The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-06-02 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  The washerwomen of Workington and neighbourhood have struck for an advance of wages. Prince Couza is in Paris, but does not appear in society. Yorkshire has 6 volunteers to every 1000 of ' the population, the gross number being 13,059, and stands 52 in the order of merit. _ _  The princess Clotilda is said to be for the third time in an interesting situation. The coloured sailor stabbed last week at Bristol by a Yankee in a public-house brawl is said to be in a dying state. On Saturday morning,' A v,boiler explosion took place at Messrs. Bracken's paper mill, Luddenden, near Halifax, and the firer-up,, Thomas Ingham, was killed. iv ffi It is armed inti Dublin that AJr,Gladstone! has sanctioned .24 loan to the Irish railway! companies having bonds arriving at maturity', during the monetary panic. I The "Freeman's Journal" announces that! Archbishop Cullen has been elevated to the! position of Cardinal. We continue to receive -..ery satisfactory re-1 portof the improvement in the health of Mr.! Hodgson, M.P., and it is arranged for him to! return to his residence, Mewby Grange, in the! course of Saturday. I A petition is now in course of signature in! different parts of tne country, by women only,i praying that the House of Commons should! provide for the representation of all house holders, without distinction of sex, who possess the necessary property or rental qualification. On the occasion of the anniversary at the Queen's birthday, . the Mayor of Birmingham (Mr. Edwin Yates)i.entertained 3000 school, children at Aston-park. k The Prince of Wales has consented to lay! the first stone of the new North Staffordshire: Infirmary at Hartshill, near Stoke-upon-Trent,! on MoLday, the 25th of June. • , Warner, the Fenian informer, is likely to recover from the effects of his wound. He was to have sailed for Canada with his family on the 31st inst. Mr. J. Calvert Stronge, divisional police magistrate of Dublin, has been appointed solicitor of inland revenue in Ireland, in the room of Mr. Smyly, Q. C., deceased. Sir Charles Wood, now Viscount Halifax, is about to .be i presented by his Halifax constituents with a magnificient service of plate of the value of upwards of £lOOO. A movement is now being made in France to secure the abolition of the punishment of death. The question, which will shortly come on for consideration in the French Senate, is awakening great interest, and several leading senators are expected to speak in favour of the abolition. The cattle plague returns showed a slight increase last week, the number of new cases being 1932 against 1912 the week previous. In the metropolitan district there were eleven new cases, as against ten the week before. No new cases were recorded in the south-eastern counties. The late Rev. John Miles 8.D., incumbent of the Holy Trinity Church, Bishop's-road, Paddington, has bequeathed in charity nearly .£70,000, to be divided between St. Mary's Hospital, ,Paddington, the Society for Pro, moting Christian Knowledge, and the Societi for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreip parts. -,- -.p. Twobfotters named Keeling have been dom.. mitted for ,trial for stealing £llB, the property of Mrs. Stevenson, a bleacher, near Nottingham. One of the prisoners had cashed a cheque for the amount, and pretended that he had been robbed of the gold, which was afterwards found in possession Of his brother. A leather medal having been offered for the worst possible conundrum, the prize was unhesitatingly awarded to the following, selected from several hundreds sent in :—" Why is rascality like the breast of a fowl ?" " Because it is a piece of chicane." A letter from Rome says that the date for the leaving of the French corps of occupation there has now been fixed for the 11th of December, 1866. If it remains beyond that period it will no longer act for the protection of the Pope' but only as a corps of observation in regard to events in the kingdom of Italy. A few days since, a woman, 61 years of age, was burned to death in Sheffield in consequence of the ignition of her dress by treading upon a luciFer match. On Saturday morning, Mr. George Forsyth, agent of the North British Railway at Waver ley Bridge Station, committed suicide at Norham, whither he had gone for a change of air after an attack of fever.  A fatal carriage accident happened neat Stroud last week. The vehicle was upset by a runaway horse, and a lad was killed, and Miss Bowly, 20 years of age, who was driving, sustained concussion of the brain. Two girls were burnt to death in London a few days since. In one case the girl's clothes were ignited whilst she was sleeping in front of of the fire, and the other set her skirt on fire whilst looking in the glass to adjust a portion of her dress. The Manchester Stamp Office was broken into on Sunday night, and stamps of the value of £7OOO were stolen. A reward of £4OO has been offered for the apprehension of' the offenders, to whom at present the authoritigs have no clue.