Widnes Examiner. — 1882-09-02 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

WAR IN EGY. PT. Gaol, still denies his guilt of the murder of Doloughty, but' he is stated to be resigned to his fate. The master cotton spinners of Bolton have declined to I grant the operatives a holiday next Wednesday to enable I them to take part in the trades' procession at Preston Guild. On Wednesday night, after returning home :from the I Theatre Royal, Hanley, an old lady, named Lucy Instone.l boarding-house keeper, living in Stafford-street, partook of a hearty supper of tripe, and shortly afterwards died. On Wednesday night, a fire occurred at a waste warehouse of Messrs. Stott, St. George's-street, Bolton. It was I caused by spontaneous combustion, and spread to two i upper storeys. The damage estimated by the firm at £5OO, I is fully insured. In a report issued on Thursday, the Select Committee of ! the House of Lords on the Irish Land Act state their inquiry is yet incomplete, and they rOcommend the re-appointment of the Committee next session, with a view to the con-1 tinuance of the inquiry. At the anneal special meeting of the Manchester, Liverpool, and North Lancashire Agricultural Society, held on , Thursday, at Preston, it was agreed to hold next year's I show at Liverpool. and to rait upon the mayor of the city in the coming December to ascertain what encouragement was likely to be offered. At the fortnightly meeting of the Haslingden Board of , Guardians, on Thursday, the clerk reported that the Local Government Board had sent the necessary order' for taking a poll of the ratepayers in the union on the subject of triennial electories, and that the voting papers would be delivered on the 19th September, and collected the following morning. Intelligence has been received by telegraph at Plymouth, of the fatal result to Lieutenant Porter, RE., of an accident he sustained a fortnight ago while on board a transport ex route for the seat of war. Lieutenant Porter was the only , son of Major-General Whitworth Porter, RE., of Plymouth, to whose family the death of a promising young officer has caused a terrible shock. The Dublin coroner, on Wednesday, held an inquest on a lady, named M'Nulty, found dead at her lodgings on the previous day. The deceased and her sister were left £2,000 each, but the money was all swallowed up in law proceedings, and both lived in an abject state of poverty. Their misfortune somewhat affected their minds, and both were under the hallucination that they were not sisters. At Middleton, on Thursday, George Wilson was charged with stabbing Edward Kay. The prosecutor stated that on the night of the-24th ultimo, after a dispute with the prisoner, the latter pulled out a pruning knife and ran it into his side. Dr. Sandford stated that the breast bone had intercepted the weapon, which would have otherwise caused death. The prisoner was committed for trial. Whilst the Salvation Army were marching through the streets of Bolton on Wednesday night with drums, tambourines, and cymbals, they were assaulted by a large mob of Irish, who hooted and jostled them, and attempted to wrest from them their musical instruments, pelting them with stones. Matters looked so serious at one time that many tradesmen closed their establishments, and eventually the police had to escort the army to their homes. On Thursday, a party of consta,bulary were dragging the canal near Leicester, on the banks of which a blood-stained hammer was found under extraordinary circumstances. Two boats passing' down the canal reported having seen a dead body in the water. The body, it is believed, is connected with the mysterious affair at Leicester Abbey, where the blood stains and marks of a struggle were found. The body has not been recovered.  An exciting scene was witnessed on Thursday morning at Portland Railway Station. A party of four lunatic convicts were being conveyed-in charge of three warders to Woking prison, and on arriving at the platform, they made a rush at the officers, using as weapons everything that came to hand, and k;cking violently. A desperiie struggle ensued, lasting for a quarter of an hour, when the convicts were at lastovercome and placed in the train. It subsequently trgEspired that they were lunatic,prisoners. Alter the performance of "Adrienne Lecouvreur," at St. George's Hall, Bradford, on Wednesday evening, Madame Sarah Bernhardt, whose impersonations of the title role had evoked the greatest enthusiasm, was taken seriously ill. Exhausted by the severity of her part she was taken with spitting of blood, and lost consciousness. Mr. Parkinson, surgeon, was in attendance for two hours before the actress could be removed to her hotel. On Thursday morning she was somewhat better, but unable to leave her bed. JOHN O'GROAT'S TO LAND'S giND ON A