Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-08-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NAVAL COURTS MARTIAL.  According to a Parliamentary return just issued, the number of courta-martial held upon petty officers and seamen of the Royal Navy, both at borne and abroad, during the year 1097, was 141, at which 149 incriminated individuals stood their trial. There were in addition 303 seamen and others afloat charged with offences against discipline and disgrace ful conduct. The offences for which these were tried and punished constitute a long and heavy catalogue, ranging from the serious naval crimes of desertion and wilful disobedience, amounting in some instances to practical rebellion, to drunkenness and absence without leave. For desertion the charges amounted to the number of 26 ; for striking, threatening, and insulting superior officers, to 109 ; for wilful disobedience to 50 ; and for seta prejudi, • • .• .  Mal to discipline to 30. The. remainder, being of a comparatively minor character, may be classed as offences against regulations in force when ships are in comeisaion. The results of the courts martial were the conviction and punishment of 144 of the M. charged and tried, and the punishments awarded are a measure of the gravity, from a naval point of view, of their respective offences. Of this total 61 were awarded imprisonment and dismissal, and 76 were imprisoned with hard labour. There were not any cases of instantaneous dismissal without preliminary incarceration; but three were consigned to penal servitude, two were disrated, and two severely reprimanded. The list of summary punishments inflicted during the same period is also heavy, and has affected a total number amounting to 49,643. Of these 39 were discharged as being objectionable, and 263 boys were punished by the administration of the birch-rod. Sentences of imprisonment forshort periods were passed in 1483 cases, and 2711 were relegated to the cells. The remainder were subjected to minor punishments apportioned to the nature of the offence committed.  Women us CEILDRiItr. —Are easily, rarely, and with perfect safety got rid of by using KEATING'S WORM TABLETS, Ms, la each.  NEERLY 12,000 boats, including house-beats, used on the river above Teddington, are registered under the Thames Bye-laws of 1887. THIRTY persons have now committed suicide by jumping from the Clifton Suspension at Bristol. The last was Charles Henry Bracy, aged twenty-four, a shoemaker, who was despondent because he was out of work. A coroner's jury ascribed the act to temporary insanity. THE two members of Mr. Macmillan's family who went to Constantinople in the hope of finding some trace of him have returned to this coutery. Their mission has been unsuccessful; and it is not thought now that Mr. Macmillan will be found alive. Mount Olympus, where he was lost, has been searched, but nothing was discover Pd. He is thought to have fallen in with some of the notoriously bad characters who infest the mountains, and it is hoped that more searching investigation, together with the offer of larger rewards, will result in some clue being obtained which will lead to the clearing up of this mystery. ACOORDIEH to arrangements which have now been definitely made, Mr. Chamberlain will attend a Conference at Newcastle of the National Liberal Union on the Ist of October, and in the evening he will address a great public meeting. 06DEHS have been given that on the return to Cairo and Alexandria of all the British troops lately sent southward to support General Grenfell's Egyptian forces, the hat Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, which has been abroad 12 years, shall be sent home.  THI3 11th Company Royal Engineers have arrived at Pirbright for the purpose of erecting the permanent buildings connected with the new site of the National Mee Association at Risley. Several hundred men selected from the various infantry regiments at Aldershot will assist in levelling the ground. Corroxrosr, in the United States, has been the scene of a sanguinary duel. The combatants were flurry Ducate and his son-In-law, Charles Armour, and there were 50 spectators. Ducate was killed.