Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1891-10-23 ()

GLEANINGS.  The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has iented a villa. at Beaulieu for the season.  Mr. Frank Lockwood, Q.C., will preside ab the annual dinner of the General Theatrical Fund.  The appointment of district paymaster, northeastern military district, has been conferred on Colonel J. J. Morris. •  The Bishop of Oxford is satisfactorily recovering from the severe cold which has confined him to the palace during the past week. The number of Queen's Bench actions set down for hearing during the ensuing Michaelmas sittings now reaches a total of 1,008. ; An Outbreak of glanders is reported tohave taken place this week among the horses in the Duchies of Holstein and Mecklenburg. • The Marquis of Exeter has presented the living of Carlby, Lincolnshire, to the Rev. M. C. A. Baines, who was curate of the parish. Miss Amy Roselle, who ha l been playing Miss Ellen Terry's parts during her indispogition, has scored'a remarkable success as Lady llacbet4. The will of Mr. Philip Dykin, late of Pcndred, Holywell, Frintshire, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounts to ger .C 12,000. Colonel Samuel Percy Lea has been promoted to the Royal Foundation of the Military Knights of Windsor, in the room of the late Captain Menzies. The Christmas burlesque at the Gaiety will be the "Cinder Ellen Up Too Late," in which Miss Farrell and Mr. Leslie have just appeared in Australia.  The statement that the Cambridge Senate has appointed a syndicate to consider alternatives for Greek is contradicted. This question will be voted upon on Thursday, October 29. Naomi Owen was committed by the Carnarvonshire magistrates to the assizes charged with the attempted murder of • her husband at Llanfairfee• han, and with attempted suicide. The charity concert given at S wansea by Madame Patti-Nicolini realised 440, two-thirds of which siun is received by the local hospital, and one-third goes to the poor of Swansea Valley. Madame Hyacinthe Loyson is in London for the purpose of obtaining aid forTere Hyacinthe Loyson in his work of founding a national Gallican Church in France independent of the Pope. Dr. Leather, senior assistant in the laboratory of the Royal. Agricultural Society, has been appointed Professor of Chemistry, at the Harris Instituter, Preston. At a cosb of £l,OOO the Mansion House is to be lighted by electricity, on a plan which has been prepared by Mr. W. H. Preece, electrician to the General Post Office.  The drawing of 'shares of the Panama Canal Company took place in Paris the other afternoon. No. 1,675,832 has won the first prize of 250,000frt, and No. '599,666 has won 100,000 fr. At the meeting of the, Holbeach Board of Guardians, it was resolved to' take further. land for allotment for the labourers in the union. The rent to be paid by the authority was 50s. an acre. The sudden death is reported of Mr. Gilberb Beckett, who was associated with Mr. 13ornand in the production of the lyrics for "La Cigate." He wrote the libretto of Professor Villiers Stanford's opera "The Canterbury Pilgrims." An appeal is to be made to the more itnportanb Hebrew communities in the provinces to organise local funds in connection with the effort now being made by the Russo-Jewish Cominittee. The fund now amounts to about £40,000.  , . 'Prince Aiibert of Anhalt, who is lieutenant in Queen Victoria's Prussian Dragoon Guards, has received the Emperor's permission to wear the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and chain bestowed on him by, her Majesty. A student 'who was expelled from the Leipzig University for delivering Social Democratic speeches in- public halls has not been enrolled by the commander of a Leipzig regiment, in which he intended to serve as a one year's volunteer. Mr. Marcus Doherty, one of_tlie judges of the Superior Court of Quebec, has resigned his pest, and will be succeeded by his son, ;Mr. Charles J. Doherty, at present a professor at the M'Gill University.  End and Countess Spencer have returned to Althorp, Northamptonshire, for the winter. His lordship, as master of the Pytchley Hounds, is now superintending arrangements for the approaching hunting season. The Home Secretary has Written to the Mailing magistrates asking to be furnished with the facts in the case in which a fruiterer, named Goodayle,' was fined for tying a child to a tree and allowing his dogs to worry her. The Triennial Festival dinner of the governors and friends of Charing Cross Hospital will take place at the Hotel Metrcpole on November 17. Alderman D. Evans (who will then, be the Lord Mayor), has consented to preside. • The 'Era says the thanks of the public a-e due to Mr. E. Compton for being the first to t. nsplb the convenience of ladies by permitting bbnnets to be worn in the dtess-circle. This innovation he has now introduced at the Opera Comique. It is stated that the Rev. Linden Parkyn, formerly a Congregational minister at Swansea, aud latterly a minister of the Reformed Episcopal Church in London, has joined the Church of England, and will be at once ordained. r The action brought by Augustus Harris against Lady Clancarty (Belle Bil ton) for breach of engagement has been compromised. As her ladyship and her husband have £B,OOO a year, it is not likely that she will grace the boards at present. A fire broke out on the works of Messrs. Jones, Evans, and Co., the Cymric Mills, Newton, Montgomeryshire, causing damage to machinery and goods to the estimated value of £7,000. The damage is covered by insurance. The North-Eastern Railway board of directors have appointed Mr. John Wellburn as general passenger superintendent, in succession to the late Mr. W. B. Johnson. Mr. Wellburn has been for some years the passenger superintendent of . the York division. .  The Duke of Fife has sold 900 acres of land to Mr. Chalmers, one of his tenants. This property, together with the lands purchased last month by Colonel Forbes, and the other sales effected with occupiers of the farms, makes up a considerable proportion of his Grace's Highland estate. His honour Mr. G. Harris Lee, late Judge of the Suffolk County Court Circuit, has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor.to be Judge of the Shropshire and Herefordshire (No. 27) County Court Circuit, vacant by the death of his honour Judge  The Finance Committee of the Liverpool City Council have rejected the offer of the Dock Board to accept without prejudice £l,OOO in settlement of the claim of £3,000 in connection with the maintenance of the military during the dock strike last year.  Mrs. Goode, wife of the vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Barnstaple, was fined 55., in eaeh case, for assulting two little girls. It was alleged that the children were impertinent to her daughter, and that she fetched them out of school, boxed their ears. and struck them with a stick.  SL Jacobs Oil  icso PILES " PILANTRA," Pile Cure. lairaeiod. relief and a permanent cure guareateno Sample Free. Postage 3d.—Address