The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-03-25 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

OOO. The Standard's Vienna correspondent states that a serious altercation took place between the Italian and Prussian ambassadors there, at a festival in honour of the King of Italy's birthday. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer will be raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Palling and Bulwer. Palling is the name of an estate and residence in Norfolk which have been held by the family of Bulwer since the conquest. At Cloonagier, near Newtown Forbes, county Longford, Ireland, on the night of the 17th inst., two farmers named Geelan, father and son, quarrelled about some love affair, and in the struggle which ensued the father received such injuries that he died. The son absconded.  child, fifteen months old, was drowned at Bishop Auckland, on Saturday night, by falling out of a cliffonniere bedstead into a kit of water in which it had been washed. The mother was in bed with it at the time.  Henry Bridges, a plasterer, was plastering the front of a house at Cheltenham, when the scaffolding gave way, and he was impaled upon the railings below. He died after lingering for some time in groat agony. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. John Thomas Abdy, L.L.D. Regius Professor of Civil Law to the University Of Cambridge, to the County Court Judgeship of Circuit No. 38, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Gurdon.  O' n Saturday, at the Statfordshire assizes, Mrs. Stagg, provision dealer, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, obtained a verdict for £7OO against the London and North-western Railway Company, for injuries received in a collision in a tunnel near Birmingham in November last.  At the Worshißotreet police court, London, on Monday, Thomas Wattersby, aged 30, a Lancashire clog maker, was charged with attempting to murder his wife. He was seen to strike at her with a knife, and he was with difficulty disarmed. It appeared that he was suffering from delirium tremens. He was remanded. _  On .Saturday night, in the house of Mr. R. Jameson, Nixon-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, a servant girl Entered a room which smelt strongly of gas, and struck a light. A violent explosion followed. The girl was dreadfully burnt, and damage was done to the house and furniture to the amount of £lOO.  The death of Mr. William Bishop took place last week, at 170, New Bond-street, London, where he had resided for 50 years in the capacity of agent to Mx. Westley Richards, of Birmingham. The deceased, who was in his 74th year, was a remarkable character in his day. He was generally known as the Bishop of New Bond-street. A provision dealer, named Robert Bingham, of The Wickers, Sheffield, was on Saturday fined 10s. and costs for having in his possession several thousand bad eggs. lie alleged that they had teen sent to him by a firm trading in "St. John's-street," London, who were sending them all over the country.  James INl‘Clellan, aged 50, a journeyman baker, residing at Reading, committed suicide on Saturday. The manner in which he destroyed himself showed great determination. He obtained the barrel of an old pistol and loaded it. He then fastened it to a pair of curling tongs, pointed it to his mouth, and exploded the charge by means of a lighted match applied to the touch-hole. Death was instantaneous.  Ann Smith was charged at York, on Saturday, with " publishing " a libel on a Mr. W. Wray, a coaldealer. The alleged libel consisted in a statement that "Bill Wray gives short weight," and the " publishing " was the chalking of that assertion on the wall of York Castle. The prisoner was acquitted, the defence being that "she could not write at all." The London court of bankruptcy, on Monday, had before it the case of William Harbord, merchant, of London and Bombay, whose liabilities are £497,000, and the expected deficiency £lOO,