London.

Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1894, Page 2

London.

The supporters of the Conservative ratid liberal Unionist! parties in Scotland have been instructed to prepare for a general election in a month. The Home Secretary has forbidden the friends of Bourdin to give him a public funeral, or to make speeches at the grave. The London Anarchists threaten to blow up the mills and residences of three wealthy raadufacturers at Blackburn in , order to assert the rights of the; poor 1 . . ' : j . An escaped; lunatic named H. W. Carter has* bieeb committed, for trial for sending threatening letters to the Queen. ••...... : ' ' The funeral' of the Anarchist Bourdin tdpk place on Saturday. . <■- The hearse was wrecked, and the .body ; would: have been torn to pieces had it not heepf for the efforts of $he! police. ... .■'>.}'-'. * • Tri : spite of the mandate of tne authorities, the friends of the Aanfchist Bourdin attempted to make a •demonstration :ou the occasion* This was resented by; a great crowd, who had, assembled/ it fc the cemetery, and who hoote.d,.;hu.sseled and spat on mourners. . ■ The police, at great hazard to : themselves* protected the cortege from, many ugly rushes on the part of the mob, while mounted police with great difficulty stemmed throngs of people who endeavoured to crowd round the grave. The funeral prooesaion waa met with cries of "Down with Anarchy," " : K.eep in your own country," 11 No bomb business in England." The hearse was pelted with stones, mud and garbage. The women especially infuriated the mob, Subsequently a band of students smashed the windows and doors of the Automatic Club. • At the cemetery the police seized a large, number of Anarchist flags and banners. * The House of Lords has abandoned 'most of its ■ amendments to the .Councils Bill, .but has re -adopted the amendment relative to the acquisiof land, and has also adopted an amendment by Lord Salisbury to jrestrkft^ln^AiHuAdfc of 4 Trustees elected by parish charitable sociaties. !■ It is rigarded'as certain that the .House of Commons will oppose the amendments, and once more, return th? measure to the House of Lords. : It is believed in Scotland that Mr Gladstone will retire at the 'end of the presentv Parliament, and it ia thought probable that' Sir Thomas Garmichael will be nominated in his stead for the Mid Lothian constitu* ency in the Liberal interest. '"."'. Mr, W. H. Preece, the well known electrician, who has lately been engaged in investigating the principle of the transmission of messages without the agency of wires, has. j perfected and patented his invention. He asserts that by his discovery he can cause sound to radiate any distance from a given poinii. , News has been received from Gambia, West Africa, thaf a detach-, nient of the West Indian Regiment, accompanied by a . force of blue jackets from Her Majesty's B.hips, RUeigh, Widgeon, . and Magpie, under the command of Captain Gamble, of the Raleigh, attacked the chief Fodisolah, a noted slavbdealer, near Bathurst, the oapital of the colony. After the capture of two stockades and villages the force while return* ing to the boats was attacked on all i sides.. - .-. " Lieutenants Hervey and Arnold, of the Raleigh, and v Lieutenant Meisfcer, of the Magpie, and ten men were killed. . ••: ...Six officers,, i deluding Captain Gamble and forty men, were wounded. • .. T^e -native .-porters deserted with the ammunition of the British force, tfrus adding to their disaster, _i FearaJ! are' entertained fbr the "safety of the gunboat Widgeon, as it is believed that she, has been: lost on , ttie/'-'we'siti coasjb of Airioa. . >'