THE RIOTS IN LONDON.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 229, 19 November 1887, Page 8

THE RIOTS IN LONDON.

j London, November 13. Four liwadred persons have been ar-|res-ted for participating in the disturbances fco-efoy, among them boiag Mr r&berb' Gri'aham, M.P. for Norsfo-wesfc .Lanarkshire. A great number of |rioters wero seriously injured, ho less Ithan- 73 bsing admitted to ths hospitals. Various processions were in- ' term p ted* bj the police before reaching Trafalgar Square, and wersi only dispersed alter extreme measures had beea-pesoi'feed to. Tlie chief conflict oocurrod el»se to the Houses of Parliament, wheifs the police encountered a mob ofi some thousand South. • Londoneis,. in- dispersing which tv;» 'constables wers stabbed. The police everywhere were victorious in the collisions with the looters, though the contests iwere of a aoost stubborn characber.

London, Noveml sfril4. At the aaeeting in Trafalgar Square '}Aoster-da,y r there were present t some hlihtii thousand persons, mostly respectable spectators. The Square was .onoirslecl by several thousand police, and a. strong force of the Horse and Foofc Guards, who appeared with fixed •baj'Guebs. A magistrate, who^was in lattendanse, addressed the crowd i and 'readi fclie Eiot Act. A collision occurred at Shaf tesbury .Avenue v/ith ten thousand Clerkenwell ,roiighs-, headed by Mrs Besanfc aad Mr 'W. Mosris. A severe fight resulted, the mob making severe onslaughts with stick?, but finally they were clis- - pei^ed. A second collision took place wifch another procession in tjia Strand, ! and sticks and stones were freely used. There were incessant skirmishes in the : vicinity of the Square, but th# amounted, ■ police insisted on the cro7«l« moving on. Batons were freely us&d.; but the,•poliffie acted with admirable, modera-,. ! tioin. ■ Mr R. Cunningham Graham, M.B. :iiov Lanarkshire, and BMriH, thc r I Socialist, were arrested fcr inciting tho,* crowd. JMrs Besant inviled arrest, but; ! the police refused to take her. The- ; worst conflict was near the Houses ofParliament, with the i&mbeth P'-'a-I cession.

Londo:"V November 1 Desperate conflicts occurred in the* Haymarket and Strswi- between, the mob and the police, wherein a considerable number of the latter. were iaj&r«d> but after a severe straggle they triumphed and the rioters wars dispersed. The Ivcdical leaders, a&d newspapers declare that the demonstrations will be repeated next; Sunday. Tho daily newspaper? cors-mondl the police for their Eriodexatiors in dealing with tho crowds, of; peopla,, many of whom were amed with bars of iron, knives, pokers and gas pj^ss. The wounds, received 'fey numoers of the mob are stated to be less severe than those sustained b> T the constables. One lioter v:as, however, bayojietted. The soldiers wero cheered by the crowd. There were 5,000 police constables esgaged in preserving order and dispersing the crowd. Only fifty of the riaters now remain in gaol, the rtst having been set at liberty.

I.oxdox, November 13. In express defiance of Sir H Waiven's proclamation forbidding; meetings in Trafalgar Square, a num. ber of the Radical Socieies of Londoo persisted in the attempt to hold a meeting this morning in that locality. In an encounter with the police,, the mob destroyed the railings of the Square, but the police eventually cleared and encircled" the Square, and the attempts of the crowd to force their way back were frustrated. This afternoon further threatening demonstrations were made by the mob, and the authorities were compelled to call out a body of horse and footguards to reinforce the police. Several arrests have been made and tie crowd are now dispersing. The "Pall Mall Gazette " is inciting the populace to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square on Sunday in defiance of the proclamation issued by Sir Charles Warren, Chief Commissioner of Police.

London", November 14. A telegram received from Mr Gladstone has been published, wherein he urges that the legality of the prohibition of tho meetings in Trafalgar Square ought to be properly verified. Meanwhile he declared it to be the duty oi every citizen to abstain from resisting the action of the Executive. The persons arrested for taking a prominent part in the riotous proceedings of yesterday were brought before the Magistrates to-day. A. number of prisoners were fined, an,d others sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Robert Cunningham Graham, M.P., and Burns, the Socialist leader, were remanded, bail being accepted.

' London, November 15. The Tory newspapers accuse Mr Gladstone of inciting the populace to resist the police. Some of the rioters, who wero unable to pay the fines imposed, have gone to prison— one for a period of six months.