Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-04-28 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE SOUDAN.  A special correspondent, writing from Khartoum, sayer The Nordenfelts have arrived from Cairoond we leave in two da3s, up the river 100 miles beyond Khartoum, to attack the enemy's stockades. The Mandi himself is in Kordofan. We go against him in June. The present enemy is ander his lieutenant-general or principal commander. He appears to be strongly entrenched, and I think that it is impossible he can be turned out. IVous servos, Socket practice to-morrow. Some of these rockets, as usual, come back. Blank cartridge last night, to see if horsea stand fire. Mine went mad. Ball practice every morning at six at the camp down the river, three miles from here. The men are fine, soldier-like fellows. I cannot imagine how they were so easily beaten. We have all Arabie men who were at Tel-el-Kebir. If the negroes once get inside the square, as they did sin months ago, they give up, and are slaughtered ton man. Till that point they stand well. But thirty men got in at the corners, then they bolted and were cut up. We shall pat the Nordenfelts in the corners of the squares.  Kar'sTmPtadd, for Neuralgia, Facesche,tr.c.,9o.ls. Postage 'l. Sold by all chemists. Kay Bros , Stockport.  SCARLET BEVER is very prevalent in Derby. shire. At Staveley four children in one family have succumbed to the disease, aged respectively 17, 15,6, arid 1 years. At a conference of delegates of the Cheshire, Lancashire. and North Staffordshire Millers' Federation, held at Tunstall, a resolution Was passed deprecating the employment of women in and about coal nines, special reference being made to the districts of South Staffordshire, Landashire, Cumlorland, and Wales, where such employ. lit Was very prevalent. IT is proposed to erect sheltered seats on the les front at Brighton, to iv placed on the esplanade.  IN addition to passing a resolution praying that Parliament will strike out of the Universities (Scotland) Bill the clause wherein pro' Won is made under certain contingencies for the possible dissolution of the University and Colleges of St. Andrew's, the senators and academicians of that university have prepared a memorial to the Lord Advocate, in which it is set forth ti.at no reason can be shown for the abolition of the university now, whi‘ h has not equally existed at any time during the last 400 years. It is pointed oat that the number of etudents for the present session is above the average of the last three centuries, and that besides the work which the university is doing for its regular students, it has of late years thrown itself zealously into the movement for the higher education of women, and for local examinations throughout the country A MEETING of fish dealers, curers, and street salmtnen, has hues held at the New Belvolere Club, East-street, London, to consider the causes of the present deficiency in the fish supply of the metropolis, and the beet means to procure a remedy for the evil. Mr. Hare presided. He complained that the trade was at the mercy of the Billing-gate " ring," and said that until they had the support of the public in their demand for more markets and a lar,er supply of link, there would never be a reduction in the pria of flab. A resolution appros bog of the establishment of local fish markets, and ailing corn the Government to make provision for such markets in their Municipal Reform Bill, was unanimously adopted; and the chairman was directed to forward copies of the same to the Premier and the members of the borough of Lambeth. A YOUNG 3IAN, said to be of weak intellect, hat been arrested on the charge of murdering his father, with whom he lived, about two miles from