The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-11-16 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL..  The Bank rate—h;s-been raisel. from 6 per cent, at which it was fixed on the 10th of October, to 7 per cent. The Lord Mayor's show took place' on Saturday, with its accustomed pomp and pageantry, representing the guilds and other privileges enjoyed by the Corporation of London. After the Lord. Mayor had returned from Westminster, where he took the customary oaths, he entertained a numerous assembly at the Guildhall, including; the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Riglit Hon. G. J. Goschen. &c.  A. woman named Gurlin murdered her youngest child at Manchester on Saturday, and afterwards committed suicide by taking prussia acid. The missing bodies of three of the men who lost their Eves in consequence of the fire which occurred in the Pendlebury colliery, 'near Manchester, on Wednesday, were found on Sunday afternoon 'between one and two 'ectock. Their names ara Charles Marsh, Hiram. Booth, and David Ctikton. On.Tuesda.y the Electoral Reform 'Conference was opened in the small room at St.. James's Hall, under the presidency of Mr. Joserih Chamberlain, of Birmingham. Amongst those present was Sir Charles Dilke, M.P. A number of papers were read on redistribution, and resolutions affirming. the necessity of re-adjusting l'he representation of the country., and the desireeility of assimilating comity and borough franchises were passed, after which the conference adjeurned. A meeting was held in the evening, over which Sir Charles Dilke presided. Amongst .ethers, ,a letter ,of apology was read from Mr. Odger. The publia fortunately is latterly becoming more accustomed to hear of reductions taking place in the present exorbitant price of coal than they were a few weeks two. A reaction has 'now fairly set in. Messrs.bßlain and Co., of Dean Forest, have followed the example of many other colliery proprietors, and given notice of an immediate reduction in wages to the extent of 10 per cent. It is expected that this will be followed by general decrease, and that the colliers will resist.  _ Further reductions in the price of coal are reported to have taken place in several partis of Scotland.  On Thursday the members of the Leeds School Board passed the plans for seven additional schools. It will also be remembered that on the previous day they laid the foundation stones of two other School Board schoo:s. The members of the Common Council in London on Thursday adopted a resolution from the Local Government and Taxation Committee, recommending the establishment of a Tribunal of Commerce in London.  _ The wife of a Penzance gainer on Thursday drowned herself and he child, aged eight months, in a rivulet at that place. A publican was fined .£5 at Sheffield onThursday for supplying drink to a man named Angus, whose wife had repeatedly can Aoned him against so  doing. According to the Times, Sir Alexander Milne is to succeed Sir Sydney Dacres as First Naval Lord of the Admiralty. On Thursday afternoon a Great Northern train from Wakefield got off the rails at Wortley Junction, near Leeds. The steam had just been shut off, so that no one was injured, though the passengers were greatly alarmed.