Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1881-09-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DOUBLE-FACED ELEO rIONEER NG.  The addresses of two belated champions of the Opposition afford (says the Pall Mall Gazette) a significant iliustratioe of the double-faced electoral policy which the "great Conetitutional party" in its present dire straits is driven to employ. Mr Lowther, who brings to North Lincoln the painful memories of his defeat at York and East Cumberland, is the incarnation of the favourite Conservative doctrine of coercion. His chief complaint against the Government in his last electioneering adventure was that they had not coerced Ireland soon enough or hard enough. Sir George Elliot, on the other hand, whose address to the Conservatives of North Durham appears simultaneously with Mr Lowther's appeal to the Conservatives of North Lincoln, comes forward as the opponent of the coercive policy of the Liberal Government. Whatever may be said as to the consistency of a strategy which assails the Government at the BOMB time for coercing Ireland and for not having coerced her enough, it is undoubtedly smart, but it is a , kind of smartness that over-reaches itself. It is, however, possiole that Sir George Elliot and his friends have reckoned without their host in assuming that a Conservative anti-coercioniet can carry North Durham, even when supported indirectly by what was once the organ of the Liberal party in Newcastle. Some may marvel that the Conservatives could tolerate such a profession of faith; but North-country Conservatives who sent a Home Ruler to Parliament in 1874 as Mr Cowen's colleague in the representation of Newcastle are not likely to flinch from supporting their candidate merely because he has, "for this occasion only," struck up "a firm fighting alliance" with Mr Parnell. The references which both candidates make to fair trade afford another illustration of the electioneering tactics of the Conservative party. Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northcote are far too shrewd to identify themselves with such a dangerous heresy as that which is in favour with those who advocate a new corn law and an export duty on coal as sovereign remedies for depression in trade and agriculture, but both Mr Lowther and Sir George Elliot are declaring against Free Trade.  The Coroner's enquiry relative to the little girl Windle, whose body was found in a plantation near Chesterfield, was concluded on Friday week, and a verdict of "Wilful murder" was returned against Alfred Goligh, a Sheffield toy hawker. A Royal Commission was gasetted on Friday week to enquire into the instruction of the industrial classes of certain foreign countries. Its members are Messrs Bernhard Samuelson, Henry Enfield Roscoe, Philip Magnus, John Slagg, Swire Smith, and Wm. Wooiall. It is announced that the Queen, at Holyrood Palace on Friday week, conferred the honour of knighthood on Mr W. Collins, es-Provost of Glasgow. A NEW /Wixom or ma Scraprintr.s.—The President of toe American and Foreign Bible Society, a Baptist organization, has made arrangements for a revised version of the Old Testament. Dr. Conant has been entrusted with the task, for which he is to receive 25,000 dols. This gentleman, it appears, has already revised the Pentateuch and the Psalms, and it is proposed that his labours shall be completed in four years from the present time. The work is not intended as an independent translation, but only a revision of the common version, and the phraselogy of the King James's version will be preserved as much as possible.