The Aberystwith Observer

ELECTION RIOT IN CAMBRIDGE- SHIRE. During the polling in the Newmarket Division of Cambridgeshire on Tuesday serious rioting occurred at Fordham polling station, and it became necessary to postpone the polling until the following day. Several policemen were hurt, Sergeant Wilderspin re- ceiving serious injury. Other damage was done. Reinforcements of police were sent from Cambridge and Newmarket. A later despatch says: The village of Fordham is about 16 miles from Cambridge, and between four and five o'clock the deputy chief- constable received a telegram requesting him to send police reinforcements there. He had just time to catch the last train with a body of men. The disturbance is attributed to various causes. According to one re- port, a number of labourers attempted to intimidate voters going to the poll, whilst another story is to the effect that the rioting arose from an exciting argu- ment between political partisans. The police and some civilians were roughly handled, and one of the officers was thrown into a ditch, whilst the polling place was attacked, and virtually destroyed. It is added that the houses of the clergyman and Mr. Townsend were seriously damaged, and that the rioters took possession of a public-house. The rioting was quelled after police reinforcements had arrived from various districts, but polling could not be con- tinued.

EXPULSION OF THE DUO D'AUMALE. The French President has signed a decree expelling the Due d'Aumale. A question on the subject was put in the Senate and replied to, but it was decided that there should be no debate on the matter. In the Chamber, however, there was a lengthy discussion on a motion by M. Keller declaring that the grade of an officer is his property. This was not contested by General Boulanger, provided that it had been acquired in conformity with the law, but that was not so in the case of the Duke. An order approving the con- duct of the Government was carried by a large majority.

EPITOME OF NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Mr. Gladstone returned to town on Wednesday night from Hawarden. Hugh Brooks, alias Maxwell, recently convicted ot the murder of Mr. Arthur Prellar, has been sentenced to be hanged on August 27. Sir Henry Ponsonby has informed the Lord Provost of Edinburgh that the Queen will in all likelihood visit Edinburgh on Wednesday, August 18. A man named Tom Sixby, who was undergoing a term of imprisonment at Maidstone for burglary, effected his escape on Wednesday. At Worship-street Police-court on Wednesday, John O'Hara, alias Cunningham, was fined JE200, or, in default, sentenced to six months' imprisonment, for working an illicit still in South Hackney. On leaving Tangier for England on Wednesday, Sir John Drummond Hay was presented with an address by the British residents, and his embarkation was made the occasion of a popular demonstration. The death has occurred of M. Bouree, formerly French Ambassador at Constantinople. The residence, near Listowel, of Mr. P. Mahoney, the Parnellite member for North Meath, was entered on Sunday by a party of Moonlighters, who carried away a gun and a revolver. At the instance of M. Onou, Councillor to the Russian Embassy, the Porte has paid a further instal- ment or £ T50,000 on account of the Russc-Turkish War Indemnity; Mr. Hugh Watt, M.P., has just had conferred upon him by the President the Grand Cross of the Order of Simon Bolivar, for distinguished commercial services in connection with the United States of Venezuela. In a letter to the Prime Minister the Duke of West- minster resents the imputation that by his action in the Chester election he had struck a blow at the aristo- cracy," and, observing that the great mass of the work- ing classes had pronounced against the Irish policy of the Government, rejoices to find himself in cordial co- operation with them as well as with the aristocracy. Acting in accordance with the recommendation of the Cardiff Town Council, the Home Secretary has consented to appoint a commissioner to inquire into the election riots in that town. The marriage cf Miss Dorothy Disraeli, daughter of Mr. Ralph Disraeli and niece of the late Earl of Beaconsfield, to Mr. Whitelaw, was solemnised on Wednesday at St. Augustine's, Queen's-gate, London, before a large circle of friends, by the Rev. Dr. Haig Brown, Head Master of the Charterhouse, assisted by the Rev. R. Chope, vicar of St Augustine's. The Recorder of Dublin on Wednesday sentenced Wm. Williams, fireman on board the London and North-Western Railway Company's steamer Duchess of Sunderland, to 18 months' hard labour for having stolen the rifle of Mr. John Rigby, one of the Irish Eight, returning from Wimbledon last year. At the Armagh Assizes, on Wednesday, Hugh Daley, a farmer, was charged with having murdered his wife by kicking her to death at Blackwatertown on May 24. He was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to penal servitude for life. Margaret Weston, the wife of an engine-driver, was committed for trial at Wolverhampton on Monday for attempting to drown her four children and herself. The prisoner first threw the children into the catal, and then jumped in after them. She had for some time past been subject to fits, and was suspected of being mentally deranged. The prisoner, in reply to the ed. magistrate, said there had been quarrels between her- self and her husband because she had got in debt, and she determined to drown herself and the children. A great public meeting has been held in the Calcutta Town Hall for the purpose of protesting against the absence of the Government for three-quarters of the year at the Hill Stations. Resolutions in this sense were passed by acclamation. A three days' Conference, having for its object the reception of information regarding the extent of drink- ing habits in the Colonies, and the restrictive regula- tions in force in those localities, together with the results of voluntary effort in the promotion of tem- perance, was opened on Wednesday in London. The Bishop of London presided, and delegates or represen- tatives were present from Canada, Victoria, New South Wales, New Zealand, the Cape and Natal, Madras, Trinidad, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Malta, and other British dependencies. Most of the British societies were also represented. The Queen-Dowager of Bavaria has determined to erect a memorial chapel at Schlossberg, near the spot where the bodies of King Louis II. and Dr. Gudden were found. A despatch from Calloa to New York reports that at a meeting held in the Public Square at that place a resolution was adopted to petition the Government to take steps for the expulsion of the Jesuits from Peru. A telegram from Hayti announces that General Salomon has been re-elected President ol the Republic. An engineering feat of great interest to the coal trade of South Staffordshire was accomplished on Wed- nesday—namely, the tapping of water in what is known as the Bilston Pound, whereby the mines in that dis- trict and over an area of 15 square miles will, it is hoped, be relieved, and the coal rendered workable after having been water-logged for some years. The work has been carried on by the Mines Drainage Com- mission. i The Sultan sent a very kind message to Mrs. Hobart, informing her that orders had been given that a suit- able pension should be provided for her, and requesting her and her nephew, the Earl of Buckinghamshire, to go to the palace and receive the firman from his Majesty's hands. An order was made on Tuesday directing the name of Sir Charles Dilke to be struck out of the title of Mr. Crawford's divorce suit. The Egyptian Ministry has resolved to dismiss the Director-General of the Daira. Arthur Brighty, the lad who was sentenced to a month's hard labour for assaulting Mr. Slater at an election meeting in West Islington, was released on Sunday from Holloway Prison, after undergoing half his sentence. his sentence. The declaration of the French Protectorate over the Comoro Islands, situated in the Mozambique Channel, has been officially notified to the Signatory Powers of the Berlin Conference. A proclamation has been issued at Ottawa granting a general amnesty to all persons implicated in the late rebellions in the North-West, except those guilty of attempting to murder in cold blood." At a Oabinet Council held in Paris it has been decided to withdraw the bill authorising the Panama At a Oabinet Council held in Paris it has been decided to withdraw the bill authorising the Panama Canal Lottery Loan. The Duchess of Cambridge completes her eighty- ninth year on the 25th inst., and, except the infirmity she has suffered for some years, is in wonderfully good health. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer last week was 29 89in.; the variation being from 30'13in. to 29'58in. The mean temperature of the air, 66'5, was 4'5 above the average. Rain fell one day of the week to the amount of 0-02 of an inch. The duration of registered bright sunshine in the week was 59'1 hours, against 66 5 hours at Glynde-place, Lewes. Miss Frances Ravel, of Upper Baker-street, Regent's- park, was fined 20s. at the Marylebone Police-court, on Tuesday, for assaulting Police Inspector Prendergast by throwing a jug of water over him while he and other policemen were killing a mad dog. The animal be- longed to a Miss Clyde, of ;St. John's-wood. Sum- monses against the police for maliciously killing the dog were dismissed Colonel W. H. Gilder was arrested just as he was on the point of starting on his expedition to the Polar seas. He is charged with the misappropriation of a bond entrusted to him. He was released on bail, pending further proceedings, but the departure of his expedition is postponed. F. Williams, G Williams, Samuel Johnson, Tom Taylor, Thomas Jones, and Frances Scevens, were on Tuesday charged, on remand, at the Southwark Police- court, with being concerned together with breaking and entering various dwelling-houses at Balham and other places, and stealing a large quantity of pro- perty, valued at £ 500; and J. Knight, a general dealer, was charged with receiving some of the pro- perty, well knowing it to have been stolen. The pri- soners were committed for trial. The Afghan Boundary Commission has made no progress for a month past, notwithstanding that the English Commissioner has urged the completion of the work. The Russian members of the Commission have received instructions to protract the delay pending the I result of the English elections. An infernal machine outrage has been perpetrated at the residence of Mr. T. C. Campbell, J.P., near London- derry. Mr. Campbell is a Protestant merchant who gave his vote and interest for the Nationalist candidate at the recent election for Derry city. The annual Temperance Fete at the Crystal Palace took place on Tuesday. A prominent feature in the day's proceedings was a reception luncheon given by the National Temperance League to colonial delegates attending the congress which has been convened by th-,t organisation. Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R S., presided, and alluded to the advance made during the last 20 years with regard to the physical department of the temperance question. Several delegates also addressed the meeting. Other conferences took place, and there were three concerts by separate contingents, of 5000 abstainers in each case. The Barry Dock and Railway Company, while con- structing their railway near Cardiff, came upon some coal, which they got out and used to supply the engines engaged in the construction of their works. But the minerals under the land belonged to the Maritime Coal Company, who, after endeavouring in vain to in- duce the Dock Company to pay for the coal, took pro- ceedings on Saturday in the Chancery Division. Viee- Chancellor Bacon said the Dock Company had no right to touch the minerals without first paying for them, and he granted the injunction for which the Coal Corn- any asked. Two mysterious deaths are reported from East- bourne. A man's body, partly decomposed, was found in a field near Langley Marsh; and the body of a boy named Alfred Goldsmith, who had been missed for some days, has been discovered in Norway Pond. Lord Rosebery has made arrangements for the publi- cation, in future, of Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade, &C., as separate and substantive papers. By these means reports which are ready for publication will be issued at once without waiting for others which are in a less advanced stage, and the delay which has hitherto been occasioned by the existing practice will h us be avoided. At the Lancaster Assiz?s on Tnesday, Alfred Bligh, a police-constable stationed at Kirkham, was indicted for the wilful murder of his three young children. Prisoner, who was a widower, sent his housekeeper out of the way, and after he had killed the children he cut his own throat and thre v himself from a. window. The defence was one of insanity, but the jury found a verdict of guilty, and sentence of death was passed. It is reported from Bucharest that Count Bratiano, who was to have gone to a foreign watering-place, has, after a Ministe rial Council, given up his journey, and will remain at home. This decision is said to be owing to impending entanglement, the scene of which is to be Bulgaria. There was a large and representative assembly at Bloomsbury Chapel, London, on Monday, where a special service was held in connection with the funeral of the Rev, J. P. Chown. The Rev. Dr. Angus, Principal of Regent's-park College, delivered an address. On Tuesday evening the foundation stone was laid of the Bickersteth Memorial Hall at Hampstead, which is to form the completion of a testimonial to the Right Rev. Dr. Bickersteth, Bishop of Exeter, for 30 years vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead. There has been published as a Parliamentary Paper copies and translations of the Treaties referred to in Commercial Conventiot) between the Governments of Great Britain and Spain, which was signed at Madrid in April last. Appended to this is a table of the Spanish conventional and unconventional tariff. Henry Taylor, a discharged soldier, committed suicide on Monday by throwing himself in front of a train at Church Fenton, on the Leeds side of the Bardsey Station. In his pocket was found a sheet of paper on which was written, Died of a broken heart. Unable to find employment." The opening of the first public swimming bath in Dublin on Monday was marked by an amusing inci- dent. After the inaugural ceremony the Lord Mayor (Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M P.) end the Town Clerk stripped, and were the first to plurge intc. the water. A stirring ) race followed, the Lord Mayor beating the Town Clerk M Paul de Cassagnac addressed a public meeting at Annentieres, in the Department of the Nord, on Sun- day, end denounced the Republican Government now ruling France, saying the time had long passed when the Republic could be accepted by honest men. Serious disturbances followed, and the street fights were kept up until 11 o'clock at night. Firearms were used, and several persons were seriously injured. The receipts on account ot revenue from the 1st of April, 1886, when there was a balance of | £ 5,625,944, to July 10, 1886, were £ '22,740,203, against £ 22,938,160 m the corresponding period of the preceding financial year, which began with a balance of £ 4,993,207. The net expenditure was £ 27,787,898, against £ 28,959,954 to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury balances on July 10, 1886, amounted to £ 1,495,501, and at the same date in 1885 to £2,295,103. Near Freemount, Kanturk, on Tuesday night, a party of about 20 armed men attacked the house of a man named Walsh, fired shoes into it, and then entered and beat the inmates severely. They afterwards went to the hoaseof a man named Sullivan, and there com- mitted a similar outrage. Ireland is blessed with the promise of a splendid harvest. From north, south, west, and the midlands come most favourable accounts of the maturing crops. The flax crop in the north gives everywhere promise of being equal, if not superior to, that of last year, and in every province, the potato, though rather backward, promises an abundant yield, without any sign of blight. Wheat, though not extensively cultivated, and oats, which are extensively sown, are in a flourishing con- dition, with every prospect of an abundant yield. Hay and grass will be luxuriant crops, and the green are also thriving, their progress having been greatly ac celerated by the warm showery weather of the last fortnight. Altogether the farmers generally admit that the agricultural prospect is most satisfactory. Recently a deputation from the Cheshire Chamber of Agriculture, the Cheshire Agricultural Society, and other local societies interested in the carriage of agri- cultural produce, waited upon the directors of the London and North-Western Railway Company, to com- plaia of the preferential rates which the company quoted for American and foreign produce over the cost of the carriage of Cheshire dairy and ether home pro- duce. The directors, having listened to the arguments adduced of unfair preferential rates, promised to reply by post. They now regret, after giving the matter full consideration, that they are unable to meet the wishes of the deputation with regard to a reduction in the rates for milk, butter, and cream cheese; but they are prepared to make some reduction in the rates for farm produce-such as potatoes, carrots, and turnips- to Liverpool and Manchester. They are also prepared to make reductions in the rates for packed and stable manure, lime, and oilcake. As regards cheese and meat, the rates are in hand for revision. The rate for cheese, from Nantwich to Halifax, specially complained of, has already been reduced. At Dublin on Monday Judge Boyd, as Heceiver Judge, said an attachment should issue against Mr. Ryan, secretary of the Carlisle Branch of the National League, for having written to an auc ioneer cautioning him against selling Mr. Daniel Gobbsct's lands at Cahirconlish, county Limerick. A farmer at Cranbrook, in Kent, bein;. unable to obtain more than the nominal price of 31s. per quarter for his wheat, decided to have it ground himself. Tbis he did, telling the miller to make the flour as good as possible. The result was that the offal more than paid for the grinding, and the grower has since been able to sell the whole of the flour at 9d. per gallon, thus realising 42s. per quarter. Dr. Terence Brodie, of Spidda, Galway, shot his wife on Monday. When the police entered the house the accused, who is staged to be labouring under a delu- sion, said be was about to give himself up. Mrs. Brodie was found 1) ing in a pool of blood, shot through the head. A gun was also found hidden beneath a t able. When brought before the magistrates the accused asked to be tried at the next assizes, and sajd he would "die like a man." An action brought by Messrs Kelly and Co., against Messrs. Hammond and Co., printers, Messrs. Eyre Brotht-rs being third parties, for a piracy of a portion of plaintiff's Directory for Devonshire and Cornwall, concluded on Monday, when Mr. Justice Cave, who had tried the case without a jury, gave judgment for plain- tiffs for JE12, with costs, this to ba recovered after- wards by Messrs. Hammonds and Co. from Evre Brothers. The Library Oommittee of the Corporali >•> of London gave a banquet on Monday eveoing a" IKA Albion, Alderpgate-street, to celebrate the opening of the Corporation Art Gallery. Sir: Leiahtoo, P. It, A., who responded for the toast of Success to the Art Gallery," said he regarded what had been done as only the herald of what was to come. and, as such, hails i it with the deepest satisfaction. The Due d'Aumale, having been officially in formed that his name had been removed from the Fr-mch army list, has appealed to the Council of State, and has written to the President of the Republic, stating that military grades are beyond his attack. The Due de Chartres has also appealed to the Conneil of State. M. BrisEOD, Tate Premier, has expressed to M. de Freycinet his surprise that the Due d'Aumale had not fceiti ex- pelled as soon as his letter was received. The celebration of the 12th July occasioned some rioting in the North of Ireland on Monday, and in Belfast two Protestants were stabbed. Cheers and salutes were given by the Orangemen for Lord Harting- ton, Sir George Trevelyan, Mr. Bright, Mr. Chamber- lain and other Liberal Unionists. Forty Orange lodges met near Cookstown, in the county of Tyrone, and there was a great meeting at Armagh. At Walton, near Liverpool, a mass meeting of Orangemen was also held. The Princess Christian, oil Saturday, laid the f junda- tion stone of the Fiosbury and Shorediteh Polytechnic, a building designed as the head-quarters of popular technical instruction and healthful recreation for the young persons of that large district. The estimated cost is eight thousand pourds, of which only three thousand have been contributed. In the French Chamber, on Saturday, on the motion of M. Develle, the Minister of Agriculture, the first clause of the bill imposing a surtax on cereals was referred back to the committee, thus postponing the further consideration of the measure. The Duke of Westminster presided on Saturday at the annual festival of the Normal College for the Blind at Norwood. After a concert had bsen given by the students, the chairman said the institution was in a most prosperous condition it had now 1 73 p>vilg, and it was intended to enlarge the premises. There was also a project on foot to establish local conuniitres to assist in finding situations for pupils leaving the College. The French Government has ordered that 16 regi- ments of Infantry and 17 battalions of Foot Chasseurs are to be forthwith supplied with repeating rifles; and it is understood that 60,000 of such rifles will be fur- nished to the French Army before the end of the present month. Some Paris newspapers state that this step is being taken in consequence of information that some German battalions in Alsacs-Lcrraine are being armed in this manner. Mr. Holyoake, boot maker, Market-pl&ce, Leicester, greatly to his surprise, received, on Saturday morning, a letter by post containing cheques amounting to nearly £ 100, which had been stolen in a very daring maimer from his shop the previous day. The letter also contained a piece of paper, on which was written Much obliged for the gold." The robbery was effected by a supposed customer calling the proprietor's son to the shop door while he was in charge alone, to point out a special boot in his shop window, while an acom- plice entered the shop and secured from a desk a bag containing between S40 and £ 50 in gold asd note*, and about £ 100 in cheques. The robbery was not dis- covered till the customer had gone. There was a desperate affray at a lodging house Hanley on Saturday night, in which the keeper of the house, a blind m; n named Hall, was killed. Some lodgers were fighting when Hall and his wife attempted to separate them. Two of them, named Brown and Richards, knocked hall down and jumped upon him, inflicting such internal injuries as resulted in his death. Off Shields Harbour a collision occurred on Saturday between the Swedish schooner Elizabeth and the screw steamer Recta, of Sunderland. The. Elizabeth left Shields Harbour for Kslmar. She was afterwards run into by the Recta. The damage she sustained was con- siderable. The Elizabeth was compelled to put back to the Tyne for repairs, Mr. Justice Cave on Monday directed the prepa- ration of an order for the committal of Mr. James M'Henry,a bankrupt who had neglected to file a state- ment of accounts. Upon former liquidation proceed- ings in this case, it was stated that the liabilities amounted to seven hundred thousand pounds but counsel said these figures would now be materially altered. On behalf of the bankrupt, who has been con- cerned in American tail ways and finance, it was said that he was willing to do all that was reasoiable. The Judge said the order would be suspended for a month, and if the accounts were filed in the meantime, the committal would not be issued.

THE RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND FRANCE. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily News says: It is well known that the relations be- tween Russia and France have not been lately of the best. The witbdrawal of General Appert, the former French Ambassador here, gave the firstimpulse to the evident coolness between both countries. The expul- sion of the French Princes afterwards caused a good deal of discontent in official circles here. This, however, was somewhat modified by the manifesto of the Comte de Paris. I am now told on the best authority that negotiations, although not official, are going on at present between French and Russian statesmen of high position in order to prepare the way for a re- conciliation between the two Governments. Well- informed persons assert that these steps will most probably lead to a successful result within a very near future. The precarious political situation just now is calculated, they think, to draw France and Russia closer together.

GREEK GIP&IES IN LONDON. At the Thames Police-court on Tuesday an appli- cation was made to the magistrate with referenco to a band of Greek gipsies. Mr. Hooper, part owner of the land upon which the gipsies have encamped, said that there were no arrangements for sanitary pur- poses, and the gipsies were breaking down his fences and burning them. These people were a great nuisance in the neighbourhood. They begged about the streets and in the shops, and always refused to leave a house without being relieved. The magis- trate (Mr. Lushington) observed that the people could be given into custody for begging, or for wander- ing about without any visible means of subsistence. Inspector Dunstan said it was supposed that the gipsies bad plenty of money. On Thursday 93 adults and children were landed, and not one of them was able to speak the English language, and there was no interpreter. From a police point of view they could not have selected a better spot for their encampment, as no obstruction was caused at that spot. Ac one time on Sunday no less than 4000 persons surrounded the encampment, and the pressure became so great that a number of the tents was knocked down. The sanitary inspector said he bad seen the Greek Consul, who said he believed that the gipsies had between .6400 and E500 amongst them. Mr. Lushington told Inspector Dunstan that he bad better write to the Commissioner of Police on the subject and ask what could be done. If any of the people were brought before him he should be prepared to deal with their cases, although he would much rather not do so. At tho Thames Police-court on Wednesday, Inspec- tor J. Dunstan, K division, informed Mr. Lushington that he bad followed out his worship's instruction to write to the Commissioners of Police with reference to the encampment of 100 Greek and Bulgarian gipsies on a piece of land in the Glangall-road, Poplar. He had now to state that the nuisance had been re- moved. The whole party, under the direction of a. shipping agent, had all their belongings taken away in vans to the St. Pancras Railway Station for con- veyance to Liverpool. On arrival at that place they all embarked on board the steamship Italy for America, their original destination. Therefore, the nuisance was now abated. Mr. Lushington replied that he was glad to hear it. It was stated thpfc while the gipsies were being removed a scene of great excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood, and their departure was witnessed by some thousands of persons.

MR. PARNELL AND LORD HARTINGTON. Mr. Parnell has sent for publication a letter, in which he stigmatises as absolutely false Lord Hart- ington's statement at Derby, that between the leaders of the Irish party and the Fenian organisations of America and Ireland there exists, through the National League, a means of communication which practically unites the whole movement into one body. Mr. Parnell affirms that he knows nothing whatever of these Fenian organisations beyond what he gathers from the newspapers, and maintains that he has suc- ceeded in keeping the proceedings of the National League within the bounds of legality and the Consti- tution.

One man is spoken of as a man of the world to dis- tinguish him from another who is probably not of the world. Mrs. Yerger is much given to gadding. She is everlastingly on the street, while Colonel Yerger is much given to staying at home and smoking his pipe. I believe you love your nasty old pipe more than you do me," she remarked indignantly. "I guess I do. My pipe doesn't go out as often as you do."

IOTING AT BELFAST. Serious rioting occurred at Belfast on Tuesday night. A drumming party proceeding to Ballynaiejgn Orange Hall was attacked in Grosvenor-street by a stone-throwing mob, and compelled to ret.reat. For about an hour a fierce stone-throwmg conflict was kept up by the hostile mobs, and it was not until the police were strongly reinforced that the streets were cleared. A shot was fired, and one man seriously hurt, besides which several houses in Grosvenor-street were wrecked. In the Shankhill-road district, in which the fatal riots recently occurred, there was also serious rioting, in which shots were fired and several persons injured. At ten o'clock the streets were crowded,and the military, both horse and foot, were out. The following is a further detailed account of Tuesday night's riotingThe disturbances com- menced with collisions between opposing political parties, and ended in conflicts between tue police and the public. The police, it is alleged, m attempting to quell the disturbances were fired on by persons III tne crowd, and this allegation is borne out by the fact that several of them were seriously injured by pe"eCs> and at least three officers have been treated tor bullet wounds. It is further alleged that the police were compelled to return the fire in their own defence and for the preservation of their lives, and they did this with fearful effect. The disturbances commenced early Tuesday afternoon, when large numbers of the members of the local Orange lodge turned out for the purpose of being present at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new Orange hall at Ballvnafeigh, and an attack by Nationalist roughs upon one of the parties who were proceeding to the scene of the ceremony was the direct cause of the first outbreak. At about a quarter past two 0 clock. a small party representing the Lindfield-road Juvenile Volunteers was proceeding along the Grosvenor-road, when a fierce assault was made upon them from Leeson-street or Cullingtree-road. The attacking party numbered over 200 at the time, whereas the party in Grosvenor-street were about 50 or 60. How- ever, with the assistance of three policemen, the assailants were compelled to beat a retreat. Things for a short time assumed a quiet appearance, when suddenly a mob appeared in Grosvenor place, which is situated between Leeson-street and Grosvenor-street, and commenced throwing stones across Grosvenor-road, Leeson-street, and Cullingtree-road. A numbei of police came on the scene, and, owing to their position between the fires of both parties, many of them were badly injured by paving stones. They succeeded, however, in dis- persing the mob. The houses opposite Cullingtree- road and Leeson-street have scarcely a whole pane or glass left in their windows. Public-houses situated at each corner of Distillery-street were almost wrecked, and the windows of another public-house at the corner of Grosvenor-place were completely de- molished, as was also the case in regard to the windows of Dr. Mehairy's house, nearly opposite Leeson-street. A great number of persons be- longing to both parties received injuries, but not of a serious character. The character of the riot may be estimated by the appearance cf the streets in which the fightirg occurred, all of them being literally strewn with stones, and in many places the footways had been torn up to obtain missiles. The noise of the disturbance soon brought down a large number of people from the Shankhill-road, many of whom were workmen just returning home from their day s labour. They took the part of their co-rehgionists, and a desperate encounter ensued. The police on duty at the time in this locality were 13 mounted constables, under Head-Constable Hamilton, and 14 King's County constabulary, under District In- spector M'CleUand. Only 10 of the latter were armed with rifles. The mounted men and the other police charged the crowd repeatedly, and after a desperate effort succeeded in separating the parties, though not till several of their number had been struck with stones and severely injured. The fire of the police dispersed the less desperate of the mob for the time being, but many hundreds of them still held their position and defied the police, some of them inviting them to Shoot, you Tippe- rary dogs." The position of the constables seemed desperate, the mob growing only more excited and more desperate with each shot. Just at this juncture information of the disturbance having been sent to 1 headquarters, a large reinforcement of police arrived under Colonel Forbes, R.M., Town Inspector Carr, 1 and District Inspector Hoggin. This fresh body charged the mob, who, however, met the police with great determination, flinging volleys of stones and firing several shots, which, however, did not wound anyone, though many of the police were struck with bricks and paving- stones, and some of them very seriously injured. Two of the men belonging to No. 1 division, Sergeant Foster and Sergeant Macmabon, were among those whose wounds were dressed at the barracks, both having received severe lacerated wounds from sharp stones. Colonel Forbes, being unable to disperse the rioters, read the Riot Act at the lower portion of the brickfield, and as stone-throwing still continued, together with the firing of revolvers and guns at the police, Town-inspector Carr at length ordered his men to fire on the rioters. It is stated, however, that the men were first put into kneeling position in order to warn the rioters off, but this precautionary measure had not the slightest effect upon the inflamed and desperate mob. The constabulary then fired a number of rounds, with the result that two unfortunate men were killed and up- wards of thirty wounded. One of the men killed was shot through the breast while running along Beverley-street to escape the constabulary fusillade. Meanwhile word having been sent to the military barracks, where the men had been kept under arms for several days past, a strong body of military was dispatched to the brickfield, arriving there shortly before eight o'clock. It consisted of 50 men of the Royal Dragoons, under Captain Shaw two com- panies of the West Surrey Regiment, under Captain Burns and Lieutenant Moodie; a company of the 71st Highlanders, under Lieutenant Cameron and a j company of the Northumberland Fusiliers, under j Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent, who was in command of the whole force. After the arrival of the military, the Percy street and Beverley street crowds gradually dispersed, though one or two revolver shots were fired at the military or the police, which happily did no harm. It was desperate work while it lasted, and the police themselves speak in terms of horror of having to use firearms on the crowd, though they add that, under the circumstances, it was un- avoidable. The streets on the upper portion of the brickfield bear witness to the fierce nature of the stone-throwing attack from the lower or Catholic end, stones being scattered in all directions, and windows in Beverley-street and the lower end of Wigton-street perfectly riddled. The excitement in the neighbour- hood continued to an advanced hour this morning. No one seemed to go to bed, and the inhabitants of the district, male and female, seemed inclined,whether justly or unjustly, to blame the conduct of the police. They express themselves in loud terms of indignation at the military not being retained in the brickfield while there was any danger of party col- lision. Had the Kilties, or the Fusiliers, or the Dragoons been down here," they say, there would have been no shooting, and no one hurt. We are not going to be attacked at our windows by the other party without retaliating, and when we retaliate the foreign police always drive us and bludgeon us and fusillade us, while they let the others down gently." The military were kept on duty all night, with the exception of the Dragoons, who were withdrawn to the barracks about 11 o'clock, Charges by the police, armed with batons, had to be made from time to time in the vicinity of the brickfield, Old Lodge-road, and Boundary-street, to disperse isolated parties of stone-throwers and roughs endeavouring to wreck houses. It now appears that five persons have lost their lives owing to the rioting at Belfast on Tuesday night. Two civilians and a soldier were shot dead in the streets, and two police officers have since died of their wounds. It is estimated that upwards of 100 members of the constabulary were more or less bodily hurt. The scene of ruin which came to view in the daylight yesterday morning bore ample evidence of the desperate fighting that had taken place, many houses being wrecked, while the streets were strewn with stones, other missiles, and broken glass. Twenty- three arrests have been made.

A patent medicine manufacturer, having sent to the wife of a prominent man in Newport, Ky., a bottle of his medicine for trial, after a suitable length of time had passed, wrote to him as to wit: Dear sir,- Please write over your own signature what effect the medicine had on your wife." The reply was as to wit: She only took one dose of it, and it nearly killed her. Another would have had the desired effect, but I couldn't get her to take any more." Although the man signed his name in full to his reply, for some reason or other it was never printed 1 ia any paper by the patent medicine man.

BURMAH. RANGOON, July 13. The Myentzeen Prince has issued a proclamation offering 2000 rupees for Sir C. Bernard's head. General White, while riding through Mandalay, ac- companied by two officers, has been fired at from a house, and the intending assassin escaped. Owing to threats that Mandalay would be attacked by the Myentzeen Prince's men and that the public buildings would be burnt, the court-house and other public buildings have been garrisoned by the Hampshire Regiment, and the streets are strongly patrolled at night. On the 5th inst. Major Skene, advancing from Thonsagwa to attack the Choungwa Princes, two minor Alompra pretenders, suddenly came on the Princes, and captured 130 men, of whom 40 bad muskets. The Princes escaped. Colonel Le Mesurier recently marched from Mvingyan with a column to attack the rebel position near Notagye, 17 miles to the south. Another column coming from the south- ward was to combine in the attack on the rebels. The southern column dId not keep time, and while advancing leisurely and in open order was attacked by the enemy. The ammunition mules bolted towards the enemy, who captured several, with the ammunition carried by them. Our men, owing to the want of reserve ammunition, could not continue the fight, and retreated with the loss of their baggage. Colonel Le Mesurier's column, however, carried the rebel posi- tion. Sir C. Bernard and General White have reco- vered from their recent attacks of illness. The Ningyan district continues in a very disturbed state. A steamer on the way from Tounghoo to Ningyan was delayed five days, the insurgents having rendered the Sittang river impassable by occupying the banks. The rebel Bob captured by Mr. Colquhoun near Tsagain has given information that the Chinese traders are supplying the insurgents with arms and ammuni- tion, and he declares that plenty can be purchased in Mandalay if they be heavily paid for. This would explain what has hitherto been a mystery—whence the insurgents have procured their supplies of ammu- nition. SIMLA, July 14. The Viceregal Council to-day passed the bill intro- duced on the 7th inst. providing for the more speedy trial of prisoners in Lower Burmah. Mr. Ilbert brought forward a bill for the application of certain of the principal Indian statutes to Upper Burmah. TIENTSIN, July 14. It has come to the knowledge of the Chinese Government that the dacoits in Upper Burmah are supported by Black Flag agents. The Government is, however; hampered in dealing effectually with these indirect manifestations of Chinese sympathy with the rebel Burmese, owing to the difficult position in which it is placed by the still unsettled state of the question of the decennial presents formerly paid to China by Burmah, to the resumption of which the India Office in London is understood not to have assented.

THE MARKETS, J.:) .U.L L:£ .1'0. J.:J t>.J; t MAEK-LAiNE. Not much has been done at Mark-lane, but tlie tone of the maTiiet has been a shade firmer on the indifferent American crop accounts. The fresh arrivals were moderate from farmers, bat there were fair importations of wheat, oats, and four. The wheat eales of home-grown produce in the 45 weeks of the season were 2,659,647 qrs. as "against 2,588,361 qrs. last season, the average being 80s 8d against 33s 2d per qr. The sales of barley were 2,820,897 against 2,873,414 qrs at an average of 2Ss 2d against 31s Id per qr. and of oats 359,753 against 895,591 qrs., the average being 19s 3d against 208 7d per qr. English wheat met a quiet sale, but was steady iu value, Foreign wheat sold slowly on former terms. The flour market was inactive at previous currencies. There was not much doing in barley, but the market was steady. Oats were in good supply and quiet request; fino samples were firm, but inferior flat. Ma'ze sold at hre ra'es. Beans and lentils were firm, but peat eel cheaper. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week amounted to 17,792 head. In the corresponding period last year we received 15,379 in 1884, 15,827 in 18S3, 21,511 in 1882, 15,891 in 1881, 13,606 in 1880, 25,456; in 1879, 18,200 in 1878, 22,981; and in 1877, 16,000 head. At Liverpool were received 200 beasts from Baltimore, 557 beasts from Boston, 511 beasts and 1180 sheep from en- treat; and 100 beasts from Oporto; and at Southampton 9 beasts from Jersey and Guernsey. We have had quiet cattle market with abundant supplies. The fresh arrivals of beasts were on a full average scale, and the quality and condition were fairly good. Throughout there was a want of ammatlon m the demand, buyers operating as sparingly as possible. The tone was weak, but withont further cbange The best Scots and crosses made 4s Sdto 4810d per 81b. Tbe supply of foreign beast was moderate,and th^ demand inactive at late currencies. Amongst the sheep pens, which were well stocked, as a large consign ment from jSew Zealand. The trade was throughout of a dragging c^a-actcr, and prices rather favoured buyers. The best Downs and half-breds realised 5s lOd to 6s 4d per Sib. Lambs were flat at 5s 6d to 6s 4d per 81b. Calves and pigs inactive. Coarse and inferior beasts, 3s 2d to 3s fid second qu-alitv ditto, 3s 6d to 4s prime large oxen, 4s 2d to 4s 6d ditto Scots, &c., 4s 8d to 4s lOd coarse and inferior sheep, 4s to 4s 6d second quality ditto, 4s 6d to 5s prime coarse- woolled ditto, 5s 6d to 5s 8d; prime Southdown ditto, 5s 10d' to 6s lambs, 5s 6d to 6s 6d; large coarse calves, 3s 2d to 4s 0d; prime small ditto, 4s Od to 4s 10d large hogs, 2s 6d to 3s 6d neat small porkers, 3s 8d to 4s 2d small ditto, 3s 6d to 4s pei 8ib by the carcase. Total supply: Beasts, 3320 sheep and lambs, 11,790 calves, 190 milch cows, 80. Foreign Beasts, 1320; sheep and lambs, 2920*; calves, 20. From the Midland, Home, and Western Counties we received 1220 beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, 750 from Ireland, 20 from Scotland, 10; and from Canada, 1000 beasts. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET. The supply Oil offer was only moderate, but fully sufficient for the very limited demand, Prices quoted are reached with difficulty, and top quotations were not general. Inferior beef, 2s 4d to 3s Od; middling ditto, 3s 4d to 4s Od prime ditto, 4s Od to 4s 4d; Scotch ditto, 4s 4d to 4s 6d American (Liverpool) killed, 3s 10d to 4s ditto hindquarters, 3s Sd to 4s Od ditto forequarters, Is 6d to Is lOd; veal, English, 4s Cd to 4s 4d; ditto, Dutch, 3s 4d to 4s Üd; inferior mutton, 3s 4d to 4s Od middling ditto, 4s 4d to Is Od; prime ditto, 5s 2d to 5B fed; Scotch ditto, 5s 6d to 6s Od; New Zealand ditto, Ss 4d to ?s 8d lamb, 5s 8d to 6s Od large pork, 2e 8d to 3s 2d small ditto, 38 6d to 4s Od cer 81b. bv tbe carcase. FISH, Lobsters, 10s to 30s per dozen crabs, 15s to 25s per kit mackerel, 2s to 3s per score; bioatsrs, 3s 6d to 58 per blacstsoles, Is 9d to 3s per pair ditto slips, 8d to 10a per lb native oysters, 2s 9a to 3s per dozen common ditto, 6s to 8s per 100 large salmon, Is 2d to Is 4d per lb large turbot, 10s to 12s Od each; kippered haddocks, 2s 4d to 4s per dozen whiting, 6s to Ss per box; kippers, 4s to 6d per pad; and grilse, 91d to Is Id per lb. POTATO. There was a good supply of potatoes on sale. The trade was dull, at the annexed rates: Essex kidneys, 7s to Es ditto Shaws, 58 to 6s Jersey kidneys, 5s to 7s!; and Cher- bourg round, 5s to 6s per cwt.