The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-03-20 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

THE EXAMINER  SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1785.  The rumour that Sir Stirling Maxwell W( old shortly resign his seat for Perthshire is without foundatin. _ _ _ . _  In the House of Commons, n Monday night, the Birmingham and Lichfield Junction Railway Bill Wits read a second time. The boiler of the Data. of Dundee, exploded at Selby, on Mon lay. The captain, engineer, and fireman were severely scalded. The iron shipbuilders on the Tyne, who have be.m on strike for six weeks, have returned to work at their former wages. A telegram from &Thu states that confi- , &Tidal communications are passing between ' the Clwrinan and Italian Governments on the ' faun, P1i,1,1 election.  Easter Tuesday has been fixed for the exe.afti,,n of John Miirgan, who was convicted at dic Maidstone Assizes of the murder of a ..,Anradc named Joseph Fulstone, by cutting his t  We learn from Washington that the negotiations resp,cling tb Virgiuins were spttled by the papavitt of eighty thousand dollars on the ;Ith irot.. out on the 11th Mr. Cushing reeog-lis,ll King Al pit SO'S Government.  A thousand men and boys belonging to the Durban' Miners' Ass wiation struck work. at Wear:ion-it Colliery. on Monday, owing to the mmt..z.s having refused to onscharge nononnoMsts who have for some time been employed at the colliery.  The-interview at Sheffield between the representativcs of the colliery owners of South Yorkshire aml North Derbyshire and the I of the miners, re,ulted in an j arrangement that the wiu_2,-esii,f the men should redac,l ten per cent. Thii decision affects .20.000 workmen.  A. Geralan. namol Wilhelm Kan. has been xrested oa 1,,,ar(1 die Bremen steamer Nureni- , ,aro.. at S,attliauipton. charged with embezzl r 10.000 from' his emproyer, at Vienna: !  OiC cso were found on him. He was handed over to the authorities, and will probably be tried in London.  The Pope. in his allocution on the appointment Of new Cardinals. deplored that the sellouts should. even in Rome, be withdrawn frmi the guardianship of the Church. condemned the promulgation of official orders in which the Vatican decrees were falsified, and praised the German clergy.  IThe total reeelpts from revenue into the rational Exchequer from the Ist April to the 13th inst., were £71,413,116; in the corresponding period of last year they were C 3.358,117. The expenditure was £69,704,627 against £71,97,691 last year. The balance in the Bank of England on Saturday was t 5.247,92.8, and in the Bank of Ireland, 0,236,789.  The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Birmingha,m and Staffordshire GasLight Company was held on Tuesday, at the offices of the company, Old Square, under the presidency of Mr. George Heaton. The halfyearly report and the balance sheet were adopted. and a dividend of 10 per cent. per annum on the capital raised under the Bth and 9th Vie., and 7 per cent. per annum on the capital raised under the 21st Vie, was declared payable on the 25th instant.  The Registrar-General's return for the week ending Saturday last, shows the number of deaths per 1,000 to have been :—Edinburgh, 24: Glasgow, 37; Dublin, 33; Portsmouth, 23; Sunderland, 26; Sheffield, 26; Bradford, 27; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 27; London, 28; Bristol, 28; Leeds, 29; Birmingham, 30; Leicester, 30; Nottingham. 31; Liverpool, 32; Norwich, 32; Manchester, 32; Hull, 34; Salford, 35; Oldham, 40; and Wolverhampton, 44. Average rate, 30. The adjourned investigation into the cirmunstances surrounding the terrible accident on the Great Western Railway, on the 24th December last, was resumed and concluded at Oxford, on Tuesday. The juries found that the fatal injuries to the persons whose deaths had been the subject of inquiry were purely accidental, and were primarily caused by the influence of the atmosphere on the tire of the wheel of the third-class carnage 845. They ' added a number of recommendations, which. adopted by railway companies, would in their opinion have a tendency to prevent the recurremc of such calamities.  A