The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1881-03-19 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

STRANGE PEOPLE.—Do you know there are strange people in our community? We say strange because they seem to prefer to suffer and pass their days miserably, made so by Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, Indigestion, Constipation, and Nervous Debility, when Dr. Bardsley's Autibilious Pills will cure them. Sold by all Chemists in Boxes at 13d. and 2s. 9d.  The Anglo-Brazilian Times reports that the Brazilian corvette Vital de Oliveira returned to Rio de Janeiro on the 24th ult., after completing her voyage of circumnavigation of the world in 430 days, 268 of which were spent at sea. During the trip she traversed 35,045 miles.  The case of the female assistants in drapers' shops has at length engaged flap serious attention of a number of members of Parliament, and a bill on their behalf will shortly be introduced into Parliament by Mr. Walter St. Aubin, Mr. M'lntyre, and Baron Henry de Worms.  There will be an election to nine scholarships, of which five are:classical, at Rugby School next June— two are of £BO and two of £5O per annum. Candidates must not be more than 15 years of age, July 1, 1881, and the scholarships are tenable as long as the boy remains at the school.  At a meeting of the professors of the South Kensington Training School, the Duke of Edinburgh, who presided, announced that the resignation of Mr. Arthur Sullivan had been accepted, and that DT. Stainer would be appointed principal for the year commeneing at Easter next. t.-4,201:fte4a10-,,xt  The Manchester Guardian says that execution I:Ca-s been levied upon the Rev. S. F. Green, rector of Miles Platting, by Messrs. Tobbs and Co., solicitors, London, in respect of their bill of costs, amounting to £244, incurred in the recent p4psecution of Mr. Green for ritualistic practices.  The local authorities at Aberdeen have ordered the slaughter of twenty-five cows, comprising the remaining herd on the dairy farm of Westhills, Skene, Aberdeenshire, owing to an outbreak of pleuro. pneumonia. Six animals affected with the disease were daughtered a few days ago. Earl Spencer, the Earl of Kimberley, and the Right Hon. A. J. Mundella will represent the Government at the opening of the National Fisheries. Exhibition, at Norwich, on Easter Monday. In the course of the three or four weeks over which the exhibition will extend Professor Huxley, in his new office of Inspector of Fisheries, will give a popular lecture on "Herrings." aaaa The Army and Navy Gazette says that the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield has just completed a new weapon of destruction, the want of which has long been felt—,viz., a self-extracting revolver. This weapon is made by a simple contrivance to re. ject empty cartridges, whilst retaining those that are unexploded. It is fitted with a side releasespring, worked by the thumb. The Press Association understands that informa. tion has reached the Foreign Office from Sydney; that immediately on the news of the, murder of Lieutenant Vowyer reaching the commodore on the Australias. station, he despatched one of her Majesty's ships to the Florida Islands, accompanied by an interpreter to demand the handing over of the mut.. derders of Lieutenant Bowyer. With respect to the prospects of the Salmon and Fresh Waters Fishery• Bill which Sir Joseph Bailey has brought in, and the progress of which is blocked by the notices of five members, it is said that Ls pledge has been given on the part of the Govern. ment that at some time before Easter the second reading of this bill shall be taken at an hour at whicla the blocking notices will be inoperative. In 1878, the last year for which full statistics are available, there were 1,151 suicides in Italy, 1,764 in. England and, Walas, 2,578 in Austria, 6,434 in France, and 8,300 in Germany. The largest number of suicides was in Prussia, where the number was 4,689, but the largest increase in the last thirty years has been in Saxony, where the figures hay% grown from 390 in 1850 to 1,121 in 1878. At Preston Preston Sessions, four men have been sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from four to nine months for a ferocious assault on three other men at Haslingden. The prisoners were Irishmen, and it was alleged for the prosecution that because of some ill-feeling they had determined to " Boycott " the, prosecutors. The assault complained of was accona. panied by shouts of "Boycott the English." s College. The eas a iPn KgOlitical Thinker." The Iluize given annually by the representatives of. Camtaadge University in Parliament for an English essay upon some subject connected with British hiatory or literature, has been awarded to James sliuebnjnecetthwSats , Stephen, scholar of  The British -ifedical Journal publishes a report by Dr. R. Bugnion on the epidemic mortality among the workmen at St. Gothard tunnel, which has been, definitely traced to the fatal influence of a parasitic nematoid worm, very prevalent in ht countries, especially in Egypt, where it causes the disease known as Egyptian chloresis.  companylEZ°n3g. a.eEell r e Orders have been received at the School of Military Chatham, for the 11th Company of ers pany, in view of its being necessary to send another to be made into a field service comthe Torpedo School of Instruction have been orderei from Chatham to Portsmouth. active service. The headquarters of  Mr. Trevelyan has conferred with Mr. Macliver on the subject of the naval engineers' grievances, and received from the hon. member for Plymouth a complete statement 'of the desires which this influential class has put forward. The Secretary for the Admiralty then promised to give the whole question his most careful consideration.