The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-12-17 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

PARVO.  It has been rewired, at an influential mpeting held at Dundee, to eatablish &school of cookery in that town.  The Smithfield Glib Cattle Show was brought to a close on Friday. It Wttii sttouded4luring the week by about 100,0011 visitors. Captain Salt, M.P. for Stafford, has been appointed Parliamentary Seeretary of the Local I.4uverntrient Board, Whitehall, in the M. of Mr. Clare Sewell Head. The uppintment will not raoute his seat in the House.  A New York telegram announce that a riot has taken place between the white population and the :legroom near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and that seven of the lattex were killed.  The cold in Navarre is se intense that a number of Curlists have been frozen to death. The Carlist force*, according to the latest reports, are estimated at 62,000 men and 10.5 guns.  That was rather a smart remark in the Itul;pen&nee &Ive the other day about our recent naval disasters The Iron Duke, having great remorse for having de,,troyed the Vanguard, endeavoured to commit suicide by opening one of its valves."  A resolution was passed at a recently-held meeting of millers at Rugely that from and after the Ist proximo all sacks supplied to customers will be charged at a uniform rate of Is. 6d. each, the cash to be refunded when the sacks are returned.  In the official" Army List" for the present month are the names of about LW soldiers who have died in the hervioe since 1865, leaving un. claimed property amounting in the whole to over .£l,OOO, varying in amount from £93 to a few shillings, for which the next of kin are invited to apply to the Secretary of State for War.  Sonic idea may be formed of the extent to which Sebastopol was fired upon when it is stated officially that, from a tax of W. per cwt. which the Government levied upon the production of the sales of old iron, shot, and shell picked up and sold by the people, a sum of nearly £15,000, was realised.—Baiider.  The Channel Tunnel is positively to be coin. menced in April next, the results of the experi. mental boring having proved in every case so satisfactory. Further powers lire required before commencing the grand shaft at the Bay of St. Margariets, and it is not believed that the proposals of the company will meet with any opposition.  The present Ministry, following the example of Mr. Gladstone's Government, have just given their assent to a bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister in the colony of New South Wales. The Royal assent had been already given to similar bills from South Australia. Victoria, and Tasmania, and us a matter of course, a bill for the same purpose which has just arrived from Quuensland will shortly become law.  On Saturday night the residence of Captain M'Ternan, near Listowel. was the scene of a sad occurrence. Captain M"rernan returned in the evening from a shooting party, and he gave his gun to his servant to be cleaned. The servant, unconscious that it WaS loaded, pulled thetrigger, and it weut off and shot Mrs. M"rernan's waiting maid, who was standing near him. A full cliarge of No. 7 slo,t entered her stomach, eat.ing immediate death.  The fourteenth anniversary of the death of the Prince Consort was observed with much solemnity at Windsor Castle, on Tuesday. The Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Leopold, Princess Louise. Princess Beatrice, and the Marquis of Lorne proceeded with the Queen to the mausoleum at Frogmore, where a special service Was held. After decorating the tomb with immortelles the Queen returned to the Castle. Fresh troubles between China and 'Japan are threatening in consequence of the thrust of the Japanese to exact reprisals from Corea for ilitreatment to which some of their seamen have been subjected by the inhabitants of the penin. sula. Corea, is nominally a province of China, ;mil it is said that the Chinese are going to send thither a body of drilled troops to repel the Japanese.  The police have obtained some evidence with regard to the suspected murder of the young w an Sarah Ridley, whose body was discovered in the forest at Maresfield. It has been ascertained that the deceased was in a helpless state of intoxication on the high road the same night she left her husband, and near the spot where the body was found the police have found money scattered about for some yards distance. She appears to have entered a public-house with a soldier, and late at night was in company with two young men, who are known to the police. The pocket which had been cut from the woman's dress has not yet been found.