ANTI-JESUIT RIOT IN LISBON.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 29, 2 August 1895, Page 2

ANTI-JESUIT RIOT IN LISBON.

RESIGNATION OF SIR E. B. MALET. THE WESLEYAN CHURCH AND WOMAN'S FRANCHISE. IPEB PHR9S ASSOCIATION.) London, August 1. Sir E. B. Malet, British Ambassador at Bi.'l'lin, has resigned from the diplomatic service owing to ill health. The Emperor of Germany has expressed great regret at his retirement. i The Wesleyan Conferencp, by 187 to 169, refused to admit women delegates. The Rev. Hugh Price-Hughes said he considers! that the refusal was not a wise step, and was one that would involve agitation ; therefore, for the sake of peace he said, women delegates ought to have been admitted. The Gulf of Siam's horses and cattle died from congestion of the lungs caused by the iutense cold during the first fortnight. The best horses died. The barque Cumbral, of 18;36 tons, Captain Fisher, which left Newcastle, New South Waies, witli a cargo of coals ior Valparaiso on February 23rd, has bfcu posted at Lloyd's as missing. Lord Salisbury has sont a note to Sir Philip Cnrrie, Ambassador to Turkey, instructing him to ado]3t sharper means than those of the late Government with a view to compel the Sultan to institute reforms in Armenia. Mr Gladstone also i urges more speed with regard to reform?. The Times is convinced that the nation will support Lord Salisbury's attitude. The trial of those charged with forg ing letters of credit on Coutts' Bank ended to-day. Beaumont was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, Pleydeli to 8 years, and Carr to six. years. Ottawa, August 1. Canada has offered to carry the New Zcalaud mail across the continent for two years gratis. Washington-, July 31. President Cleveland suggests that the Democratic Party should select Mr Bayard as his successor. Lisbon, July 31. The local press having accused the Jesuits of stealing children, an infuriated mob took possession of the streets, and brutally attacked and wounded any priest they caught The riot was only quelled by the culling out of troops St. Petersburg, July 31. The Novosti urges that an alliance of Russia with Abyssinia will easily secure a coaling station iv the Red Sea, and prevent its domination by the English. France must increase her fleet on the ludiau Ocean and Russia hers in the Mediterranean. Massowah must be converted into a joint harbour, and the Italians ejected.