The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-10-25 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

OOO. for competition between the Harvard Vale and Cambridge boating crews, if tither of the last named will go to America, and try their skill a' 0 ainst the American oarsmen. On Monday, Robert Wilson, a clerk, employed by the Leeds Town Council, was chargcd at Marlborough-street police court, London, on his own confession, with embezeling moneys of his employers. The prisoner was given up to the superintendent of the Leeds Detective department, and taken to Leeds.  A boy named Robert Harrison, undergoing 15 =wines herd labour at the Devon county gaol for 'impudent theft at a pawnshop in Exeter, committed suicide on Sunday by hanging himself. Harrison was one of a gang who had infested the city for some time, and was a desperate character. On Saturday night, an Irish labourer, named George Id'Quire, residing at Quarter Ironworks, near came home drunk, dragged his wife out of bed, and kicked her so savagely with his heavy boots that she soon after died. One most curious point in the mortality returns is the uniformity in the ratio of suicides. Sixtyseven to the million is the average, and 1870 gave just the same number as 1671, the total being 1103 males and 392 females.  Mr. George Findlay, manager of the gootls department of the London and North-western Railway, has been promoted to be general manager of that line, in place of Mr. Wdliam Cawk well, whq has just been elected to a seat on the board.  A qnasi-money lender named Arnold, was charged at the northern divisional police court, Dublin, on Saturday, with having fraudulently obtained money from several persons in the city by means of the loan advertisement swindle. Two persons who had applied for loans of no and £2OO respectively deposed that they had sent by post, at the request of the advertiser, the sum claimed in advance as interest on the promised loans, but that they never after heard of the loans or the interest paid. The prisoner was remanded. _ _  At the Lincoln quarter Sessions on Saturday, George Wimpus, a shoemaker, of Nottingham, wan sentenced to twelve months' hard labour tor obtaining money by false pretences from Charles Day, coachbuilder. Day's wife left hint several years ago, and after hearing nothing of her for twelve years he married again. Wimpus recently, under the name of Lamb, appeared on the scene, accontponied by a woman who said that s e was Day's first wife, and the pair under threats obtained a considerable sum from Day. An appalling catastrophe happened on Saturday nea: lielston, West Cornwall. Three men went to a burrow or heap of stones to gath .1. building materials, when suddenly the ground opened beneath them, and two of the men, named Fos,., father and son, went gown 240 fet-t. into 40 fathoms of water, with many tons of surface earth. The covering of an old mine shaft had given nay with their weight. Atte:npts were made to rtach the bodies, but nothing could be done. The steamer Ituyenscraig, which picked up the crew of the Polaris, has arrive/ at D ti'ndee. She has been very unfortunate, having only one small whale. During the voyage she ran several very narrow escapes from being crushed, and at cue time everything was made ready for leaving the chip. The vessel brings home an Esquimaux. found on an ice floe, and he is the first native of Greenland ever btought to Dundee ; also the boat built by the shipwrecked crew of the Polaris.  It seems to us a curious anomaly that the Jewish law is cited in support of canon laws of the church on matrimonial questions in which tho Jewish law is in distinct contradiction to the canonical laws of the church. Marriage with a deceased wife's sister is most distinctly permitted by the Mosaie law; indeed, a similar alliance or marriage wA thy widower of a deceased sister is enjoined by the divine law promulgated through the writings of Moses.—Jewish Chronicle.  At the Prince of Wales's Theatre. Birmingham, a few days since. Mr. Charles Calvert publicly thanked the people of Birmingham for their sympathy and encouragement during the representation of Henry the Fifth. He said the success of the piece in Manchester, and still great 'l' proportionate success in Birmingham, gave a contradiction to those who said the name of Shakspere spelt either " bankruptcy" or "ruin." In a month they had taken £3,000, although he had come amongst them a comparative stranger, and had unfortunately broken down on the first night of the representation.