The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-06-20 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

THE EXAMINER  SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1874.  NEWS OF THE WEEK.  Down to Tuesday evening the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund amounted to more than £9,000.  A. meeting has been held, attended by about five hundred of the leading citizens of Berlin, for the purpose of forming a National Liberal Association in that city. We learn from Washington that the acreage of land under cotton cultivation in the United States is 10 per cent less than that of 1873, and that the crop is 9 per cent. below that of last year in condition.  M. Rechefort, on arriving in the Cunard steamer Parthia on Tuesday at Queenstown was shouted a' by the crowd. He was vigorously hooted on his way to the station, and it was thought he would have been lynched.  In an official Carlist account of the engagement at Gandesa, it is stated that the Republicans lost 380 killed and wounded, and 164 prisoners. It is reported from Madrid that some mutinous Re• publican artillerymen were shot on Sunday at Logrono. _ _ _ .  We recorded lately the deaths by burning of two young ladies, daughters of the Rev. Prebendary Sergison, while on a visit at Netherseale, in Leicestershire. The death was announced on Tuesday of the rev, gentleman, his health, sad to say, having broken down under the mental anxiety.  On Tuesday, at the Middlesex Sessions, a woman named Doherty, who had pleaded guilty to an indictment charging her with an attempt to commit suicide, was certified to be suffering from "religious melancholia." She was formally sentenced to be imprisoned for a month, previously to her removal to a lunatic asylum.  On Monday evening, a married woman, named Caroline Ellis, gave herself up to the police, at Kingston-on-Thames, stating that she had murdered her infant, aged nine months. Her story proved to be true. She had drowned the child in the water butt. On Tuesday she was taken before the magistrates charged with wilful murder, and was remanded.  A memorial from the Council of the Social Science Association has been presented to the President of the Local Goverment Board, praying for the publication of a periodical analysis of the air and water of large towns having a high density of population. The idea is thrown out for the purpose of detecting disease, and suggesting what may be needful for the protection of public health and the prevention of the sppead of contagicus maladies. It appears that during the twenty-one days ending with Thursday last the thermometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, averaged 60 degrees, which was four degrees above the register for the corresponding period in fifty years. On Friday cold weather set in, and the mean temperature of that day and Saturday was only 50 degrees, or eight degrees below the average. The thermometer on the grass showed more than five degrees of frost on Saturday morning. Ascot races opened on Tuesday in bitterly cold weather, which _considerably marred the effect ef _ .  the generally brilliant spectacle. The Prin3e and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, and other members of the Royal Family, who are staying in the neighbourhood, drove in state to the Ascot course, where the attendance of visitors was hardly equal to that of previous years. The racing was very good, the most exciting event being the defeat of Prince Charlie by Blenheim in the run for the Queen's Stand Plate.  Never had sailor boy a shorter spell of life afloat than poor little Henry Hayward, who shipped from the Goliath training vessel last Monday morning, and was dead and gone on Monday evening. The lad had come aboard his barque, the River Clyde, to make a first voyage, and had sailed round the North Foreland with her from Gra. esend. Entering the Downs, he was sent aloft to help furl a sail, and while engaged in this task he fell from the masthead, and, fracturing his skull upon the deck, died instantly. So ended, almost before it had begun, the maritime career to which, no doubt, the poor lad had looked forward with all a boy's delight.  An extraordinary mutiny is reported to have occurred on board a CarcEff barque, the Satsuma, bound to Cape Town with coals. When about 50 days out the captain was roused from sleep by three men, one of whom slipped a noose over his head, while the other threatened him with a hatchet and a revolver. He struggled with them, and received a severe blow on the head with the hatchett. He succeeded, however, in rousing the mate, but the mutineers lashed the mate in his cabin. The captain, after being insensible for some time from loss of blood, came to consciousness to find the steward sitting over him with a revolver in his hand. The mutinous crew loaded a boat, and set sail in her, and the captain, first and second mate, and a sailor who had hidden himself in the hold, navigated the ship to port, with the assistance of two sailors from a passing vessel. Gaoss