The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1877-02-16 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

GLADSTONE AND THE EAST I.: N QUESTION. The following le the text of the despatoh referred to in Mr. Gladstone's notice of Monday night:— The Earl of Derby to Sir H. Elliot. Foreign Office September,s, 1876. "' . .  • , Sir,— For your guidance as to the language to be held by you to the Turkish Ministers in the present juncture, it is right that you should be accurately acquainted with the state of public opinion in England on the subject of Turkey. It is my duty to inform you that any sympathy whit h was previously felt here towards that country has been completely Oestroyed by the recent lamentable occurrences in liulgaria. The accounts of outrages and excesses committed by the Turkish troops upon an unhappy, and for the most part unresisting population, has roused an universal feeling of indignation in all classes of English society, and to such a pitch has this risen that in the extreme case of Russia declaring wsr against Turkey, h r Majesty's Government would find it practically impossible to interfere iu defence of the Ottoman Empire. . .  Such an event, by which the sympathies of the nation would be brought into direct opposition to its Treaty engagements, would place England in a most unsatisfactory, and even h,tmiliating po,ition, yet it is impossible to say that if the present conflict continues the contingency may not arise The speedy conclusion of a peace, under any circumstances most desirable, becon.es from these considerations a matter of urgent necessity Her Majesty's Government leaves it to your Excellency's discretion to choose the arguments which you shall employ, but you will see from what I have stated how essential it is that the Turkish Ministers should he made alive to the position in which the conduct of their own auth critics has placed them, and you v. ill understand that you are warranted in using the strong st language, should occasion require it, to enforce upon the Porte the expediency of a pacific policy, and of modem. Lion in the terms to be proposed.—l am, c, (Signed),  HORRIBLE IiVWI: NII7I:DER IN 1/I,lfl Ill". Soon after two o'clock on Monday afternoon, a tragedy of a horrible nature was discovered to have taken place in Derby. A man named flicking, a general dealer, trading in Sadler gate, occupied, with his wife, the upper storey of a house in Iron gate. The shop below is occupied by Mr. S. Smith, pork butcher. Hicking's soli •itor received a letter from him by the mid-day post, informing him that be had murdeted his wife, and that it was his intention to destroy himself. Ihe solicitor at once communicated with the police. and Superintendent DrTernan and Detective-servant Spihey went to the house. On breaking open the dour of the room a terrible scene presented itself. Both blr. and Mrs tucking lay en the floor In a pool of blood. The woman was undressed, but bad her clothing thrown over her, tier head was nearly severed from her body. The windpipe was completely cut through, and death must have taken place immediately after the wound Was inflicted. The man lay with his head on his wife's knee. He had a terrible gash in his throat, the windpipe being cut through. Superintendent Dl'Ternan at once went for Dr. liisborne, and he, on arrival, at once pronoutm,d the woman dead. He attended to the man's injuries, after which he was conveyed to the Infirmary. It is supposed the woman WAR murdered during Sunday night. A pistol and some caps were found lying by the bodies, and the occupants of a neighbouring house heard the report of the pistol at about six o'clock on Monday morning, but there is nothing to lead to the supposition that either the man or his wife has been shot. There is reason to believe that the unfortunate man had got into difficulties, and, to some extent, this had something to do with the crime. The news spread rapidly through the town, and caused intense excitement, and during the afternoon large numbers of persons congregated in fsmilt of the house where the crime was committed.  DEATH OF TILE VIC 111 OF DEE, I t)N.-011 Mn• day morning the Rev. Canon Parr, Vicar of Przston, expired at the Vicarage Deceased was appointed to the living in February. 1,4, and he discharged his clerical ditties up to four years ago, when his health began to decline, and since that time the church work has been performed by two curates. The living is in the gift of Litilines trustees.  )