Widnes Examiner. — 1882-06-03 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

RUNCORN CHOIR TRIP.-0a Whit-Tuesday the England and France now at Alexandria was " cleared choir of the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Runcorn, had their for action, and by advica of the. Admirals the annual trip, the place selected this year being Chester and merchant steamers got up steam to slip away from Eaton Hall. They were accompanied by a goodly number , the line of fire at a moment's notice." In of friends belonging to the denomination. The party ' order, we presume, to allay the panic, arrived at Chester .at 9-40 a.m., and at once proceeded by though instigated by Ourabi Pasha the Ulerna boat to the "Iron Bridge," some seven miles from Chester, chiefs, the Chamber of Notables, deputations wwearne, walked they r nl na landed s 0 nalnedb beautiful e eoefn eltu luncheon. e n , EntionTHhaefl next from schools, Arabic notabilities, and a inspected the gardens, dr.c., the beauty scenery which would Le an body of native merchants waited upon the Khedive arduous task to describe, and which called forth the admiraat his palace, and implored him "on their knees " to mtioandeobfyalblneartesenot.n arrival Ther a splendid return journey teyta wi o Chester was then at en reinstate Ourabi. They stated "they would be cut to at Norbury's City Dining Rooms, which was done ample pieces if they left without effecting their object," justice to. The remainder of the evening was spent in and they warned his Highness not to leave the palace visiting the different "sights" of Chester. The company their day's a"ived safely at home r arrangements 0.9 e mpeannt.e, INlvirbel ye a rpleased u witht before acceding to their request, as he would otherwise be fired on by the soldiers. It, is scarcely to Mr. E. Billingsley, the chapel organist, who also acted as be wondered at that in the face of such threats the conductor. The whole party expressed their gratitude to him for procuring, at a moderate expense, a most pleasureKhedive gave way, and that he reinstated Ourabi able day's trip, and one which all thoroughly enjoyed. Pasha. Since then Ourabi has assumed what may be THE DESPERATE called the dictatorship of Egyptian affairs, and it is ~l'insres. B .dgetoItATTEMPhT TOhtCOMMlTeSurcret the T „ now on the cards T wefik Pasha is to be deposed and brought up Widnes Police Court on Wed before Messrs. J. succeeded by Halim Pasha. What the upshot will be Brock and W. L. Evans, charged with attempting to commit remains to be seen. Amid the present complications suicide. Thomas Cunningham. a labourer, living in Derby. it may be well to remember that the joint action of road, Farnworth, said on the 22nd ult. he went to a field England and France in Egypt is a movement for taodubte3eonOesa'iadrdtso fhriotm DHerebyth-reoraedt, innndcotnhseequence of what which the present Government are not responsible, ing in a pond in them. field, and oriels, her beaperl i saonnde ra hset rill re ries inasmuch as it was an invention of.their predecessors. were visible. He got the prisoner out of the water, and she It had its. origin in tho financial bankruptcy into askedlelf Her to le her alone as she wished to make away with which the country had lapsed from the incompetency lii 0 boots on, ek tirt was refeo her the r tQh eardjoewinningofinesled, and d she net had of its rulers; and the control was established with the P.C. Roes.—The last named witness proved apprehending 1 full sanction of the Sultan, and Lord Salisbury and the woman.—Sergeant Clarkson was called for the purpose M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire, as the representatives of to,f,epiolvtiiinilptrhiltlttAproinsonaere•taistiabrronuietht up at(tj,he court on the English Government and the French Republic, liberty on promising not to commit a l7lrigeel;f;enneewaasga%t .at in order to afford security for the payment of their in- Ta reply to the Bench, the woman said that On the day of terest to foreign holder a of Egyptian bonds. From trheeeeiovffedencne nsnh,ton heandneetranknten,ailitertlehtdtertimnnkd,owi whnge t.o havingi n an the very commencement of the joint action, however, asylum, which had causeder'muchtrouble—Theible.—The.Superit has been galling to the Eayptians to find certain intendent of Police said she made an exactly similar defence administrations—such as the railways, the port of at her trial in 1881.—The 'prisoner promised that if the Alexandria, the Domains, &a.—in foregn hands ; but attemptm,agist magistrates to s takewould a wdayi s c 1.. a herr gi et f here Asihr e fN3yroo inailcd e a?de vtehra t a after it should not be forgotten that, as has been stated by what had occnred in 1881 the magistrates had no other a member of the Government, their revenues are course than to send her for trial at the Liverpool Quarter Sessions. assigned in mortgage for moneys spent on E rypt, and that the redemption of the debt, now progressing