Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-11-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

YEWS- NOTES.  • • • fir.4o pot itlantify oursol,. with OW Correspond.Ve  THE announcement is ma:le by a Constantinople correspondent, on whet he describes as good authority, that the Carman Ambassador there has recommended the Porte to recognise Prince Ferdinand as lawf driller of Bulgiria, and that the representatives of Austro-Hungary and Italy have supported this recommendation. The Russian Ambassador, it is added, has declared to the Grand Vizier that if Turkey takes the suggested step it will he regarded by Russia as cocci belli—a declaration which is quite sufficient to induce the Porte to maintain a policy of masterly inactivity with regard to the recognition of Prince Ferdinand.  NEWSPAPER correspondents have sometimes to assume disguises for the purpose of obtaining information likely to prove Interesting to the public. During the recent visit qf the Emperor William to Italy, the correspondent of a Naples journal, qn the occasion of the naval review, got himself disguised as a waiter in order that he might be present on board ship at a private luncheon, hick would include the Emperor William, King Hnmbert, Count Herbert Bismarck, and Signor Orispi among the guests. Though he felt rather awkward in the situation in which he had placed himself, the disguised correspondent did not fail to note that the Emperor was exceedingly jocular, and that King Humbert laughed heartily at his jokes. No doubt the waiter-correspondent felt highly gratified at listening to the enlivening sound of unrestrained Royal and Imperial mirth.  . THE Metropolitan of Servm, according to intelligence from Vienna, has dissolved the marriage bond uniting King Milan and Queen Nathahe. When the king obtained the information that the Synod of priests appointed to consider the matter entertained certain strong objections to the dissolution, his Majesty at once invested the Metropolitan with powers enabling the case to be taken entirely out of the hands of the Synod. It is said that the Queen, thus summarily divorced, intends appealing to the Sovereigns of Europe to decide if she is to rest content with this verdict. Servia evidently stands in need of proper tribunals.  FRESH messengers who have arrived at Cairo from Khartoum bring the intelligence that the White Pasha still remains in the Bahr-el-Gazelle country. In Cairo the opinion appearsto prevail that the pasha so described is not Ernie, whom Mr. Stanley's expedition was intended to relieve, but Mr. Stanley himself. There is a report that the now Malidi, who has not long held the office, is already dead. In that event, some difficulty may occur in finding a suitable successor.  ALDERMAN WHITEHEAD, the Lord Mayor Elect of London, has gone through the customary ceremony of proceeding to the House of Lords, and of receiving from the lips of the Lord Chancellor the notification of her Majesty's approval of the citizens' choice. As the Lord Mayor Elect does not intend to have anything savouring of the circus element introduced into his show on the ninth of November, correspondence negotiations have been going on with a view to making arrangements for the appearance of detachments from the various Metropolitan Volunteer Corps in the pageant. If this could be done, it would look like a revival of the civic offices which the trained bands used to perform in olden times. But " military reasons" seem to be considered sufficient to prevent the proper carrying out of the idea,  TUE strike in the coal trade is now assuming serious dimensions, and the state of affairs threatens to go from bad to worse, as masters and men amino nearer coming to terms in several of the most important mining districts. The strike of upwards of thirty thousand miners in South-west Yorkshire indicated only too plainly that the masters would not grant the desired advance of ten per cent, in wages, and that the men would not agree to any compromise. It is only in connection with the smaller class of collieries that the demand of the miners has been conceded, or a compromise accepted. If the strike largely extends, the augmented price of coals will inflict great hardships on the poor in the coming cold season.  Ix the Divorce Division of the High Court of Justice a somewhat curious case came under the consideration of Mr. Justice Butt. It was stated by her counsel, on behalf of Mrs. Short, who presented a petition for divorce, that the circumstance of the clothes of her husband, who had disappeared five years ago, having been found on the bank of the river Lea, pointed to the probability of his having committed suicide, but that it subsequently transpired he was living with a young lady who had mysteriously gone away from Hampstead at the same time. A decree nisi was at once granted by Mr. Justice Butt. It was probably the reading of Mr. William Black's novel of "Madcap Violet," where a similar clothes incident is described, that suggested to Mr. Short his clever device, which was, however, found out, as most tricks ultimately are.