The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-03-01 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ADVT. _ Mr. E. J. Reed, in a letter, maintains that we have only twelve ships at the present moment which constitute the seagoing ironclad navy of Great Britain. .  Messrs. Palmer and Company, iron shipbuilders, Jarrow-on-Tyne, have received an order from the British Government to construct six gunboats, each 110 feet long by 34 feet beam. The amalgamation of all the trades within the Bristol district, which has been energetically promoted by the Bristol Trades Council, has failed, only one society, the Carpenters and Joiners, having concurred. The first steam ferry intended for service on the Thames, between Hotherhithe and Wapping, was launched on Saturday. Miss Jessie May Cotton, daughter of the Lord Mayor, performed the cere— mony of christening. The Duke of Edinburgh distributed prizes to the students of the Fe.oale School of Art. at London  . _ University on Friday. His Royal Highness congratulated the management on the high position the school had attained. . .  ...... OR Friday a very destructive fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Henry Rowe, King's Collegeroad, Hammersmith. As soon as the fire was extinguished, the firemen found the body of Miss Elizabeth Rowe, nearly burnt to a cinder. At the Freston Police Court, John Hornby and George Smith have been remanded on a charge of assaulting Alice Savage on Saturday night. The woman was unable to appear, but it was alleged that the prisoners had broken her leg by kicking her. _ . .  About a day's journey from Madras, in the neighbourhood of Mysore, a gold tield extending over been twenty and thirty sqtare miles has been discovered. It is reported to be very rich in gold, and active preparations for working it are in progress. On Saturday night and Sunday morning the valleys of the rivers Blakewaier, Calder, Ribble, and fodder were covered with water, rain having fallen throughout the previous day, and up to three o'clock on Sunday morning. Much damage was done.  Messrs. J. Lister and A. Turner, the presiding magistrates in the Liverpool police court on Fr.day, were each presented with a pair of white kid gloves, there being no cases for hearing under the Licensing Act—a circumstance of very rare occurrence in Liverpool. A. meeting of the creditors of Benjamin Naphtali, a comic singer, professionally known as F. B. Norton, was held at Birmingham on Saturday. The liabilities amounted to £1.47, and the assets to £2 17s. 6d. An offer of 6d. in the pound was made and accepted by the creditors. In the Court of Queen's Bench on Friday morn,. . .  ing the proprietors of the World apologised for a libef on Mr. Horsmkn, which was accepted. The Lord Chief Justice said the attack was of such a character that the court could be no party to such an arrangement, although powerless to prevent it. In reply to a deputation which waited upon him on Monday afternoon, Mr. Disraeli intimated that Government would give their decided apposition to the resolution of Mr. Osborne Morgan on the burials question, and expressed a hope that the debate would not weaken the position of the church.  At Manchester an inquest has been held en the body of Eliza Ana Preston, the wife of a slater, residing at Hulme. The evidence showed that whilst drunk the deceased swallowed a quantity of ammonia in mistake for sherry, the bottles standing side by side; and a verdict to that effect was returned.  In the case of prohibition by the Bishop of Lincoln of Mr. Keet, a Wesleyan minister, to place the word " reverend " on a tombstone, Lord Penzance granted on Saturday it formal application, whereupon a faculty will be granted and the vexed question of " reverend " settled by the highest court. We (Liveiland Mercury) are infermed that the Admiralty have " placed at the disposal" of Mr. Heywood, the owner of the yacht Mistletoe, which was sunk by the Alberta last August, the sum of £3,000. This is said to have been done in anticipation of any proceediegs in the House of Commons, or legal claim. At the Cardiff Police Court, on Monday, six of the crew of the ship Royal Oak, of Liverpool, were summoned for refusing to go to sea. The Board of Trade Surveyors reported sundry repairs which ought to be done before the ship went to sea. The bench thereupon refused to make an order until the repairs were made. The Liverpool Gas Company having become excessively unpopular in consequence of the arbitrary manner in which they exact deposits, and also for the quality of the gas supplied, an application is to be made to the 4 :ourt of Quarter Sessions to appoint an accountant to overlook the company's accounts, according to powers granted by Parliament. On Saturday, the jury in the case of Mr. Wm. Hudson, son of the "Railway King," who threw himself on the rails of the Metropolitan Railway on the previous Tuesday, returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. The brother of the deceased said there was nothing specially to excite his mind to suicide, for he was in good circumstances. Cardinal Cullen. in his Lenten pastoral to the Catholics of Dublin, asks for prayers for the Pope and for Ireland, that the country may be preserved from materialism, infidelity, and from sedition and revolution. He says that Catholics who join in Freemasonry, Fenianism, and Good Templarism, or encourage such societies, shall be excommunicated from the Church. A shocking accident has occurred at the works of the etaveley Iron Company, near Sheffield. Three men named Louth (stoker), Glover (guard), and Fry (guard), were on a small bank shunting an engine, which ran into some waggons. The collision broke off the engine buffers, and jammed Glover and Fry between the plate and the firebox so terribly as to kill them both. A manufacture of a singular character has been established on the northern edge of Dartmoor, not far from the South-Western Railway, near Oakhampton. A series of shallow tanks are constructed, and these are charged with water from the granite. In this elevated region, a slight frost produces a g.ood layer of ice: this is collected and stored. This novel process of collecting ice for commercial purposes has been established by Capt. Henderson, of Truro.