LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3137, 18 July 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

July 5. Mr Bradlaugh has notified the Speaker that he intends to re-demand to be permitted to take the oath of admission to the House of Commons. The officers of the House have been ordered by the Speaker to exclude Mr Bradlaugh should he again attempt to take his seat. The Government have decided to abandon the Parliamentary Oaths Bill. During the review at Aldershot yesterday the heat was so great that forty soldiers were sunstruck, four of whom afterwards died from tbe results. The Bombay census returns have been published. They show tbat the population of the city is 755,000. An outrage has occurred in the town of Callan, County Kilkenny. A process server was seized and left bound and gagged, and his barse half murdered. Phylloxera has broken out in Portugal and ia causing great ravages among the claret vines of the Douro districts. The forthcoming hop season promises to be most brilliant, and the yield is likely to be unusualy large. Notwithstanding their recent defeat, the Albanians are giving great trouble to the Turkish Government. Although the leading chiefs of the league were arrested by Dervish Pasha, the league continues

hostile, and ia order to resist it the Porte has had to send reinforcements into the Albanian territory.

July 9. A Socialist movement has been discovered in Vienna by the police, who have arrested eight of the leading members.

Serious riots have broken out among the wharf laborers in Montreal. They were suppressed by the police with considerable difficulty, and not until they had to make use of their firearms did they disperse the rioters, The construction of the Panama canal has not been making much progress lately. The outbreak of fever and quarrels with fhe laborers have considerably impeded the operations. The immigration from Europe to America is assuming larger proportions than ever. On Thursday no leßs than 2451 persons landed at New York. A serious fire has occurred in Cincinnati, in the State of Ohio, causing great, destruction of property, and throwing thousands out of employment. The personal property of the late Earl of Beaconsfield has been sworn at £77,000.