The Poole Telegram. — 1882-09-08 (Poole, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPT TO MURDER • POLICEMAN —A. desperete attampt to murier A policeman cams before the Pot tan's stipendiary magistrate at Longton, Staffordshire. on Monday. On Saturday night, Piiiie -constable Nash attetutted to t,k a collier named litin Soaps into cue ody tor rio out conduct in the market-place, when So-pe drew a elesp-knire and struck a hoe rt the officer's neck, inflicting a very serious wound within an eighth of an inch of thejugular vein. The earst•tee being ' in • precarious condition, the prit otter sac remanded. While we are waiting for Sir Garnet Wolaeley to make his preparations for advancing beyond KagPDPISiII Lock and fighting a great b tttle at Tel-el.Kebir, , which may poesibly be the dtcisive engagement f the campaign, mail people are occuliyitig themselves with hypercriticism of all the it ovements and arrangements of the Eryptian expeditii n, an I of the person,il behaviour of the leaders in it. For instance, a Is,ndon journal has distinguished itself, snobbishly as we think, by attributing personal cowardi is to the Dike f Connaught. ihe Duke of Cambridge Was sill arly atta.ked during the Crimean War, and probably with equal reason. Indeed, those wilts actually fought in the Crimea declare that his faolt was undue recklereness instead of cowariirce. Such accusatione are eAsity and safely made, since it is impos ib'e r royal personages to refute them. As a mstter if fact, if a person in the position of the Duke f Oennanht were a coward, he dare not betray himself to b such. As for the more excusable critlcisnie on the general. ship of Sir Garnet Wolseley in pitshiug on detachments in advance of hie transport, and invith g defeat of them in detail, as at Kassassin Lock, the defence of his action contained in his own exculpatsry telegram of the let inst., published on Ssturdi.y, is perhaps the beat apology for a mode of procednse which seems to have evoked deprecetieg inquiries even from the War Office. From Ramses to Succoth—who had not read of that fir•t march out of Egypt, when as it has been truly said, hi•tory was botn, on the night when a band .if slaves rose up, and, their kneadiog.tronghs in thi hands, went fot th. in haste, for it was Jehovah's Fist. over? It certainly makes the old world se-m mode n again to read every DOW and then of this Hsmses as a station on the railway between Ismailia al Z sgs eig, T me identification is nearly complete ; at Is sat it hal seemed AO to the beet Egyptologists, and we are neitl er qualified nor inclined t question their view. " Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war," is a figurative expressinn of our great poet, which seems to have suggested to a Nsapolitan journal the preportoz• one story of A cargo of two thousand bl iodhounds seat out to Sir Garnet Woleeley to hunt the Egyptian rebels. "There go the dogs of war," says one Etigliah tourist to another, as a passing transport is sighted, " Ay, a thousand splendid bloodhounds!" responds a compatriot. Literal interpretation by intelligent listening foreigner, and hence the sensational newspaper piragraph. An old gentleman is just dead at the age of 86, whq is variously described as the Honourable Thome' Fitz•Hardinge, Esq., and as Thomas the 6th Berl 111 Berkeley. He wag the sth Bono' the lest Earl, thought socording to the decision of the House of Lords, hp was the eldest legitimate son. His mother Was the daughter of a butcher. His father decisred that he married this In ly privately before the birth of their eldest son, and again publicly before the birth of tileir fifth son. The Peers, however, decided that the-e wie no evidence of the alleged private marring'. If the gentleman, n iw dec Fused, had insistel on his rights, it is said that he oonld have enjoyed not only the peerage but a large share of the family estate, wh:ch Was annexed to the title. He hail sufficient chivalry his nature not to avail himself of a decision which discredited the good name of his m 'thee. lie repudia' d the peerage, and took no step to obtain the estate. His eldest brother was subsequently raise I tn the peerage as Earl Fitz-Har linge. Hie next youtieer brother, Grantley Fitz-Flardinge, open' y declared that if Thomas died without Items, he should a ,iert hie claims to the Berkeley peerage. But Thom-is liv,e, Ito old age, as if for the vei y pu-15086 of c srryin :.hid abnegation into full effect. He left no issue himself, and he survived his brother Grantley and blth tilt eons of the latterl