The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-12-18 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

MULTIIM IN PARVO.  It has been resolved, at an influential meeting held at Dundee, to establish a school of cookery in that town.  The Smithfield Club, Cattle Show was brought to as close on Friday. It was attended during the week by about 100,000 visitors. Captain Salt, M.P. for Stafford, has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board, Whitehall, in the room of Mr. Clare Sewell Read. The appointment will not vacate his seat in the House. , A New York telegram announces that a riot has taken place between the white population and the uegroes near 'Vicksburg, Mississippi, and that seven of the latter were killed. The cold in Navarre is so intense that a number ,of Carlists have been frozen to death. The Carlist j forces, according to the latest reports, are estimated at 52,000 men and 105 guns. That was rather a smart remark in the Itulepend.ence Beige the other day about our recent naval disasters The Iron Duke, having great remorse for having destroyed the Vanguard, endeavoured to commit suicide by opening one of its valves." ' A resolution was passed at a recently-held meeting of miller* at Rugely that from and after the let proximo all sacks supplied to customers will be charged at a uniform rate of Is. fid. each, the cash to be refunded when the sacks are returned. In the official "Army List" for the present month are the names of about 150 soldiers who have died in the service since 1865, leaving unclaimed property amounting in the whole to over -£1.0(X), varying in amount from .tO3 to a few shillings, for which the next of kin are invited to apply to the Secretary of State for War.  Some idea may be formed of the extent to which Sebastopol was fired upon when it is stated officially that, from a tax of 6d. per cwt. which the Government levied upon tke production of the sales of old iron, shot, and shell picked up and sold by the people, a sum of nearly £15,000, was realised.—Balder. The Chanwel Tunnel is Positively to be coininenced in April next, the results of the experimental boring having proved in every case so satisfactory. Further powers are required before commencing the, grand shaft at the Bay of St. Margarets, and it is not believed that the proposals of the company will meet with any opposition.  The present Ministry, following the example of Mr. Gladstone's Government, have just given their assent to a bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister in the colony of New South Wales. The Royal assent had been already given to similar bills from South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania, and as a matter of course, a bill for the same purpose which has just arrived from Queensland will shortly become law. On Saturday night the residence cif Captain M'Ternan, near Listowel, was the scene of a sad occurrence. Captain ISl'Tenian returned in the evening from a shooting party, and he gave his gun to his servant to be cleaned. The servant, unconscious that it was loaded, pulled thetrio-ger, _ _ . . `.7. •  and it went off and shot Mrs. 3eTernan's wading maid, who was standing near him. A full eharge of No. 7 shot entered her stomach, causing immediate death. The fourteenth anniversary of the death of the Prince Consort was observed with much  solemnity at Windsor Castle, on Tuesday. The Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Leopold, Princess Louise, rrincess Beatrice, and the Marquis of Lorne proceeded with the Queen to the mausoleum at Frogmore, where a special service was held. After decorating the tomb with iinntortelles the Queen returned to the Castle. Fresh troubles between China and Japan are threatening in consequence of the threat of the Japanese to exact reprisals from Corea for ilitreatment to which some of their seamen have been subjected by the inhabitants of the peninsula. Corea is nominally a province of China, and it is said that the Chinese are going to send thither a body of drilled troops to repel the Japanese. The police have obtained some evidence with regard to the suspected murder of the young woman Sarah Ridley, whose bbdy was discovered in the forest at Maresfield. It has been ascertained that the deceased was in a helpless state of intoxication on the high road the same night she left her husband, and near the spot where the body was found the police have found money scattered about for some yards distance. She appears to have entered a public-house with a soldier, and late at night was in company with two young men, who are known to the police. The ' pocket which had been cut from the woman's dress has not yet been found.