Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-02-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NEWS NOTES.  [I,Te deem it richt to state that we do sot tdaatitS MM. mime with om Correepoodont'e %Wilma]  FRENCH Governments are in the habit, though it is a singularly short-sighted one, of keeping back unfavourable news from abroad, and this has nit been done again in the wale of Admiral rourbet's reported unsuccessful attack on the advanced defensive works at BrioNinh. When the intelligence of a defeat, which there has been an effort to hide, at last leaks out, the public are apt to take a more serious view of the situation than the actual circumstances iustified. Governments are pure to lose public confidence when they try to keep secret what ought to be made known.  NEWS of a perplexing character respecting Cetewayo again comes from South Africa. It appears that all the head en, or chiefs, whom he was permitted to have around him for a time at FL-own were dismissed, and that ten followers onli were allowed to remain with him. On the day which succeeded the departure of the chiefs Cetewayo made his escape. bet he was speedily captured by a party of military and taken back to Ekowe. The home Government and the Governor of Natal are evidently at cross. purposes as to what should be done with Cetewayo, who is again a prisoner in our hands, and who must have some difficulty in understanding why he was taken to England when he is now suWected to the indignity of beim?, tossed about in any way. \h hen Lord Derby has effected a settlement of the questions which have brought the Transvaal delegates to this country. it would be advisable for him to lose no time in giving his attention to the tangled state of affairs in Zululand.  BRITISH workmen have strong objections to the employment of foreign ones. and British sailors have no better liking for foreign seamen. At a recent large meeting of Pops! Reserve men and sailors conne.ited with the Mercantile Marine, held at South Shields, a resolution was passed protesting against the increasing employment of foreign seamen on board British ships. and it was agreed to forward this protest to the President of the Poard of Trade. The extent to which foreign seamen are employed was made strikingly apparent by the list of the crew of the .1 uno. wrecked outside I iverpool liar, which was issued by the owners of that ill-fated vessel. Among the seamen there were ' nglish. Scotch. Irish, Swedes. Norwegians, Germans. Corsicans. and natives of India l'ut it is to be feared that protests will be of little avail in making any change in this respect, as crews have to be made up at all ports at home and abroad and sailors are proverbially fond of changing their ships.  ON occasional days of late the temperature has been remarkably high for this time of the year, and gardeners state that they can hardly remember a season in which spring flowers have developed themselves eo soon. Pouquets and posies of flowers of this year's rrowth are already exciting wonder and delight. The hardy crocus which has vital fluid stored in its bulb as the bee has honey stored in its hive—bad even made its appearance above ground before the beginning of the New Year, bat the poor frail flowers, welcome as their early coming is, may yet have cause to rue their temerity if visited by killing fruit..  To political circles seine differences seem to exist as to whether the Home Secretary or the President of the Looal Government oard will introduce the London Municipal Reorm Bill into Parliament. Neither Sir William Harcourt nor Sir Charles Dilke gave any de .nite hint on this head when they recently addressed the deputation that waited on them with reference to the potting in operation of Sir Richard Cross's Act, and that of Mr. Mo"unagh Torren's. But as it was understood that the Home Secretary would have taken charge of the measure if it had been introduced last session, there is not much likelihood that it will change bands, though there are many who would like to see it entrusted to Sir Charles Nike.  AFTPR the recent tremendous gales the battered vessels that arrived at many of our ports resembled wounded fugitives who had succeeded in mal.ing their escape from the battlefie'd. on which many of their hapless comrades had fallen. If all fatslities and casualties on our shores and inland within the bounds of the United Kingdom caused by the gales were summed up, the total in drowned, killed, and wounded would be something frightful to contemplate.  A CALCUTTA correspondent, in his account at the International Exhibition now open in that town, which is attracting so many visitors. referred to the display of ewellery. and remarked that sending s.ich articles there seemed like sending coals to Newcastle He should have said like sending pepper to Hindostan. as that is the form which a proverb, having the Paine import. take, in the East. There is much in common between many Asiatic and European proverbs.  MR caste distinctions in India, according to • recent traveller. appear to be breaking down, and he gives railways the credit of being mainly instrumental in bringing about this happy result. Brahmins, many of whom have a craving for " habherxh," are not always en-iugh ovided in purse to be able to travel first or end-clue, and in the third class they must pe..force rub shoulders with low caste flindoos. In this way the pride of caste gets knocked out of them by degrees. AMONGST recent foreign telegraphic news, two paragraphs, relating to Monte Carlo and its gambling tables, appeared in iustaposition. In the one it was announced that litter Ellingher, an Anstrian gentleman, fond of the turf, had committed suicide owing to the heavy gaming losses he had sustained : and in the other it was announced that the Pope had given audience to a member of the committee of the International Society for the suppression of the gambling resorts in the Principality of Monaco. The French Government, if they chose, might aid greatly in bringing about so desirable a result. The society has several Englishmen amongst its members.  COMMONS, a demulcent anodyne expectorant, for Coughs coil twas. Of Chemists. ilid Ix lid. Post SMOTE Country road; two young women, who are walking, pass Cl,. parish doctor. First Young Woman " That WAS Dr. Richard. They say he'e got an awfu wealthy wife" Second Young Woman: "On, ay ! He married the money, and anted the wife to the raddin'."  Tanen I. unquestionably no better remedy in the ',hole world for all couG, and throat troubles than KEATING'S LOZENGES, any medical man ail assure you of this fact The relic, M snood), they eontain no atronst ding, bur only shunts drove the most delioate can into themSold everywhere in 130. lion.  —.•• °