The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-01-22 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

MORTGAGE DEBENTURES. —The Alexandra Palace Company have notified, by a Prospectus just published, the intended issue of £450,000 five per cent. Debentures, redeemable in live years at 105 per cent. (thus yielding six per cent, interest) and secured by First Mortgage on their building, park and some 250 acres of freehold building land. The object of this issue is the redemption of a mortgage of £105,000, and to replace £345,000 of Debentures which will shortly fall due. A fund for the redemption of the Debentures now about to be issued will be created by the sum realised by the sale of the 252 acres of building land at their disposal. Land in the immediate vicinity has recently been sold at £2,000 per acre, and at this rate the sale of their land would produce a sum more than sufficient for the object in view. And as the certified profits of the p ist half year's workings are more than equal to the whole year's interest on the said Debentures, the interest seems fully secured, since this profit was realised in spite of the exceptional expenses attending a new undertaking, and will doubtless be much increased on future years' or. erations. Applications should be made to the Bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan & Co., the Allianbe Bank, or to the ConiFiany direct. 1  By a fire near Sudbury, on Friday morning, seven horses were burnt to death. The skelet,m of a woman has been found a few inches under the high road at Ipswich. The remains are lying at the town hall there. On Monday, at the inquest upon the body of Selina M'Vitty, who was killed by her husband at Droylesden on the previous Friday, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against the accused.  On Monday, at Wigan, two men and a woman were brought up in cust ,dy, charged with uttering base coin. Six cases were proved against them. The prisoners were further remanded, to await instructions from the mint.  Distinct shocks of earthquake are stated to have been experienced at Comne, in Perthshire, on Saturday. Two of the shocks occurred in the mornihg about three o'clock, and the other at five in the afternoon. The disturbance travelled in each case from south-west to north-eAst.  Mr. Henry Pease, of Darlington, has offered a premium of £5O for the best essay is the evils of smoking among the young. Dr. IA dward, of Manchester; Mr. Dawson, J.P., of Lancaster; and the Rev. Dr. Ritchie (author of the "Workman's Pipe"), are the appointed adjudicators. At the Sheffield town hall, Charles Exley, a young man with respectable L onnections in Liverpool and London, and who was married only ten days since, pleaded guilty to having stolen a money parcel containing £63 at Victoria Station, Sheffield. He was committed to prison for six montlu with hard labour.  At Blackburn, Robert Roberts and Henry Helm, labourers, were charged with brutally assaulting John Leyland. During a quarrel on Saturday evening, in the vaults of the Clarence Hotel, Roberts strucs the prosecutor over the face with a" knuckle-duster," and Helm stabbed him in the face with a knife. Both prisoners were committed to the sessions for trial. A