The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1869-08-14 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  It is understood that the law lords will not give judgment in the Wicklow peerage ease until next  session. Mr. James Traill, a London barrister, nephew of the retiring member, is atpresent theonlyearglidate  for Caithness. At Lambeth parish-church, on Sunday morning last, the publication of the bands of marriage occupied a longer time than the reading of the  sermon. Two lads named Wildsmith and Hepworth were tried at the Leeds assizes, on Monday, on the charge of setting tire to a mill at Silkstone. The jury  a-cq-Uit—ted both prisoners. A telegram from Hyde states that early mauesday morning jr.: Cornelius Hrinnell, of the New York steam yacht Hawk, fell from the window of his lodging, and was killed on the spot. The second report of the commissioners appointed to inquire iuto the condition of the Exchequer (now Board of Trade) standards, that bearing onthe question of the introduction of the metric - system of weights and measures into the United Kingdom, has been published. The commissioners unanimously recommended the adoption of the metric system. The report that Mr. Chichester Fortescue was to be raised to the peerage, and was immediately to succeed Lood Spencer as Lord-Lieutenant of Ire land, is denied. The Woman .Ilargaret Macgregor, who was recovered alive from the iire at Cruftear, Abatelily, died on Saturday evening. The entire household has thus been cut off. His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Brazil will, it is expected, visit this country in December or  _ January. A tailor was on Monday sent to prison for 21 days by one of the London magishatos roe having bitten the top joint clean off a woman's finger. Allis, who has been in custody since the murder of Mr. Bradshaw, of Tipperary. MOW than three months ago, was rekas,d on :-.aturday. After a month's sojourn at Walmer, the Premier, who only needs repose for his perfect re:toration. will proceed to Bahnotal, and, having spent some time in Scotland, he will then go to ilawardem A telegram from Belfast state, that several houses in the neighbourhood of LuNan. inhabited by Roman Catholics, were wrcrkett early 011 unddy morning. No arrests of the nt.routi, es had been  made. On Monday evening„ an elderly woman. a11f11,1.1 to have lately (mile from Scotland, walked into a butcher's shop in Chelsea, and, taking up a knife, proceeded without a word to cut Inc thioat. She was taken. to St. George's Ila,pital,.where she he: dangerously vt"o utak& A party of two men and it woman ware out fishing in l'lvnanith ;,:unnd CV cuing. when titer Weil' not into by it steamer, and, the boat turning aver, it. ocenpant: were thrown into the Water. The woman and one of the men were saved, but the other pear fellow could not be seen.' A Nashville (Tennesse) negro, supposed to he dead, having received a sunstroke and fallen apparently lifeless, a few days ago, was placed in a coffin and made ready for burial, when signs of life were Shown, and he slowly revived. A coroner and jury had held au inquest and rendered a vet, , diet of " Death from sunstroke." The Pacific railroad is now bringing no fresh fruits from Califontia, aml the despatch of a fruit car laden with plums, pears, and grapes for Chicago and New York opens up the prospect of a large fruit trade between our Atlantic and Pacific states. The Caliti,rnia fruits are Surpassingly excellent in quality, and we shall welcome their constant arrival in our markets.—New liok Times. The "lock-out " among the yarn dyers at Glasgow has terminated, aud the men, to the number of 1000 in 1200, have resumed work. It may be recollected that the 'lock-out" was occasioned bv a demand 011 the part of the men for an advance at 2s. per week : Mat this has not been conceded by the masters--the rate of wages and the working hours being m,w the same as before the demand  was made. On Monday morning the body of a man, Who was afterwards discovered to be John Denson, H labourer, of Marsden, was Mund cut to pieces on the London and N.ortli-westeru Railway at a place called Kocher, near .Slaithwaite. The deceased had been .to .Slaithwaite Feast, and at ten o'clock the previous night he was seen leaving a public house in a helpless state of drunkenness. There is little doubt that, getting on to the metals, he was run over and killed by the mail.