Widnes Examiner. — 1882-11-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE NEW LAW ON BILLS OF SALE. —On Tuesday the new Act on bills of sale, which extends to the whole of _ _ _ ___ _ _  England and Wales, came into operation. It amends the former Act of 1878, and effects several important alterations, one of which is the provision protecting the removal or sale until "five clear days" after the seizure of personal chattels. All bills of sale under £3O are to be void, and not to protect personal property from poor or parochial rates. A form is given in the schedule, and a schedule is to be made of the article, and not to affect after acquired property. A bill of sale is to be attested and registered, and the clause by a solicitor of attestation is repealed. Bills of sale can be inspected and particulars taken on "a shilling stamp." Questions are likely to arise on the two Acts, but the non-removal sr sale of goods within five days is an important improvement in the law.  The results of Wednesday's municipal elections throughout the country are in favour of the Conservatives. At Liverpool, on Monday, Patrick Meehan was committed to the assizes on the charge of shooting at Patrick Bevan, with intent to murder him, in the public street. _ On the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, on Tuesday, the guard's van and a second-class carriage of a Manchester train were thrown off the line near Ramsbottom Station. The passengers escaped without injury. A Strndard Rome telegram says: Those nearest the person of the Pope assert that he has sent by Mr. Errtngton an autograph letter to the Queen thanking her for her good disposition towards the Catholics, and trusting that it would bear fruit in renewed diplomatic relations. About one hundred and fifty members of the Conservative party in the House of Commons assembled on Tuesday at the Carlton to take counsel together on the Closure. Sir Stafford Northcote presided. It is understood that the meeting resolved to persevere in opposing the proposed rules.  A general order from the Horse Guards has been promulgated at Chatham announcing that Her Majesty has no further use for the services of the first-class Army Leserve, recently called out, and they will therefore at once be dismissed. They will, however, be allowed to be retained on active service with their battalions under certain conditions.  A man named Bartlett, manager of a mine in Cornwall, was convicted at Exeter Assizes the other day, of the deliberate murder of his illegitim;te child, an infant only a few days old. It was proved that he had received the infant from its nurse, strangled it, and thrown the body into an old shaft. Sentence of death was passed. The Rev. James Benham, late vicar of Marden, Kent, has made an abatement of 15 per cent. on his tithei for this year in consequence of the failure of the hop crop. The Rev. J. G. Brine, vicar of Lower Hardres, also in the county of Kent, has foregone all claims where no hops have been picked. Joseph Bell, miner, aged twenty-seven, was sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude at Cumberland Assizes, on Tuesday, for attempting to murder his brother and sisterin-law at Dalston, near Carlisle. Prisoner threw an explosive into a bedroom where he believed his brother was asleep, but the room was that of a neighbour. The Home Secretary (Sir William Harcourt) will, it is , expected, perform the opening ceremony at the new Reform I Club at Heywood; and it is hoped that during his visit to Lancashire—for which the date is not yet fixed—he will also address a meeting in Manchester. Sir Thomas Boyd, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, has received the appointment of chairann of the new Scottish, Fishery Board, the salary attached to which is about £BOOl per annum. Sir James Maitland and sevtral of the sheriffs of Scoth counties have been appointed commissioners. The new railway station buildings at Southport of the West Lancashire Railway Company, fell in on Wednesday with a great crash. They were almost near completion, and the structure would have been a most handsome one. The I contractors had soon several gangs of men at work clearing iaway the debris, but it will be some time before the station will be completed. The military authorities at Aldershot have put the Royal Exchange public-house out of bounds. The meaning of this order is that the military police are ordered to make I prisoners of all soldiers found in his house because the proprietor, Walter Clarke, took a soldier's medal as pledge for payment for lig*. The action of the authorities has 'nulled considerable sensation in the town.