Widnes Examiner. — 1883-02-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DOUBLE MURDER BY A GANG OF POACHERS.—NINE  Frederick Ripley, a labourer, was, on Monday, at Taunton, found guilty of deliberately murdering a paramour named Rowsell, and was duly sentenced to be hanged. At the Liverpool Assizes, on Tuesday, Hugh Calderbank, spinner, of Sharpies, near Bolton, who a few days ago Strangled his wife, was acquitted on the ground of insanity. Mr. Rothery, Wrecks Commissioner, on Monday susWinded for three months the certificate of the master of the emigrant ship Wild Deer, which was wrecked on the county Down coast a few weeks ago. A surprising change has taken place in the condition of Mr. Gladstone since he arrived at Cannes. His countrymen generally will be glad to learn that he "sleeps well, has a good appetite, and is enjoying himself immensely." A meeting of the Cabinet was held on Tuesday under the presidency of Earl Granville. The Earl of Derby took his seat for the first time in a Liberal Cabinet. Sir Charles Dilke and Earl Spencer were also present. At Forfar, on Monday, Hugh Townley, only 18 years of age, pleaded guilty to having two wives alive, and to lfaving committed perjury with a view to marrying a third. He was Sentenced to nine months' hard labour. It is now within two months of the end of the financial year, and the revenue receipts to 3rd February are only £660,000 more than up to the corresponding date last year The prospect of a surplus does not improve. In a letter to the Kincardineehire Farmers' Association, Mr. Gladstone says Her Majesty's Government are anxious to approach the question of land law reform prudently and at thee earliest period permitted by the state of public business. The Gorton shooting case came on at the Liverpool Assizes on Tuesday. The accused, Martin Henry O'Malley, was found guilty of shooting at the woman Arden and her brother, with intent to murder, and was sentenced to penal servitude for 20 years. On Monday George William Foote, the editor, William James Ramsay, the publisher, and Henry Arthur Kemp, the printer of the Freethinker, were committed for. trial on a charge of publishing a blasphemous libel in the Christmas number of that journal. The Daily News understands that if the Queen's Speech contains any reference to South Africa the Coeservative leaders intend in the debate on the Address to criticise very fully the policy of the Government in relation both to Zululand and to the Transvaal. The Address, in answer to the-Speech from the Throne on the meeting of Parliament will be moved by the Earl of Durham, and seconded by Lord Reay, in the House of Lords; and it will be moved by Chas.T. Dyke Acland, 111. P , and seconded by Mr. Thomas R. Buchanan, M.P., in the House of Commons. Mr. John Rowland Jones, a Birkenhead eurveyor and estate agent, was killed recently owing to the overturning of a tramcar, and at the Chester Assizes on Monday his representatives recovered from the Birkenhead Tramway Company damages to the amount of £2,875. The accident was said to be due to the inefficiency of the brakes of the car. Mr. Justice Williams drew attention at the Liverpool Assizes, on Monday, to an irregularity which has marked the conduct of assize business for the last 30 years. He said it was one of his duties tie "deliver the goal," and in future the Governor must make out a list of his prisoners, and make arrangements for the production in Court of every untried prisoner then in custody. On Saturday Mr. H. Broadhurst, M.P., replying to the toast of "Trades Congress," given at the annual dinner of a London branch of the Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers, said his belief was that it would be a fatal mistake for workmen to permit Parliament to give any vote that Would in the most remote sense have a tendency to upset our immunity from labour on one day in the seven. AN IscounrotheE