CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 92, 10 February 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright ] Tbeuter's telbohams'i Londl'N, February 7. Sir Charles Warren, Chief of the Metropolitan Police, has forbidden a torchlight procession of the Socialists, which was proposed to take place in the West End of London to-nighCto cele- ' brate the anniversary of the previous Socialist riots. ■ .- , It is reported that Earl Dunravcn, TJnder Secretary of State for the Colonies/ will shortly resign his appointment' ! for the same reasons which caused the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill. In the House of Commons last night, Parnell, in a speech which was moderate in tone, moved an amendment to : the Address in-Reply, denying therewas dis-.. order in Ireland when rents had been suitably reduced. Autonomy, not re- J pression, he declared, was the remedy for the present crisis/; A I February 9. j A meeting of Socialists was held at j Clerkenwell yesterday, ahd after its con- ' elusion a body of roughs broke into and ' damaged several of the shops in the [ neigh.bophoQd.; , =,■■ Ac. I A large shipment of Scotch and Rhine salmon oya and Rhine: char, carp,; and trout will be' forwarded by the Aorangi. j The expre-ss train from Boston to Mbn- j treal. which ran off the fails on the ! Hudson River Bridge on the ice, and which subsequently took fire, was burnt in thirty minutes. From the position of the train it was impossible to render any assistance, and seventy ,li yes were lost. . . , The Municipal Corporation of Cork has been invited by a circular issued in the name of the Prince of, Wales to. sub-. |' scribe to the fund for the Imperial Institute. In reply, they have declined to subscribe, and suggest that the Prince of Wales should contribute to the relief of the existing distress in Ireland. At to-day's wool sale the bidding was irregular. Tbe catalogue comprised 13,---000 bales. Beblin, Februray 8. An electoral meeting,, convened by the Socialists, was being held at Stettin, in Pomerania, last night, when the troops arrived at the meeting, and called upon it to disperse. The order was not obeyed, and the military thereuoon: charged the siatberiajr. In the melee, several Social" isls were wounded. The police to-day effected the arrest of twenty-four Socialists at Magdeburg, Saxony. Bbussels, February 8. In the Chamber of Rrpresentatives today, the Minister of War asked for .a military credit of twenty million francs for increased armaments in Belgium,