The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-12-29 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

COMITENEY, M.P., UN Tar EANTriiN QrrSTiliCr. —Mr. Leonard Courteney, MP„, in his address thanking the electors of Liskeard for choosing him as their repre=en wive, save : Negotiations at Constaatisople have demonstrated the conciliatory disposition of the Czar, but the oheinacy of the advisers of the Sultan compels a resort to arms. I rejoice to interpret your votes as showing that you approte with me ot the policy of frank co-operation with the Russian Emperor in eaforcing upon the Porte the necessity Of conceding eulatantial guarantees for the establishment of a rightecus prernment in the northern provinees of Turkey."  M. Henan le correcting the gnat proofs of his fifth volume of the " Origine du Chriatianieme." The concluding volume of Mr. Martin's "Life of the Prince Consort" ie to be ready in March.  A biography of Marshal Prim, compiled from the family documents, is preparing at Madrid.  Mr. S. H. Bradhury,•who has been editor of Pu7S Opinion for fourteen years, hqs just quitted the post.  Mr. Mackenzie Wallace's ',Russia" is so far forward that the publishers hope to have it ready early in January. Madame Pauline Lucca took leave of the amateurs at Brussel. in " Faust " ; the Belgian audience exhibited as much enthusiasm as any public of the South  Messrs. Smith and Elder are about to publish a Life of the late Sir James Outrain. The documents are all collected, but it is not yet settled who will edit the work.  The long services to art rendered by Prof. Ella, of the Musical Union, were acknowledged in a complimentary address by Prof. Owen, at a reception of amateurs and artists, on his seventy-fourth birthday. A memoir of Thomas Wright, the prison philanthropist, compiled by his grandson, Mr. T. W. WDermld, and with an introduction written by the Earl of Shaftesbury, will be published shortly by Mr. Heywood, of Manchester. _  Foley's atatull of the late Mr. W. Rathbone, of Liverpool—the full-sized model for which was aim pleted prior to the decease of the artist—has been erected in Sefton Park, and will be unveiled on Monday, the let of January nest.  E ley in February a new .Goethe correspondence will be published, which is anticipated with much curiwity in Germany. It is the poet's letters to lilarianne von Willemer, the original of Suleika in the " West-oestliches Divan."  A. sensation has been produced amongst the supporters of Bale Masgm7w at the Grand Opera. house, Paris, by the annotputement that M. Halanzier has engaged Herr Johann Strauss, of Vienna, to conduct his waltzes.  Madame Nilsson has been playing in French, at the Opera-house in Nantes, in M. Gounod's " Faust" and Meyerbeer's ''Huguenots "; she subsequently sang at a concert at Rheims. Next month site will sing in German, at the Imperial Opera-house in Vienna.  I The Malay Tribunal has sentenced Maharajah Lela I and six others to be hanged. It is probable, however, I that this sentence will be commuted. ! At Macclesfield, on Tuesday, Robert Hallowell, rope manufacturer, was committed for trial on a charge of I murdering his son, aged thirteen. Prisoner, who has , been in a desponding state, is said to have strangled the boy in bed, because he feared the latter would die In poverty. Atflistegow, on Tuesday, Mohael Murphy eras charged with stabbing Carl Augsland, a seaman on board the ship Enoch Cain, while proceeding down the Clyde in August last. The jury returned a verdict of culpable homicide, and Murphy was sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. A lady in Louisville, Kentucky, was robbed a few nights since by a man who secreted himself in her chamber until she had retired. The box containing her jewellery and that containing her rouge were just alike, and the thief took the wrong box. She looked pale on discovering her loss, but her colour cam. again the next day. One of the most artistic and valuable presents made to Lady Muriel Talbot, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury, on her marriage to Lord Helmsley on Saturday last, WWI a dessert service for eighteen persons, specialty manufactured. Each plateSess painted , with a well-executed sketch of the several mansions ' and ancestral halls of the two families. ' A few days ago an Inland Revenue officer and a preventive man discovered an illicit whisky still among , the hills above Port Lair, near the entrance to Loch Torridon. Having destroyed the materials, they ap, prehended two men in the " bothy," but near Inver. alligin they were met by a crowd of villagers, who rescued the smugglers and maltreated the excisealen. . Farm. FALL rllltol,lll A