The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-04-24 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL.  On Saturday the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress entertained the chairman and members of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Mr. Sclater-Booth, M.P., in responding for the House of Commons, said the House was now aware that there was no analogy between the municipal institutions of any city in the kingdom and the metropolis. To establish single government of so large a community was not a question of the Chief Magistrate of a town or, the Lord Mayor of a city, but the Governor of a Province. He was glad that the question, which was lately treated in a reckless manner, was now received in a very different spirit, both in the House and the country. _  Heap-, the man convicted at the Liverpool Assizes of the murder of Margaret M'Kivett, at Manchester, in attempting to procure abortion, was execut3d, on Monday morning, at Liverpool. He was resigned, confessed his crime, but said he never intended to kill the girl. On Thursday, M. Chevalier was occupied in inspecting the dock and warehouse system of Liverpool and other objects of local interest. He was unable to meet a deputation of the Peace Society, and accordingly the address which they wished to present will be forwarded to him. M. Chevalier has accepted the invitation of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce to visit Bradford. A requisition from the Liberal party has been presented to the Marquis of Tavistock, asking him to become a candidate for the representation of Bedford, and his lordship has issued an address to the electors in which he says:—" Trained in Whig traditions, I offer myself as a representative of the party of progress. 1 agree that social and not sensational legislation is the desire of the nation."  The Court of Exchequer on Thursday refused an application for a new trial in the case of Lloyd v. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, an action for damages by collision, in which the jury gave £l3O. The application was grounded chiefly on the fact that the jury had assessed damages by each juryman writing separately the amount he thought just. The Court, however, censured the practice. The Select Committee on Banks of issue commenced their investigation on Thursday; the Chancellor of the Exchequer presiding. Mr. Fleming, manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland, was the first witness examined.  On the motion in the suit of "Leader v. Moody and Sankey," which commenced on Thursday morning, before the Master of the Rolls' Mr. Chittyn, Q.C., who appeared for the plaintiff, said that the plaintiff was a stall holder in her Majesty's Opera, Haymarket, in which Messrs. Moody and Sankey held day religious services. Plaintiff had filed a bill to ascertain his rights, and to obtain an injunction against Messrs. Moody and Sankey. Affidavits had been filed on both sides. The facts were not in dispute; and as the whole question depended on documentary evidence, he proposed that the motion should pass into a motion for decree, and the hearing be advanced. Mr. Fry, Q.C., who appeared for Messrs. Moody and Sankey, agreed to this-course being adopted, and it was arranged that the cause should come on for hearing at an early day.