Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-04-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STAFFORD H. NORTHeOIIi. I "The Right Hon. Sit John R. Mowbray, Bart., M.P."  AT the recent weekly meeting of the London School Board, a letter was read from Mr. Buxton, the chairman of the Board, stating that he wali sorry to see the number of scholarships in the gift of the Board this year so small. He enclosed as a temporary measure a cheque for £2BO, with a suggestion that it , should be applied to, the establishment of three scholarehips of £3O, tenable for three years. The £lO over the sum requisite for the scholarships was to go towards the expenses of the examination. A letter was also received from the clerk of the Drapers' Company, informing the Board that the Court of Assistants of that company would be happy to place at the disposal of the Board, for competition during the present year, four scholarships, each of the value of £3O per annum, and tenable for four years. The company proposed that two of these scholarship should be for girls and two for boys, and that they should be amtpeted for and tenable under the taste conditions us the scholarships founded by the company in previous years. The Coast of AIOOSOLIAS Of the Company had voted the rum of twenty guineas to the fund for meeting the expense. of the examinations for the scholarships held by the ; oard. A che me for the amount was enclosed. The letters were referred to the School Management Committee, and the Board, after transacting some other business, admarned.  LORD ELD,N, writing to the chairman of a Conservative gathering at Corte Castle, says, "Since Mr. Gladstone has contrived to put a gag on the Conservative party in the House of Commons, it is mainly by such meetings that it can be shown how strong is the feeling in the c .untry against the Government, which has not only been fat.se to the profe,sions by which it gained office, but has also destroyed the sound traditions that have guided former Governments, wh. thee Conservative or Liberal, in promoting the welfare and the intorods of the nation at large." AT a recent ordinary meeting of the St. James's Vestry, London, a communication was made from the Metropolitan Board of Works urging the necessity of local bodies protecting their public buildings by closing tne entrances to sewers, except to authorised persons. The Vestry agreed that in the present state of affairs the matter was of a pressing nature, and a meeting of the Works Committee was convened forthwith to give the surveyor instructions to take the necessary precautions. THE dinner that was to have been given to Admiral Sir Wm. Mends is unavoidably postponed, owing to the indisposition of that gallant officer. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh had expressed his desire to attend; and invitations had been accepted by Lord Alcester, Lord Wolseley, and by many of the highest officers at the War Office and at the Admiralty. TEE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, in a monition to the Rev. G. C. Ommanney, vicar of St. Matthew's, Sheffield, orders him to diFoontinue eight of the ritualistic practices complained of by Mr. Walter Wynn, the parish churchwarden, and to give assurance of his obedience to the order on, or before, the let day of May. In a letter to the churchwardens his grace points out that no person has a right to bite:fere with and put a stop to ceremonies in churches by force. Coopm, a labourer, has been cornmitled for trial By dm matttstrates at South Stockton, on a eh wge of murdering Lis son, the body of whom wail Bond in a pond tied in a sack weighted with bricks. The prisoner sated that lie had sent the deceased to an d•od in Norfolk, producing a letter purporting to be w iii-, by the nun:, s 3tillg that the boy had arrived , hut the letter wao prayed to have been written at I the reatte.t of the pri-oner by a boy in Stockton.