ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1432, 15 December 1886, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

LORD MAYOR'S Dvr. London desp tches of November 9 say fi rd Mayor's Day opooed gloomy and iaik. There were few signs in 'he Coy n aasccate the diy with the iod Mayor’s .<h»w The display of burning tod *ec usually mtde on this occasion we*e almost generally otoitted ! be authorities and popular gwin imbue i vith « sense of oppression. This o odiion is due to anxiety for the results threatened by the gatherings of Socialists The police made ail p eslb e precautions tor reals'ing any attempt at disorder. At •n early hour, shoa's of roughs began to merge from the slums, and made ihelr way towards the sec o e where the Snoialkti had arranged t > assemble, the battalions of police proceeding to different poii ts teoeiving hearty cheer* From the people The streets in the west end of the 0 ty presented a remarkab'e appearance. All shop shutters were down and barricaded, and toe iron railings bonrded with stout timber. Banka and o;her buddings were secured in a similar manner. These precautions were not confined to buildings on the route of the Lord Mayor’s prncesdon, hut extended to streets far removed. The suburban police a >d reserves were posted at prominent points, and a large military force and all the household troops were in readmes' if r.heir assistance had been needed At eleven o’clock the force proceeded to the north side of T afalgar square. The shop' In the vicinity were closed, and the doors and windows of the jewelry establishments were heavily barred. Hundreds of students, armed with sticks gathered about the square. A cowd of loafers arrived, and were allowed to proceed to the entrance of the square There they were met by a double line of police and turned into the Strand. The mounted police cleared the roadway The throng at Trafalgar Equate increased to vast proportions. The police kept admirable order. A tr.fling encounter occurred i-n Trafalgar square at noon, a mob. eigh hundred strong marching in a body, halted by the police and separated, Th~ pol oj then cleared the square, and pushed the crowd towards the Thames Embankment; hare the mob halted, and hooted and groaned at the officers. Three hundred radical students, march ng five abreast and armed with bludgeons, proceeded »1< ng the Strand to ad the police. The Life Guards, in passing thro gh Victoria street, were saluted with groans by a small knot of roughs. Two Socialists called upon Sir Charles Warren and requested an answer to their letter enquiring why the prot o ed Socialist demonstration had been prohibited. Sir Charles Warren referred them to his proclamation. The procession s’arted at the usual hour, and proceeded over the designated route, wi h >nt anything happening beyond the usual horseplay incidental to the oeea lon. The police dispersed the medical indents, and refused to allow them to occupy i rsfalcwr square. One thousand policemen were posted at 'he iqu.re. The 'C is Guards mustered m fit George’s barrack , bthind the National Gallery. The crowd about Trafa gar square at one o’clock had grown colossal, the rough element predominating, and accessions were cn-itartly arriving, the police lining the streets converging upon the square. They dl ■" surrounded thr a juare, »nd refused t" perm t anyo-'P to e ter. Efforts were made to keen the crow t moving at far as i' w<s possible. Whan tbe p'oc sai >

niuh-d equ <■ e, t met with no tration on th- p>ri of the crowd, excoot an orgauis d cheeking and hoo-, ng, f e la»i..T being especially directed «t the Lord M yor. After the show had gone by. the mob at once surged over in the square, and oon formed a dense throng about the Nelson mo' Umoni, A number of me i mounted the pedestal at d fluent periods Some of these waved red flics The rquaro now became a scene of exci'emant The recognised Socialist leaders managed, here and there, to gather around them groups of men ready and willing to listen to their speeches, and in this way the va ,t crowd was so' n divided Up into numberless ex cited . group* ; each stirred up by Its own spokesman, and ware all independent, noisy, and excited. The poll e did not attempt to interfere with the tush of 'he mob into the rquare but they formed a strong cordon around it. Among the speakers who addressed the groups was Withrm. the Soolvist leader He declared the populace would sh >w that they could hold an orderly meeting o lot the public know the distress which at present exists among working men in England, Another said, “all the power of the country was Invoked to prevent us from assem ling, and our reply to all this is that we are here. We want food, work, and dwelling places for all, and we wdl have them Resolutions of a proper kind will be adopted, and they will be sent to the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Randolph Churchill, and thev will be compelled to (listen to them The Socialists will continue their work until every vistago of tyranny shall be swept away. Our organisation is the only one which dares to take a proper position on behalf of the poor And oppressed. We are hero to agitate In a peaceful manner for work for all. and overwork for none.” Resolutions asking Government to provide work for the unempl >yed, and to reduce to eight the number of hours o -nstitutii g a day’s work were carried amid loud cheering, and the group which adopted them, and which had by this time abfOrle I nearly all the multi tude remaining in the square, dispersed, cheering f r the promised revolution, of the people who had composed the audience a* once went awty. A number of anti- Socialists attempted to ho>d a counter demonstration In Trafalga Square. They were attacked and roughly handled by their opponents, and driven from the scene. The police and Life Guards interfered, and o’eared the Square The work was not difficult, and but one ar est was made, A ecton of the crowd went from the squsre to the residence of the Ma quis of .Salisbury, and attempted to make a demonstra ion there. They were, bovver dispersed easily by the police. Lord i-aWsb iry at the bmqaet lo ths evening, said Government was encouraged by grow g- proofs of advancing prospeiity in K 'vpt, Her finances were more promising than they have “var been, although they had not reached a point that would ■nable { Government to declare its task fulfilled, Further, : ng and could not leave Egypt until the latter’* ind peoden e of foreign Interference had been assured. Referring to Bulgaria, Ii <rd -alisbury j said the sympathies of 'he English paople were amnsed by the spectacle of a struggle for independence, and that the language of diplomatic menace nsed towards Bu - gsria by Fu-ope h d caused the deep st regret. The Injustice of the deed w s aggravated by foreign diplomacy having made use of conspirators in acts of interference, which caused the greatest reprobation through Europe; Bulgarian rights were assured by the Berlin Treaty, on which >he salvation of Europe dep-nded English Interest in that treaty was no* an Isolated interest The oth r Powers were also interested In the vindication of the treaty. He was snre that the majority of the signatory Powers recognised the fact that it was their duty to enforce th* treaty. England would not be found backward In co- operating with them. He trusted that peace would not be disturbed, and that under the Influence ot p blic opinion the Infant liberties of Bulgaria would not be Impaired. Sir Arthur Peel, Speaker, in responding to the teas' of the House of Commons, congratulated the members npon the f»c'. that a third session in 1886 would not be needed Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, replied to the toast of “The j Havy," He flftld be hoped a Havel]

Reserve would soon be formed thar would ha ►qua' to all emei s be usual toasts foil .wed, Sev--a ; <>f t't speake a ref rred to the regularity of h day’s proceedings L>-u tUaaburvV speech is said to h*ve strong heneb 'hi position of OouDt K’*lri->ky The reel! v in the Hungarian -•« guton is become h oorup' aed and members appear less di - trustful 'The M gy.r do nga'o- expr e a hope that the S eecb i” Teid» a h ara p by the L owers similar to tri t which Andrtssy evoked at the B T-iu Coo erenoe.

AN EX 1?R AO ItDI * A R.Y AFF \I •-. One of '.he roost extraordinary *ffdrs that has token place for many years in the 0 uoty of Surrey has (says a Loodo paper of November 3) been engaging the attention of the Metropolitan Pnlioa. The Oomte and Oum esse de P-tris, who. since their emulsion from Prance, have taken Sir Ha >ry Me x’s famished real le<oe, sh- en House, S 'bon, for a short time, w?n‘ thero a or so ago, and on Tuesday witnessed the oonfDmailon < f thei- second daughter, PmiceM Helene Lou se Henrietta, at the Church of ~>t Louis de France, King street. Baker streot. It appears that at an early hoar on Wednesday, the Oomtesse de Paris diecjverad a man crawling along <be fl >or of her bedroom on his hands sad knees. F ading he was discovered, he quickly disappeared into an adjacent room. Tie Oomtesse immediately raised an alarm, and on a search bei"g made, gravelly footmarks were discovered on the carpet of the next ro-un. These were traced to a window, and It (s believed the culprit escaped that way by means cf a Udder placed against the wi idow sill. T» add to the mysterious nature of the affair, it is stated that the key of the bedroom, which had been missing for three or f ur days, waa found In the bedroom door after the misceant left, thus plainly ■bowing tbs' whoever committed the deed was well acquainted .with the premises, A door waa left unlocked at the time of the family going to bed No hlug has been missed Notwithstanding ad reports to the contrary, the police believe it to have been a case of attempted robbery only.

A LOST COINTESS. The criminal authorities of the Grand Duchy of Baden Baden have issued a no ice that since September 12, the Countess of Arnhelm has been missing from her establishment at P aiieeg, in B »rk Forest. She »as somewhat unsettled in h r mind, and went for a wlk with an attendant, from whom she separated on some ordinary pretext, and has not since been seen, although moat searching enquiries have been ma ie ab ut her There are no grounds in her reU lions to her family to ecdmnt for h<r voluntary dis*; pjaranoe, so the police fear she has been the victim of a deed of violence, wi'.n the object of plunder She had In a parse on her persnn about £ls A desoripli-n is given of the jewellery she -ore, all <f a cutly and very rtis .io character. The Donates* was 34 years old. moderately tall and strong, of a beautiful figure, and very pleasing features, and was clothed in a way corresponding to ho- Hocia' position. Her husband has off -red £SO J re war I For information.

BARTHOLDI’S STATUTE. • Bartholdi’s great statue of Liberty enlichten’ng the world, on the K e dU e I-d-.rd, New York Harbor was unveiled on '• >ctober 28, I'! the midst A a ralu ur -p-n. Bi-ino-a was wholly suspended, and New York city m holiday at the t me. S -eobea were de ivn-ed by President O e-oland, M La Faore, Count Da (.esaeps, M. FCver-g and othe-s De Lesai-ps, it is said will seize this incident as a lever to raise fresh enthusiasm in the Un tai States for bis Panama Canal ach-one. The torch that the statue bolds a ; o’t was lighted on November 2, but the eff- ct was a failure; It was supposed the figure would be seen at a great distance, sharply defined, but it was mostly in shadow. The glory of the pedestal eclipsed fiarthoidi’a work. The engineer who bad the illumination in charge confesses it to be only an experiment. Later despatches say the torch has n>t been relighted since the first experiment ; that the American Committee has no fnuds f <r the 1 nrp >se of illumination. If no funds can be h-*d from Washington, the goddess will have to wait notil a Bill establishing a lighthouse at Bedloe Island, and an Appropriation Ac for maintaining It, passes at next session of Congtess, before a torch can be lighted again. Later despatches say that preparations have been completed for immediate lighting.