The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-11-04 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

BOOO. _  The body of Sergeant Ody, of the Army Hospital Corps, was found on Friday in a water tank at Portobello Barracks, Dublin. He had lately been in low spirits. At Leyland, near Preston, a foreman platelayer, named Charles Hasleden, was on Monday night knocked down and killed by a train while he was walking home along the railway. The statue of the late Lord Derby, for which the Metropolitan Board of Works offered a site upon tile enames Embankment, is to be erected near the Houses of Parliament.  Messrs. Wright's paper mill, at Morton, near Bingley, was burnt down on Saturday. The loss, about £7,000, is in part covered by insurance in the Liverpool and London and Globe Office. At Aldworth, in Berkshire, a few days ago, a married woman named Jane Iliswell was working on the top of a thrashing machine, when she got entangled in the works and was killed.  Mr7Cardwell, Secretary for War, has offered the Sheffield Corporation £7OO as a contribution towprls the extention of the main drainage to the barracks. The offer has been accepted. Upwards of 70 hogsheads of pilchards were sold at St. Ives Cornwall, on Thursday, at the rate of 9d. per basket, for manure. Last week about 400 hogsheads were sold at a lower price. A man named John Hamill and his wife are in custody at Preston on suspicion of having carried on a regular system of dog stealing in various parts of the country,  At Gloucester, on Monday, a coronor's jury returned a verdict of murder against some persons unknown inthe case of Dfillicent Davies. Deceased was_ found in a canal witn her skull fractured.  The Warrington Guardian says that a woman named Louisa Jones died in that town from an attack of Asiatic cholera, on Monday morning. She was a tramp. At the Dublin commision court, on Saturday, Mr. Thcmas Edward Quin, barrister, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour for the manslaughter of a grocer's assistant namel Doyle. On Wednesday morning, the Rev. John Talbot Johnstone, who has been Rector of Beccles, Suffolk, for about twenty years, : committed suicide by hanging himself. The body was cut down by the police. A meeting of the Rome-Rule !Association was held on Tuesday night in Dublin, and was addressed by Professor Galbraith, the Rev. Mr. Carroll, Dr. Nuttal, Mr. A. M. Sullivan, and Mr. J. F. Maguire, M.P.  Messrs. Chubb and Son, have just completed, for a banking firm, an iron and steel safe, weighing 151 tons, the size being 8 feet high, 8 feet 8 inches wide and 10 feet 6 inches deep. The Manchester school board have resolved to to take proceedings in a large number of cases against parents who keep their children away from school without a reasonable excuse.  Florence Cowper, the-w Oman who is accused of having imposed upon many by the assumption of an aristocratic name, was on Wednesday, committed for trial from the Marlborough Street Police Couit, on a charge of stealing a watch. At a meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works on Friday, Captain Shaw, superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, obtained leave to go to Chicago, in order to ascertain how the fire in that town ocurred.  The Newcastle watch committee .have resolved to swear in a sufficient number of special constables to act when required, in consequence of the resignation of 85 policemen whose notices are about to expire. None of the 25 bodies remaining in the Seaham ColLery have yet been recovered. The four victims whose bodies have been recovered were inteired on Saturday—two, who were volunteers, with military honours. A man named Fodden' the supposed leader of a party of armed men who forced an enterance into a farmer's house in the county of Mayo, and made him swear to give up some land which he had taken, has been committed for trial.  The Totn-c7 Board of on Saturday, resolved to prosecute a lady who caused her servant, who was suffering from smallpox, to be driven to the workhouse porch and there left. The girl had caught the disease form her mistress' son. At an enthusiastic and crowed meeting of Liberals at Bacup on Saturd.sy night, resolutions of confidence in the Gladstone Government were unanimously passed. Mr. W. K. Shuttleworth, M.P., Mr. It. N.' Philips, M.P., Sir G. Watkin, and others addressed the meeting. The Gazdte contains the official announcement of the elevation to the peearge of Sir Frederick Rogets, under the title of Baron Blachford, of Wisdome, county of Devon; also the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Miller, vicar of Greenwich, to the dignity of a cannon of Worceater Cathedral.  The Germans have commenced the construction of a fort in the environs of Strasburg, between Mundlesheim and Hausbergen. There are 148 cases standing for hearing in the Divorce Court for the ensuing term. At the cornnencement of the preceecang term the number was 216.  The liishop of Ely held a conference, on Tuesday, of the clergy and laity at Bury St. Edmunds. In the course of his address, the bishop remarked that the crowding together of artisans in v,dy close places, often quite apart from Christianising influences, was the great religjous social evil of the day. The anniversary meeting or "(Ludy" of the members of the University College, Oxford, was held on Saturday. the proceedings being rendered more interesting by the fact that the society has this yea entered upon its themeandth year, having been founded in 872 by King Alfred the Great. The Van, Iftrh Wdlce•glihy J,4-rnyn, the new Bishop of Colombo, was consecrated at Lambeth Palace on Saturday morning by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Bishops of Rochester and Bath and Wells and Bishops Claughton md Ryan were present. The royal warrant for dealing with promotions in the army appears in Tuesday's Gazette. The new regulations are of the most liberal character, and will virtually make the army a field where hard work and faithful service will meet with discriminating reward. The London charities, 83 in number, will shortly receive an additional sum under Lord H. Seymour 's will. From a personal examination it has been too : d that the property is safe at Paris, notwithstanding the disturbances. The charities will receive upwards of £5OO each.