The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-07-05 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL.  The North v. SC-)n—th athletic compdtition caine off on Saturday at Lillie Bridge, West Brompton. The weather was fine and the attendance fairly good. The South won seven events and the North one; while one was a dead heat. The annual dinner of the Cobden Club was held on Saturday, at the Ship Hotel, Greenwich, Mr. Milner Gibson presiding. Mr. Goschen, Sir L. Malet, Mr. Ayrton, Senor 11.Iorety Prendegast, the Hon. David Wells, and other distinguished Free Traders were present. A heavy safe, containing £5O, was removed by thieves from the Victoria Railway Station, Sheffield, on Saturday. The Coal Committee has, according to the Times, brought its enquiries to a close, and willre-assemble next Monday to consider its report. The cricket match between Lancashire and Yorkshire was closed on Tuesday evening, Yorkshire winning by 64 runs. OnWednesday the new buildings of the Bradford Grammar Schools were opened by Mr. Forster, vice-president of the Council. The cost of the whole structure has been about 1;8,000, and accommodation has been provided for 400 boys. In his opening speech Mr. Forster said the Government had a toilsome life in the House of Commons. They produced measures which they could not get passed into law without great opposition, and sometimes things were said which they thought rather hard. He believed the work of the Endowed Schools Commission will be found to have been much more successful than anticipated. Though he was glad to se 9 those subjects taught which would fit the scholars to fight the battle of life, he found schools which retained classical studies often beat the others. After a reference to Eton as a prominent instance of the tendency to abolish class distinctions at any rate in education Mr. Forster concluded by saying that .he rejoiced in the provision for the teaching of religions subjects in the Bradford Grammar Schools, and thought the religious difficulty had been dealt with by the Government in the best way, viz., that such instructions should be confined to lessons from the Bible, while, at the same time, parents were at liberty to withdraw their children from such instruction if they so desired. On Tuesday morning the appeal case, Mordaunt v. Moncrieffe as guardian ad lit era of Lady Mordaunt, came before the House- of Lords. The law lords present were Lords Chelmsford, Colonsay, and Hatherley. The Solicitor-General and Dr. Spinks were retained for Sir Charles Mordaunt, and Dr. Dean and Mr. Harding Gifford for the respondent The appeal was against a decision of the Divorce Court staying all proceedings in the suit for the divorce instituted by Sir Charles during the insanity of Lady Mordaunt. The Solicitor-General argued that the suit being a civil one the lunacy of a defendant did not prevent the enforcement of civil rights, and the judges had no right to make exemptions which were not found in the act itself. After a long argument the case was concluded, but judgment was reserved. Isoline Milliourd, a native of Switzerland, about 30 years of age, has just been brought before the Sheffield Stipendiary on a charge of murdering her son, an ..illegitimate child, aged four years, at Rouen, France. The prisoner has been remanded, to receive instructions from the Home Office. About 100 tailors were locked out in the bespoke departments at Bolton on Tuesday, in consequence of not acceding to a reduction Of a halfpenny per hour. The July anniversaries in the North of Ireland have this year passed off peaceably • neither a shot h wing been fired, a skull broken, nor a zealous partisan taken into custody. On Thursday morning the Jersey Joint-Stock Bank suspended payment, and a notice was issued that the bank would remain closed till further notice.  At the usual meeting of the Bank directors on Thursday no alteration was made in the official rate of discount.  On Wednesday evening the Rev. E.. Evans, rector of Llangadwalad, was struck with the jibboom of a boat and drowned. The.steamship Great Britain is now on her way from Melbourne to Liverpool, with 28,000 ounces of gold.