ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2291, 5 August 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[retjtee’s telegrams.] LONDON, August 3. A Row in the House of CommonsA scene of unparalleled disorder ocean ed at the House of Commons to-day. In defiance of the commands of the Speaker, Mr Bradlaagh, M.P. for Northampton, made his way into the lobby, and, notwithstanding the protests and opposition of the officials, persisted in entering the House, and violently resisted the Sergeant-at-Arms and assistants in their attempts to remove him. A severe struggle ensued, which resulted in Mr Bradlaugh being forcibly carried out of the House and deposited outside the gates of tho Palace yard in the presence of an immense crowd of spectators, who had been attracted by the melee. In the meantime the ordinary business of the day was suspended within the House. A long and animated debate took place upon the subject. Mr Labouchore, the senior member for Northampton, at once brought forward a motion condemning the action of the Speaker, and denouncing the expulsion of his colleague as being illegal. A lengthy debate followed, but the motion was finally rejected, and a resolution carried approving of the action of the Speaker and officials of the House. The Right Hon. John Bright, Sir Charles Dilke, and Radical members abstained from taking part in the discussion or voting on the motion. The homeward Australian and New Zealand mails via San Francisco, which left Auckland on June 2nd, were delivered in London on the Ist inst, and those via Suez and Brindisi, which left Melbourne on June 21st, were delivered to-day.

CAPETOWN, August 3. The Peace,

Telegrams to hand to-day from Pretoria state that the Transvaal convention has not been signed, as was stated in previous telegrams. The final settlement is delayed, as the Royal Commissioners are still awaiting the arrival of dispatches from the British Government approving of the draft which was forwarded to England.