Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-08-26 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

COI.I.Se of th, session just adjourned, when two grand committees, one consistlng exclusively of Scotch, and the other exclusively of Irish ivemb,rs, were appointed to take into consideration certain matters affecting Scotland and Ireland. The experiment was so successful that the Goverment will have confidence in including it in their scheme for reforming the mode of conducting business in Parliament.  Soma Irish journals and Irish members of Parliament have commented, in pretty strong tsrms, on the alleged severity of the sentence pronounced against Mr. Edward Dwyer Gray, M.P., high Sheriff of Dublin, and proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, for contempt of Court, which consisted in stating, or allowing it to be stated in his paper, that the jury which found Hynes guilty of murder in the recent trial before the Dublin Commission Court was a packed one, and in an inebriated condition when it came to a decision on the verdict. But in weighing the nature of the sentence prononnoed by Mr. Justice Lawson, it is necessary to keep prominently in view the influential positions held by Mr. Gray as member of Parliament for Carlo w, High Sheriff of Dublin,'and newspaper proprietor. The effect of unfounded allegations, coming from such a quarter, had to be taken into account by the judge.  CBTEWAYO'S visit to this country, which he is to leave in about a fortnight, has amply fulfilled his most sanguine hopes. He is to be restored to the sovereignty of Zululand on certain conditions, which he has agreed to accept, but which the Colonial Office has not yet made public. The ex-King has also reason to be satisfied with the cordiality of his reception by her Majesty, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and all the officers of the army and navy with whom he km come in contact.  IT is not to be expected, of course, that the jut Aligence of the intended restoration of Cateway° will give the same satisfaction all over South Africa as it has imparted to the ex-King himself, to the chiefs who accompany him, and to that considerable portion of the people of this country who considered at the time, and are of the same opinion still, that the Zulu war was uncalled-for and unjust. The news will, perhaps, not surprise the Cape Colonists, as they must have had some idea of what the visit to England portended; but it will disturb the setters in Natal as well as the Boers of the Transvaal; and John Dunn is shrewd enough to understand that his best plan will be to dispose of his territory to the highest bidder among the chiefs.  THE Maori chiefs from New Zealand, who bav, been for some time in this country, have also, it is understood, reason to congratulate themselves that their long voyage has not been in van. Opportunities have been afforded them at the Colonial °Nice of stating their grievances in connection with land disputes between them and the New Zealand Government, and steps are to be taken, not only to pat things ateaight, but to wevent the recurrence of similar differences in future.  IT is not surprising to find it reported, in connection with a recent fatal accident of the kind, that children have met their deaths, on different occasions, by sliding down the staircase bannisters of a block of buildings at Walworth, London, which are built and let on the "flat" system. There was certainly gross negligence in not providing with spikes the bannisters of a staircase, four or five flats in height, by which so many families have access to their homes on the various landings. It is impossible for children to resist the temptation of sliding down unspiked bannisters, in the performance of which feat there is always the danger of overbalancing with its fearful results.