The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-08-23 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL.  A new cable is projected to connect the Cape of Good Hope (via Natal), the Mauritius, and Aden with England and the world. At the Middlesex Sessions, on Saturday, Walter Howard, page to Miss Warren, of Chandos-street, was again charged with obtaining upwards of £3OO from his employer, under pretence of payinaor medical advice from Sir William Gull, Sir James Paget and other eminent surgeons. The case .lasted all day, and the jury, after being locked up two hours, were discharged without returning a verdict. The prisoner will be again brought up. Speaking of the coal supply, the Times belie%es that all hopes of cheaper fuel in the South Staffordshire districts are abandoned. Stocks are low, the outputs everywhere are diminishing, so that the iron trade of the district must continue in a more or less stagnant condition. A telegram from Castlebar states that Edward Walsh was hanged there on Tuesday morning for the murder of his wife. The nomination for the North West Biding is fixed to take pl_lce at Bradford on the 26th inst. 'The polling, if any, for Tuesday, September 2nd. A great robbery of jewellery to the extent of !£lO,OOO has lately been effected on the premises of a well-known firm of jewellers in Bond-street. London. The firm in question had received an order from the Shah to submit to him a certain amount of jewels, and several small packages were prepared for his Majesty's inspPction. In the course of that preparation one of the packages, containing jewellery worth more than 1:10,000, was missed, and not the slightest clue to the thief has yet been obtained. A reward of £5OO has been offered. _ _  A telegram says that his Royal Highness Prince Arthur has felt no ill effects from his late accident while bathing. The appointment of the Due Decazas as French Ambassador to London is regarded as certain. On Thursday, Fairfax, the American, who was charged at the Old Bailey with libelling Adolphe Rosenbaum, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. He inserted advertisements for employs, directing them to prosecutor's. This annoyance he threatened to repeat unless given a certain sum. _ _ _ _ .  The Bank rate was on Thursday reduced by the directors of the Bank of England to 3 per cent. The inquest on the victims of the Wigan Railway accident was on Thursday adjourned to the 9th September, by which time it is believed that something will come out as to the immediate cause of the terrible accident. The Wakefield Summer Intermediate Sessions wr2rr, on Thursday. The calendar contains the names of 52 prisoners. The wreck of the Singapore, a vessel bound from Hankow to London is announced. The masters and all the officers are reported to be drowned. Thirty-six of the crew were saved. The reported commercial panic at Calcutta is authoritatively contradicted. Business continues steady, though some little anxiety is felt on account of the recent Liverpool failures.  According to a London correspondent the heads of the Conservative party have met and discussed their programme in view of the forthcoming general elections. Mr. Gladstone has, he says, taken out of their hands one question, which it is believed they intended to make their own, namely, the county franchise; but amongst the prominent subjects to which they are favourable will be those relating to the public health and sanitary matters, together with the question of local taxation.