The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-01-02 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

WELTERS.  Gorgeburyi Dee. 22." • Is it difficult to guess the result of such a visit? The old baronet shook the garrison steeplechaser by the hand, introduced him to ' his friends as the fool who lost the run of the season to save his daughter's life, talked to him of the -claims which he had so delicately refrained from pressing. He ended by such a burst' of generous enthusiasm inlavour of 'the stranger from Lucerne, as made Lucy the happiest of her father's guests; and convinced the greatest stickler for icicles and hollyberrieithat • the sports of Christmas are as capable of bearing fruit as its pastimes.-:—Once a 'Week.  •  ittiorellaneous netvo and Acme Oriootp. ,  The Empress of Russia is about to embark at Nice for  .16 Queen's letter has arrived in Dublin appointing Dr. Ball Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Hugh Daley was hanged at Durham, on Monday morning, for the murder of Philip Burdey. The culprit died quietly. • News reached London from Madrid on Wednesday of an Alphonsist pronunciamento by General Martinez Campos, at the head of two battalions in the province of Valencia. At a crowded and upzoarions meeting of the ratepayers of Lambeth, on Wednesday. it was decided by a large majority not to adopt the Free Libraries Act for the borough. There was a firework and bonfire carnival in Lewes on Wednesday. Matters passed off tamely. The celebration was postponed from Guy Fawke's night in consequence of the prevaleneo of typhoid fever at that time, A New York telegram states that the Rex, from Pensacola for England, has gone ashore on the Bahama banks. Fears are entertained for the safety of the safety of the ateamer Bride, of Aberdeen for Alexandria, being over. *e. A New York telegram states that the Edwin Hughes, from Vancouver's Island for Adelaide, has been wrecked on the coast of Vancouver's Island.—.-A Pernambuco telegram states that the Star of the West, from Liverpool to Iquique, has put into Valparaiso, and reports having fallen in with the New Lampedo, from Liverpool, for Panama, and five of the crew were saved. Also brings the crew of the Italian barque Clotilde, from Cardiff for Valparaiso. More deaths amongst the snow in Scotland are reported. Charles Grant, 60, perished on Saturday, on the Sidlaw Hills, while walking from Kirriemuir to Dundee. On Sunday, some people going to church at Strathavez, found a man lying dead in the snow; and at Auchterarder, on Saturday, James Rae, an ostler, died from the ' combined effects of drink and exposure.—A butterfly was captured alive in Pathhead, Fifeshire, on Saturday.—The frost still continues intense.  A frightful murder was committed in London, on Tuesday afternoon. A woman named Dominica Valenti, who kept an Italian lodging house in Eyre-street Hill, Hatton Garden, was disputing with some of her lodgers, when she was stabbed so savagely that she died in a short time. At the Clerken well Police court on Wednesday Maria Tortolana and Philomela Tortolana, sisters-in-law, were charged with the murder of Dominica Valenta, on Tuesday night, at Eyre-street Hill, Hatton Garden, by stabing. They were remanded. On Monday, at the Oldham Police Court, James. Eastwood, labourer, was charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm upon his wife by deliberately throwing her against the fire. On Sunday fortnight prisoner and his wife quarrelled, and seizing her by the hair he dashed her against the fore bars, and she was most severely burnt, She gradually sunk, and on Sunday her life being despaired of, her depositions were taken, Dr. Wyld stating that the woman was in a very critical condition. Her brutal husband was remanded for a week. ' :News ef another shipping disaster reaches us from Greenock. The ship Tennyson arrived at that port on Wednesday and reports that she shipped at St. Helena a number of the crew of the ship Calcutta, of London, which was abandoned at sea, about September 11th, during a voyage from Shields to Aden with coals. The Calcutta cargo having taken fire the vessel was abandoned, and the crew took to the ship's hoes. Two of these, containing 15 _nen, were picked up, and the men landed at St. Helena ; but the ether heat, containing the captain and eleven men, is bais,,iuA.  Ll 48.  )n-i