Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-03-02 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  The date of the Queen's departure for Italy will be the 13th of tfoooh.- - - - •  Mr. Aaher, the Solicitor. General for Scotland, has, it is stated, resigned his position. The Britiah barque Mary E. Chapman, has been wrecked off Tybee Island, Gaorghs. The crow were saved.  The Prince of Wales left London yesterday for the Continent, where he will remain for a mouth or six weeks.  At Mex'uorough, while two brothers named Marshall were exarniuing a revolver, the weapon exploded killing one of them.  At Blaekban, Robert Marken, a weaver, was found fault with regarding his work, and in a lit of depression he hanged himself. The Empress Frederick, on Tuesday. visited various planes of interest in Cambridge University, afterwards leaving for Loudon. A tire broke out on Tuesday at Elton Hall, the Earl of Carysfort's Northamptonshire mansion. Great damage was done to the library.;  The Rigict- Hon. Tirthur J. Beifour. M.P., has accepted the office of vite-president of the National Conservative Temperance Union. Mr. Sexton. M.P., has been asked to heroine • member of the Royal Commission on the financial relations between England and Ireland. At present no date has been fixed for the formal meeting of the Coal Conciliation Board, but nest week there will be s oonference of oat!. owners.  All iron foundry at Alexandrovosk (Russia) has been the scene of a disastrous boiler explosion, resulting in the death of 25 persons nod injury to 10 others.  It announced that the recant hurricane the Mauritius resulted in five persons only being killed, and ten slightly wounded. The crops were uninjured.  Mr. Henry Howard, of Greystoke Castle, the Unionist candidate for North Cumberland, and Lady Mabel Howard have gone to the If it Lero for a short stay. Lobenguia. an unfounded report of whose death was recently publiehed, iv Mated ts, btl in "a miserable condition, and deserted by nearly all his Indumas.  MI:. EIiA,TUX Wthay.—Mr. Erastue Wiman's counsel declares his client innocent of any crime, and says he acted in s business capacity, and enriched his present accuser. It has now been ascertained that the Rev. Pedr Williams is in New York. His wife and children were left in total ignorance of his movemeuts,and suffered the greatest distress. The value of the personal estate of the late Mr. H. W. West, Q.C., A ttoruey•General for the Duchy of Lancaster and Recorder of Manchester, has been sworn at under £29.000.  A large number of additional huids ceased work at Mt. 39.. Harland wet IN°!Era shipbuilding yards, Belfast, on Tuesday, and the prospects of a general cessation are increasing. DR. TYNDALL'S Witi..—The value ho o been sworn at £21,866 of the personal estate of Dr. John Tyndall, late of Hindheril House. flasletnere, r.R.s., who died on the 4th December last, aged 73 years. William Mitchell, the yard manager of the Bournemouth Omnibus Company. was allot dead on Tuesday morning by Thomas Elkins, an engine driver, who hail been discharged from the Coin. pany's Robert Manton, a collier, who was awaiting his trial in Bagthorpe Prison for the attempted murder of his wife near Alfreton, hion committed suicide by strangling himself with a knotted handkerchief.  .... ._..._.. On Wednesday night the Marquis of Lorne. K.T., was present at a smoking concert of Unionist workers in the South Manchester Division. His lordship, who bad a cordial reception, spoke upon political topics. T. 111111.1, EIPLOSIOI4 ON A Moo or Win. - A terrible explosion has occurred on the Brazilian insurgent war vessel Venus, whereby 33 persons, including the commander and two officers. were killed and 50 wounded. _