The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-08-23 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

JOHN WILRON. Wheatly Hill, Durham.  The French organ of the milk and butter trade declares that French butter is being beaten out of the English market by foreign competition and its own defective manufacture.  At the Guildhall Police Court, London, (*harks Shore, a farmer, of Little Chester, near Derby, has been fined £2O and costs for sending bad meat to the London market; and for a similar offence Thomas Crampin, of Kelveston, Essex, has been fined £lO and costa.  The Imam anetir contains an Order in Council under the Weights and Measures Act lSf, approving the denominations of standards of apothecaries' weight and measure set forth loan annexed schedule and directing that the same shall be Board of Trade standards.  A girl named Anne Stroud, aged 13, has been charged at Derby, with attempting to commit suitide by strangulation. It was alleged that the child has been illtreated by hor mother, and had attempted to commit suicide a. a means of "spiting her." The case was remanded.  Thegromains of the late Lord Fife have been deposited in theJamily mausoleum at Duff Ilouse, in presence of the largest assemblage of people ever collected within the precincts of the Doff policies. The Aberdeenshire nobility and gentry were almost without exception represented. An illegitimate child, nine months old, entrusted to a Mrs. Talbot, of Chesterfield, to nurse, was fed with Godfrey's cordial and other soothing syrups. It died. A post modem examination disclosed that starvation and drugs killed it. The inquest held on the body, which weighed less than 91b., was adjourned. -  Nearly half a million more of the paper roubles stolen from the Government treasury chest at Flierson have been found in sacks buried about three feet below the surface of a house yard at a little town in the Tavreed Government. Of the million and ahalf roubles stolen, there now remain only 32,106 still undiscovered,  The Rev. Malcolm M'Coll, who as a High Churchman has, of course, no sympathy with Bishop Colenso's peculiar theological opinions, says that the Bishop "appears to be the only minister of the Gospol in South Africa who has publicly acted in this deplorable war according to the spirit and precepts of the Prince of Peace.  An important discovery has been made in Japan. We learn from the newspapers of the capital that a citizen of Riven, named Mine, has discovered a fine coal deposit at Nakashima, in Magasaki Ken, and has received a loan of Yen 150,000 from the Govern.. merit to assist him in developing it. Rich results are expected from the operations.—Athtaauna. The son of Captain Drummond, aged nine years, has been killed at the Tayport Station. lie was standing on the platform on the arrival of the Dundee train for St. Andrews, and when the train moved on the door of the van struck him and threw him forwards, the wheels passing over his thigh. His leg was amputated, bat he did not survive the operation.  The statistics of the Registrar-General show (the Laavret says that there is a singular c,onstaney in the proportion of suicides in England. It appears that Use annual proportion WU equal to 67 per 'zillion living in each of the quinquenniads ending 1364, 1869, and 1874 ; the extreme range in sinzle yeers was from 63 to 73 per million during the sixteen years 1862.77. - - -  It is announced on authority, that the summonses lamed against seven of the late West of England Bank dir ytors and one official of the bank will bc return Ale on Tuesday the 26th inst. The proceedings before the magistrates are expected to occupy upwards of a week. It is understood that one of the chief officers of the bank will be examined as a Witness.  Between 500 and 600 Wigtownshire farmers have assembled at Strannier, to consider the depressed stan. of agriculture. Viscount Dalrymple, Sir Herbert Maxwell, and Mr. M. J. Stewart, M.P., were presmit. Resolutions were passed declaring that the depress,oc is not local and temporary, but perm Anent and of national importance, and that a reduction of mot is imperative.  The new Canadian tariff is already producing d; estrous rests:is in the remote province of 3lanitola. This province is almost wholly cut off from Do eastern provinces of the Dominion, and aepends vcry largely upon the United States for manufacturcd articles. rue new tsriff has so enhancel prices that , many people are emigrating into the United States. where they can live snore cheaply.  Mr. Charles Richardson, brick manufacturer, of Tevnham and London, lms obtained judgment, for £32. 151. against a moulder who had been in hi. employment, and who, having entered into an agreement to forfeit 151. for every day he unlawfu.l% abeentedtimself from work, quitted without natagn.11mg any reason, thereby entailing on the plaintiff a D( IQ. This ulaint was for 51 days' forfeit.  VA(: