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

SIR FARRI.R HERSCHRI.L, Q.C., M.P., the Solicitor-General. has been appointed a memb, of the Senate of the University of London in succession to the late Sir George Jessel.—Solic,tor'. Journal. .  A larrrl DOV, aged four, named Edwin Hurst, son of Mr. Godfrey Hurst, jet ornament manufacturer, Whitby, was lately run over by a dray. The poor child's skull was crushed to atoms. An in mest was held, when it was proved that the fatality was purely accidental, the driver of the dray being in no wise to blame.  A SOMEWHAT remarkable charge was recently preferred at the Chaster Police-court by Wm. Birch, farmer, Aintree, Liverpool, :loins. Thomas Willis, a Manchester bookmaker, of stealing .f. 45 in hank notes. Prosecutor swore that he was n the Grand Stand, when prisoner, who wood behind, interested him by leaning over and eselaiming, The favourite does not win." Prosecutor, who had backed the favourite, at that moment felt prisoner's hand being drawn away, and at ones feeling in his vest pocket, discovered that a roll of bank notes to the value mentioned had been taken. He immediately gave prisoner Inca custody, but on being searched no money was found upon him. The accused in defence stated that he had been in the habit of attending Chester races as a bookmaker for the last twenty years. He had lost all his money on the previous days, and was watching the conclusion of the sport, when prosec toe suddenly seized him. The magistrates deciffiti Shut the evidence was insufficient to commit, and discharged the prisoner.  Ica Wa'ltonian Fishing Club, composed of London gentlemen, whose head angling quarters are at the Railway Hotel, Batchworth, have just presented to Mr. Joseph Hutchings, landlord of the hotel and water-bailiff to the club, a cheque for £2O, as a mark of inteem.  PRINCE LOUIS JEROME BONAPARTE, Second son of Prince Napoleon, has been entered at Cheltenhon College, and will commence his studies there this month. Prince Louis was born in 1804, and has just passed his baccalaureat es lettra in Paris. It is proposed that he shall remain at Cheltenham until his period of military service commences, in about two years.  A SOrIALIST trial has taken place at Hamburg. Five persons were charged with writing and circulating Socialist pamphlets full of slanderous invectives against the Emperor William and Prince Bismarck. The prisoners pleaded guilty of circulating, bat not writing the pamphlets, and were sentenced to terms of imprisonment of from one month to three months.  THE firm of Remory and (a., engaged in the corn trade at Brussels, has failed, with a deficit estimated at one-and-a-half million. The u ife of a Brussels merchant who was ruined by the failure has committed suicide by throwing herself out of the window of her apartment. Death was instantaneous. THE Genzetta Italinna confirms the report that M. Rhads, Hellenic Minister at Home, has been appointed Secretary General to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs at Athens, and will be succeeded at Rome by M. Dragoumis, the Greek representative at %whereat. Sra Airman HOBEIOUSTS, recently presided at a meeting of Liberals held at the Public Hall, Sutton, Surrey, under the auspices of the Liberal Association of that town. Sir Arthur Hobbonse ha, ing addressed the meeting, Mr. James Bond afterwards delivered a lecture on Municipal Reform for London," and the following resolution That this meeting desires to accord its approval of the general policy of the Government, and to express the firm hope that the immures foreshadowe I in the Queen's Speech will he brought in and carried during the present session," was carried. _ _  THE following were among the peers present In the House of Commons during the speech of Mr. Bradlaugh at the bar : The Duke of Abercorn, the Earl of Rosebery, the I 'eel of ilavensworth, the Earl of Longford, the Earl of I onoughnaore, the Marquess of Lansdowne, Earl Be La Warr, Lord Forester, the Earl of Belmore, the Earl of Limerick, the Earl of Dunraven, Lord Colville of Cuirass, the Marquess of neatly, and Lord Brabourne.  IT is feared that the steamer Nebo, which sailed from :.underland with a cargo of coals for Bombay, has been lost with all hands, as no further news has been heard of her. The Nebo was owned by Messrs. D. G. Pinkney and Sons, of Sunderland, and carried a crew of twenty-six hands. A Sun IRLD PUPLICAN, named Dexter, has committed sui ide by jumping from his garret window Into a street below. Fie had been drinking heavily, and It is suppo.ed that he was in delirium. . . . „  AT the Petty St miens. Stamford, John Reedman, jun., auctioneer, WU, recently summoned for disobeying an order to have his child vaccinated. Defendant pleaded conscientious objections, and the Bash inflicted a floe of 6,1. and costs.  A SAD TRAGEDY was recently discovered to  have taken place at Bury-cross, Gosport, when the wife of the ticket collector at Stokes Bay, named Westbrook, drowned herself with her infant child in a lake. Since her confinement her mind appeared to have been affected, and it is conjectured that she was under the influence of an halluciation. THE masters of three French fishing vessels have been arrested by the Customs authorities at Lerwick, assisted by H.M. cruiser Eagle, and tried for fishing within the limits prescribed by the Sea Fishers Act. The names of two of the vessels are the Gabrielle and the Notre Dames des Victoires. They were sentenced to pay fuses ranging up to three guineas. Iv having been recommended to the Government that Wilton be allowed to maintain its municipal Institutions, a memorial, signed by 260 out of 285 householders, has been presented to Sir Cherie.; Dilke, M.P., who has charge of the bilis, stating that, while the inhabitants are glad that the town is still to retain those institutions, they with to have the mode of election altered so as to give the ratepayers a voice in the selections! the members. The affair lean entirely non-political one. Sir Charles Dilke has promised tc give the matter his consideration.