Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1875-03-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOTES OF TRE WEEK.  Tux exportation of horses from Germany has been prohibited.  IT is proposed to extend the operation of the Bank Holiday Act to Post Office and other Savings' Banks.  THE Papal Nnnico has. been dismissed from Munich, and the diplomatic relations between Bavaria and the Vatican severed.  A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against fourteen convicts in Signapore prison, for causing the death of Mr Dant, the governor.  THE official report into the loss of the La Plata has been issued. It exonerates the officers from all blame, and states that the disaster to all appearance originated in the stoke hole.  --0 BOME surprise has been created in India by an order from England to hold all the Indian Begiments in readiness for active service. No one seems to comprehend any cause for this order.  THE constitution of the Scotch Disestablish. ment Association has been so framed as to secure the co operation of the Free Char& A united and vigorous movement will thus be made for disestablishing the Sc itch Church.  A dreadful panic occurred in a New York Church last month during a Lenten service. An adjoining building fell throci_li the roof of the church, and the worshippers rushed to the doors, when a number were trampled to death.  MARY BUTLER, a married woman, about GO years of age, attempted to commit suicide at Jarrow on Friday, by mixing her beer with oxalic acid. • A doctor was called, and the contents of the stomach pumped. She is in a dangerous state. A quarrel with her husband is said to be the cause of the rash act.  THE election at Norwich resulted, on Friday, in the return of Mr Tillett, Liberal, by 798 votes above the Conservative candidate, Colonel Wilkinson. This is a very decided Liberal victory.—At St Ives, the same day, Mr Praed —who was unseated on petition—was again returned, the majority in his f4vour being 108.  ON Friday, Richard Coates, the regimental scho,dmaster, was arraigned at the Chelmsford Assizes for the murder of a little girl at 'ParBeet. The trial lasted over Saturday and Monday, when the jury found a verdict of guilty. Prisoner protested his innocence, and before leaving the dock kissed his father, and said "Tell mother Pm not afraid to die, but I die as a soldier."  Mr JOHN Timm, the antiquarian, died on Thursday, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He was the alithor of about 150 different works on antiquities, biography, history, scientific, and many other subjects. He was chief editor of the Illustrated Lowlon Sews from its commencement till 1858, and was latterly in necessitous circumstances.  AN influentially signed petition was recently forwarded from Scarborough to the directors of the Midland Railway Company, praying them to extend their railway system to that favourite watering-place, as the growing requirements of the borough were neglected by the North-Eastern Railway Company. A reply was received on Friday, stating that the Midland directors were not in a position to extend, their system. A similar petition is being signed in Whitby, but the reply to Scarborough may prevent it being carried further.