The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-06-21 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ERTRBORDINARY PRACTICAL JOKE.—A practical joke, involving grave contempt of Parliament, and which may eventually lead to unpleasant consequences should the delinquent be discovered, was on Montiay brought under the notiee of the Select Committee on Juries. Mr. Fay, High Sheriff of the county of f scan, attended the committee, and produced a form of summons, professing to be issued from Dublin Castle, direzting him to attend as a witness and give evidence. A similar spurious notification had also been sent to Mr. Theopilus Thompson, a justiae of the peace of the same county. The committee (of which Lord Hartington is chairman) declined of course to examine these gentlemen. Mr. Reilly. returning officer for the county of Monaghan, was then examined, and, RI reply to questions from Mr. SPC ,rthy Downing, stated that when he was sub- sheriff he in.- de up the panel from the jury hook, putting two Protestants for one Roman Cathelic. Mr. Mitchell. who subsequently became sub-sheriff, and who, in common with the high-sheriff, was displaced in 1860 on account of having made up the panel so that but three Roman Catholic jurors were included within the first 67 names, gave up the jurors' book to his successor. The n itness producf d the book in qustion, and deposed that it was in precisely the same condition in which he had received it. He thin directed the attention of the cninmittE e to tb eireunistanee that a cross RIO put gain,: he name of every Roman C:•tholie juror. LI the couise or the lerd lb artington brought up a special 44 jilt fru 31 the 'committee on the stthject of the florged sttosmons.—Monsing Post.  - The Duke of Edinburgh laid, the foundation stone of a new school in the grounds of the Charter House on Tuesday. A memorial window in Westminster Abbey, in remembrance of the moi lost in the Captain, wan fixed on Tuesday afternoon, in the north transept. Mr, J. Camden llotten, the well-kro,wn publisher, died rather suddenly at his residence in London on Saturday.  It is stated on high chemical authority that the last gill of milk drawn from a cow is sigteen times richer in cream than the first portion yielded. The ezarewiteh and his (unroll, I:" rintois Dimmer, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Wales, arrived at Marlborough House about three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, from Woolwich. The imperial duke and duchess, with their too children, remain on a private Visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales.  The memorial window to the poet Cowper has been placed in Great lierkhampstead Church, and is much admired. The public subscriptions fell short of the cost by more than £5O, but this was made up by some of the inhabitants, including Mr. William Longman, F.S.A., to whose exertions the success of the scheme is mainly due. . . ,  With respect to the hop prospects the Maidstone Journal reports that the bipe has grown fast, and is of • good colour. The weakly bine has much improved, the warm showers having done a vast amount of good. There is some ilea and fly in places. the claim of Alacrhilpin, proprietor of the Team News, against Captain Nolan, for ilhoo for leading articles written and letters published in his support during the late °away election, was compromised on Tuesday, the plaintiff getting £2:di. Captain Carew, 16011 and heir of ,ir Walter Carew, Baronet, of the Castle haccombe, Devon, who committed suicide the other day in an asylum at Bristol, effected his purpose with a dinner knife which he had secreted. . .  The Constantinople correspondent of the Morning Post telegraphs that the Turkish minister of means of communication has submitted to his tioveniment a proposal for generally reducing the tariff of postal teleg nph charges. The report of the Watch Committee of the Pirmiligham Town Coruna, at a meeting on Monday last, showed that a very great increase had occurred during the last two years in the number of youthful criminals charged before the magistrates.  ....... _ On Monday, a man named Ueorge Oldham, employed M the High Mill, at l'oed, near Otley, attempted to put on a belt while the machinery was running at high speed, when ono of his arms became entangled in the strap, and he was raised from his feet and rapidly dashed against the ceiling and floor with terrific force On the body being extricated it was found to be shockingly mutilated.  The Marquis of Salishury, speaking at a meeting in behalf of the Herts Diocesan Board of Education, at Hitchin, on Tuesday, strongly deounced the party to whom, he said, all religion was detestable, who were trying to drive religion out of the schools.