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Cfeneral. Sir John Lawrence arrived home from India last week. Squire Heathcote, the well-known sportsman, is dead. Three thousand operatives are out on strike at Preston, in consequence of a reduction in wages. The introduction into Austria of trial by jury for press offences has just been sanctioned by Imperial decree. Sarah Crawford, senteneed to death at Manchester Assizes for the murder of her child, has been reprieved. A severe shock of earthquake is said to have been felt in Lancashire last week. At one place, it is alleged, a chimney was shaken down. The income of the Atlantic Telegraph Company is now Z700 a day. Mr Roebuck's late constituents have presented him with an address, and £3,000 invested in consols for his daughter. The Viceroy of Egypt has witnessed the first flowing of the Mediterranean into the Bitter Lakes of the Suez CanaL It is proposed that the officers and men of the Naval Reserve, who like to volunteer, shall have a fortnight's cruise in May.) jv-3 A deputation has urged Mr Bruce to legislate for the suppression of the Sunday liquor traffic, but did not re- ceive a favourable reply. Baron Rothschild has laid the foundation stone of a new synagogue in the west end of London which is to cost 224,000. The Senate and Convocation of the University of London have presented a petition to Parliament in favour of the Endowed Schools Bill. The Italian Chamber of Deputies are going to consider the desirableness of taking some further steps to put down ueling. An articled clerk at York has obtained 2500 from a lady now named Strangeways, for breach of promise. The lady had taken another as husband. An Irishman at Kilkenny, who says he is to die in June, has erected his own tombstone, with an inscription record- ing the event. Madame Rachael is again in gaol, one of her bail, ap- prehending her flight after the auction of her goods, hav- ing withdrawn from his liability. Flimsiness relieved with spangles—the definition of a Columbine's skirt-is a too apt description of Mr Disraeli's speech on the Irish Church Bill. So says The Times. Sir Sydney Waterlow is again a candidate for Dumfries- shire. Major Walker (Conservative), who formerly sat for the county, also offers himself. Sir Massey Lopes has given notice that after Easter he will call the Premier's attention to the expediency of making some adequate provision for the retirement of aged and infirm bishops. The Earl of Rosebery has caused intimation to be made to the tenants on the Rosebery estate that, in addition to rabbits, they are to have the liberty of shooting hares on their own farms. The Princess Louise paid a visit to the House of Com- mons on Friday week, and occupied a seat in the Ladies' Gallery during a portion of the speech of Sir Stafford Northcote, and during the whole of that of Mr rl Bright. Mr Sagar, formerly a machine maker at Burnley, has been awarded £4,000 damages by a Manchester jury for injuries which he sustained in a collision upon the Lanca- shire and Yorkshire Railway. Prince Arthur will arrive in Dublin on the 5th April, and remain at the Viceregal Lodge until the 13th. The Prince is expected to be present at the Irish Masonic Ball, and at Punchestown races. His Royal Highness will subsequently be the guest ef the Marchioness of Ely. In addition to the vacancies caused by election petition trials, the representation of West Sussex is void by the elevation of the Hon. Henry Wyndham, M.P., to the peerage, Lord Leconfield, his father, having died last week, at his seat at Petworth, at the advanced age of 82. Mr Charles Reade has obtained a verdict of libel in the Supreme Court of the United States against the editors of the Round Table, with respect to a criticism which ap- peared in that publication upon his novel Griffith Gaunt," but the verdict only carried damages to the amount of six cents. At Madrid, the other evening, Don Celestino Olozaga, a very promising politician of six and twenty, accidentally let fall his cane, at the theatre, on Count de Jara, who became much excited, and used hot words. Explanations were useless, a duel was arranged, and Don Celestino was killed. Mr Macrorie has been consecrated at Capetown. A protest from laymen against the consecration was pre- sented to the metropolitan, but Bishop Gray replied that laymen had no right to protest! The new "prelate" is merely called Bishop of the Province." It has been officially announced that Belgium has ac- cepted the proposals of France, the basis of which is a general inquiry into the industrial intercourse between the two countries with a view to economical arrangements beneficial to each, and that there be an examination into the articles of convention made with respect to French companies and the Belgian railways. Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise honoured Miss Garrett, L.S.A., of Upper Berkeley-street, with a visit a few days since. Her Royal Highness made some inqniries respecting the prospects of medical education for women in this country, and expressed much sympathy with Miss Garrett's wish to see the medical profession completely opened to women. The Record says the late Lord Leconfield "was an earnest and loyal member of the Established Church; and though he never took a prominent part* in public, he was specially of late years anxious, by his influence and by large pecuniary aid, to defend the truth. It may be added » that he was a constant reader of the Record, and that the late Lady Leconfield, who died in 1863, was a subscriber to the Record from the first." What an epitaph They read the Record Mr Froude has been installed as Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University, and had conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. In his inaugural address Mr Froude urged the students to be honest with themselves, to say nothing to others that they did not think, and to play no tricks with their minds. He was not compli- mentary to the most distinguished of the English seats of learning. An Oxford education, he thinks, fits a man extremely well for the trade of a gentleman, but he does not know for what other trade it does fit one as at present constituted. Mr Gladstone's reply to a deputation which waited upon him last week to urge the opening of the museums, &c., on Sunday, was not favourable. He said the religious ob- servance of Sunday was the great stay of religion in this country, and the social and physical necessities of the peo- ple required a cessation from labour on that day. The viovernment, he added, would offer every reasonably faci- lity for the opening of national institutions at such hours on week days that the working classes might resort to them. On Friday week Murphy lectured at the Odd Fellows' Hall, North Shields; there was a crowded audience. Two hundred Irish Catholics from J arrow arrived with bludgeons andiron slags, and attacked the lecturer and the audience, who tore up the seats to use in defence. Several per- sons were severely injured, one man's head being laid open with a piece of slag. The police, special constables, and the military were called out to act under the, mayor and magistrates. A paper on the agricultural statistics of the United Kingdom was read by Mr Caird last week before the Statistical Society. He estimated that the yield of the harvest of 1868 over that of 1867 was equal to one-third of the total consumption of the country. He further ex- pressed his belief that at the present scale of importation there was no doubt of abundant supplies at even lower rates than those which now ruled. Prices had already fallen fully one-third, or almost exactly in proportion with the difference in the yield of the harvests. An extraordinary scene is reported to have occurred at a conference of clergyand laity held in Belfast onTuesdayweek .y to consider the course of action to be adopted in reference to the Irish Church Bill. The Bishop of Down presided, and in the course of his remarks spoke of preparing like prudent men for the coming day, and having an honour- able conference with Mr Gladstone. Upon this the whole assembly of clergymen and laymen rose to their feet, shouted "No!" and hissed. The mention of the word "negotiations" at a later stage of the proceedings, pro- duced similar demonstrations. A resolution was passed, protesting against all idea of compromise, and a petition to the Queen, requesting her to refuse her assent to the Bill, was adopted. All these things, however, may be looked upon as mere rhetorical flourishes.

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