The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-08-06 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

WEDNEMTRY.  The ease, the Rev. Mr. O'Keefe, of Callan, v. Dr. Ma.cdonnell, Vicar-General, for libel. damages being laid at £l,OOO, has riesulted in a verdict for the defendant.  The death is announced of Hans Chritrtian Anderson, the celebrated Danish poet and writer of fiction, whose works have secured for him a high reputation throughout Europe. The emigration return at Liverpool for the month of July shows a decrease of 2,500 as compared with the corresponding month of last year. The decrease during the past seven months is nearly 16,000. The revenue returns from April Ist to July 31st, 18M, are as follow :—Receipts, £24,146,874; expenditure, 1;28,630,850 ; balances, £1,603,200. At the corresponding period of last year : Receipts, £3.027,396; expenditure, £28,080,725; balances, £1,676.570.  On Wednesday morning Messrs. Moody and Sankey sailed for New York. in the mail steamer Spain. from the Mersey. Their departure was witnessed by an assemblage of over a thousand people, who cheered both gentlemen very heartily.  The London correspondent of the " Manchester Guardian" understands that the House of Lords will not persist in its amendments to the Friendly Societies Bill to which the Commons have disagreed. The sum of V; will therefore he re-inserted as the maximum of infant insurance.  A prisoner, while being tried by the Crewe police magistrates, on Wednesday, forburglaiy, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a piece of br...ken glass. The scene was so painful that the clerk of the court fainted. The prisoner stated his intention to destroy himself by sonic means or other to avoid his trial.  From the evidence given at the inquest upon the young man named Maud, whose body was found on the top of a railway carriage between Huddersfield and Bradley, it would seem that, finding the doorof the carriage locked when he wanted to enter, deceased climed on to the roof and was killed while passing under a bridge at Bradley. in a return, issued on Tuesday, of vessels ordered to be surveyed by the Board of Trade between August 5.. 1873. and June 30, 1875, the total number reported for survey for alleged defects is stated at 55(0. Of these 515 were found unseaworthy. There were also 58 cases of overloading, in 'all of which the vessels were found to be unseaworthy.  The Marquis of Salisbury, replying on Tuesday to a deputation from the Aborigines Protection Society, said he regarded the immigration of coolie labour to our West Indian colonies as advantageous to all concerned, if conducted under proper regulations. It was the intention of the Government to take steps to remedy the evils arising out of the existing system.  The forty-third annual meeting of the British Medical Association, opened in Edin. burgh on Tuesday. The members attended a special service in St. Giles's Cathedral, where a sermon was preached by Dr. Lindsay Alexander. The general meeting was held in the Free Church Assembly Hall; Sir R. Chestison presiding.. In the evening the president held a reception, at which 1,500 persons were present.  The Registrar-General's returns for the week ending last Saturday shows the number of deaths per thousand to have been :—ln Edinburgh, 31; Glasgow, 25; Dublin, 22; Portsmouth, 14; Sunderland, 17; Norwich, 18; Birmingham. 20; Wolverhampton. 21; London, 22; Hull. 24; Oldham, 24; Leeds, 24; Bradford, 24; Sheffield, 25; Manchester, 25; Nottingham, 26; Liverpool. 26; Bristol, 28; Salford, 31; Newcastle-on-Tyne, 32; and Leicester, 32. Average rate, 23.