Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1887-01-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STATESMEN ON THE SITUATION. Addressing a Liberal gathering at St. Helens on the Home Rule question, Sir Charles Russell said that, judging from every sign of the progress of public opinion, the feeling in favour of Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy was growing greatly in volume, strength, and  Speaking at Nottingham, Mr. Broadhurst, after alluding to the position of political parties, said that he saw no supreme difficulty in Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Gladstone's friends coming to an agreement on the main lines of a measure of local government for Ireland.  Lord Randolph Churchill, acknowledging a resolution which had been passed by the working men of W allingford, recognising his great services to the Tory cause, observes that he is conscious of having sought nothing but the public interest, which he thinks will gain from the more active criticism which Parliament is likely to bestow on the financial proposals of the Government. N iscount Cross was present at the inauguration of the Habitation of the Primrose League at Ashtonunder-Lyne, and said, with regard to the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill, no explanati m could be given by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer or any of his colleagues until Parliament met. But the resignation had led to renewed expression by the people of the determination that there should be no disintegration of the gmpire, though Mr. Gladstone was yet weak enough to believe that he had powers of persuasion sufficient to accomplish his purpose. Mr. Goschen had joined the Conservative Government as a Liberal, with the consent of Lord Hartington and his followers. The Liberal conference could lead to nothing. because the negotiations were leaving out of account Mr. Parnell. The Government were anxious to govern Ireland, if possible without having recourse to extraordinary laws, but they were determined that justice should be maintained.  The Hon. George Curzon, XP., in opening a Primrose League Habitation at Preston, said the Ministry was never so strong as now. Until Lord Randolph Churchill's explanation they must neither acquit nor c -mdemn him, but be believed that Lord Randolph would remain true to the Conservatives, and ben thorn in Mx. Parnell's side next session. By the acquisition of Mr. Goschen the Cabinet was sure of the support en all important occasions of 50 or CO votes, because, Hough he bad entered the Cabinet alone, it was by the consent and advice of Lord Hartington.  /Tr the Bolton Quarter Sessions, the Recorder (Mr. S. Pope) sentenced a young girl to sin months' imprisonment for shop lifting. The Recorder severely commented on the action of several local pawnbrokers, who, within a few months, had received 90 new articles in pledge from the girl. . . . .  A 9INOOLARLY terrible accident has occurred in the Zoological Gardens in Paris. A hippopotamus went suddenly mad and attacked its keeper, a man named Brauer, juin as he was in the act of finishing the cleaning of its cage. The man cried aloud for help, but the people who arrived to his assistance were only in time to lift him up dead frost the ground, the furious river-horse having severed his carotid artery with one stroke of its teeth. A NEW institute, to be named after the late Duke of Albany, Is about to be erected in Slough, at the cost of £3500, TER boy Allen, who was the viAim of outrage and robbery near Stroud, on New Year'. Eve, has died in the hospital, there having been no signs of returning consciousness from the first. A charge of wilful murder stands against Pritchard and Noyes, the men who are in custody,  As the result of the recent agitation, the tithe payers of the parish cf Mynyddislwyn, Monmouthshire, were allowed a reduction of 10 ptr ent, at the audit held at Abercaroe, the reduction applying to those paying forthwith. As explosion of fire-damp has occurred in the Fecouffiaux coal-mine, near Donn Thirty miners were in the pit at the time. Up to the dispatch of Reuter's message six dead bodies and four Wired men had been brought to the surface.