Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1881-10-29 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

NEWS OF THE WEEK.  The Ai/W.0114110 states that Dr. George MacDonald is engaged in writing a new story, which will appear in the Sunday Mayans* next year.  It ie said that Mr. Edward Skitter Harrison, of Shelowan Park, Bicester, will be a Conservative candidate at the next election for Oxfordshire.  Sir P. Conliffe Owen has arrived at Berlin from Stockholm, and has had the honour of being shown the art treasures of Berlin by the Prince Imperial.  Mr. Barlow, CE., has submitted plans to the Town Clerk of Dundee for the removal of the old Tay Bridge preparatory to the erection of the new ntructure.  The United Service Gazette says that Dlr. Childers has no intention at present of altering.the existing airangements granting territorial distinctions to regiments.  Dr. Carpenter, a Croydon magistrate, has found two cannon balls there, and believes that the locality was the scene of • series of battles some generations ago.  A new work on "the History and Architecture of Waltham Abbey," with 22 illustration., folio size is ancounced to be publiehed by Mr. Elliot Stock shortly.  The Queen has given a stained-glaes window to the cathedral chursh of St. Nary, Bury St. Edmunds. It was unveiled laat week by the Bishop of Bath and Wells.  The meeting at Shoreditch Town Mall, on Oct. 25, at which Air. Bright and Mr. John Bohm were to have addressed their constitaente, has been posb• poned to Nov. 2.  Five bids have each been fined 40s. and costs, at the Hammer 111 l ith Police Court, for riding bicycles at a furious pace along the wood pavement in Kensington High Road.  At a meeting of the management committee of the Liverpool Libeial Association it wee decided that no ward ehould be left uncoutested in tee coming municipal elections.  A proposal to raise a subscription for the widow and child of Captain John A. Stracham master of the ill-fated steamer. Cyprian, is receiving considerable support in LiverpooL The Algerian deputies intend to ask the French Chamber for compensation to the families of the soldiers who died in Africa from a loathsome disease caused by vaccination. William Hands, a cabinet-maker, found guilty at the Middlesex Sessions of housebreaking, was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, to be followed by six years' police supervision. The death of the exiled Prince Bishop of Breslau, Dr. Foster, will facilitate the tilling of the vacancy. , The German Government does not intend to unduly I obstruct the election of a Chapter.  Herr Kayser, who satin the last Imperial Parliament aa a Social Democrat, has been arrested and conveyed to Dresden, where he will have to underite a sentence of several months' imprisonment. A man named William Bancroft has committed suicide at Clayton Heights, near Brauford, by banging himself in the cell of the local gaol, where he was confined on a charge of stabbing another man. The Westminster District Board of Works have resolved to obtain tenders from the electric lightmg companies to ascertain the cost of lighting Parliament Street, the Broad Sanctuary, and Victoria Street. - -  _ A conference of astronomers has just been held at Paristor the purpose of arranging uniform methods of cheers ing the approach and transit of Venus. A aeries of instructions has been compiled in consequence.  The Empress Eugenie arrived at Perugia on the 19th, and alighted at the Hotel Binfaui. She visited the Pinacotece, the Camino, the cathedral, the church of San Pietro, and the other monument* of the city.  The Lambeth magistrates have committed a man for trial on the charge of bi3amy. He had two wives alive, but had a third marriage impending, and had arranged with • fourth woman to leave . .  England for America. The Electrician understands that the main object of the visit of the Government Commission on Mules to the Electrical Exhibition in Paris has been to ascertain how far the electric light may be used with  moiety in fiery mines. A man named John Cooper has been sentenced by the Recorder of null to live years' penal servitude for reusing serious injury to a woman with whom he hail been living, by throwing her from a third storey into the street: A Leeds manufacturer named James Henry Robinson, has been fined £2O, and ordered to pay £2 a week to his wife, under a separation order, for brutally assaulting her. it is stated that the defendant is worth £lO,