The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-10-20 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

UNSUOCESSFVL. CANDIDATES I Tildesley, J. C. (Liberal) Griffiths, R. (Liberal) ...... Holt, George (Independent). ........ 215 Parkes, R. (working man) ........ 211 Birch, E. (Independent) Mabyn..T. (Independent) ......... :17 Jones, John (Inotependent) ...............18 The number of voters on the list was 3,749,771 the number of voters polled was 2,317. There were 53 votes rejected as being bad from various causes. It will be seen from the foregoing list tit the Churc/. party have secured the return of five members, and that the Roman Catholics have secured a seat. The defeat of the Liberal party is due partly to their having put forward too many candidates, and partly to an annsual number of independent candidates comitg forward. Whilst one of the latter obtained a largo number of votes, others figured very low on the poll. The first meeting of the newly-elected Board will be held on November 2nd, to appoint a chairmir,  A memorial was recently addressed to her Malesty's Government by the Ang,lo.Jewish Association, expressing a hope that in any negotiations which may take place lon behalf of the populations in the Turkish provinces the interests of the Jews may be considered, with the view of securing equal rights for :all subjects, without distinction of creed. A favourable reply has been received from the Earl of Derby in reference to this applic4 tien,  The damage to the screw propeller of the Alexandra is to be remedied by the damaged portion being cut off instead of an attempt being made to straighten the fn, A Longford telegram states that Intelliaence just been received of a WOlnfal named Davies having been burnt to death, and her body subsequently devoured by swine.  At Hanley, on Saturday night, a collier name 1. Blunt shot his wit, with a piotol. The woman was deprived of her sight, and was otherwise so in.jur,-,1 that she is in danger. Blunt has not yet nent arrested.  On Saturday morning Mr. C. Railing, postal te-e-graph clerk, Colchester, ovtamitted suicide at the North Railway Station. Va., deceased had been attacked by a religious mania, told expressed his fear timt he was eternrlly lost. There has just died at 131,`11, at the age of SI, VI ulliam llobertield, whose life It .d been eventful. Ile was present at Waterloo, and mse,ecited to the gates of Paris. He was present at the coronation of William the Fourth and George the Fourth. A labourer named Burdon, when moving the thatch from a barn at Nurstead, found 13 Id guineas, three half-guineas, and two crown piecei. which had evidently been stowed a. ay for many yea re. They have been given up to the lord of the manor., David Williams and Denis George, jt 4.4014 ware on Monday charged on remand, at West& anger Police Court, with assaulting a builder's foreman by ,hrowing hint down a deep hole. They were committed for hall being reused for Williams. A Little boy named Ernest Smith, five yes tre of age, living wilt his parents- at Crookhaw Coma on, near Newbury, has net with his death through eating a number of red berries of the deadly nigirtshad cv, winch be gathered from a hedge on the common, On Sunday morning a man was burned to a'eath 10 a house iu Leith, which had taken fire. The bo. it was not recovered till after the conflagration was holly extinguished, and it was then frightfully charred. The man was a joiner, middle aged, and lived alone. One of her Mujesty's ships on the Australian 4tii tlon has been ordered to 5:. Bartholomew's, New to inquire into the reported murder by natives of t he master of a vessel flying British colours. It is beli7A that the vessel was employed in the "labour traffic.  Two men charged at Worship street Police Coot with using pit iinidatinz lahzuage tow ards two warr men in cont ion with a stri he, were on Monday conk matted for tn 1. Each gave bail in £2O, their suretiviii being men prominent in the last "picketing" cam before that court.  Robert Dodds, ex Chief Constable of Durham, has been remanded on a charge of committing perjury be evidence given before the sitting magistrates at Durham last week in the charge of perjury which he preferred against Mary Jane Wright, who previously had prosrcuted Dodds for an assault.  Sir David Wedderburn, ex.ll.P. for South Ayrshire, speaking at Gloucester on Tuesday, said, as militia officer he should be ready, if England went to war, to take his share of fighting ; but he hoped it would be on the right aide, and that wee not the side of the Turks.  Speaking at an agricultural dinner near Gloucester, on Tuesday, Mr. Price, the Liberal member for Tewkesbury, urged the farmers to do all they could to strengthen the hands of Government many efforts to reduce the rates. Hitherto the agricultural Interests had been thankful for very small mercies. At Manchester, on Monday, two men who were discovered taking part in a prize fight on Sunday afternoon were bound over to keep the peace for six months. The Manchester police stopped tke fight, which was commenced in a field at Claytoi, in the presence of about 300 persons.  At the Marlborough street Police Court, liondon, on Monday, Mr. Will D. Frere a gentlenita giving his address as Hatchett's hotel, was- fined £lO for knocking down and kicking a constable who was called to remove him from the Criterion, near the Haymarket. The police-sergeant said he never saw a more violent man in his life.  On Sunday morning Mary Ann Faye, aged 2G years, residing with her mother st Lauisey, Leighton 3./I+rd, was burnt to death in her mother's hour.'. There is nothing to show how she caught fire, sull though seven persons were in the house at the haw,. none of them heard the slightest noise, though a neighbour stated that she heard a scream. SuocKING DnAril.—Wm. Wetmore, an innkrepPr,. of Kidderminster, met with a shocking death on day night. While driving homewards from ti port he WBl thrown out of his trap, and, it is must have been struggling with his horse wirer • shaft pierced his side. The wheels. pae-ied .* body, and some men who hastened up found  Mr. J. E. Severn°, Conservative eandid,,,,, t‘ws-.• 11, Shropshire, issued his- address on Tu,sean. He. renuously support Lord Derby's favour of further diminishing the burd hirhe•l ..,1 upon the rates, and ie in favour of management of the county prisons. Mi. ,v • Foster, Apley Park, is spoken of as a.ltkely, .1 ertnd idate.  A publican named Cooper has been fined 2tte. costs, at the Liverpool borough police-court, for .opplying drink to a youth under sixteen years of age. The boy stated that the defendant gave hint " five glasses of whiskey hot." and he added that when the. ',Aloe took up the case he had been induced by amass named Coyne to go to Rochdale in order to be out of the way. The magistrates considered the cam a bad one, and regretted that they could not impose &heavier penalty.