The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1872-07-13 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL.  The long-wished for manuscript of the judgment delivered by Mr. Justice Keogh is now in the library of the louse of Commons. On comparing it with the copy printed "by order," a great number of discrepancies have been discovered. Many strong expressions and insinuations, says the Morning Post, have been eliminated, while interpolations are not unfrequent. The competition at Wimbledon began on Monday morning. • The weather was dull, but on the whole favourable for shooting. • It appears that some mischeivous individuals have been destroying the butts and mantle.ts, and the executive of the. associatiou,has issued an order requesting the assistance of volgiateers and visitors in protecting the property. At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday morning, Henry Benson pleaded guilty to a charge ef obtaining £l,OOO by false pretences from Sir Thomas Dakin, Lord Mayor of London, and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. The prisoner represented himself to be the Mayor of Chateaudun, and thus obtained money for the relief of the destitute French during the late war. In speaking of the vote for ex-Governor Eyre, passed by the House of Commons, on Monday night, the Standard says :---" We hope we have done at length with that coterie of calumny and slander hieh once called itself the Jamaica Committee." On Wednesday, at the Salford Police Court, Mr. G. V. Marsh, reporter, Manchester, appeared in answer to a summons for the non-payment of the balance of, the poor-rate (for school purposes) levied upon him, amounting to 15s. 9d.—Mr. Jordan, who appeared for the defendant, submitted that the rate was a nullity, and that the Bench ought not to make an order fel. the pay_ _ _ _  ment of die rate. The 'Salford School Board- a-p-peared to him to have acted altogether illegally, as also dld the rating authority on which the precept of the School Board had been served. If the magistrates ruled against him upon the point which he had raised, he applied for the power to appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench. The magistrates said they had ,no alternative but to make an order for the payment of. the rate; but they would grant a case for the Court of Queen's Bench. • • • •  The Echo says the report that Sir Alexander Cockburn is to be raised to the peerage is certainly unofficial, and, the Echo is inclined to believe, unfounded.  It now appears that the imbecile son who was supposed to have murdered his mother and sister at Hoxton, on Wednesday, was in Sh.oreditch workhouse at the time the murder must have been committed. It therefore becomes painfully evident that, instead of •being the act of a madman, the murder has been committed by some coldblooded villain, either from motives of a sordid nature or from those of revenge. But, whatever the motive, the deed' is a barbarous one, and no effort should be left untried until the wretch or wretches have been unearthed: The police have yet no clue to the murderer, and the greatest possible excitement prevails in the neighbourhood of the tragedy. A boatman, named John Deaiden, is in custody at Leeds for having- murdered his wife, by shooting her in the h-a 4 with a six-barrelled revolver. The poor woman died at three o'clock on • Thursday morning. Mr. W. S. Stanhope took the oath and his seat in the House of Commons, on Thursday night, for the Southern Division of the West Riding. A reference to our Parliamentary report will show that the hon. gentleman was introduced by Mr. Rowland Winn, member for North Lincolnshire, and the Right Hon. George Ward Hunt, member for Northamptonshire. When taking his seat in the room of Lord Milton, resigned, Air. Stanhope was warmly welcomed by cheers from the Conservative side of the House.  At a quarterly meeting of the iron trade at Wolverhampton, on Wednesday, a great rise in prices again took place.  PA.