The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1880-02-21 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THVRSDLY.-Mr. Pease gave notice that he will ask, ni,h ref r-nee to the emecution of Wm. Cassidy in Manchester, wh ther it WAR true that one of the jurymen said the ma's head was almost severed from the body, and, if so. whether the Home Secretary will take et;-ps to prevent executions from being carried out in such a needlessly barbaric mannerr 'Replying to Mr. Ribber!, Mr. Cross said he quite agreed it was &Bitable that other persons besides the officials of the gaols should be present at executions on behalf of the public, and he proposed to ask the visiting justices, to assume in this respect the duty which they formerly discharged, and take the responsibility of deciding who should be admitted to executions. In answer to Mr. Grant Duff, Mr. E. Stanhope sai lit was true that Col. Macgregor bad reported with reference to the invasion of Armenia from India, but his letter was not official, and could not be presented to Parliament. Mr. Grant Duff inquired if any document as hosti:c to England as this report was to Russia has been found at Cabal or elsewhere. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied that he could not enter into any discu-sion of the matter. The Marquis of Hartington end Sir Staffar. Zi'orthcote having referred to the outrage in St. Petersburg, the House went into committee on the Relief of Distress (Ireland) Bill.  thetathno i slavet s h The Theatre Royal, Huddersfield, was destreyed by fire on Sunday morning. A widower named Collier on Monday, murdered his only child in a lonely lane, near Rochdale, and afterward, cernmitted suicide. An insurance agsnt, named Crow, smothered his wife with a bolster, at Portsmouth, on Tuesday night. The pair had led a miserable life through drink. In the Divorce Division, on Tuesday, the decree nisi for a divorce obtained by the hey. Newman Hall ageiest hie wife was made absolute without opposition. Lord Beaconsfield has refused to receive a deputation front the Women's Suffrage Society, praying that Parliament would confer the franchise on women householders and ratvayers before the general election. Lord Salisbury is only slowly recovering from his illness, which has evidently been of a severer character than was at first supposed. On Sunday the Premier paid a short visit to the marquis, proceeding by special train horn Lenden to Hatfield. At their half-yearly meeting, on Tuesday the spareholders of the Midland Railway Company recognised Mr. Allport's lung and valuable services as general manager by a grant of £lO,OOO and his election to the directorate. Another Parliamentary vacancy has been occasioned by the death of Dr. O'Leary, the Home Rule member fur Dreehola, who expired on Sunday afternoon. The deceased gentleman, who was only forty-one years of age, was an intimate friend of the late Mr. Butt. It is understood that the memorialists who signed the document forwarded to Lord Beaconsfield regret that they cannot feel in any way satisfied with General Roberts's letter, and that leir Charles Dilke is preparing an effective statement of the ease for Parliament. It is not true, as stated on Saturday, that the Liberal leaders have held a meeting to condemn the projec'ed convention with Persia. No such conference took place, for the best of all reasons ,the Oppositiou chiefs have no official data upon which to raise a discussion. On Monday, at a meetiag of the council of the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire Miners Association, the proposed basis of 6s. 3d. per ton for a sliding scale was accepted. It was stated that several large collieries in the district, acting independently, have rejected the sliding scale. . A serious fraud has been discovered in connection with the army service and the supply of meat to one of the barracks near London A piece of lead weighing nearly 3pbs. was attached to the scales, and as about three tons of meat were supplied every week, the use of this would imply a deficiency of 4201b5. in the weak. The eontractor has been summoned, and the war department has taken the matter up. The man Dumbledon, alias Barrett, who is charged with the murder of John Edmonds, in Bucks, has made a confession, stating that his object in committing the crime was robbery. He offered to show the police where the watch was concealed, and, on learning that it had been found he displayed cm silerable emotion. THE Wipers Meanett.—Hugh Burns, Patrick Kearne, and Mary Tracey, who were convicted on Friday of the murder of Patrick Tracey, have been removed to Kirkdale gaol. The woman has taken to her bed, arid her confinement is shortly expected to take piece. Should the usual delay be observed, the execution wid take place on Monday, the 2nd of March. Beimer l'