Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-04-23 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

EXECUTION AT CORK.  William Tobin, alias Neyien, was on Monday executed at Cork, for the murder of a farmer's wife named Joanna Cotton, in August last. He died without a sttruggle. The executioner was an American sailor under sentence of imprisonment for insubordination on board sLip.  The Sultan has recognised King Alfonso. Ris proposed to build anew church for the fathers of the Bronapton Oratory. • There is to be a series of experiments connected with submarine mining at Spitheld. Cartridges for the Martini-Henri rifle are being trutde at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, at the rate of a million and a half per week. The report of the Committee on the Channel tunnel plan is said to be favourable. _ _  The whole of the German field artillery will be armed with the new field pieces by the let of October. The English Government are not inclined to remove the restrctions on the importation of German cattle. In cutting a trench for the new railway from Aix to Marseilles, near La Rotondo the workmen came on a bed of fossil oysters. The Eroper* of German k has signed the disestablishmeat law.  It is stated that Prince Bismark is not going to Sandown as reported, but will proceed to Varrin and thence to Kissengen. Italy is t ) have a tax upon admissions to museums and art galleries. The steamer Arctic has brought 10,000 seals, mostly young ones. A School of Journalism is suggested by Dr. Shaw, of Trinity College, Dublin. Mr. Beecher solemnly affirms that the grave charge brought against him is untrue. The captain of a l'russian brig has been fined £lOO at South Shields for smuggling 811bs. of tobacco. The 2-ton Sebastopol bell, on which the time has been struck at Aldershot camp, is cracks 1.  The Prussian Government has reduced the wages of miners and increased the hours of labour in Crown mines.  1,8110 natives have presented an address of thanks to Serpent Ballantine for his effort to secure justice to the Gincowar. _ _ .  Some boys at Leeds playfully set a large iron roller going down a hill, one of the party came in its way, and it went over the head of a lad aged nine, crushing it to pulp. The Archbishop of Canterbury is going to confer the degree of B. D. on the Rev. C. Bullock, the editor of Mow Words and other magazines. _ .  Dr. Kenealy, M. P., again appeared at Guildhall on Tuesday to answer a charge of libel upon Mr. Thomas Wright, sub-editor of the Morning Advlrtiser. The defendant stated that everything which had been printed in the Englishman with reference to the prosecutor had been apologised for in the fullest manner. Alderman Sir F. Wyatt Truscott dismissed the summons, On Tuesday Captain Boyden paid a visit to Christ's Hospital, and gave an exhibition of the properties of his dress, firing off blue lights, colonred tires, Roman candle, dm. The boys were admitted in two divisions, as the bath is not of sufficient dimensions to accommodate them all at once, and the Captain had to repeat his performance. As might be eipected, he was enthusiastically ' received by the boys. After a speech by the head-master (the Rev. G. C. Bell), the head-Grecian, on behalf of the boys, presented the Captain with a small silk banner, in commemoration of his visit to the hospital. Arremeren POISONING Br A