PENRITH HERALD and East Cumberland and Westmorland News. NO. 446 - First Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission Abroad./Price 1D. FOREIGN TELEGRAMS. A MOVEMENT HAS BEEN SET ON FOOT in the City of London for raising contributions in money, apparel, and hospital stores for the relief of the sick and wounded in the Spanish civil war. An influential committee has been formed for this purpose. HERR VON BALEN, MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY of Germany at Brussels, has just died suddenly in that city. He was accredited to Brussels on the 25th July, 1865, as Minister of Prussia, and from the 5th April, 1871, represented the new Empire. VICTOR EMMANUEL AND THE GERMAN EMPORER - KING VICTOR EMMANUEL has gratefully tendered his thanks to the EMPEROR WILLIAM, in an autograph letter, for the congratulations forwarded to him by the latter upon the occasion of the anniversary of the accession of the former to his Italian crown. AT LIVERPOOL, an address of sympathy was presented to MR. PLIMSOLL from various trades connected with shipping, in view of the action arising out of the alleged libel with respect to the ship ' Ahoy ', which will probably be tried at Liverpool. MR. PLIMSOLL simply expressed his thanks, and, refrained from entering into details on the subject. JUDGMENT HAS BEEN GIVEN in the case of the Board of Trade inquiry into the circumstances connected with the casualty to the ' Mary Holland ' while on her voyage from Riga to Belfast. The court was of opinion that the vessel was badly found and inefficiently equipped on leaving Liverpool on the 13th of June, 1873, for a foreign voyage, and that the owners were guilty of gross neglect in sending the ship to sea in such condition. The court, therefore, adjudged a fine of £100 to be paid by the owners as part of the cost of the inquiry. THE MINING ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN. - The twentieth annual meeting of the Mining Association was held at the Westminster Palace Hotel. MR. ALFRED HEWLETT was unanimously re-elected president. The report of the council on the proceedings of last year was read and adopted. The objects which will probably occupy the attention of the association during the coming year are the Royal Commission on the Law of Master and Servant, and of Conspiracy, the Wages Bill, the Compensation to Workmen Bill, the Nine Hours Factories Bill, the Pollution of Rivers Bill, and the Rating Bill.