The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-03-27 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

OOO.  Comte de Jarnae. the French ambassador. died at the French Embassy shortly after six o'clock on Monday evening of pleuropneumonia.  Emily Richards, charged with the murder of her child at Chacewater, by drowning it. has been acquitted at Bodmin Assizes, the evidence being insufficient.  A temporary writer, employed in the Customs' Department at Sunderland, has disappeared. It is said that his accounts show very large defalcations. The Committee on Corrupt Practices at Elections met on Tuesday, and appointed Mr. Lowe chairman. The first meeting for evidence will be on April 9th. A Liverpool Coroner's jury on Monday found a verdict of wilful murder against James McLean for kicking a fireman named McGrath on the head while returning from the Grand National Race.  John McHaughlin was executed at Sligo, on Wednesday morning. for the murder of the old man. Edward Verguson. He read a statement. saying that be accepted death as a just punishment for his crimes.  The It-gistrar-General reports. during the week ending Saturday last. 3,791 birth aud 4,194 deaths in 21 large cities and towns the United Kingdom. The average rate mortality in these towns was 28 per 1,000. The rate in London was 26: Edinburgh, 41 Glasgow, 35;, Dublin, 29 : Leicester. 231 Sheffield, 27; Birmingham, 27; Bristol. -.!• Leeds. 28; Neweastle, 29; Bradford, 30; . derland. 31; Liverpool, 31 ; Manchester. Nottingham. 36 ; and IC ilverhampton, 37.  At the annual meeting of the lklmal Steam Users Association, iiTuesday. ;a. Chairman Mr. Hugh Masoni said that &win,: the last ten years 617 persons had been kille;I :Ind 917 injured by boiler explosi)ns. For a large proportion of the slaughter thus canal colliery owners were responsible. Boilers con. fleeted with collieries were—as far as his knowledge of teem extended--in a Condition whitth was anything but safe. They wer, managed by a comparatively inferior dass,,f men, and other unfavoura ll..(.11i lit 1, is tended to produce a. spirit of recklessness very unfavourable to safety.  Mr. E. Foster, proprietor of the " Yorkshire Independent," a paper recently established to advocate the cause (.4 Dr. Kenealy and the •• Claimant." was summoned at Leeds, on Tuesday, for having published a malicious libel upon Mr. Cur wood, the Town Clerk. The libel accused Mr.Curwood of being deficient in his knowledge of law ; that he did little else but blunder and involve the town in expense; that he fed and fattened at the expense of the ratepayers; that he was never worth half his salary—tl,2so a year—and that if the Corporation paid him that sum yearly to get rid of him it would be the best day's work they had done for many a long year. He was committed for trial at du! Assizes, bail in £l.OOO being taken. Frederick Hunt, 39 years of age. described as an accountant, was brought up at the Lambeth Police-court on Monday. charged with the wilful murder of his wife and daughter, with having attempted to poison two of his sons, and to commit suicide. The governess and the maid-servant deposed that early on Sunday morning Hunt entered the bedroom where they and one of his little girls were sleeping, and asked for the latter. The governess, noticing his agitated manner. refused to part with the child, and thus in all : probability saved her life. The prisoner's son. a lad of 13, was also called to speik to the administration of laudanum to his two younger brothers by the father, who ineffectually endeavoured to persuade him also to partake of it. Medical testimony showing the condition in which the bodies were found having been adduced, the prisoner was remanded.  The remains of Field-Marshall Sir W. Gomm were privately interred on Wednesday in the parish churchyard, Rotherhithe. The carriages of the Queen, Prince of Wales, and Duke of Edinburgh were amongst those in procession. The Pope has given an audience to several Italians and foreigners. Mr. Livingstone, of New York. thanked his Holiness for the • MR RUPERT KETTLE'S AWARDS IN THE honour conferred upon his country by the elevation of Archbishop M'Closkey to the