Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-05-12 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE NAVAL ES MUTES.  The House finally went into Committee of Slappiy on the Naval Estimates. On the first vote moved, Lord H. Lennox reviewed the condition of our ironclad navy, nod a discussion followed, in which Sir T. Brassey and Mr. Campbell-Bannerman spoke for the Government. The vote for victualling was still under discussion when progress was reported. Some other business was discussed, and the House then adjourned,  A BILL to Provide for the Establishment of Church Boards in the parishes of F.ngland and Wales, and a Bill to Repeal so much of the 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 68, no empowers the Vice-Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge to veto the perform...e of stage plays bww.l.."--'.  Tug Nev. Barnett Perry, curate in charge of Great Chell, near Tunstall, has died in the North Star. fordshire infirmary, from the effects of an accieent which be met with on the North Staffordshire Railway. The rev, gentleman, whilst jumping into a train in motion at Tunstall Station, fell between the platform and the carriage, receiving shocking injuries. AT an early hour io the morning a workman employed at a small colliery at Hill Top, near Durham, found the dead body of a man at the bottom of the shaft. The body was identified, on leing brought to the bank, as that of Dennis Doyle, one of the bands who have been on strike at Ushaw Moor Colliery for the pa.t months. From what has transpired it seems that deceased, who is a young unmarried man, had been drinking in a neighbouring public house, and, undoubtedly, in taking a short cut home at the lane end - where the to liery in situated—had walked into the shaft, and met his death in the manner described. .  -7.,-.;:c.--;:wriailTliAS'D.WELL, who have been staying during the winter at Cannes, have returned home.  PRIVATE telegrams from St. Petersburg state that there is no doubt a considerable number of military officers are imprisoned in the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress for alleged connection with the Revolutionary party. The numerous arrests recently made in the provincial towns included that of a superior officer, said to be a colonel with a German name on whom big ly compromising documents were found. The procee tinge against the accused are conducted with the greatest orter.esy. . . .  A Connweu, county magistrate has recently committed suicide. Mr. James broken, of Cnbert, near Truro, and formerly of the 105th Regiment, had of late been unwell, and al out nye o'clock in the morning he got up and went into the dressing-room, where he shot  THE Comte de Chambord, in an autograph letter to M. Veuillot's brother, speaks of the deceased's fifty years' conflict for God and his Church, and his valiant advocacy of the traditional Monarchy, and dwells on the "social crimes" now being enacted in France triumphant Atheism snatching the child's soul from his father, and excluding from the hospital death-bed the only real consoler and friend. The count cannot forget Veuillot's support of his own policy, especially in 183, when the intrigues of a policy, less mindful of the real aspirations of France than of the success of party schemes, forced him to dispel ambiguities by bursting the bonds destined to rolu. e him to the powerlessness of a discerned Sovereign. THE FRENCH Cirs.mrsit has adopted Musa 1 and 2 o 1 the Transportation Bill. An amendmen giving the judges discretion as to applying the punishment was negatived by 2,5 votes to 196, and a similar amendment as to the jury met with a like fete AT the Police.court. Taunton, Esau 'Venn, farmer, Churchstanton, and William Macre, farmer, oi the some place, were recently charged at the instance of Superintendent Goldsmith, inspector under the Cont.-lc:ions Diseases (Animals) Act, with having, in the parish of Pitminster, removed from the county of Devon .even bullocks without a license from the local authority. The defendants admitted the offence. Venn was fined 3f.5., and Hillacre was dismissed on payment of the costs. . _  A MEETING of the members of the Bar, convened by the Attorney-General in accordance with a requisition signed by 285 barrister; has been held in the hall of the Middle Temple, London, for the purpose of forming a professional union. There were over (,00 members of the Bar present. On the motion of Sir Hazdinge Gifford, Q.C., it was resolved to form a Con. imitative Committee similar to the solicitors, for the purpose of watching over all questions of interest and importance to the Bar. THE lion. George William Henry Vernon, a lieutenant in the 12th Lancers, succeeds to the peerage asseventh Baron Vernon, in consequence of the death of his father, the ninth lord. He is the eldest son of the deceased peer by his marriage, in 1851, with Lady Harriet Frances Maria Anson, third daughter of Thomm William, first Earl of Lichfiel:-. The new peer was born on Feb. 25, 1854, being therefore in his 29th year. He was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the Soots Guards in March, 1873, and became a lieutenant in August, 1875, exchanging into the 12th Lancers in Aug., 1878. He is now the senior lieutenant in the corps, and is doing duty at the depOt of the regiment at Canterbury. The Vernon family derives its descent from the Lords of Vernon, in Normandy, of whom two brothers came to England with William the Conqueror. The first peer was Mr. George Vernon, of Sudbury, who was M.P. for Lichfield from 1731 to 1747, and was created Lord Vernon, Baron Of Hinderton, in Cheshire. on m.„  IT seems unadvisable to attempt compositumin early e, as the understanding is then almost wholly unfurt shed with thought as well as expression; and not possesong the rerwisite materials for composing would only ate in the effort the time and attention which had lv ter be occupied with surroonding objects or other sourer. of information. Milton might well censure as a "preposterous exaction" what he calls "forcing the empt• wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which," says he, "are the arts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention." The remark, though directed especially against juvenile essays in the learned languages, applies no less to similar attempts in our own tongue.— W. B. MIND is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.—Daniel Webster, "SHALL I take your love to your mother ? SEdd a lady visitor to a little child of 3 years, who was going to one the mother in question. "She has my love," was the quaint reply. OUR month old baby has out its let 2th," wrote a happy young father to his bachelor brother. "That's tooth in," wrote back the bachelor.