The Potteries Examiner : — 1875-04-03 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

BILL POSTING ! ! !  Dean Stanley was on Wednesday formally installed Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University. Cardinal Manning on Wednesday assumed his ecclesiastical title in the Church of St. Gregorio, at Rome.  Mr. Ralli, the Liberal candidate, was returned for Dridport on Wednesday. He obtained 620 votes, and Mr. Whetham, the Conservative candidate, 189 only. It is expected that the money testimonial which it is proposed to present to Cardinal Manning, from Roman Catholics in England, will amount to .610,000. Cardinal Manning is expected in London next week.  A convict who escaped from Dartmoor prison, on Tuesday, discovered that his " vaulting ambition had o'erleapt itself:' Jumping over a wall, he found him. self safe in the arms of a warder, who was crouching behind on the look-out for him.  A pickpocket, who gave a Birmingham address, was caught and collared by a lady at Kew, whe held him until one of her male friends secured him, and then she dived into his pocket and brought out her own purse. The magistrate complimented the lady for her pluck. At Barrow.in-Furness, on Monday evening, a man nained William Watson, aged 60, went inio the house of a neighbour named 21`eutloch, to save the wife from her husband's fury, when the latter, exasperated at the interference, stabbed Watson in the breast. Watson died within half an hour. M'Culloch is in custody.  A meeting of the Manchester branch of the Home Rule League was held in the Free Trade Hall, on Wednesday night, under the presidency of the Very Rev. Canon Cantwell. The principal speaker was Mr. A. AL Sullivan, M.P. Resolutions were passed expressing spmpathy with the families of the late Mr. John Mitchell and Mr. John Martin, and declaring that selfgovernment was the inalienable right of the Irish people, and that the retention of the Irish political prisoners in penal servitude was unwise, cruel, and unjust.  Standing and gazing from our tour of observation on the lands beyond oar island home, there is still little to chronicle. Spain is still labouring under the Carlist fever. Poor, unlucky Spain ! when wilt thou find rest for thy perturbed bosom? There are signs of disaffectiou in the camp of the rebels and in the army of Don Carlos. France is building up at last, and seems— thank God—to have given over pulling down. Holland is preparing to overthrow the Atcheenites in the Indian Ocean; she seems to be slow, but she may be sure. America is quiet except those epedemical affections which, like the colic, affect the young and feverish Republics in the southern continent. Parliament is spending its Easter holidays with racy enjoyment we trust, sons to be able to return to their necessary duties with alacrity and vigour. What kind of a Budget shall we have P Mr. Northeote, we fear, will have but a small surplus. Till the Liberals return to office, as Mr. Melly warned us on Thursday night at the Music Hail, there will be no surplusses and no remission of taxes. The Tories know how to spend, but not how to get cash. Financial deficits and bur. thensome taxation signalise the labours of the party who can only thrive by keeping the people down. The few fattening upon the leanness of the many, as the greedy boy said to his father, "give it all to me and the rest to Jack."  The weather during the week has been fine, but chilly spring advanced on very gradually. Gardening is going on in the district very gradually, and there can be no more pleasing sight than to witness the jacketless toiler. wielding the useful spade and other necessary implements of garden work, preparing for our use and comfort those herbs of grace, as Shakespeare so fitly calls them, which minister to the use and benefit of the outward man. 'Tis the business that Adam pursued in the pristine glades, and over the flowery beds of his beatifid Eden home. We now hear the twitteriug of the sparrow, and the hedgerows are beginnins, to mar. shall their green and golden leaves, and dowers to delight, instruct, and gladden our hearts.  The inquest upon the body of Jane Percy, a vocalist, who sang at some of the concert halls at Aldershot, and who committed suicide, as was alleged, in order to avoid the operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts, has thrown a somewhat different light upon the case. There is no doubt that the woman was greatly excited at having received a notice from the police that she mast attend at the hospital for a medical examination, but this was in consequence of her having been seen in company with soldiers at a lute hour. She left the concert hall where she had been singing shortly before eleven on Saturday night, with a private soldier, who was going to see her home, but he was stopped by the sentries, and left her at a quarter-past eleven. She was very much intoxicated, and fell during their walk. She was seen walking by the side of the canal shortly before ten o'clock on Sunday morning, and a few hours later her dead body was taken out of the water. Lately the deceased had been cohabiting with a professional singer, named Ritson, anti he gave evidence as to her anxiety in consequence of the police interference. Upon the evidence the jury could not do otherwise than return an open verdict. 

Article type: Incident