Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-03-11 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NEWS NOTES. (w. deem it rialit to state that we do not identify ow& salve* with our Correstioudeut'u opthicius.)  TRH affectionate regard entertained for her Majesty by all her loyal sub:ects was shown in the deep indignation which was universally excited by the dastardly attempt on her life made by the wretched person calling himself Roderick Maclean. From the sharp sound made by the revolver, it was in the first place thought that a Wank cartridge chamber had been tired cff, but the finding of the bullet on the sucteedlng day put a stop to such a conjecture. Egotism was the ruling passion of Guiteau who assassinated President Garfield, and it is more than likely it is a large factor in the present case.  REMEMBERING the anxious messages which the Queen sent to America when President Garfield hovered so long between life and death and the tribute of profound respect she paid to his memory by having a wreath placed in her name on his colhn-lid, it would have been a strange coincidence if her Majesty had been the next victim after the late head of the great Transatlantic Republic. The tenor of the telegraphic messages that have been received since the attack upon the Queen, make it evident as Mr. BlaMe mi.* remarked, that feelings of loyalty to the British throne have a place in American hearts.  THE grand jury at the Central Criminal Court have good and sufficient reason for the present. went which they handed to Mr. Justice Hawkins for transmission to the Home Office, and in which, with referewe ti the frequency of savage assaults in the streets of London, they suggested that more severe sentences should be passed by magistrates in the police-courts. The state of matters, in some parts of the metropolis, appears, indeed, to be deplorable. Seven prisoners recently convicted of riot we. e shown to belong to two gangs in Bethnal-green, one of which consists of more than one hundred ruffians—the modern Mohawks —who go about in bands, armed with knives, for the purpose of attacking any person whom they may choose to select for a victim. Of late the Thames Embankment has become so notorious for brutal attacks that the matter has attracted the attention of Parliament. Besides severer sentences when convictions are obtained against captured ruffians, an increase in the number of police patrols is evidently required.  At-roonssw hunters who are numerous, though not so many as the collectors of foreign postage stamps—had an opportunity of making some purchases, which they will prize highly, at Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and I lodge's recent two days sales in London. Among the autographs were those of Protector 'romwell,Queen Elizabeth, Dr. Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, David Garrick, Samuel Taylor Cole, Otte, and other eminent characters. Large prices were obtained for letters of Shelley, Sheridan. Southey, Horace Walpole, George Washington, I,awrence Sterne, John Wilkes, David Hume, Lord Chatham, Thomas Campbell, Sir Walter Scutt, Byron, Wordsworth, and Burns. These letters formed veritable literary treasure trove.  AT a recent special meeting of the Submarine Continental Railway Company, Sir E. W. Watkin. who presided, in giving an account of the satisfactory- progress that was being made in the experimt ntal I oring connected with the projected Channel Tunnel, stated that they had found itt mpressed air, not only a force for boring, bat for supplying the vital element which kept the workings pure and salubrious. But it becomes a question if the same system would suffice to ventilate thecompleted tunnel. Compressed air is used in the Mont Cenis Tunnel, but its present ventilation is admitted to be quite inanfficient. A statement has recently appeared to the effect that in the tunnel referred to, the air - compressing machines do not serve to keep free of smoke the chambers of refuge provided at intervals for employes, nor does the suction apparatus drawing off impure air act efficiently. As the question of ventilation in connection with the Channel Tunnel is a vital one, it is to this point that Parliament should first direct its attention before sanctioning the scheme.  IT was lately announced from Monte Carlo that a man seated at the roulette table in the great gambling saloon was struck dead by apoplexy, making the third case of sudden death which had occurred withir. a few weeks. This is dreadful. Suicide, as the result of ruin, is bad enough, but sudden deaths, from over excitement at the gambling table, is really terrible. If the French Government needed any other inducement to undertake the suppression of the last public gambling hell in Europe, it might be supplied by these shocking events. which strengthen the case of the memorialists.  THE officers in charge of the Canard and other Atlantic liners will require to keep a sharp look out, especially after nightfall, in crossing the Atlantic. A telegram from St. John's, Newfoundland, says that large numbers of icebergs are drifting southwards between Capes Race and Bonavista, which eventually may cross the paths of the Transatlantic steamers. Numerous icebergs, waifs from the Arctic regions, travelling so far south, are alleged to have some eff ?ct in lowering the temperature of the British Islands in the spring and early summer. As the weather prospects of the season are exceedingly good at present, it is to be hoped that the icebergs may melt away like big lumps of sugar.  COoox.—TheßostCometfor Broken Articles. Baja, ye. Postage 2.1. 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