Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-04-01 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NEWS NOTES. (w., deem it right to mote that we do sot identify ner. Nivea With our Corruspoodeut's opinion.]  T/111 Royal College f Music, considering the auspices under which the scheme has been started, can hardly fail to prove a success. The E, ince of Wales, who is showing some enthusiasm in the matter, acted wisely in endeavouring to get the gentlemen connected with the colonies, whom he assembled at Marlborough House, to take an interest in the objects of the institution. The Secretary to the Royal Colonial Institute, while expressing cordial concurrence in the scheme, offered to circulate information, and urge the interests of the college to the best of his power. It is announced that Mr. Erasmus Wilson has promised to give £2300 to found a scholarship in the Royal College, including education and maintenance.  IT is interesting when opportunities like the one noted above occur in London for gatherings of gentlemen connected with the widely-spread colonies belonging to Britain. On the same day there was another pleasant assemblage of Colonials on the occasion of a dinner being given in honour of Sir Henry l'arkes, the Governor of New South Wales, who is paying a short visit to England.  THE Colonial Parliaments are, in some matters, ahead of our own in legislation. Marriage with a deceased wife's si Aer has been legalised for some time in the Australian colonies, and a telegraphic announcement was made the other day that a bill, with the same object in view, has passed the third reading in the Canadian House of Commons.  IT was the accident of a favourable wind which enabled Colonel Fred. Burnaby to achieve the feat of crossing the English Channel in a balloon. If it had been otherwise be would have failed as Colonel Brine and his companion did a few weeks ago, when they were reacuei by a mail steamer from their perilous position, sitting up to their waists in water in the car of their floating balloon. It is the application of electric motive power that now demands the study of aeronauts if ballooning is ever to become anything more than the dangerous sport of aerial adventurers.  TOE English Channel must now be beginning to feel rather small. Bid not Captain Webb, a few years ago, swim from shore to shore ?—has not Colonel Burnaby just passed over it in a balloon ?—and are not works in progress which, if they receive Parliamentary sanction, may yet enable passenger trains to run to and fro beneath its weltering waters ?  Tan three most common methods of committing suicide are by drowning, cutting the throat, and taking poison. Leaping from a great height is also pretty frequently resorted to, as in the recent case of the young man at Camden-town, London, who jumped from the housetop down into the street, a distance of forty feet. Seldom has a more extraordinary suicide been committed than that of the shearer, named Joseph Carrollan, employed at Messrs. Muntz's metal works, Birmingham, who deliberately leaped into some machinery in active motion, lie must have been prompted by the idea that in doing so his death would be instantaneous.  AN interesting ceremony, in connection with Epping Forest, is to take place early in May next. It appears that the Queen, consenting to a request of the Corporation of London, has agreed to officially visit the Forest for the purpose of declaring it open for the use and enjoyment of the public for ever. If all public bodies bad shown as much spirit as the Corporation of London have done in this matter, commons would have been preserved for the people instead of being allowed, as in numerous instance, to become part and parcel of great estates.  Tow Chinese Exclusion Dlii, now before Congress, not only meets with much opposition, but threatens, unless it is greatly modified, to bring about a rupture between China and the United States. The Chinese Minister at Washington has threatened to break off diplomatic relations with the American Government, and to withdraw the Legation to Spain, to which he is also accredited. fie also intimated that, in the event of the bill passing as originally introduced, such retaliatory measures would be taken as the ejection of American missionaries from China, and the closing of Chinese ports to American commerce. The Exclusion Bill is quite in keeping with the Protection Folicy which exists in the United States.  Jr is announced that an interesting experiment in instantaneous photography is to be made at the Alexandra Palace on Easter Monday. Prizes of gold, silver, and bronze medals are offered for competition by the lessees to be divided amongst the various professionals and amateurs who are expected to assemble there on that day. It is intended that when the arrangements are all ready, a summons, like the military stand at ease!" will be issued to the visitors on the southern slope of the park at a certain moment. This is a very happy device to attract crowds to the Alexandra Palace on the forthcoming holiday.  As the result of the deputation from different agricultural societies which waited upon the managers of the leading railways at the Clearinghouse, it is state 1 that live stock will, in future, be conveyed at full fare to the shows, but at halffare for the return journey if unsold. Men having care of the stock are to be conveyed both ways free of charge.  COVlOLlNZ.—ThAßesteemontforßroken Zs. po.t.ge 21. Kay Bros., Stockport. Sold everywhere.  AN ADDItESB of congratulation from the Irish members to Cardinal McCabe on his elevation to the Seared College is in course of preparation, to which, however, the Land League section refuse their signatures.