Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-11-04 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DEATH OF THE BEY OF TUNIS.  Intelligence has not been received of the death of Sidi Mohamed-ea-Sadok, Bey of Tunis, which occurred after a short but potato! illness. The deceased Bey was nearly 70 years of age, and had reigned for twenty-four years. The rightful heir, Sidi Ali Bey., has succeeded to the throne. His H.ghneas Mohamed-es-Sadok Pasha, Bey of Tunis, wee the second son of Bassein Bey, and wan born in September, 1813. Of his early life little is known to Eurow ans. During his earlier years Tanis was governed by his cousin, Achmet Bey, and then both the now deceved Bey and his brother acted as Governors of Provinces, the Regency then possessing some vestiges of it* ancient power and prestige. But few events of public im• penance occurred during Achmet's Regency, and upon his death, in May, 1855, he was succeeded by his cousin, Sidi Mohamed, the eldest of the sons of Hossein Bey. On September 22, 1859, Sidi was gathered to his fathers. 'lwo days later his brother, Mohamed-esSadok, took the oath prescribed by the Constitution, and commenced his rule. His first act was to aware the British Consul-General of his desire to maintain intact his political relations with the Sublime Porte, and Khaireddin Pasha (subsequently Grand Vizier of the Pone) was despatched to Constantinople with rich presentis to demand the usnal patent of investiture. The folLmring month the Bey signed his first Convention with France, and in January, 1862, a Turkish Commis‘ioner arrived, and the investiture was performed in the most public manner. In 18Th M. Theodore Boustan became Consul-General and Charg3 d'Affaires of the French Republic at Tunis. For a short time nothing in his line of action betokened the coming storm but in 1878 M. Roustan became very active, and placed before the Bey lor his cowideration the draft at a proposed Convention, partly m Inmercial, partly political. Nothing, however, came of this, and it was not till the affair Sunny—in 1879—that 31. Roustan was able to obtain a paramount influence at the Bardo Palace. This affair, in which M. Roustan succeeded in heaping indignity upon the Government of the Bey and his Prince Minitder, was followed in July by the establishment by the Bey of a Council of State, in direct opposition to M. Rouetan's views. The events which rapidly succeeded were confined principally to efforts on the part of NI. Roustan and of Signor Maccio, the Italian representative in Tunis, to obtain ascendency in the affairs of the Regency, culminating in the despatch of a French expedition in the spring of last year to chastise a fleeting tribe of Kroumirs, who were accused of having in salted the French flag. The events which followed are too recent to require recapitulation.  As zuguasT hoe been held before Mr. Carttar at Plumstead on the body of William Lord, aged 50, for. manly a master gunner in the Royal Artillery, living at 3, Spray-street, Woolwich. The deceased for some time past had complained that he was in bad health, and declared himself on the sick fund of the Oddfellows. The medical officer of the lodge visited him, and said there was not much the matter with him, and attributed his indisposition to morbid fancies induced by studying a volume of the Lancet. He (the deceased) was indignant at what he considered an insinuation that he was shamming illness, and mid to his wife, "I slkill be in heaven to-night." A night or two aftsr the deceased went to bed, and next morning was foond dead, with the arteries of the two arms severed. A slip of paper contained the following words : "Tired of this life. God blesa you all !-11 p.m.—W. Loan." it was /shown that the deceased had a pension of half.acrown a day, and had money in the bank, besides being employed in the Royal Arsenal. The jury retumed a verdict of "Committed suicide whilst labouring under temporary insanity." AT the Borough Police-court, Nottingham, Henry St krbruck was charged with having committed a revolting assault upon a baby of about ten months, his illegitimate child. The prisoner had been in the habit of contributing towards the maintenance of the child, whec mother lived in a lodging-hours at Narrow Marsh. He went to the house some days ago, and finding no one there escept some children and the baby, who were a-Jeep in bed, he sent the other children out with some pence to buy fish, and afterwards the child wars found lying upon the floor, and bleeding from the mouth. It was t limn to the dispensary and attendel by one of the surgeons, Mr. Tweed, who found that great injuries had been inflicted upon the throat by mechanical violence, as if by some blunt instrument, or possibly by forcing a man's finger down the throat. There were other injuries, but these were not serious. No spoon could have indicted the injury. The prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard talons, and at the expiration of that time to be bound over to keep the peace for three months.  SIR Jon rr HUMPHREYS, coroner, has held an inquest at the London Hospital, touching the death of Agnes Ellen Driver, aged 39, of Alma-cottages, Albertroad. Plaktow, who was killed at the level crossing on the London, Tilbury, and Sou hood line, Plaistow Station. The jury found that the death arose accidentally, but recommended that until the bridge in course of construction was completed, an official be posted permanently at the level crossing to warn people against crossing at times of danger, and considered that this accident might have been prevented had such means been taken. LLOYD'S AGENT at Amsterdam telegraphs that the Gulf of Panama, steamer, of Greenock, owned by the Greenock Steamship Company, 1592 tons, from Japan to Bremen, has stranded on the Zuider Ranks, Tenet, and is full of water. The captain and part of the crew were saved, but twenty-two of the crew were drowned. There ia little prospect of salvage.