The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-06-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

EVOLUTIONARY SQUADRON.  The evolutionary squadron, under the command of Admiral Hornby, weighed anchor at Portland shortly after 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning tin its experimental cruise. The vessels which had assembled at Portland were the Minotaur, Hercules, Agincourt, Shannon, Devastation, Ajax, Hotspur, Hecla, Iron Duke, Sultan, Lord Wardemand Polyphemus, together with the gun-boats Ant, Weitzel, and Cherub, and as they lay anchored in the spacious harbour presented an imposing sight. The Polyphemus did not arrive until nearly the hour appointed for the sailing i,f the fleet, and the curious and ugly craft as she ente ed the harbour was the theme of much criticism amongst the seamen of the fleet, many of whom had not seen her before. Contrary to expectation, the Inflexible will not join the squadron, but will remain at Portsmouth. The Rupert, turret-ship and ram, did not arrive before the squadron left,and will join at Bantry Bay.  A Toronto ju Ige has refuse,' the application of certain petitioners for the incorporation of a club for rowing, &c., on the grouo I that the petiti..ners were too old for such exercises.  Mr. Graham Chester havinfs,nt Mr. Bright the Scriptural vers., commencing, " 81-ssed are the peace makers," in nine languages, the right hon. gentleman replied, "the verse is known among all Christian peoples, and yet not one of them seems to accept it, or to act upon it. We ourselves, perhaps the ireit,t Christian nation, or professing to be 90, are not leas given to war than other nations. I hope the future may be better than the past."  A female inmate of the Mater Misericordim Hospital, Dublin, has committed suicide by (kinking a quantity of tAuclaroon. Bands of robbers are so numerous in Tiflis, and so dangerous because they are armed with repeating rifles, that the Russian Government ie taking steps in the matter. A large quantity of Peabody rifles have been seized in one place. The Government intends to turn the warlike disposition of the people to account by introducing, it is said, obligatory military service throughout the Caucasus. The actual shipwrecks reported last week were mostly British vessels, namely, 16, the total being 20, making for the year 494 wrecks. Off tke British Isles six (all British) sank, four of which went down through oollision. Three British sailers were reported lost with all hands. A colonial sailer was lost in the ice, and two (British and German) were abandoned at sea. The number of wrecks during the corresponding week last year was 20, with a loss of 48 lives.  At the Liverpool Sessions, Joseph Best, • solicitor, and Josiah Bates, a horse dealer, have been found guilty of having obtained from various persons by false pretences about £'9oo. Batea bad advertised for • partner in a horse and cattle dealing business which had no existence, and Best assisted in the fraud by drawing up the worthless deeds of partnership handed to the persons who paid the premiums. The prisoners were sentenced. Best to 18 months' imprisonment, and Bates, who had been previously convicted, to five years' penal servitude. _ _ .  The celebration on Sunday of the Fete Dieu in the Paris churches was of an exceptionally imposing character in conequence of the Archbishop of Paris having directed that the occasion should be embraced "to offer to God a reparation for the profanation of His sanctuary, and to Ste. Genevieve a pious homage In compensation for the ingratitude shewn her by depriving her of her church." In all the churches and chapels of the diocese a " M isere re " was sung, together with various chants invoking the pardon of Ste. Genevieve and of God for the Pantheon having been iiveeted of its sacred quality. A gentleman named Nigel Younge was a short time ago ordered to find a surety in £6O for behaving in a disorderly manner at Hatchett's Hotel, Piccadilly. The other night, at the same hotel, he broke six images which an Italian was vending. On being remonstrated with be became violent, and in a struggle with a policeman a glass barrel full of the best brandy was broken, and a marble table was knocked over and smashed. Younge's recognisances have been estreated, and he has been ordered to find further sureties, himself in £lOO, and two others in £5O each, to keep the peace for three months. Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Cambridge against the proposed increase of duties on beer and spirits, said the modifications of the Chanoellor of the Exchequer were regarded by the trade as worse than the original proposals. His lordship maintained that the tax on beer, virtually a tax on barley, was unjust to the agricultural interest. At a banquet of the Cambridge Carlton Club Lord Randolph referred to political topics, and remarked that the Government were nowin such an ntensely wretched position that they had entirely passed beyond the scope of blame. Professor Cameron has received the honour of knighthood from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in recognition of his services in the promotion of the public health, and of his proressional position and scientific attainments. The new knight, Sir Charles Alexander Cameron, is a direct descendant of Sir Evan Cameron, of Boehm'. He in the President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Vice-President of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain, and a member of a great many foreign and British learned Bodies. He is Professor of Hygiene and Chemistry to the Royal College of Surgeons, and Medical Officer of Health for IDublin. The French war-ship Reynard, which left Obock recently for Aden, is believed to have been lost with all hands.  DEATH OF SIR mirs