, with the wilful murder of a brother sailor. The case against him had been heard previously before the British consul at Marseilles, but sent to an English Court as the proper tribunal. The man, who is said to have confessed the crime, stands remanded.  Dr. Neilson Hancock has published his volume for 1875 of judicial and criminal statistics in Ireland. He states that, in every case, with the exception of drum kenness, a diminution of crime has been manifested for the past four yews. Last year there was an increase of ejectinents, chiefly for non-payment of root; and litigation in questions under the Land Act shows no abatement—rather tho opposite. We regret to announce the sudden death of Mr. James Francis Denby, the well-known artist. The deceased went to bed in his usual health on Thursday last, but in the course of the night had a fit of apoplexy, and died the next afternoon. Mr. Denby was the son of the late Francis Hanby, A.R.A.. and was born at Bristol in 1816. He was a constant exin'oitor at the Academy, and at the Society of British Artists.  The first steamer ever seen afloat in Cashmere was launched at Srinagar on the 13th of last month, in the presence of the Maharajah and a large number of European and native visitors, tho former of whom were entertained afterwards bythoMaharajah at a splendid banquet. The steamer was presented by the Punjab Government for assistance rendered by his Highness to the Yarkand expedition.