Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1870-05-28 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

FIJILN CONVERT. —The IV:: Times, giving an account of the recent death of Tui Levuka, states that he had been nominally Christian for many years, but did not show decided principles. His early lot was among the Wesleyans, then for a short time he was a Papist, and he died among the Wesleyans. The captain of a British man-of-war once put to him the question, "What is your religion ?" and his reply was, "My right hand is Wesleyan, and assists Mr. Calvert; my left hand is the Pope's religion, and assists the priest, but the rest of my body is vagatevoro " ( heathen ). He was a fine manly chief 20 years ago, and had the address and bearing of a gentleman, but of late he became a slave to the bottle. '  AwYcrt SUFFERINGS OF A SHIP'S Cazw.—Twenty-one of the crew of the ship Mariana, we learn by the Bombay mail, have died from starvation. Captain Stuart, of the ship Tweed, which left Bombay on April 2, for England, having on board some invalided troops, reports that on the 7th, when in lat. 9N, long. 69 8, he fell in with the Mariana, of Chittagorg, flying signals of distress. The Tweed was at once hove to, and Captain Stuart went on board the Mariana, and to his horror found 21 of the crew dead, and most of the survivors sick, the vessel having been without water or provisions for many days. Captain Stuart remained alongside for twelve hours, and, having supplied water, provisions, and medicine to those on board, left the vessel.  TRADE "UNIONS IN THE Corrox Tnanx.—We read with some dismay (says the Economist) thet reports of trade union agitation among the Lancashire cotton spinners. It is stated that the "whole of the cotton spinners' unions in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire have just been formed into one general association, which, since the first instant, has comprised the following unions and their districts :—Ashtouunder-Lyne, Blackburn and East Lancashire, Bolton, Bury, Droylsden, Failsworth, Hyde, Gorton, Glossop, Lancaster, Leigh,Preston, Manchester, Mosley, Oldham, Stalybridge, and Stockport. The union of Oldham alone, with its nine districts, comprised upwards of 2,000 members, and the general association now numbers upwards of 12,00 G, forming the largest union of spinners that has existed 'since the passing of the Ten Hours Bill." The idea of this confederation is to accumulate a vast strike fund which will make "levies" unnecessary during a strike; and it is added that the weavers, who have hitherto been weaker unionists, are moving in the same direction as the spinners.  DrasnrrxEs' PLACES OF Wonsiur.—There has been issued among the parliamentary papers a return of the total number of places of meeting for religious worship in England and Wales certified to the Registrar-General, up to the Ist of January last, ar.d still on the register. The total number of places certified by each denomination was as follows: Baptists, 1,818; Bible Christians, 437; Friends or Quakers, 372; Independents or Congregationalists, 2,252; Jews, 20; Latter-day Saints or Mormons, 86. Methodists: Calvinistic, and Welsh Calvinistic, 756; Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, 36 ; New Connexion, 267; Primitive, 3,126; Wesleyan Original Connexion, 6,750;' Wesleyan Methodist Association, and Wesleyan Reformers, generally forming the United Methodist Free Church, 897; other Wesleyan Methodist, 66; Moravians or United Brethren, 27 • New Church or New Jerusalem Church, 23; One Hoy Catholic Apostolic Church, 24. Presbyterian Church of Scotland, 9; United Presbyterians, 58 ; Presbyterian Church in England, 57; Roman Catholics, 638; Unitarians, 108. All others, consisting principally of "Christian Brethren," "Protestant," Protestant Dissenters," and those who object to be designated by any distinctive appellation, 761; total, 17,689. MURDER LIM SUICIDE IN IRE ISLE or Mu..—The Liverpool Mercury states that a young man named Williams, who, it is said, was connected with a well-todo English family, visited the Isle of Man some time ago, and became attached to a young woman who wag formerly a barmaid at the Castle Mona Hotel, Douglas, and to whom he was recently married in Manchester. On Tuesday last they went to the Isle of Man after their wedding tour, and it is alleged that during the next two days Williams drank heavily, and was very eccentric in his manner. On Thursday he was conveyed home in a state of intoxication; and on Thursday night, having partly shaken off the effects of the morning's debauch, he went to the Derby Hotel, and conducted himself in a violent manner, threatening to shoot the barmaid. In his frenzy be seems to have formed a determination te murder somebody, and Mr. John Gold, the landlord of the Derby Hotel, was unhrtunately marked out as his victim. Williams was armed with a revolver, and with this weapon he fired at Mr. Gold, the ball penetrating the biam. In the panic which ensued Williams rushed from the hotel, and got away unmolested. Medical aid was procured as promptly as possible for Mr. Gold, but it was wholly unavailing, death resulting in a few moments. After leaving the Derby Hotel, Williams seems to have gone straight to his lodgings, situate at a distance of about a quarter of a mile from the hotel, and there he destroyed his own life by shooting himself with the revolver with which he had killed Mr. Gold. .