Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-05-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TIREMENTS AND DISMISSALS. executors. As on former occasions the approaches . p were crowded, but the arrangements made by the police „ ign of the Nationalarty has commenced. enabled easy access to be gained to the Court House. Mr. Rivers Wilson and M. de E lignieres are at Cairo, but they no longer represent the two countries which At eleven °clock, when the prisoner was brought into a few months ago undertook the regeneration of Egypt. court, the name of Henry Porter, whose evidence was Nubar Pasha is staying quietly at his summer house at partly taken on the last occasion, was called, hut he Ramleh studying hieroglyphics and enjoying the rest did not respond immediately. Mr. Brown asked that the magistrates would observe the usual practice which an unappreciative country so quickly accorded in police-courts, namely, that the depositions of each him. The Englishman who was chosen to.conduct the national survey and the re-adjustment of the landwitness should be signed directly after it had been tax has retired, and all the able men whom he had written. He would also urge that the effects of the chosen to carry out his work have gone with him. The deceased woman should be examined. Mr. Poland needs of the Finance Departnient, who had elaborated stated that orders had been given to that effect. Shortly alter eleven o'clock Porter appeared a system of financial checks which was the first inconcourt, and having apologised for missing the train and dition of reform, have all resigned. The European inspectors of provinces, who were to control the fiscal being late, in reply to Mr. Poland he said that OR the officials and suppress abuses, have all been dismissed, nights of the 2nd and 3rd of March he was at Ham The railways, the post-office, the Customs, and tee mersmith, and did not go to Richmond. During a port of Alexandria still remain in foreign hands ; but portion of these two evenings he was at Church's the Finance and Public Works, all the Ministries, and house; in fact, he seldom missed going there. He the general administration have passed under Purely was not aware that there was any other Mrs. Thomas except the prisoner. He had heard the statenative control—in short Egypt for the Egyptians is no ment made by the prisoner as to the part longer a dream, but a reality. he had taken in the murder, but he would swear that he knew nothing of it. He was not in any way a party to the murder. He was not aware that the murder had been committed until after the 18th of March. lathe course of the cross-examination witness recapitulated the account of his proceedings on the evening of the 4th of March. He swore that Church and the prisoner did not drive to his house on the 3rd of March, and that he did not see the prisoner for five years before the 4th of March. From what the prisoner told him when she called, be thought she was in comfortable circumstances. The cross-examination of the man Porter occupied nearly the whole of the sitting, no facts of any importance being elicited from leiin by Mr. Brown, the counsel for the prisoner, who was requested more than once by the chairman, as be indulged in irrelevant questions, to keep himself as much as possible to the facts of the cs9o. An adjournment took place. On the preliminary examination being resumed, the evidence of Porter's wife was taken. The examination , of Church corroborated in every particular the statements made by Porter at the last hearing, and he denied emphatically the allegation that he was in any way cognisant of the murder.