The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-06-20 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

THE BISHOPRIC OF BALLARAT. to be formed out of the diocese of Melbourne, has been offered to the Rev. J. Barosely, rector of Stepney, but he has declined it.  It is rumoured that Mr. Gladstone is to be asked to lead the Opposition in the House of Commons on the Public Worship Regulation Bill, if it passes to the Lower House. It is rumoured in Vienna that during the ensuing summer a congress of the Princes of the orkish Principalities will be held in one of the Italian watering places. The Emperor of Austria has directed a sum of 6000 florins to be expended in the erection of a monument to Beethoven at Vienna, in the garden opposite the Gymnasium. Bishop Ryan, vicar of Bradford, on passing through a low district of the town, was assualted by a gang of ioughs, one of whom threw a stons, which struck him heavily on the 'eg,. The Camden Society has obtained leave from the Earl of Verulain to print his copy of Justice Croke's judgment in the Ship-Money case, with autograph corrections by the Judge. A serious collision occurred in Horse Channel. Liverpool, on Monday, between the yacht Templar's Delight and a fiat. The yacht sank, and one of the crew, Thomas Arlet, was drowned. It is said that Mr. John Forster's next work is likely to be a biography of Swift, for which he has collected a valuable mass of materials, including not a few unpublished letters of the famous Dean. On Monday, while the process of cleaning the Revenue cruiser Queen Victoria was going on at Kingstown Harbour, she suddenly listed over. crushing six men badly. No fatalities are expected. After a very short career. "Mont Blanc" has been withdiawn from the Haymarket. and has been replaced by "The Overland Route." " Pride " at the Vaudeville, has given way to the "School for Scandal." " Mademoiselle Bagatelle " is the title of a one. act piece by MM. Cr4mieux and Blum, to which M. Offenbach has composed some lively music. The heroine, a singer at a cafe-concert, is played by Madame Judie. The anti-pollution movement has teen inaugu-. . .  and the remaining man were hanging on to the rated by the. establishment of the Fisheries Prekeel of the capsized boat, but were fast becoming, servation Association, of which the Duke of disabled by their exertions and by the cold. They Northumberland is president, and Dr. Peter Hood were taken hold of by the two gentlemen in the the hon. secretary. rescuing (raft, and ea lata,ed. . A number of Coventry ribbon weavers who BURGLARS BEWARE !—A "skeleton in the closet" were brought to Leicester to supply the places is not generaliy considered a pleasant thing to of the web weavers locked out, have been interhave, but a recent occurrence in Greensburg, viewed by unionists, and their work has met with America, shows that it may sometimes answer a considerable molestation. good purpose. We learn from the Philadelphia Mr. Oxenfeici's version of "East Lynne" has Mediral Times that a burglar broke into a been produced at the St. James's Theatre. Miss physician's office in that town, and openings closet Rose Goghlan gave a powerful impersonation of (while his companion with a dark lantern was in the heroine. Miss Bessie Hollingshead, who made another pact of the room, got his hands between her debut as Barbara Hare, created a favourable the jaws of a sk; leton, which being adjusted with ire,roession. a coil spring and kept open with a thread, closed A DRICKFIELD DEcIDISO TO 115 A FAcTORY.—The suddenly on the intruding hand, by the breaking sittingbouene magistrates on Monday fined Mr. G. of the thread. Startled at being thus seized, he Smeed, one of the largest brickntakers in the king. uttered a faint shriek, and when his companion dom, for employing a girl under sixteen years of turned the lantern towards him, and he beheld age. This decision was based on the assumption himself in the grim and ghastly je.ws of Death that a brickfield is a factory within the meaning of himself, he became so overpowered by fear that he the Act. fainted, and fell insensible to the floor, pulling the Early on M.onday a fire was discovered in the skeleton down upon him, and making so much noise that his companion fled immediately. The engine sheds of the ropery belonging to Messrs. doctor alarmed at the noise and confusion, has- J. Aspinall, Son, and Brooke, Lodge lane, Livertened into the room, and secured the terror- poo.l. The alarm was werecon vesed to the fire stationer, stricken burglar, still held by the skeleton, rlforned se this timen the whole of the engine 'eval ginn on the spot, but eshe Burglars who may have a design upon the Iran. ' quility or enciimbrance of any of our households . had been gutted, and the fire was rapidly spread.. will take warning by the unhappy fate which lugbefel ens of their "comrades in arms" ins doe- DREADFUL SUICIDE or