Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1875-04-10 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

PER,-:,ONAL, LITERARY, & VARIOUS.  baziar held in Glasgow in aid of the hospital for incurables has realised the sum of X 12,000. A bulletin on Tuesday night says—" Sir Sohn Gray is becoming gra,lually weaker, and his condition most critical.  It is stated that Mr. Gladstone removes this waek from No. 11 to No. 23, Carlton Honsa-terrace, which tie has taken for the season.  THE BURIAL BlLL.—Colonel Egerton Leigh will move the rejection of this bill, which is appointed to be read a second time on the 21st inst.  Mr. dames Alexander, shipowner, Liverpool, coramitted suicide on Sunday, by shooting himself through the held.  The Rev. Father Ignatius has fallen through a grating at his Benedictive Monastery, and broken his leg.  Mr. Alderman Walker, the donor of the new Art Gallery at Liverpool, has requested the Council to give up the scheme for erecting a statue in his honour. Sir Percival and Lady Radcliffe have left Caverswall Castle, their Staffordshire residence, in consequence of insults offered to Lady Radclffe by sympathisers with Arthur Orton.—Sheffield Telegraph. Mr. Plimsoll, M.P., was unable through indisposition to address a meeting at Liverpool on Wednesday night on the subject of protecting the life and propertY of sailors at sea.  It is stated that Mr. Gladstone will for a time reside in Oxford, rooms having kt9n taken for him in Keble College. He is underst•AT' to be desirous of prosecuting his theological studies in the Bodleian and other libraries.  Garibaldi, in a letter to Carl Blind, says he does not believe there is any country less really Catholic than Italy, and that the majority of the Italian nation sympathises with Germany in its energetic war against Jesuitism.  The Rev. John Jones, :minister of Chadwickmount Congregational Church, Everton Valley, and the author of "Slain by Drink," has resigned his pastorate in Liverpool, with the intention of taking a charge in London. The Athenceum hears that Dr. Hill Burton, the historian of Seotland, is engaged upon a new work, to be entitled "A History of Great Britain during the reign of Queen Anne." It will fill two volumes. Dr. Burton has for several years paid special attention to the reign of Queen Anne.  Mr. J. Heywood, of Manchester, has, in the press a second series of "Lancashire Worthies," by Francis Espinasse, which will include the Biographies of Robert Peel (founder of the Peel family), Samuel Crompton. Sir Robert Peel, John Dalton, William Roscoe, Mrs. Hemans, Miss Jewsbury, Henry Liversego, Thomas de Quincey, Samuel Bamford, &c., etc.  Toe unveiling of the statue in honour of the late John Fielding, M.P., a foremost advocate of the Ten Hours Factory Bill of 1847, took place on Saturday, at Todmorden, the Postmaster-General performing the caremony. The statue is the work of the late J. H. Foley, R.A., and was raised by public subscription between fifteen and twenty years ago. At the same time was opened a new town-hall, the gift of the Fielding family. A London correspondent says :—" I understand that Bishop Coleus() was a candidate for the Greek chair in the recent election of professors in Manchester New College. This Unitarian institution is situate in Gordon-square, London, and its principal is the Rev. James Mutineau. Dr. Colenso did not get the appointment, the successful candidate being the Rev. J. Estlin Carpenter, M.A., a son of the well-known Dr. Carpenter."  M.