The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-07-19 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

BLTURDAY, JULY 1973 L 1879.  The Rev. W. Harker, Vicar of Milton•next.Sitting bourne, has opened a bairn for the Primitive Methodists. This is the proper way for church and chapel to shake hands with and not at each other.  Italy and Austria are shaking hands too closely. Italy has 73,000 men on the Austrian frontier, while Austria has only 12,000, sad looks upon this formidable array of Italian troops as a danger that may lead to the shaking of arms.  The Prince Imperial is buried, and we wish the thinkeyism of the British public, that has exalted the death of a gallant young man into a sort of sham national grief because he was a Prince, was buried also.  Another servile suggestion— of some fulsome English Imperialist is that each man in the army should contribute to a fund for raising a military memorial to the Prince Imperial. The men of one regiment in the Colchester camp indignantly refine to subscribe, but express their willingness to contribute to a fund devoted to the widows and orphans of British soldiers who have died in Zululand. The ways of some Englishmen in fawning upon royalty or imperial demigods are past finding out. It is iefreshieg, however, to see that some British soldiers know where sympathy and help is most deserved.  At Hanley, on Wednesda;.- Edward James Roberts, late Secretary of the local branch of the Order of Odd Fellows Friendly Society. was committed for trial on an charges of obtaining money by false pretences from the treasurer, from 1010111 he drew BEMs professedly on ae• count of si.ir pay and relief In members, and appro. printed them to Ins own use.  St Swithiu came dry on Wednesday last, but he has contrived to "wet his whistle since, in spite of the old woman's superstition at to the forty days. It would not be a bad ides if we could get the old Saint to emigrate. if he would only take the weather glass with him, which has been too much of an overflowing "bole the last few months.  That Bunnell Nero king Thebaw has been at it again. This time he tuts butchered twelve persons of princely connection.. We English raise our hand: in pious horror at Thebaw's enormities, but there are these amongst us who reliefs • little slaughter when it i 4 called war, and there is any chance of rectifying frontiers and annexing provinces. Half of the nation is Pecksnitian•  The fear of annexation has crossed the Channel. France has a desire to appropriate the New Hebrides— islands 300 miles North. West of F. The natives are well-arnicd and savage. This most be a plot on the part of the lied Republicafls to ftnd work, and a quirt. for the restless spirits of Bonapartism. The Zulu War is bearing fruit. _  Two movement. demand enthnsiastic supporters—the " National Associati m for (ha Promotion of Marriage.' which list hail its birth in the brain of Cincivatti eiti• rens. and a sect started by • Russian peasant pro. phetes, who decrys marriage. and whose apostles and followers at present live together at prevent in one large room. Those citizens who cannot gat married without the help of an association will be the best f Alowers the propoetess can have.  Mr. Cowen. M P., says that the sentence of the court• martial upon Lieutenant Carey is that he should be shot for cowardice and unsoldierly conduct iu the face of the enemy. If all guilty of unsoldierly coniuct in Soath Afric• hal to lie shot. there would be a ranch woes,. langhter Vein at laandula. Poor Carey in firing made she scapegoat of the military incompetence of his nperiors.  Lord Salisbury recently called the Radical wing of the Liberal twiny the Circassisos of politics. His old friends, the rial Circassian, whose gentle qualities o f murder and outrane lighted the lire in the East whieh has senrcriy et been pot out. are harritsaiUz the people on the coast of the Sea of Slane, in. Robbery. cattlelittler. sad tinnier are daily events. and Tail, sad Cliri.diaus are alike oppressed by the ssvage hordes. The genuine Cireassiaus of polities are those who con. iiondi the at:winding those brat., in Halisris.