Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-03-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOTES OF' THE WEEK.  Tau honour of knighthood bee been conferred on hfr E. H. Cumin, of the London Hospital.  AT a public meeting at Leicester, on Monday, a resolution was passed protesting against the Boys' Titles Bill.  THE half coupons on the Imperial Ottoman Ulan of 1858, which fell due on tho Ist inst., are now being paid.  Tllseienty-ninth anniversary of the Emperor William's birth was celebrated at Berlin on Friiay with more than the nqual d‘gree of loyalty.  THE barque Walton left New York on the 20th January for London, and has not since been heard of. It is feared that she has been lost with all hands.  A TELEGRAM from Philadelphia, on Monday night, states that greal floods are being experienced in the New England States. In liitode Island the damage amounts to one million dollars.  TIIO3IAS WALKER, a labourer, was sentenced at the Leeds Assizes on Friday to seven years' penal servitude for plaeing obstructions on the railway near Cleekheaton.  Two men were seriously injured at the Swaith Main Colliery, near Barnsley, on Friday, by a fall from the roof of the working. They were extricated, and carried to the Barnsley Infirmary, where they are expected to recover.  A MAN named Stevenson was burned to death in his own house, at Dewsbury, on Monday. He lived along with his daughter, and owing to a quarrel she threatened to take out a summons a4ainst him. It is believed that he set fire to the house, as the furniture was burned before the house door could be forced open. His body was featfully burned. .  THE Queen, accompanied by the Princess Beatrice, left Windsor on Monday afternoon for Germany. The Royal suite consisted of the -larchioness of Ely, Lady Churchill, Major General Ponsonby, Colonal Byng, and Sir W. senner. Her Majesty will be absent until the end of April.  11.6 CowEs, M.P., has given notice that he will shortly call the attention of the House of Commons to certain recent appointments of the Justices of the Peace. He is likely to meet with as little satisfaction as enquiries of a similar nature did when the Middlesbrough magistrates were appointed.  Ma JOHN NICHOLSON, innkeeper, Barnard Castle, committed suicide on Friday morning. An inquest was held in the afternoon. Deceased was addicted to drink, and had become of unsound mind. Arrangements had been made for placing him in the Durham County Asylum on Friday. The jury returned a verdict that "Deceased hanged himself whilst in an unsound state of mind."  THE North-Eastern Railway Company's Bill came before a select Committee of the House of Commons on Friday. Ulla bill, a.s we stated at the time it was lodged, ernbrac.:-i deviatigns and widening of the lines at l)tockton and South Stocktcn, and provides for the comple tion and working of the Whitby line. The only opposition to the bill was from parties interested in certain deviations at South Shields. The Committee refused their application.  A LETTER appeared in the Globe on Saturday, and nearly all the papers on Monday morning, signed by Mr Gladstone, in which the proposed new title of Empress is adversely criticised. The Daily Telegraph of Monday morning is authorised to state that the letter is a forgery. The Royal Titles Bill threatens to become a stumbling-block to the Ministry, and the announcement that Her Majesty has presented her portrait to the Premier will tend to increase, rather than allay, the feeling that it is injudicious and uncalled for. When the Mayor of Middlesbrough proposed to insert blast furnace, into the shield of the borough arms, Mr T. H. Bell remarked that we might as well substitute a sheep for the British lion. If the slightest hint had been given from the court .that a fatted calf or a sheep would look as well, Mr Disraeli would snatch at the idea, and bring in a bill to have the Royal Arms altered accordingly. Instead of making a tawdry Empress, he may catch a Tartar.