Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-05-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NEAR. Lord Holland's monument in the Kensington-road, London, there are two drinking fountains with inscriptions. On one it is mentioned that his lordship was "an accomplished scholar ; " but it has been pointed out that, on the other, the modest epigram in which he safely claimed a favourable judgment from his contemporaries is thus misprinted— " Nephew of Fox and friend of Grey, Be this my deed of fame, That they who knew me best may say, Ile tarnished neither name." The word "deed" should of course have been " mend ; " yet nobody seems to have noticed it until Mr. George Biller put his finger upon the peccant letter. Tirana can be little doubt that the discontent which takes the shape and name of Socialism in Germany and of Nihilism in Russia has been lrrgely caused by that crushing militarism which presscs with the weight of a millstone upon the two Empires. Notwithstanding this, it is announced that the Emperor of Russia has determined upon a measure giving fresh facilities for an immense increase of his army. The reduction of the six years' service in the line to three years will allow of a much larger number of recruits being enlisted without additional ex pense. INCENDIARISIVI which is prevalent in Russia at the present time appears also to be prevalent in the Poonah district of India. Besides this, bands of brigands are abroad, committing daring robberies, and it is stated that a body of 1000 troops is en.taged in suppressing them in the Bombay Presidency. • •  Tan Swiss pl ebeseite has 'gone, by a considerable majority, in favour of the revival of capital punishment. This does not mean its actual reestablishment, each canton being left at liberty to enact it or not as it feels inclined. But the movement is a decidedly retrograde one, like a re'..urn to Protection after being committed to Free Trade.  M. DE LESSEPS is the sworn enemy of isthmuses that obstruct navigation by placing a barrier between neighbouring seas. By perseverance, energy, and defiance of difficulties— which included the strong opposition of Lord Palinerston—he succeeded in carrying through to completion the great work of the Suez Canal, and he is now actively engaged in trying to get support for his new scheme of cutting a canal through the Isthmus of Suez, and wedding the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. In a report on the scheme which has been drawn up, it is stated that, in order to insure the success of the proposed canal, it would be necessary for eight ships to pass through daily with a Tonnage of 2050 each.  THE avalanche which, detaching itself from the sides of the Jungfrau, recently precipitated itself into the Roththal Valley, ravaging entire forests in its course, must have been of very unusual diversions. The clouds of snow-dust ascended the aides of the valley opposite the Jungfrau as far as Wildhorn and Sevinenthal, and down as far as Trummelbach. The oldest inhabitants of Lauterbrunnen are said never to have seen such an event. Among the trees uprooted or broken were sycamores, which for years had defied such assaults.  Fr is a mistake to suppose that the :modern Greeks have quite lost the spirit of their fathers. At 31iisolonghi they conclusively showed that the old fire still burned. After standing a siege of many months, during which they frequently beat back a large Turkish force with heavy loss, a portion of the defenders, with the women dressed as men in the centre, cut their way through the Ottoman army and fled to the hills. The rest retreated till they lured their foes over the powder magazines, which they then blew up, sacrificing their own lives at the same supreme moment of vengeance. -  Tams: is a painful significance in the circumstance that, since the discovery of the body in a coal-cellar of Euston-square, London, and the consequent inquiry, Scotland-yard has been almost inundated with letters from all parts of the kingdom, containing descriptions and photographs of persons, mostly women, who had gone to London within the last two or three years, and never more been beard of by their friends. The inference is natural that tragedies of the Wainwright type may be more frequent in the metropolis than is commonly supposed. THE deputation that waited upon the Duke of Richmond and Gordon in support of the memorial praying the Government to grant a charter to Owen College, Manchester, conferring upon it the rank of • a University, was a numerous and influential one, and it is to be hoped that the arguments adducedbythe speakers in favour of the scheme will have due weight with her Majesty's Ministers. By conferring the power to grant degrees upon Owens College, under the proposed charter, an impetus would be given to the higher education in the midland and northern counties of England. IT is not usual for people who intend to commit suicide to make use of fire as the destroying agency; but this has been done by two brothers in the Department of Indri3, in France. They failed in several law suits in which they had been engaged, and this circumstance so preyed upon their minds that they determined to commit suicide. This purpose they carried out by setting fire to their house, and both perished in the flames.  Sour of the Bonapartist and Orleanist journals in the French provinces have gone the length of attributing the prolonged winter to the existence of the Republic, but it has been judiciously suggested that they do not think it necessary to state why neighbouring Imperial and Monarchical countries have shared in the same visitation. The theory of some meteorologists that good and bad weather run in cycles is not one of a very consolatory kind if the bad cycle is not exhausted this season.  MR. EDWARD JENKINS put the House of Commons in good humour for once. He was particularly happy in the poetical quotations he made, sarcastically directed against Sir William Harcourt in his ordinary character of the legislative dandy. The House seemed in finitely to relish the references to ambrosial curls and drops of Olympian dew. He fancies himself a Jupiter, when he is only a Ganymede," was a smooth pebble from the brook hitting the "awful form" right in the forehead.  Timm,: is a consensus of opinion among the war correspondents who are at the head-quarters of the invading columns in South Africa that the frontier, for over 100 miles, will be left in a dangerously defenceless state when the troops are penetrrting the interior for the purpose of converging on Ulundi. Only the native allies are left to protect the frontier, and these coloured troops are said to be useless except is scouts. One correspondent declares that there s nothing to prevent the Zulus evading the columns, and massing on the Tugela.