Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1886-11-20 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NEWS NOTES.  We do not identify ourselves with onr Coereepondent's opinions,  Tris choke of the Bulgarian National Council fell upon Prince Waldemar, youngest son of the King of Denmark, to be the successor of Prince Alexander. By the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin it is necessary that the choice thus made should be submitted to the Sublime Porte, and also receive the approval of the other signatory Powers, which are Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Austro-Hungary, and Italy. The consent of Prince Waldemar himself cannot, of course, be left out of account, and it has been several times announced, on what seemed good authority, that he would not accept the thankless post in the event of his being elected by the Sobmnje. On receipt of the intelligence of his election, he placed himself in his father's hands.  THE speech of Lord Salisbury at the Guildhall banquet, and the reply of Mr. Gladstone to certain Bulgarians who sent him a communication, have made it distinctly known throughout Europe that both political parties in this country are agreed with respect to the policy which should be carried out in connection with the present crisis in the Balkan Peninsula. Both the present Prime Minister and the late Prime Minister have expressed their opinion that the Bulgarians should not be thwarted by any unjustifiable interference on the part of Russia in their efforts to maintain their independence as an autonomous nation.  Well bitterness has been shown by some of the Parisian journals with reference to the observations, respecting the continuance of the British occupation of Egypt, which were made by Lord Salisbury in his Guildhall speech. In that speech the reasons were very clearly stated why it was not desirable that England should retire from Egypt until she had completed her mission, and if some of the French newspapers are not satisfied with these reasons it must just be set down to the old-standing French jealousy of British influence in Egypt.  IT is rather singular that the Tichborne claimant, with whom the people of this country are pretty familiar, should have been in New York at the very time when another Tichborne claimant was arrested there for personating a veteran of the Civil War, under the assumed name of Charles Curtis, and drawing his pension. It appears that the English Tichborne claimant, who left this country several months ago to enter upon a lecturing tour in the United States, is living at present in a state of great poverty in New York, as his lecturing speculation did not succeed. This can hardly be wondered at, considering that longheadedness is a recognised characteristic of the Yankees. It is, at the same time, regrettablethat anerror intelegraphing at first gave us to understand that the Claimant arrested was theman the English Courts adjudged to be Arthur Orton.  THE close of the season this year has been signalised by the close of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition at South Kensington, of the Shipperies Exhibition at Liverpool, and the Industrial Exhibition at Edinburgh. The closing night at Liverpool was disgraced by a scene of considerable violence, in which some of the welldressed Mohawks of the present day were the chief performers; and at Edinburgh, on the closing night, a disturbance was Els° caused by a portion of the students attending the university who had not recovered from the excitement of the Rectorial election. Fortunately nothing of this kind occurred in connection with the closing scene at South Kensington, where the attendance daily since the opening of the Exhibition, at the beginning of May, averaged upwards of thirty-three thousand, the total number of visitors during the season having reached the high figure of five and a-half millions.  Tier precautions which were taken by the Chief Commissioners of the City of London and Metropolitan Police, and the formidable force of constables and military that were ready for immediate action if required, had the effect of enabling Lord Mayor's Day to pass off without any unusual disturbance. After the civic pageant had filed away from Trafalgar-square, two or three Socialist spouters succeeded in getting their mouths open, and they seemed content with bragging that they had accomplished that feat in spite of the police proclamation forbidding any meeting to be held. If the Socialists were really desirous of assisting the unemployed to obtain work, they would go about it in a very different way from what they have been doing of late.  PEOPLE have been so far beside themselves at times as to commit suicide for very slight causes, but it may be doubted if a more singular case ever came to light than that of a man named Heron, belonging to Manchester, who poisoned himself with strychnine, and had assigned as the reason, in a letter which was found after his death, that his wife had never presented him with the smallest gift on his birthday, although he had always been mindful of her on similar occasions. If he was otherwise satisfied with the affection shown to him by his wife, this was surely a strange cause to assign for resolving to commit suicide ; but, indeed, it is not likely that the poor man would have acted as he did unless he had been out of his mind altogether.  SOME indignation has, naturally enough, been felt at Lowestoft on account of the release, by command of the Admiralty, of the foreign trawler Josephine, which was recently taken into that port by the gunboat Ariel, and protests against the release took the form of resolutions at a meeting which was presided over by the Mayor. The Josephine could hardly be regarded as other than a pirate, since she was without lights or papers, and had on board grapnels besides a quantity of English nets. It was the opinion of the Mayor and of the meeting that, unless some decided action was taken by the Government withont delay with regard to the operations of foreign trawlers, serious consequences would ensue on account of the relations at present subsisting between British and foreign fishermen.  retired.