The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-07-21 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

SELLING POISONOUS PEAS.—A grocer, named Joseph Owens. who occupies a shop in London road, Liverpool, has been lined in the mitigated penalty of 2s. lid, and costs by the magistrates of that town for Felling preserved peas which had been adulterated will ,pperas to give them a fresh appearance. The magistrates hoped that other grocers would take warning by this case. novel fea.ure will be introduced at the forthcoming lieref,d Musical Festival in the shape of a concert of chamber-music. The fine orchestra collected by Mr. Townshend Smith, chiefly from Sir Michael Costa's band at her Majesty's Opera, contains nmany soloists of ree..enised ability, and Heref“rd will, on the last evening of the festival, have eunwhing very like a Monday Popular Concert in mid-September.  Madame Essipoff hs,s left London for TrouOle, to join her husband, M. Leschetizky, who is indisposed. They will return to St.. Petersburg in a few weeks, and will then decide about the pr,,posals which have been made for the fair pianist to make a tour of six months in the United States, for which the sum of ..t-lsoo will be guaranteed with all travelling expenses for two perions, during the series of concerts, four in each week.—Atheill'ltMe  IThe painters of Newcastle-on-Tyne, after being on Strike for 13 weeks for an advance, have returned to work on the masters' terms. Addresses from the Town Councils of Tnverness, Dingwall, Tam, and Wick were presented to Sir &Oar Jung on Saturday at Dunrobin Castle. The Margate Police Superintendent having been called upon by a majority of one of the Watch Committee to resign, indignation meetings were held. In excavating to lay the foundwion of a temperance hall in Donegal, the skeler,n :7a full-grown female was discovered. It is supposed to have lain there for half a century. Leon, the Mexican, who und,rtook to ride some recently imported Texan mustangs one hundred miles in five hours, accomplished the feat on Saturday at the Alexandra Palace. In the Royal Ulster Yacht Club regatta on Monday, in Belfast Lough, the first prize of .E 250 was won by the yawl Neptune, the schooner Olga being second, and the cutter Cuckoo third. A yacht's engineer, named Fisher, forty years age, is in custody at Southampton for attempting to murder his wife by cutting a deep gash in her throat. It is hoped she will recover. Te-vc tetss V. Ge A T.-In the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, it was arranged that the motion for a new trial in the case of Twycross it. Grant should stand over until next sittings. A farm lad has attempted suicide by jumping into the water at Benham, at a short distance from the main+ mof Sir Richard Sutton, Bart, When rescued he said he was tired of his life. Tne Belgiass iVews says :—The propos, d leviathan hotel, to be erected by a Belgian Company in the new Avenue de l'Opera, will hale a flat roof, on which will be a skating rink, with numerous groves. Shortly after the operatives. nearly 301) in number, had left work on Saturday, a fire occurred at Messrs. Townsend and Sons'. cotton mill at Attleborough, Nuneaton, destroying a considerable portion of the building and a large quantity of cotton yarn. A meeting was held at Blackburn, on Saturday, of the representatives of the cotton operatives in Lancashire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire. Among the resolutions unanimously passed was one expressing the firm determination of the meeting to resist any reduction in wages.  A New