Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-03-24 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY. RovilLotess.  'ftiversity of London has to medical degrees. form a Volunteer 14e arrived at Spitbead a. the 65th Regiment from  lir E. A. Freeman received the  sryiU  the Rev W. Dentot haws Cross of the Tatova from  Commander's  WY. B. Brunton, surveyor to the Durham Cor. pmstion, has been appointed to the surveyorship Richmond, Surrey. Colonel Gunter of Wetherby Grange has just sold the celebrated bull Fifth Duke of Tregunter to the Earl of Faversham, Duncombe Park, for 2,000g5. On Tared,/ niithh an Insane man threw himself before a train at Paisley Station, and was out to pleS4l. Tb• torpedo ship Lightning, built by Keens Thornyoroft for the British navy' hail been satisfactorily tried of the Thames, having steamed Is knots an hour. M. de Morgan announoes that he has axed Taw day, April 17th, for the day on which his 100,000 men are to march to the Roue of Commons and demand the release of the Claimant. A patent has been procured by Kr Wm. Page, engineer, Newcastle, for "improvements in the cos. inzuction of stop-valves for steam, water, gas or other purposes to which these may be applied. Mr Robert Liddell, a native of Houghton-leSpring, in the county of Durham, has been elected Mayor of Pittsburg, United States, beating his opponent by 1,166 votes. The execution of John WlEenna, lying under sentence of death for the murder of his wife at Rochdale, has been fixed for the 27th inst. Monsignor Guerrin, Bishop of Langres, died very auddenlv on Monday night while robing himself in the Cathedral. Ile was 84 years of age. At the South Shields Police Court, on Saturday, John Anderson, a seaman, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, for having brutally assaulted his wife by kicking her. We know a gamester from Lorraine who is so anti. Imperialist that he will no even play Napoleon. Yorick  There is a general wish in the House of Commons that Mr Whalley should be raised to the Dizzy heights of "another plsoe"—if he cannot be got rid of otherwise. His title is cut and dry.—Count Out.— Yorick.  In Debrett's Peerage the Prince of Wales is described as an" elder brother of Trinity House." Is "Trinity House" not a misprint for " The Duke of Edinburgh "P—Yeeick. A large grocery establishment at Bride Street Dublin, fell in on Monday, burying in the ruins several men working on the premises. Four were taken out alive and one dead. A man, namtd Samuel Floyd, shot his son, who was endeavouring to defend his mother from his father's ill-usage, at Newport, Salop, on Saturday night. The shot is expected to be fatal. William MoLanran, a labourer, was committed for trial at the Moot Hall Petty Sessions, Newoastle, on Saturday, On a charge of passing two pieces of dounterfeit coin, oalled florMs, at the parish of New. barn, on the 28th of February last. Mr Charles Harc.wick, the author of mealy anti. quarian works, has been reading a paper before a literary society in the North of England, in whioh be maintained that the place of the defeat and death of King Oswald of Northumberland we. not Oswestry, as is commonly supposed, but Winwtok. Ti," Count de Chambord having presented the Pop" with 10,000 f., his Holiness has sent as:an acknowiedgment a splennid mosaic, one half representing Pagan Rome in gloom and clouds under ti,e shadow of death, the other half Christian Rom a, illuminated by the light of Truth. The execution of John D. Lee, the Mormon bishop, who was convicted some time ago of complicity in what is known as the Mountain Meadow massacre is 1857, has been fired for the 23rd inst. Lee was tried last September, but the carrying out of his sentence has been postponed until an appeal against the conviction was disposed of. DEATH or Ste E. Bausata —The death is announced of Admiral Sir Edward Belcher, K.O 8., which took place on Sunday at the age of 78. He commanded the Arctic expedition sent out in 1852 in search of Sir John Franklin. Sir Edward was created a K.C.B. in 1867. Ma TOOTH'S SCdrattitlON.—The three month's suspension of Mr Tooth from the day of the publication of the sentence has expired, and the: saute suspension will be continued for three years unless he snakes his submission in writing, wine% it is understood he does not intend to do. An Hairiest was held by the Liverpool coroner on Saturday on the body of Maria Sbulcer, a domestic servant of Wrexham. about a month ago she swallowed a sat of false teeth during sleep, owing to the plate breaking, and though the teeth were l•e-covered by an operation, she died on Friday. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.