The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1881-03-26 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE CLERICAL SCANDAL AT DERBY.  At the Derby Borough Police Court, the Rev. T. Howard Twist, vicar of St. Michael's, has b9en charged on remand with intercepting telegrams which ought to have been received by the SupeOntendent ot Police. A message was sent by prisoner in the first instance to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Harding, of Buxton, as from the Superintendent of Police, per Dudfield Road Post Office, containing a threat which amounted to an intimidation. Mrs. Harding thereupon placed the case in the hands of Messrs. Hyde, Tandy and Mahon, 33, Ely Place, London, who, on February 16 and 17, telegraphed to the superintendent per Duffield Road Post Office, on thp matter. After the facts had come to the knowledge of Colonel Delacombe, Mr. Twist wrote him a letter from which the following is an extract :—" For God's sake stop the ca e; I am not the author of the telegrams, but am th 6 foolish writer of them. I was persuaded to frighten a woman who for years had done me grievous wrong. I have written, but the canoe lies in very sad trouble. I would much rather be indicted than poor Dr. Evanson. The only point is, may not the whole case be stopped ? If not I will suffer everything though I am not the author of the business. " It was stated the telegrams were forwarded at the suggestion of the prisoner's friend named. After the address of his solicitor prisoner read a statement in which he admitted he detained the telegrams but he begged to express publicly to Colonel Delacombe and to the receivers and senders of the telegrams, his sorrow for the annoyance and trouble caused them, and. to also express to them and the Post Office authorities his desire to make reparation for the wrong committed.—He was committed for trial at the sessions, siastantial bail being accepted.—A defence fund has been opened by the rev, defendant's congregation, and the subscriptions have reached upwb.rds of £5O.  In the French Chamber of Deputies, M. Laroche Joubert, a Bonapartist, gravely proposed the sale of life titles at the rate of 10,000 f. a year for duke, 5,000 f. for marquis, 4,000 f. for count, 3,0001. for baron, and 2,000 f. for the particle de. He calculated the receipts at 100 millions, and considered this better than the present system of usurping titles, under which it was not easy to ascertain the spurious from the genuine. The proposal was referred in the ordinary course to the Bureaux.  Mr. Horace Davey, Q.C., M.P., has formally been offered the vacant judgeship. The Duke Avila has, by theladvice of his phy• sicians, declined to undertake the task of forming a Ministry in Portugal.  The police at Leamington do not believe that the man who gave himself up as the murderer of Lieut. Roper knows anything about the matter, Ile lias apparently been drinking heavily. bury Cryer, a boy of 11, nas peen charged, at Bristol, with stripping a child named Turner, only three years of age and stealing all its clothes. He took the child to a:field in the outskirts; of the city, undressed it, and leaving4it naked, sold the clothes at a marine-store, telling the shopkeeper his mother had no further use for them, The child was discovered, and taken to the police-station, and its parent. found. The MagiAlpito .JO oileacicr tg JQ WhiPPOils  •  -os'-• •   - • - .•