The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-02-21 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A CIWRCH.  At the Nottingham Town Hall, on Friday, Mr. Charles Bradshaw. solicitor and parish churchwarden at St. John the Baptist's Church, was i charged before the sitting magistrates, at the instance of the vicar, the Rev. Charles Veld, with ; riotous, violent, and indecent conduct in the church during divine service on the previous Sunday night. For some time past tb 1. have been differences between the vicar and Mr. Bradshaw, the latter objecting to certain alleged Ritualistic practices on the part of .11r. Yeld. According to the statement of Mr. Williams, who prosecuted, the bishop of the diocese had decided that a vicar had control of the collections made in church other than the offertory at Holy Communion. Acting on this alleged right, Mr. Yeld intimated to the churchwardens by letter that he should not in future require their amistan, in making the ~olleetion at the morning and evening services. Last Sunday evening Mr. Veld gave out in church the names of eight persons who were to go round with the plates. While the collection was being made Mr. Bradshaw left his seat and followed one of the collectota a Mr. Be/1, down the aisle, unit as the plate was passed to members of the congregation endeavoured to seize it. It was stated that the defendant pushed his way into several pews in his attempts to get possession of the plate, end that one of the occupants, a woman named Brunnutn woe hurt by his violence. In the scuffle the contents of the plate were scattered on the floor. The affair mused considerable disturbance in the church.—Mr. Hiram Cosedge, of London, who defended, contended that Mr. Bradshaw was acting within his legal rights as churchwarden in trying to obtain poemssloe of , the plate, and that he used no undue vittlenee.—The magistrates dismissed the case.  An interesting discovery has just been made at Wells of upwards of 1.000 original documents. some of which date hack to the thirteenth century. 3100 y of the seals are in a beautiful state of preservitiou. They were found in an old oaken press in the almshouses.  The death is announced, in his 84th year, of one of the oldest clergymen in the diocese of Chester, the Rev. William Harrison. who had been vicar of St. thwald's Ceester, for nearly fifty-three years, and minor canon of Chester Caihedrul. about forty years.  Vice-Admiral Ill'elintock reports to the Admiralty that a serious accident, caused by an explosion due to the faulty breech action of the Nordenfeldt gun, has taken place on board his flagship. the Northampton. 'Full particulars have been despatched by mail.  An inquest has been held at Gloucester on the body of a youth named Sherwood. aged sixteentwho tomtnitted suicide on the railway the previous night. The jury returned a verdiet ef fi/o-tk-w, the coroner expressing his entire eonenrrence with the verdict.  The result of the census taken oaths I.lth-of June. 1879, in Bosnia and Ilerzepsvina have now been definitely ascertained. The population, as now ascertained, is 1,142,147, or 90,662 more than at the last census, anti that irrespective ,)f tls• war, smignation  Mr. Yates reports that at the Leeds Lihntry thvro has been an increase in the number of issues, amounting to 103,000 volumes for home reading, and also • large increase in the number of visits made to the reading and news rooms, which now amount to nearly 300,000. Mr.  s. Creagh, 3.P., of Currahan, near Ennis, was Bred at about eleven o'clock the other night as he ems sitting in his own room. His sister, who had been with him, had only just left the room, when five shots were sent through the window in succession, but without taking effect. The Standent hears that, with the view to avoid confusion and possible collision with Roved yachts proceeding in and out of Cowes harbour during the stay of her Majesty at (),borne, the Board of Trot• has under consideration a proposal to buy a fairs ay entrance to the harbour. It is stated that the munificent bequest left by Mr. Muter for the sustenation funds 4 Iln• English Presbyterian Church and the Free Chunb of Scotland, and which fell into Chancery, is in a fair way of being secured, and that each Church will receive something like £40.000. On Saturday a boat race between Boyd, of Middlesbrough, and Hawdon, of Beloved, was rowed upon the Tyne, from the Scotswood Suspension Bridge to the Ttedheugh Bridge, a distance of three miles, for £2OO, Boyd giving Hawdon four lengths' start. Boyd won by twelve lengths.  Bacbarest journals state that the preliminary investigation into the Jassy conflagration has re salt ed in the Palace janitor and two servants being charged with aeon. Several articles of silver plate were missing, and it is supposed their disappearance was intended to be accounted for by the conflagration.  A statue • of the Earl of Devon is about to be erected in Eieter, in recognition of the great public services his lordship has rendered the county. eitti the Town Council have decided to remove; " The Deerstalker" to another situation, in order that Ihe site in Bedford Circus may be given up to Earl Devon's *tattle.  ALL WHO VALUE LIFE, and wish to live ton pad old age, enjoying all their faculties to the end should take rirIURNER'S