The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-06-20 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

THE EXAMINER  SATURDAY, JUNE Z), 1871.  NEWS OF THE WEEK,  Down to Tuesday evening the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund amounted to more than X 9,000.  A meeting has been held, attends .1 by about five hundred of the leading citizens of 14erlin, for the purpose of forming a National Liberal,l.ocL. tion in that city.  Wc learn from Washington that the acreage of laml under cotton cultivation in the United States is 10 per cent less than that of 1873, and that the crop isO per cent. below that of last year in condition.  M. Rochefort, on arriving in the Cunard steamer Parthia on Tuesday at Queenstown WAS shouted at by the crowd. He was vigorously hooted on his way to the station, and it was thought he would have been lynched.  In an official Carlist account of the engagement at Gandesa, it is stated that the Republicans lost 38t killod and wounded, and 164 prisoners. It is reported from Madrid that some mutinous Re• publican artillerymen were shot on -Sunday at Logrono.  We reconted lately the deaths by burnin, of two young ladies, daughters of the Res. Frer.endary Sergison, while on a visit at Netberseale, in Leicestershire. The death was announced on  Tuesday of the rer. gentleman, his health, sad to say, having broken down under the mental anxiety. On Tuesday, at the Middlesex Sessions, a woman named Doherty, who had pleaded guilty to an indictment charging her with an attempt to commit suicide, was certified to be sufferlug from .• religious melancholia." Sh. 3 was formally  sentenced to be imprisoned for a month, pveviously to her removal to a lunatic asylum. On Monday evening, a married woman, named Caroline ElliB, gave herself up to the police, at Kingston-on-Thames, stating that she had mardecal her infant, aged nine months. He: story proved to be true. She had drowned the child in the water butt. On Tuesday she was taken before the magistrates charged with wilful murder, and was remanded.  morial from the Council of the Cocial  Ante, Science Association has been presented to the President of the Local Goverment Board, praying for the publication of a periodical analysis of the air and water of large towns having a high density of population. The idea is thrown out for the purpose of detecting disease, and suggesting what may be needful for the protection of public health and the prevention of the spread of contagious maladies. It appears that during the twenty-one days ending with Thursday last the thermometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, averaged .60 degrees, which was four degrees above the register for the corresponding period in fifty years. On Friday cold weather set in, and the mean temperature of that day and Saturday was only 50 degrees, or eight deurers below the average. The thermometer on the grass showed more than five degrees of frost on Saturday morning.  Ascot races opened on Tuesday in bitterly cold weather, which considerably marred the effect ef the generally brilliant spectaele. The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Ditehess of Edinburgh, and other members of the Royal Family, who are staying in the neighbourhood, drove in state to the Ascot course, where the attendance of visitors was hardly equal to that of  previous years. The racing nas 'very good, the most exciting event being the defeat of Prince Charlie by Blenheim in the run for the Queen's Stand• Plate.  Never had sallor boy a shorter spell of life afloat than poor little Henry Hayward, who Kilipy.e.l front the Goliath training vessel last  Monday morning, and rlc dead and gone on  ren,_w th,  •: • • •,• • ..:1} 7,11 77.- - • . .  n n  -. t  l,  -tv