The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-08-25 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

LIVERPOOL.—The returns furnished at the workhouse during the last few days indicate a decrease of cholera in the town. The cases that have recently occurred seem to be of a much milder type than those at the commencement of the outbreak, and the deaths are now much less frequent than they were a short time ago. In the town, on Tuesday, nine deaths were reported.  Snow and hail have fallen within the last few days in several parts of the north of Scotland. Tiae local authorities in several of the inetropolitan parishes are taking very active measures, under the new Public Health Act, to prevent the overcrowding of dwellings. A man named John M'Kendrick committed suicide in Glasgow, on Sunday morning, by throwing himself from a window while in a state of intoxication. From a late return it appears that last year there were 25,011 coroners' inquests, of which 17,566 were held on males, and 7,445 on females. There were 11,397 accidental deaths out of the number.  A bankrupt cattle dealer, named John Deerin, has been committed to prison by the judge of the Dublin Bankruptcy Court for refusing to disclose where he had concealed £245, which he confessed, after much prevarication, he had put away. After the last day's sale of the pictures drawings &c., belonging to the late Hon. arid Rev. Dr. Wellesley, a very small pen-and-ink sketch by Raphael was purchased, for the British Museum, for o£6oo. A grand demonstration by the operative masons of Scotland, in celebration of the success which has attended their efforts for the reduction of the hours of labour, took place oil Saturday in Edinburgh. The bridesmaids of Lady Rose W eigall, who was married last week, wore dresses trimmed with the racing colour of the Earl of Westmorland, her ladyship's brother. One of the fair ladies whose costume was so decorated was the daughter of the Archbishop of York. The cost of management of St. James's, the Green, and Hyde Park, which in 1851 was somewhat under £ll,OOO, has since 1856 ranged at an average exceeding £26,000 a year—the excess being chargeable to Mr. Cowper's flower beds and new rides, &c. Dr. James Duncan, well-known and much honoured in the medical profession in Edinburgh, died on Thursday at Tours, in France, while on his annual holiday, of cholera—the suddenness and the cause of the event conspiring to render it more painfully striking.—Scotsman. According to a Parliamentary return it appears that the Mint has ceased to coin halfcrowns for some years past, and is giving us florins instead. In like manner, the fourpennY piece is made to give place to the threepenny, no coin of the former denomination appearing in the returns since March 11, 1865. CAUTION AGAINST ILLEGAL SECRET SOCIETIES,—We understand that in the Catholic churches of Belfast, on Sunday, the officiating clergymen publically cautioned their hearers against the artifices of an individual, formerly in her Majesty's service, but now ostensibly the emissary of an illegal society, who is endeavouring to persuade young men to become members of the confederacy he represents. They were warned that if, after this timely notice, they brought themselves within the meshes of the law they need not expect the sympathy of any Catholic clergyman. It is to be hoped that the police will keep a sharp look out for • the person to whom the clergymen referred.-Northern Whig. Mr. Bright'is about to go through one of his favourite performances. Several years ago, when the Conservative paity were, as now, the i governing party, the hon. member devoted his holidays to what was called a "Reform Campaign, and the speeches he then delivered at the Birmingham Town Hall are admitted even by his friends to have done more harm to the cause they sought to support than could be done by a legion of enemies. The committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society' have issued an address to the coloured inhabitants of Jamaica. The document consists principally of religious exhortations, but a reference to past events is made in the following words: We deeply deplore and utterly condemn the acts of violence which were committed at Morant Bay and its neighbourhood by a few misguided people ; but the many innocent sufferers have our warm ; est sympathy." AN