The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-09-23 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

CLERIC.—At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Tuesday, before Mr. commissioner Kerr, Henry Barry pleaded guilty to a charge of uttering base coin. The prisoner, a few months ago was one of the booking clerks at the Westminster Bridge Railway Station, and in consequence of the quantities of base coin uttered at the station suspicion was excited, and a watch was placed on the prisoner by the police. He was soon afterwards discharged for being late, and the complaints of bad money. at the station ceased. A week or two ago the prisoner went to the London Pavilion Music hall, and while in conversation with the waiter, toldhim he (the waiter) did not make money enough, and that he could put him in the way of earning £7 or £8 a week more. He then detailed his plan, which was to provide the waiter with counterfeit gold and silver coin to be passed off to the customers. Manley, the waiter, informeclishis employer, IL Emile Loibel, of the conversation, and the latter communicated with the police. The prisoner was allowed to deliver toManleytwo packets of spurious coin, when he was given into custody. Mr. Commissioner Kerr said he doubted whether he was doing his duty in not passing a sentence of penal servitude, but in the hope that the prisoner was young enough not to become one of a gang of coiners in future, he would order him to be imprisoned for two years with hard labour. A "Dowry 'hum" At the risk of being charged with disturbing somewhat unkindly the decayed remains of a moribund notoriety, we may venture to refer to the appearance within the last few days in Ireland of Mr. George Francis Train. Mr. Train arrived in Cork for the purpose oflecturing, and was unable to draw fifteen people into a room to listen to him. On a former occasion he WES so popular in the humorous city, that his admirers presented him with a dish of sausages on his departure; now he appeals to them 111 vain. No antic he can perform, no display of meaningless bombust which he is ready to gave, will induce people to listen to :him, Mr. Train has in fact, without knowing it, committed the "happy despatch" on the peculiar kind of reputation which was formerly meat, drink, and excitement to him. The Irish people are sick of the Yankee Jack Pudding, and will have none of him. He may be as treasonable now as ever he likes, but he is obliged to attitudinise to empty benches, without the prospect of a cheer. He is no longer even an international curiosity. It is with satisfaction, we confess, we record the effacement of Mr. Train as an AmericanIrish agitator. Our neighbours are grievously afmeted by the native sedition mongers of their own soil, and no doutt they found Mr. Train at last utterly.unbearable. Mr. Train, by anticipation, styles himself the "next President of America," a senous title for him to assume, considering in how close a relationship it places him with the numerous Kings, Emperors, and other potentates, who are to be always found mistreats for people who have become a prey to pleasing mental delusions.—Daily News.  The foot and mouth disease continues to spread in North and North east Lancashire.  At Torpoint, a Mr. Dennis has been fined is. and costs for profanely d--ing the eyes of Richard Bray, contrary to the law. Mr. J. J. Watson, ironmonger, of Halifax, aged 26, committed suicide the other morning by shoothimself through the head with a revolver. Thomas Bond, rate collector, Hinckley, was on Saturday committed for trial for embezzlement. His defalcations exceeded £l3O.  The personality in England of the late Mr. Ttobt. Chambers, the publisher, has been sworn under £44,000. . _ .  An extensive the broke out on Tuesday afternoon at Messrs. M.Lean's feltworks, in Whiteeross-street, London.  On Monday night, a platelayer named Michael Cook was knocked down and killed near Leicester by a goods train. The robbery of £4BOO in the Bank of Ireland at Dublin cannot yet be explained. The money is missing, but no clue has been discovered as to the way in which it was abstracted. The new Theatre Royal, Belfast, erected at a cost of £13,000, will be opened shortly, by Mr. Joseph F. Warden—a good actor, and the most successful manager who ever catered for the intellectual amusement of the Irish "Northern Athens."  The death has just taken place. at Norwich, of an old soldier named Isaac Plunkett. Ile served under the Duke of York in Holland, in the campaign of 1795. Miss Mary Ann Pickering, of Stockton-on-Tees, was recently sent to a lunatic asylum. Afterwards her house was searched, and in some drawers were found 800 sovereigns and 200 half sovereigns. Mr. J. H. Esberger, confectioner, was attacked in a Sheffield street, late on Saturday night, by three men, and garrotted, and robbed of £5 15s. and a watch and chain. He was severely injured about the throat.  In the Madras presidency, during the year 1870, there were killed by tigers, 183 persons; by cheetahs and panthers, 21; by bears, 7; by bisons 10; by wild hogs, 5; by elephants, 4; and by alligators, 3.—Times of India. The total shipments of English coal to France to July 31st this year amounted to 1,047,404 tons, as compared with 1,376,938 tons in the corresponding period of 1870. The King of the Belgians arrived at Hyde, Isle of Wight, on Monday. His Majesty is very unwell, and is likely to make a long stay in the island. Mr. Bright is now making a tour through the south of Scotland. He is reported to be in excellent health. Mr. Lowe, the Tichborhe claimnant, and other notables are "doing" the West Highlands of Scotland.  A letter from Zion, in Switzerland, states that M. Gerlach, a distinguished Swiss engineer and geologist, was fatally injured on the 7th in a fall from the mountains of the Upper Valais, and died the next day in the village of Oberwald. The deceased gentleman was the author of several remarkable works relative to surveys and explorations in the Swiss Alps.