The Wolverhampton and Midland Counties Advertiser. — 1875-12-18 (Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England)

MULTUM IN PARVO. .  •It has . been resolved, at an influential meting held at Dundee, to establish a school of cookery in that town,  '.,The Smithfield Club Cattle .Show. Was brought to a 'close on Friday. It was attended during:the .week' by. about 100,000 visitors. Captain Salt, M.P. for' Stafforkt has. been appointed Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board, Whitehall, in the room of •Mr. Clam Sewell Read. The appointment willhot vacate his seat in the House.  A New York felegram announces that a riot has taken Place between the white population and the negroes near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and that seven of the latter were killed. • The cola in Navarre is so intense that a number of Carlists have been frozen ,to death.. .The Carlist forces, according to the latest reports, are estimated at.52.,0.00 men and 105. guns. .  That was rather a smart remark in the Incle'pendence Beige the other day about our recent naval disasters The Iran' Duke, having great remorse' for having destroyed the Vanguard, endeavoured to commit suicide by opening one of its valves." A resolution was passed at a recently-held meeting of millers -at Bugely that froM and after. the Ist proximo all sacks supplied to customers will, be charged at a' uniform rate 4of is. 6d., each, the cash to be refunded when the sacks are returned.  In the official "Army List" for the present, month are the names of about 150 soldiers who have died in the service since 1865, leaving unclaimed property amounting in the whole -Co over £l,OOO, varying in amount from .293 to . a few, shillings, for which the next of kin are invited to apply to the Secretary of State for Wax.. . Some idea -ratty- be formed •of the extent to which Sebastopol was fired upon when it is stated. officially that, from a tax, of 6d. per cwt. which the Government levied 'upon' the production of the sales, of old iron, shot, and shell picked up and sold by the .people, a sum of nearly £15,000, was realised.--Builder. The Channel Tunnel is positively to be com.: menced in April next,' the result's of the experi• mental boring having proved in every case so satisfactory. Further powers are required before commencing the grand shaft at the. Bay 'of St. Margaxets, and it is•not believed that the proposal 4 of thbe company will meet with any opposition. •  - The present Ministry, following the example of Mr. Gladstone's Government, have just given their assent to a bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister in the colony of New South Wales. The Royal assent had been already given to similar bills from South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania, and as a matter of course, a., bill for the same purpose which has just arrived from Queensland will ,shortly become law.  On Saturday night the residenee.pf Captain M'Ternan, near Listowel. was the*scene of a• sad octurrence. Captain M'Terrian returned in the evenino.shootingfrom a shooting party, and he gave ' his gun to his servant to be cleaned. The servant, unconscious that it was loaded, pulled thetrigger, and it went off and shot Mrs. N'Ternan's waiting maid, who was standing near him. A full charge .of No. 7 shot entere her stomach, causing immediate death.  The fourteenth anniversary of the death of the Prince Consort was observed with much solemnity at Windsor Castle, on Tuesday. The Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Leopold, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and the Marquis of Lome proceeded with the Queen to the mausoleum at Froglinore, where a special service was held, After 'decoratinc, the tomb with intmortelles the Queen returned to the Castle.  Fresh troubles between China and Japan are threatening in consequence of the threat of the Japanose to exaot reprisals from Corea for illtreatment to which some of their seamen have been subjected by the inhabitauts. of the .peninsula. Corea is nominally a province of China, and it is said that the Chinese are going to send thither a body of drilled troops to repel the Japanese. •  The police have obtained some evidence with regard to the suspected murder of the young woman Sarah Ridley, whose body was discovered in the forest at Maresfield. It has been ascertained that the deceased was in a helpless state of intoxication on the high road. the same night she left her husband, and near the spot where the body was found the police have found money scattered about for some yards distance. She appears to have entered a public-house with a soldier, and late at night was in company with two young men, who are known to the police. The 'pocket which had been cut from the woman's dress has not yet,been found. SHAKESPEARE'S CHURCH At