The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-08-07 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

SATURDAY. AUGUST 7, 1875.  The ease. the Rev. Mr. O'Keefe, of Callan. v. Dr. Mactionnell. Vicar-General, for libel, damages being laid at £l.OOO, has resulted in a verdict for the defendant.  The death is announced of Hans Christian Anderson, the celebrated Danish poet and writer of fiction, whose works have secured for him a high reputation thivamhout Europe. The emigration return at Liverpool for the mouth of July shows a decrease of 2.500 as compared with the corresponding month of last year. The decrease during the past seven mouths is nearly 16,000. The revenue returns from April Ist to • July 31st, 1875, are as follow :—Receipts, A:24,146,874 ; expenditure, f:28,630,850 ; balances, J. 1.603.200. At the correspouding period of last year Receipts, £it3.027.396; expenditure, +.728,050,725; anees, £1,676.570.  On Wednesday morning Messrs. Moody awl Sankey sailed for New York, in the mail steamer Spain. from the Mersey. Their departure was witnessed by an as,embhwe of over a thousand people, \rho cheered 'both gentlemen very heartily.  The London correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" understands that the House of Lords will not persist in its amendments to the Friendly Societies Bill to which the Commons have disagreed. The sum id 4:6 will therefore he re-inserted as the maximum of infant insurance.  A prisoner, while being tried by the Crewe police magistrates, on Wednesday, for burglary. attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a piece of broken glass. The scene was so painful that the clerk of the court fainted. The prisoner stated his intention to destroy himself by some means or other to avoid his  From the evidence given at the inquest upon the young man named Maud, whose body was , found on the bp of a railway carria,, between I Huddersfield and Bradley, it w.aihiseem that, finding the thlorof thecarriag,e locked when he NVallted to enter, deceased aimed on to the roof and was killed while passing under a bridge at Bradley. In a return, issued on Tuesday. of vessels ordered to be surveyed by the Board of Trade between August 5. 1873. and June 30, 1875, the total number reported for survey for alleged defects is stated at 550. Of these 515 weld found unseaworthy. There were also 58 eases of overloading, in all ~f which the vessels were found to be unseaworthy. The Marquis of Salisbury. replying on Tuesday to a deputation from the Aborigines Protection Society, said he regarded the immigrathm of coolie labour to our West Indian colonies as advantageous to all concerned, if conducted under proper regulations. It was the intention of the Government to take steps to remedy the evils arising out of the existing system. The forty-third annual meeting of the British Medical Association, opened in Edinburgh on Tuesday. The, members attended a special service in St. Giles's Cathedral, where a sermon was preached by Dr. Lindsay Alexander. The general meeting was held in the Free Church Assembly Hall; Sir R. Chestison presiding. In the evening the president hell a reception, at which 1,500 persons were present. The Registrar-General's returns for the week ending last Saturday shows the number of deaths per thousand to have been :—ln Edinburgh, 31; Glasgow. 25; Dublin, '22; Portsmouth. lit Sunderland. 17: Norwich, 18 ; Birmingham. 20; mr,a verhampton. 21; London, 22; Hull. 24; Oldham, 24; Leeds, '2l; Bradford, '24; Sheffield. 23; Manchester, 25; Nottingham, 26 ; Liverpool. 26; Bristol, 28; Salford, 31; Newcastle-on-Tyne, I 32; and Leicester, 32. Average rate, 23.