Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1881-10-22 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.  The medal for the Jowaki campaign in India is now In course of issue to the officers and men who formed part of the expedition. The fees received from visitors to the Jewel-house in the Tower of London and paid into the Exchequer last year amounted to £2,170 Bs. Recently published statistics of suicides in France show for the last thirty years the extraordinary increase of 78 per cent. From 1851 to 1855 the annual average was 3,639, or one suicide for 9,833 inhabitants, while in the latest return the annual number is 6,496, or one suicide for 5,161 inhabitants. The excise duty on medicine vendors last year realised £4.688 10s., independently of £139,762 on patent medicine as stamp duty. The Queen and Princess Beatrice returned to Balmoral on Saturday from the Giessen Shiel, where they had been staying for three nights. On Sunday Divine service was conducted in the Castle by the Rev. Dr. Lee of Paisley. The Queen and members of the Royal Household attended. Dr. Lee subsequently preached in Cratkie Parish Church, but none of the Royal family were present. Sir W. V. Harcourt arrived at Balmoral on Monday as Minister in attendance. Mr. Woodall, M.P., Mr. Craig, M.P., and Mr. Broadhurst, M.P., were present at the laying of the foundation stone of a new Congregational Church at Hanley on Monday. Mr. Broadhurst, referring to the work of the Nonconformists of England with regard to popular education, said that it was a great, glorious, and patriotic work, and was at the present time, as it had been in the past, the backbone of religions life in the country. The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at Liverpool last week from the United States and Canada, showed a very large decrease in comparison with the preceding week, and there were again no arrivals of hogs. The totals were 862 cattle, 1,607 sheep, 4,066 quarters of beef, and 590 carcases of mutton. Out of a thousand trees planted by the Metropolitan Board of Works on the Victoria, Albert, and Chelsea Embankments, only one was actually injured by the recent gale. After many delays for repairs, alterations, and improvements by the dockyard authorities, Her Majesty's ship Inflexible, known as the "naval masterpiece," left the harbour on Monday, and anchored at Spithead to take in ammunition. A good example of the rapidity with which alarms of fire in the city of London can be circulated was given soon after nine .o'clock on isienday night, when an alarm of fire  was raised for the Civil Service Supply Stores, Queen An abundant harvest is reported from Manitoba. Victoria-street. The steamer from Watling-street was on The average yield of wheat per acre is twenty-eight bushels, the spot in time to be measured by seconds, that from just ten bushels higher than the highest average ever reached Clerkenwell arrived almost simultaneously, and the head- at Minnesota, which ranks as the best wheat-growing State quarter's brigade from Southwark was also represented with in the United States. very great promptitude. Smoke had been seen issuing from .., • the upper floor, and it was soon found, upon an entry being Recently on one day no less than sevent-two thouforced, that the gas had been left alight with some oil in a sand persons passed through the rooms of the Dlagazins pan over it, and this had boiled over. The rapid attendance du Louvre in Paris, and the receipts amounted to one milof the firemen, however, prevented what might have been an lion seven hundred and forty thousand francs. extensive fire. In the late financial year the revenue derived in The Council of the Statistical Society have again stamp duty on male servants was £137,593, against £140,291 decided to grant a aim of £2O to the essayist who shall gain ss. in the previous year. The duty is 15e. a year. the "Howard Medal" in November, 1882. On this occasion In London last week 2,550 births and 1,460 deaths the subject is the state of our prisons during the last were registered. Allowing for increase of population, the century, and its influence on the severity and spread of births were 27 below, whereas the deaths exceeded by 11, small-pox. The essays are also to present a comparison of the average numbers in the corresponding weeks of the Is the mortality in prisons from smallpox at that period with ten years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which the deaths in prisons from the same cause during the last bad been equal to 16.6 and 18.6 per 1,000 in the two pretwenty years. Particulars of the conditions of the competi- ceding weeks, further rose to 101, tion may be obtained from the Assistant-Secretary, King's College, Strand, London. A report has been issued in connexion with the recent census in the United States, indicating the distriba"lt may further assist rough calculations at this um of rahif all in the States, and that of population relastage if we state that, to pay 1 per cent, per annum in a given tively to rainfall. It appears that the highest annual rain.half•year the London and North-Western Ordinary stock fall has been 150 inches. This was reached one year in requires £170,000; the Midland, £120,000; the North