Widnes Examiner. — 1888-02-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

PRESSAVATTON.—The sum for distribution this year by Lord Walsingham, who allows his cottage tenants a sailling for every partridge shot on his estate, is tl5O. _ _  'George Henry Wade was sentenced, at the Old Bailey, on Monday, to -five years' penal servitude, and Alfred IL Caldecourt to 12 months' imprisonment, for stealing postal letters. It is said that the total cost of compiling and publishing the reports of the Challenger expedition, the last three volumes of which are about to be issued, has alreadrexceeded £200,000. The guarantors of the Folkestone Art Treasures Exhibition have received another call for ZO per cent, on tlie amount of their guarantees. This will make"ss percent. which they have had to pay to meet the deficiency in the accounts.'  A flock of about a hundred crows, passing over Cummhzville, Ohio, were attacked by' thrice their number of English sparrows, who completely routed the big birds. Sec eral crows were disabled, and one was fouad with bath eyes pecked out. 'Henry Gibbs, seaman, was present, at Bridgewater, an Monday, with a silver medal awarded him 137 the Norwegian Government for 'his bravery in 'assisting to rescue the crew of the Norwegian barque Traveller during a heavy gale irithe Atlantic.  A collision occurred on Saturday between the Manchester goods erpress and aooal train which was leaving the Hampstead 'Collieries, near West Bromwich. The engine drivers leaped to 'the ground, but one of 'them was severely cot about 'the head. One of the stokers was also badly injured. _ _  A boy, named IDaniel Saunders. aged nine years, was knocked down by a horse in Blackfriars-road, 'London, on Monday, grid the wheel of a dray crushed in his skull, killing `him instantaneously. Another boy, at present unidentified, was knocked down by 'nn omnibus in Kennington Paik-road, on Monday night, and the wheels passing over hismeck caused his instant death.  Henry Bowles,-who has been under sentence Of death for the Caniberiey .murder, has been Tespited with a view to subsequent commutation of the capital sentence to one of enil servitude for life. The fact was communicated on Monday to the authorities at Wandsworth Prison. Mr.'Under-Sheriff Rose, who at the instance of the Sheriffs undertook the defence ef Bowles. on Tuesday afternoonTeceived a letter to the tame effect  The Merchandise Marks Act has been found to operate not only against the fraudulent foreign trader, but also against presumably honest merchants of our own colonies. Several consignments of goods from Canada and Other cOlonies to British merchants have recently been stopped because the place of manufacture bore a similar trame to some town in the United Kingdom, and the country Of origin not being stated after the name of the town. _ .  A man, named Cooper, a noterious forger, who was recently arrested at Fontainebleau, was'landed at Southampton, on Saturday, having been brought from France on an extradition warrant. Be was handed over at Havre,last night, to two police officers of the English Criminal 'lnvestigation Department, and arrived at Southampton shortly after ten o'ciockl having experienced -a very rough passage. MR. 3PURGEON