The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-06-01 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL.•-••"  „ The Rev. W. R. Kenny, Raman Ctitholic .priest, of Dewsbury, was on Thursday fined' 20s. and costs fir being drunk and rioteus. Sir Rowland Stephenson; chairman Of the Ottoman Railway Company at its institution in 1856, and Mr. George Bruce, who had acted as secretary, were. charged at the Mansion Heine, on Tuesday,, with fraudulently conspiring to obtain a quotation for the Ottoman Railway Shares, when the state of the subscription for shares -Would not justify it. The enquiry , was. adjourned until Friday, the defendants being liberated• on their own recognisances. The second meeting held at Bristol by the Tichborne Clairhant, on Saturday, was attended much more fully than the first. About 3,000 persons were present. Both the Claimaint and Mr. Onslol,v, M.P., made speeches. The Claimant read an anonymous letter from a lady', signin,z herself "A. Mother,” who expressed herself fully convinced of the justice of his case, and who sent him a Bible as a means of comfort ; aid Mrs. Fi+znatrick, who had formerly lived with the' Tichhorne family, made her way to the platform and shook hands with the Claimant as roAll Sie Roger: A Church _Defence Avociation has just been formed in the neighbourhood of Sheffield.  1-7 AD  „ On Saturday morning a large wing of the Clyde Steel Works, Sheffield, in the occupation of Messrs. Charles Osborn and Co., which is built on piers .over the River. Don, fell through the breaking of one of the metal girders. Fortunately only _six men - were in the place at the time, and they escaped with comparatively slight injuries, as:the greater part of the roof went with the outside walls. T he public will, hear with satisfaction that Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, whose the Times a little while apt, on the subject of :lett to ,er the late naval disasters created such a controversy, has now published in the form of a paMphlet, "An Examination into the causes of the Late Naval Disasters.” Considering the importance .that will be attached by the country generally to his lordship's remarks on. this question ; so.rne Of the konourable 'members Of the IlOard 'Of Admiralty will hear of this.publication with feelings of uneasiness and doubt. ,  According to the' Aberdeen Free Preis the 'grouse disease which has been reported from the smithwest of Scotland, has not made ,its appearance in Aberdeenshire or. surrounding counties. Pre,: c- • tions as to the. general destruction, by the recent storms, of grouse eggs, have been rife, but ,they are, not likely to be verified— The, season ha i not been altogether unfavourable to hatching. According to and and Water, very unfavourable accounts are given of the Yorkshire moors, uppn which , the dead and dying aro found in great abundance. . Another boating, disaster is announced as having taken place upOn. the Thames on Sunday night, reaulting in the loss of four lives A 'Pleasure party in a little boat 'were: run down by' the, steamer Princess Alice. Out of the thirteen persons struggling in the water nine were rescued, • but four sank to .rise no more. Mr. Stephen Hornby, of the firm' of Roberts, .Buckley, and Co., machinists' Stalybridge, comthitted suicide' on Saturday. The deceased is said to have made an attempt to commit suicide twelve months ago. . It is pleasing to learn that the recent disclosures in, Life Assurance' matters are ,likely to become the subject of Parliamentary investigation. The first champion of the' Cause is to be the Right Hon.• • 'Stephen Cave, 'member for • 'Shoreham, • who has given notice that on the 21st of June he will call, the. attention of the House to the failure of ..the ,Albert and European: Life Assurance Societies, and Move a resolution thereon. Tithe men were suffocated by gas at the bottom of a chalk shaft, in Newcastle, on Wednesday. A fourth man just escaped, with his life before:being overpowered. The Conservatives of Ipswich have resolved to bringforward Mr. j. E Cobb Old, the son of a former ineniber, abd Mr. Bulwer, rebirrister of the Norfolk Circuit, and formerly recorder of the borongh, as ,Conservative candidates at-the next election, in _opposition to Mr. Hugh E. .Adair arid Mr. H. W. West.  The summer circuits of the judges were decided upon on Thursday morning.:' They are as follow:. Home circuit: ,Barons Martin and 'Bramwell. Norfolk: Justices Byles and Keating. Western : Justices Mellor and Lush.. Oxford Oxford : Justices Grove and Quain. JudtinCe Blackburn andl3aron Cleasby. Northern Justices Wiles and Brett. North Wales: Lord Chief Justice Bovill. South Wales: Baron Channel. •In. town: 'Lord Chief Baron Kelly The result of the great sporting event of Wed. . nesday—the Derby —was telegraphed by the' I'n:do-European Company to Bombay and'Caloutta in. lesEi than one Minute.  The iniprovement of the, Channel passage to France is 'still under consideration On Wednesday, Sir Edward. W. Watkin, chairman of the South Eastern Railway. aeconipanied. by two directors and two engineers, had an • interview at BOulogne With seVeral. influential French gentle. Mon as to a definite scherne fot the • iinprovement' of; the Channel passage. The deliberations were not made public; _  Coal is iepoited, to be very scarce in. Leeds. A load of slack can hardly be obtained for love or money, and, in consequence of this dearth, the startling announcem'efit is made that many mills are: running ShOrt tithe; and some works stopped altbgether.l Without wishing to underrate—the inconvenience arisinwfrom such, aT scarcity of the llack dianjond, we are inclined to think no remedy for this evil need be looked for further than systematic ieplenishin6 Of ifock 'before it grows too lOw. 'lnstead of Caving to look at the condition of the vast coal-fields. of Great Britain, .theiquestion, of the proper distribution of bur present•lsupply ;inuSt :be• considered for a prevention., • - Another disaster at sea is added to the many which have ocdurred so recently. .This. time it is the Steam 'tug. Endeavour, of Gravesend, which foundered on Thursday morning off Brighton. Fortifnately the crew were saved in boats.'  ~