The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-05-10 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL.  The banquet to inaugurate the Royal Academy Exhibition was held on Saturday afternoon at Burlington House. Sir Francis Grant presided, and among the guests were the Duke of Cambridge, Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, Prince Christian, Duke of Teck, Prince of Saxe Wcdmer, Archbishop of York, and many prominent members of the Government and the Opposition. Earl Granville responded for her Majesty's Ministers. The Dublin Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday refused an application made by Mr. Butt for a writ of certiorari directeo to the presiding judges at the last Antrim Assizes, commanding them to return into Court of Queen's Bench the warrant under which Daniel M'Aleese, publisher of the Ulster Examiner, was committed to gaol and fined for contempt of court. Mr. Mac -eady was buried on Saturday, in the presence of an immense gathering of actors, dramatists, and friends. After the service the Rev. Mr. Fleming give a funeral oration. The Tichborne case was resumed on Monday. The reading of the Claimant's examination occupied the whole day, including h;s Stonyhurst and military life, his American travels, his shipwreck and Australian life, and his proceedings since his return to England. The case was also resumed on Tuesday. The reading of the cross-examination of the defendant was continued, the jury complaining that only 12 pages per hour were got through, the documents consisting of 11,000 pages. The witnesses were released from attendance until Monday. The case was resumed on Thursday and the realing of the cross-examination of the Claimant was proceeded with without interruption. It referred chiefly to various means by photographs, books, &c., with which Roger was familiar, to test the Claimant's knowledge of his early life. Those readers who have b3en following the Tichborne case up day after day will learn with something like dismay that it is not thought probable that the second act in the drama can be brought to a close before the end of November. The rumoured resignation of Sir William Bodkin is now contradicted. The contest in the Queen's Bench between the Rochdale School Board and the Town Council has collapsed. The Corporation on Tuesday morning declined to go on, and the Court made the rule absolute calling on them to pay the amount of the School Board precept. The polling for the representation of Bath took place on-Tuesday and was sharply contested. The candidates were Viscount Chelsea (Conservative) and Mr. Murch (Liberal), and the former gentleman polling 260 votes more than his opponent was duly elected. The last of the survivors of the colliery explosion at Ruabon expired on Sunday night. This makes the seventh death, and there are now none left to tell how the accident happened. A foreign telegram, received on Wednesday night, informs us that the Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur, after inspecting the Central Cavalry School at Vienna, on Tuesday, visited the Francis Joseph Cavalry Barracks. The visit lasted an hour. The Princes visited Pesth on Thursday, and was present at the races on Friday and a regatta on Saturday. The trial of Lewis, Michael and Rebecca Goldsmith, charged with fraudulently obtaining £24,000 worth of jewellery, was concluded on Wedne-day. The charge against Lewis Goldsmith was withdrawn at the close of the case for the pro-ecution, but the jury found the other two prisoners guilty. Sentence was deferred.  At Coventry, on Wednesday, two butchers, named Cluley and Walton, were sentenced to two months' imprisonment for selling putrid meat. Captain Robert Towns, of the ship Titan, North Shields, has been murdered by one of his crew, who was found to be insane. The murderer plunged a knife into the captain's side when he was standing on the deck. At their meeting on Wednesday, the Bank directors raised the official rate of discount to 41 per cent. The Gloucester election on Thursday was the occasion of another Conservative victory, as Mr. Wait polled 73 votes more than his rival, Mr. Robinson, a Liberal. Mr. John Stuart Mill is dangerously ill from erysipel as. A. clergyman's widow, named Mrs. Gregory, committed suicide at Cambridge on Wednesday. This rash act was the result of pecuniary embarrassments  At Dudley, at noon, on Thursday, a married woman named Fanny Cooke, while in a state of delirium tremens cut the throat of her infant, and afterwards attempted to commit suicide, but was prevented. The Clyde sugar refineries, which have been closed for nearly a fortnight, until the new sugar duties of the Budget should come into force, were re-opened on Thursday morning. 2,500 men began work. The new sugars will be placed on 'Change on Saturday, and no further interruption is expected to the prosperity of the trade.