ENGLISH NEWS. (Per S.S. Doric ) London, April 25.

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ENGLISH NEWS. (Per S.S. Doric ) London, April 25.

CoNfuuKRAnLE excitement has been caused, in the district of Shifnal, Shropshire, owing to the disoovery of a quantity of dynamite in a lodging-house kept by Mrs Lewis. A man having the appearance of a navy called at Mrs Lewis's house and took lodgings for the night. He sat in the kitchen for some little time, and when he rose from his seat a fellow-lodger noticed a peculiar package close to where he had been sitting, which o» examination was found to be labelled " dynamite." Mr Cock, lodging-house in spector, visited the place shortly afterwards, and, the parcel being handed over to him, he at once gave it to the police, and a local chemist pronounced it to be dynamite. Sergeant Meredith, accompanied by Constable Evcnson, then made a thorough search of the lodging-house. On the navvy, who gave the name of Sutfcon, they discovered three dynamite cartridges, much above the usual size. He was taken into custody, and conveyed to the station, where a closer search was made, and in a purse in one of the man's pockets were found five dynamite cartridges, each about an inch and a half long. The prisoner, who said he was a native of Stratford- on Avon, asserted that he purchased the cartridges at Cardiff as a remedy for chapped hands. He was taken before the magistrates and remanded. A box, containing fuses, two pistols, and some cartridge cases filled with a greyish substance, together with some strange memoranda, has been found in a hotel in New York, where it has lain ever since the owner was removed ill from the hotel to a hospital, where he committed suicide. This occurred some time ago. It is a question whether the deceased belonged to the dynamite party. At the Glasgow Circuit Court yesterday Lord Mure sentenced Peter O'Shea, a res pectably-dressed young man, to 18 months' imprisonment for tending a threatening letter to Captain McCall, Chief-Constable of Glasgow. The accused denied the charge. The letter, which was partly in French, warned that officer to make his will, as the writer would destroy him— he knew his house, office, and places of resort. 0 Shea also threatened the Procu. rator Fiscal, requesting him at the same time, should he so wish it, to publish the letter in the local press. The writer said that he was no Irishman, Englishman, or Scotchman, but a member of a Continental society and a Materialist. Tho evidence clearly established a connection between the accused and the recently con. victed dynamiters, and the handwriting showed a similarity between letters threaten* ing the editors of local newspapers. The dynamite outrage at Cracow was, it is now ascertained, committed by a youth named Malankiewioz, aged I 7» and apprenticed to a worker in bronze. While loitering round the building, Malankiewicz attracted the attention of a police officer by his uneasy manner. After watching " him for some little time, the officer, noticing that he kept suspiciously close to the room where the police officials were assembled, called out to him to move away, when Malankiewicz, taken apparently somewhat by su prise, hurriedly produced a bomb, and threw it against the wall beneath the window. No harm, however, was done to the building, although the author of the outrage was slightly wounded. Ho was at once taken to a hospital, and on his clothes being searched a revolver was found, while a visit paid to his home resulted in the discovery of a quantity of explosive material. Since he has been in the hospital lie lias confessed that he made tke atter pt From motives of revenge against the PoliceCommissary Kostrzewski, who has been active against the Socialists, to which body Malankiewicz states he belongs. In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday, the ?ase of A. and H. Brogden came before Mr Registrar Murray upon the adjourned heaving of au application to register the i-e&olutions passed by the creditors. The debtors, Alexander |Brogden, M.P. tor Wednesbury, and Henry Broaden, had :avried on business as contractors, mineawners, and colliery proprietors at Westminister, also at Ulverstone and Grange-Dvev-Sands, in the county of Lancaster, and at Wellington, New Zealand, under Llie firm of John Brogden and Sons, Their liabilities amounted to upwards of £500,000 the assets being returned at £3,530. Liquidation by arrangement was resolved upon, and Mr T. Ogden, accountant, Austin-friars, was appointed trustee under the proceedings. The debtors having been examined, the objections were withdrawn and registration was allowed. Tho old hostelry opposite the Central Criminal Court, in the Old Bailey, known by the sign of The Bell, was destroyed by iire yesterday morning, the manageress and two barmaids, the only persons who habitually sleep on the premises, perishing in the llames. Four compositors, employed at the office of the "City Press,' werepas«ingalong the Old Bailey on their way home shortly before half-past two, and on nearing The Bell their attention was arrested by a fitful glare visible through the windows of the bar. On closer inspection, flames could be aeon in the back part of the premises, making way into the bar by way of the windows communicating with the kitchen —a lean-to structure at the rear, where the cooking of the establishment was performed The alarm was at once given, and the pro prietor, Mr Billinghurst, was found to bt safe. The other inmates, Miss Huggett (kk wife's sister and the manageress of the estab lishment), Miss Braxton, and Miss Palmer, barmaids, who slept on the second floor, were unable to escape, and though seen at a window for a considerable time, making frantic appeals for help, they were all burned to death. The fire was, by the exertions of the Brigade, confined to the hotel, which was completely gutted, other properties being slightly damaged. * Considerable surprise was manifest by African merchants yesterday at tho reported annexation by M. De Brazza, on behalf of France, of territory between the right bank of the Congo and the Equator line ; but it was thought that this was but a part of the French programme which may be expected should the present Congo Treaty be ratified It has all along been the opinion of mer chants in Liverpool that if the Congo were handed over to Portugal by England, France might in consequence be induced to take steps which would materially influence British interests to the north of the river. This, too, has been the reason which made them suggest an international understanding with regard to the management of tho river. In tho telegram respecting the latest achievement of M. de Brazza nothing is mentioned respecting the coast line, and for that reason it is assumed that if he has taken the territory specified— of which in Liverpool at least there is yet doubt— it comprises nothing but interior omintry. The const line, from the Congo IU the Equator, is now in possession of France, the Belgian International Association Portugal, and some which is independent Brazzaville is some 300 miles up the Congo, on the north side, not very far from Stanley PooJ t on the eowtb §we» •