Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-11-13 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

OOO.  Vice-Chancellor Malins recently made an order for winding-up the Silkstone and Dodworth Coal and Iron Company, Limited. The share 'capital of the comiany was £300,000. Mr. Parnell, M.P., has threatened the detectives with a ducking in his river. The late Lord Justice Thesiger left his clerk a I,g:icy of a thousand guineas. At Kastcaia a party of brigands have carried a thi• whole of the Mejliks and authorities. The death is announced of Lord Ormidale, one of tli- Judges of the Scotch Court of Session. An ex-Customs officer nem( d Elscome, who was •ve..ty-five years of age, has committed suicide, at i  A crowded meeting has been held at the Colston I fail, Bristol, in support of women's suffrage. There woro about 13,000 women present. ironclad purchased out of the vote of credit at fle tune ca the Turkish war, has left Chatham to :tug. fount the Mediterranean fleet.  Tennessce has elected a Republican as Governor of Piait State, rejecting the two Democratic candidates, no cf whom was a Repudiationist. Mr. Adam, the new Governor of Madras, will sail f COlll Brindisi on the 22nd inst. His Excellency will 1., present at the Guildhall banquet. • Miss Harriet Jay, the novelist, is about to make hoe debut as an actress in the Olympic version of her own novel, " The Queen of Connaught." The Lcindon School Board have passed a resolution expressing the great loss which the Board had sustamed in the death of the Rev. J.' Rodgers.  The 32nd Light Infantry, stationed at Jersey, and the 56tIt Regiment, stationed at Portland, will shortly be moved to the camp at Aldershot. WOhunt Hughes, a student from the Baptist ministry, at Swansea, has been sentenced by Ali. Justice Grove to seven years' 'penal servitude. Ths March decrees were enforced on Friday morning against the establishments of the Dominicans, Franciscans, and other unrecognised orders in Paris. Bishop Ryan, vicar of St. Peter's, Bournemouth. has received from his late parishioners at Bradford a kheque for £5lO, as a token of their "affectionate esteem."  At Southport, the son of an extensive cabownir lia been lined lOs. and costs, for being drunk acil disorderly in charge of a hearse and two !horses, when driving to a funeral.  At the Bow Street Police Courk London, Henry Peters, Ipte attendant at Northumberland lion,— Lunatic, Asylum, was fined £l5 for neglecting a lunatic placed under his charge. . The Royal National Lifeboat Institution li.ts granted £l,OOO in aid of the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the lifeboat-men who were drowned at Wells last week.  Mr. F. H. Macalmont, barrister-at-law, of the Western Circuit, has been found dead in his bedroom, at Rainey's Hotel, Southampton, death being the result of an overdose of chloral. A citizen of Coventry, whose name is not yet publicly mentioned, has offered to the city a site for a Public ixtrk and recreation ground, near the railway station. The land covers twelve acres.  The British Medical Journal says that Dr. H. Franklin Parsons has been commissioned by the Local Government Board to investigate the causes of the outbreak of typhoid fever at Tunes. A fashionable journal feigns authority to state that the marriage of the Baroness Burdett-Coutt has not been abandoned. Family objections are being overruled, and business difficulties arranged. The authorities of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum in in the Old Kent Road, London, have decided to give a trial of the pure oral" system for educating the deaf, as resolved upon at the recent congress at Milan.  The Royal National Lifeboat Institution have granted £l,OOO in aid of the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the eleven lifeboat men who were lost from the Wells lifeboat on the 29th ult.  The first steel vessel ever built at Belfast has been launched from the yard of Messrs. Harland and Woolf. She was built for the British Shipowners Company, of Liverpool, and is named tha British Queen.  Mr. James Girdlestone writes to contradict the statement that the warrant for Mr. Dale's imprisonment was signed by the Lord Chief Justice. None of the proceedings against Mr. Dale were signed by his lordship.  The Atheneum says that Dr. Alexander Bain, late of Aberdeen University, is about to take up his residence in London, and will shortly be engaged in editing a series of manuals connected with mental philosophy.  Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt, the great American railroad capitalist, has returned to New York. During his recent visit to Great Britain and Europe, Mr. Vanderbilt is said to have given out ordeis for 50,000 tons of steel rails.  William Brownless, the man now lying in Durham Gaol under sentence of death for the murder of his sweetheart, Elizabeth Holmes, at Evenwood, has wiitten to his victim's mother, expressing deep regret for the murder and asking her forgiveness. The London Gazette announces that the Queen has, by letters patent, constituted the Right Honourable Sir Robert Lush, Knight, a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal, and Charles James Watkin Q.C., a Justice of the High Court of Justice.  Louisa Knight, aged thirteen, an adopted child, is in custody at Brighton, charged with stealing a large quantity of property of a varied character, r toging from a fur cloak silk handkerchiefs, shawls, linen, waterproof articles, and boots, down to a 4Fge• dull  ' A rowing match on Saturday, on the Thames, between Elias Laycoeks of Sydney, New South Walyi, and Janus H. Riley, of Saratoga,- in the .rnited • States, for £290 a-side, over the championship course, was won by Laycock by four lengths. The race occupied 25min. 4 sec. the betting at the start w,.s 3 ui I on Layeock. The total expenses- in connection with the Government Board enquiry, held at Kinston in spring of the present year, with retort:ace to the disposal id the sewage of the districis comprised in the 1,0 see Thames Valley Main Diaina7o 13orril, have hitt recently been ascertained, the total .amount Adaied being 1119,804'05. 9d.  The Museums and Locture Booms Syndicate at Cambridge find that they are not even now able, with i:2,900 a year, to maintain all the science intisound with inoper cleaning, apparatus, warmth, and do supervision, in addition to the care of laboratories and lecture rooms. They ask for an immediate hicreabe of income to £3,009 a year.