The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-08-02 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL.  The trial of IniipPJctor Montgomery far' the Newton-Stewart murder was resumed on Saturday. Serj;_.ant Armstrong replied on behalf of the prosecution. On Monday, a cashier named Prank Hutchins, of Liverpool, was committed for trial at the assizes, on a char;e of baring embezzled 1:4000, the money of Messrs. James Gorden and Co. We learn that at the National Agricultural Labourers' Union conference meeting at Leamington on Tuesday it was decided that President Arch and Mr. Cox of Belper, should visit Ireland next month, and a:fo_erwards go to Canada and the United States to open fresh fields of emigration, and awaken symrathy for the movement. Mr. Arch has received a further offer front America to take 1,000 famiEes. The health of Mr. Gladstone has so far improved that he was able to attend the House of 'Commons on Tuesday night. On Tuesday mornin2 the Duke of Edinburgh Arrived at Dover front Russia. _  According to the return recently published to Mr. Plimsoll's order, during the years 1870, 1871; and 1872, no less than 1,638 sailors were committed to prison for refusing to go to sea. The following candidates were nominated for the representation of Greenwich on Tuesday moraing :—Sir John Bennett, Mr. Angerstem, Dr. Baxter Langley, Mr. Coningsby, Liberals, and Mr. Boord, Conzervative. It appears that 2245 officers of the British army have memorialised the Commander-in-Chief . . .  with reference to the alleged hardships arising out of the abolition of purchase. The Lord Chancellor, sitting for the Master of the Rolls, on Tuesday sanctioned an order restraining the Mancaester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway from the use of a certain £lBO,OOO for the purpose o a dividend, which it is alleged is  and not income. The proprietors of the Union Bank of London on Wednesday confirmed the resolution to register  the Bank as a'n unlimited .liability company. On Wednesday evening the bodies of a woman named Stairs and her two children were found in a pool at Milton, near Portsmouth. The unhappy woman, it is supposed, murdered the children and then committed suicide.  The announcement that Sir George Jessel has accepted the Mastership of the Rolls is confirmed. The Bank rate has been reduced to 31 per cent, while Consols are at 921 to 9211- for money and account.  The Globe mentions a rumour that the feud between Mr. Lowe and Mr. ikyrton has placed Mr. Gladstone in a position of great embarrassment, and that the retirement of one or both is impending. Harvest operations have commenced in some parts of Essex and the crops of every kind have improved and ripened satisfactorily. The influence of fine weather on harvest prospects, however, observgs the Times, is counterbalanced by the high prices in the French markets, for which purchases continue to be made in this country. A petition for liquidation has been filed at Huddersfield by Thomas Etchells, of Honley, and Priestroyd Mill, Huddersfield, woollen manufacturer and spinner; liabilities, £9,000. A petition has also been file.d by J. M. Elassall, cloth finisher, Tower Mills, Turnbridge, Huddersfield; liabilities, £9,800.