Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1886-04-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NEWS NOTES.  We ibom it right t..) It Jut NC do not identify ot, gages with our Correspondent's opimous.l  THE maintenance of peace in the South-east of Europe may now be considered as assured. In the meantime the Porte feels very anxious to disarm, not being in a fit financial condition to bear the expense of keeping large masses of troops on a war footing, and accordingly it has made an earnest appeal to the Powers to entreat Greeece to depart from her warlike attitude. There is good reason to believe that. such is at last the intention of Greece; and Turkey, therefore, is likely to retain the respite for which she so pathetically appeals to the Ambassadors of the Powers.  THERE can be no doubt now as to the cause of the sinking of the ill-fated Cunard Hoer Oregon, when within measurable distance of her destination on the other side of the Atlantic. The report of the divers, who have at last succeeded in examining the hull, is to the effect that the vessel had been in collision with another ship, and that the long and wide gash in her side, which caused her to break in two when she went to the bottom, was caused by the crown of an anchor, scorings made by the fluke being very distinctly marked. The divers satisfied them selves with an outside inspection, and made no attempt to get into the cabins.  THE debate in the House of Commons on the motion for leave to bring in a bill to amend the Government of Ireland lasted much longer than is customary at that initiatory stage. After an outline of the bill to be laid on the table has been given by the Minister who has it in charge, the debate seldom extends beyond the night on which the motion is made ; but in the case of the Government of Ireland Bill there were three adjournments of the debate, which sufficiently indicates the great importance attached by Parliament to the measure. The second reading has now been fixed for the 10th of May. The meeting held at Her Majesty's Opera House, under the auspices of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union, which was addressed by Lord Salisbury, Lord Hartington, Mr. Goschen, and other public men of note affords a sign that the question of a separate Parliament will be much discussed outside as well as inside Parliament.  THE account given of a midnight attack made by two masked highwaymen upon a carriage of Lord Leigh's, containing his eldest daughter and her maid, while on the road between Coventry railway station and Stoneleigh Manor, in Warwickshire, seems almost to revive the old dangerous times when Dick Turpins were abroad. The two men, it appears, suddenly leaped out of a piece of common skirting the road and called upon the coachman to stop ; but instead of this he, recognising at a glance the kind of customers to be dealt with, wisely whipped up the horses and drove on at a rapid rate. Two shots were fired after the carriage, but they fortunately missed. It is to be hoped that the Warwickshire police will succeed, in the interest of belated travellers, in unmasking these audacious highwaymen. The county of Kenilworth and Warwick Castle stands in need of nothing from modern romantic adventures.  Toe suicide under painful eiraumstances, in London, of the Earl of Shaftesbury was rendered all the more saddening by the remembrance that it was only het year the former venerable bearer of the same honoured title died a peaceful death. The late earl, who had been in a desponding and depressed state of mind for some time before he shot himself, was in his 54th year when he attained to the earldom, and his heir, the second youngest of the family, all the others being daughters, is only in his 16th year. It will be a cause of deep regret to thousands, in all classes of society, that this dark shadow should have fallen upon the annals of the Shaftesbury family.  ON the 11th of May Sir J. Pease is to move a resolution iu the House of Commons in favour of the abolition of capital punishment. • This question, which formed the subject of much discussion at one time, has lain in abeyance for more than a 'quarter of a century, and the object of the resolution is no doubt to test how far public opinion, as represented in Parliament, has advanced in connection with this important matter. Apart from other considerations, arguments in favour of the abolition of capital punishment might be drawn from the shocking manner in which executions have been too frequently bungled of late years, and from the horror in which criminals, according to their own confession, regard long terms of penal servitude, and especially penal servitude for life.  ANOTHER relic of Old London is about to disappear. The site of the Cock Tavern, opposite the Temple-gate in Fleet-street, famous in literary and legal annals, is required for a now branch of the Bank of England, and the monetary world allows nothing sentimental to stand in its way. In his monologue of Will Waterproof, Tennyson has done more to immortalise the Cock Tavern than even old Pepys, who knew it well, and who made frequent reference to it in his diary.  IT is intended that the forthcoming Indian and Intor-Colonial Exhibition at South Kensington shall be utilized, as far as practicable, for purposes of instruction. The committee who have the matter in hand are arranging for a series of conferences and lectures, of which the themes will bo found iu selected groups of exhibits. Though the great majority of visitorsgo to exhibitions merely for the sake of. entertainment and amusement, there are by no means few who have a higher object, and to whom explanatory lectures by experts cannot fail to form a source of attraction. The exhibits are constantly arriving in large quantities at Fouth Kensington, and many hands are busily employed in arranging them in their proper places.