Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1886-10-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

GLADSTONE AND THE IRISH.. Mr. Gladstone hos received at Havrarden Castle the Isiah deputations who crime to offer him the freedom of Cork and other towns and to present addresses. ma right hen, gentleman, in reply, spoke for over an hour in reviewing the position of the Irish question. It was, he said, the hope of conducing to the settlement of that question that kept him in public life. Upon the ground of economy, as well as upon higher grounds, it was desirable to restore to Ireland her Parliament. no believed that separation was not in the minds of the authors of the Home Rule Bill, nor in those of its supporters on this aide of the Irish Channel, and to call them Separatists he stigmatised as a monstrous misuse of terms. Ile was convinced that the main object of those who planned the Legislative Union was to extinguish the spirit of Irish nationality. Since the Reform Act the voice of Ireland had become more and more clear anddetermined,and it required superhuman boldness Cu deny its present call for national and local autonomy. Respecting the Land Purchase Bill, which the Liberals had dropped, he recommended that before the same favourable terms were again offered to the landlords, the financial relations of Ireland with England, from 1795 until the present time, should be investigated. The Liberals had suffered a great defeat, owing to the aiori of the dissentient Liberals. He knew that a number of these would not agree with the declarations of Lord Hartington and Mr. Chamberlain to maintain the present Government in power, no matter what question arose, and in view of these declarations by the leaders of that section of the House of Commons, he described them as having become "nothing else but a tail of the Tory party.' The Irish cause, said the right hon. gentleman, had now been enrolled as an article of the Liberal creed ; it would, therefore, ultimately triumph. The desired consummation might be delayed, bathe trusted that it might come with promptitude, cheerfulness, and joy.  An extensive strike hp occurred in the weaving branches of the cotton trade at Nelson, nearly Burnley. The operators engaged in the production of satin clothe claimed an advance of wages, no es to place them on a level with their co-workers at Preston, Ashton, and other Lancashire towns, where, it is ahem d, 1-ether wages are paid. The employers, however, refused to accede to their dernsnd, and all the weesmra HA the. sateen goods in Nelson-.greet struck work. They number about 1000. A. ,411111. who ha* only just reathed the age of LI, has beep tried in Berlin for the murder of an infant of three years. It was shown that she committed the crime in order to steal the earrings of her victim. The youthful prisoner appeared to be almost an imbecile. In the sod the jury found her guilty, and she was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. Inn Brit6h wrecks, of which reports have been received at the Board of Trade during the month of September, number 58. Of these 48 are sailing veasels, and °oolongs the loss of. 21 lives; while with the remaining 10 steamship, 87 deaths from &owning are reported. As a waggon full of hop pickers was proceeding through the principal thoroughfare of ilungerford the other afternoon a number of them fell out, and one woman was drawn under the wheels and received such severe injuries that she died instantly. Six others had to be taken to the infirmary. Owls° to the depression in the cotton-spinning Industry in South-East Lancashire, no less than 14 large concerns in Bolton alone are running short time, affecting about 2000 operatives.