Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-01-21 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

OOO. REPUBLICAN LII3ERTY.—The annual 1119438 for Napoleon 111. was solemnized on Friday at St. Augustine's. A woman selling violets was arrested for crying Via Isnipereur ! and a former Sub-Prefect, ordered to move ore was apprehended on replying that luecould not go faster. ON Thursday morning as the train from Goole, due at 10.10 was entering the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's station at Wakefield, and was within 200 yards of the platform, it ran into an engine and brake-van which were leaving a siding in front of the train. The passenger engine was thrown off the metals and about a dozen passengers were injured. A HORRIBLE murder was committed on Thursday in the Rue Jacob, Paris, by a concierye, who had received notice of dismissal, but had been allowed 3 months to find another place. Imagining that the son of the proprietor of the house had been the cause of his dismissal, a young man, a doctor of medicine, who had attended him in illness and had treated him very kindly, he seized an opportunity of firir,g a gun at his supposed enemy on the staircase, wounding him so seriously that he expired a few hours afterwards. He fired a second time, wounding a lady and a grocer's boy, who tried to stop him, and then endeavoured to commit suicide by cutting his throat. He im expected, however, to recover from his wounds. LEN consequence of a vote of confidence in the Directors given at a meeting of the shareholders of the United Telephone Company, the Rt. Hon. E. P. Bouverie, vicechairman, Viscount Anson, Lieutenant-Colonel Webber, and Mr. W. P. Bouuerie have resigned their seats at the Board. The secretary, Mr. Arnold White, has also 1-signed. This company is composed of two concerns, the Edison Telephone Company and the Bell Telephone Company, end it appears that much dissatisfaction has 'tell felt by Mr. Bouverie and his friends at the present management., The public has a certain interest in this quarrel, inasmuch as the Post Office seems to be in treaty with the United Company for the use of its patents. , SINCE Cetewayo has been in prison he has learned to write, and now proudly signs his own name in printed eharacters, which he reeards as an artist does a work of his highest science. B'shop Colors° has sent home some of these autogr apba to the Aborigines' Protection Society. The writing ia firm, cpen, bold, and clear. ON Wednesday a man named John Harris was attacked by a lion in Birmingham, where Messrs Sanger have been giving a fancy fair. Harris, while attempting to clean ono of the lion cages, was sprung upon by a powerful lion, marled Wallace. The animal seized Harris by the shoulder, and he would certainly have been killed but for the timely and courageous assistance of the the-lA:alter. Ali Alacousa, who entered thp cage, and, after firirug at the lion with his pistol without any effect, struck it with the butt-end of his whip with such force that the beast loosed Harris. He was nearly unconscious, his shoulder being seriously injured. Mn. CHARLES ORIERSON, steward on Prince Leopold's Claremont estate, Esher, was on Thursday fined £2 and ISt!. costs by the Kingston county beach for not having given notice to the police that a herd of 63 of his Royal Highness's cattle, under his care, were infected with footand-toouth disease. ELIZABETH HAWS has died at Leicester from exhaustion, •aused through her swallowing her false-teeth and their fastenings. TILE Premier has returned to his tenants on the Hewerlen estate 10 per cent. on their rental, in addition to the .5 per cent. already allowed. THE German Emperor is still obliged to keep rudoors, •lthough his majesty continues to improve, So large an amount of gold has flowed back into the ImPerial Bank of Germany during the last few days thaS it is papbable that the rate of discount will be redttced. THERE were 34 British and foreign wrecks, of which 24 were British, reported during the past week, making a total of 90 for the present year, or an increase of 29 as compared with the corresponding period of last year, The approximate value of property lost was £3,900,000, including British £2,800,000 Mn. T. BRASSEY, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, has just given to Hastings a reference library, at a cost of between £2,000 and £3.000; ON Saturday the first sod of the Hull and Barnsley Railway and Dock was turned at Hull. A SUNDAY CLOSING BILL, limited to Wales, has been re-introduced by Mr. Roberts. NOTICES were posted on Friday at Festiniog and other slate quarries in Merionethshire, to the effect that full time would be immediately commenced. For some months they have been working only four days weekly. EA CORRESPONDENT writes from Tipton, Staffordshire : " The distress here is still as bad as over. Some of the children cannot come to their one daily meal for want of clothing. They are shoeless, and wear pieces of rag pinned round them for dresses." A BRIG, supposed to be the Lumley, of South Shields, was driven on the rocks at Upgang, n6ar Whitby, on Saturday night, and her crew of ten men drowned, though the Whitby and Upgang lifeboats made unsuccessful efforts to rescue them. The ship has gone to pieces. • THE English Church at Kirkwall, Orkney, was partially destroyed by tire on Sunday forenoon, the damage swing chiefly done to the chancel end of the edifice, where the roof, altar, &c., were burned. The building is insured for £12,000. Two boiler explosions occurred (01 Saturday at Southpert, killing a little boy and seriously ink-ring a cook, at s gentleman's house where she was employed.  a !