The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-01-04 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

TRAVELLERS TELL STRANGE TALES.—We find the following in the ()lobe review of a new work "Travels in Indo-China" :—" Tribes of savages, from whom the Laotians get their slaves, inhabit these solitudes." Surely that country must be very like—Old Ireland.  Attoellantotto .31etv0 anti Ante Moir.  The Claimant has recovered from his illness. The Austrian Empress spends £lO,OOO a year for her wardrobe. _ _  The Adv eraser believes the Queen will open Parliament In person.  Catherine Harton—conviated of murder at the last Liverpool Assizas—has been reprieved. A Newhaven fishing boat has been lost on the Frith of Forth, and four men have been drowned. Improvement in the condition of the Duke of Marlborough steadily continues in every respect. The Committee on the Pay System of the Army is still sitting at the War. Office,-and is taking evidence. The Broad Arrow believes that the forthcoming estimates will show a material reduction in the establishment of the Army. The Admiralty have decided that all boys for the Royal Navy, who have been brought up in training ships, are to-be rated ordinary seamen at the age of eighteen. An inmate of Bethnal-green Workhouse, named James Jackson, aged 84 years, committed suicide on Christmasday by jumping from a gallery to the stone corridor be neath. _  the, Home Office has offered £lOO reward for the discovery of the murderer of Clara Boswell. Any accomplices are promised a free pardon if the desired informa. .  tion is given. The death is announced of the historical painter M. Joseph de Forestier, aged 70. Some of his works, which are highly esteemed, are in the collection of the Luxemburg. The American papers announce that the second trial of Edward Stokes for the murder of James Fisk commenced on the 19th inst. On the first day only three jurors had, been obtained. Should the resignation of Colonel Cornwall Legh be sent in during the shrievalty of Colonel Ezerton Leigh, it is stated that Mr. Piers will become the Conservative candidate for Mid-Cheshire. Mr. Lopes, as Recorder of Exeter, expressed his dissatisfaction at the Quarter-. Sessions on Monday, at the parsimonious conduct of the Treasury with regard to witnesses in criminal cases. It is stated from Shields that the Howard has been wrecked in the English Channel, and it is feared the crew of 16 hands are ajl lost. She sailed from the Tyne a month ago for Martinique:, The National Industrial Association purpose holding an exhibition in Milan next year. The programme is not yet published, but it is probable that it will embrace silk, woollen, and cotton manufactures. Two of the cafe-concerts of 'Brussels, the Alcazar and the Alhambra, have adopted the plan of interdicting smoking on one night in the week. On the first essay the house was crowded in both cases. The Civil Service Gazette states that the revised classification for the Customs outports has been completed, and that the-anxiety of the officials will probably be relieved before the January payments are due. The question of coal explorations eontinues to excite a good deal of interest in Victoria. The Argentine. Republic have also offered a reward of 25,000 dollars for the discovery of a workable zeam of coal. A- Lombard telegram fora ,Paiis says the Sub-Committee of the Commission of Thirty has adjourned until Sunday next. The committee had not.at the time of the adjournment arrivel at any definite conclusion. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Pickard, R.A., returned to Dover on Tuesday morning by mail train from Charing Cross. The Prince resumed- duties with his battalion on Tuesday morning as Captain of the day. At Cardiff on Tuesday, a pork butcher, named Jones, supposed to be insane with drink, without provocation or Naming stabbed to the heart a policeman with whom he was walking, and then attempted suicide, but still  Mdm,e. Nilsson is now at 'Moscow, where she IS about to sing in Hamlet. The part created by Faure will be played by the baritone Guajiani. At the last representation at Saint Petersburgb the Swedish diva received an ovation. _ _ _  The International Commission'at Paris has fixed at one franc and a half per kilogramme the duty on prepared silks, and rejected the demands of the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester for a reduction of the duties on cotton. • The body of William Oakley, who disappeared a few weeks "Igo, has been found in the Thames, at Charlton, with marks of violence about the face. The deceased, who was 68 years of age, was clerk to a barrister in Lincoln's Inn. .