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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1765, 29 August 1874, Page 2

A ciBCTJHSTAiroE of a very unusual chsrao ter recently occurred at Dover. During the evening of June 22, tho police authorities received a telegraphic communication from no lees a personage than the Speaker of the House of Commons directing then* to prevent the "departure, and, if necessary", to arrest, two gentlemen wbo had left ,Londca by the boat train which arrives at Dover at ten p.m., and who,-there was reason to believe, were aVopirtp cross to Ostend for the pu-pose of fighting a duel. T/he police accordinjjly proceeded „on board tho boat, vljore tljoy found the two gentlemen indicated, each provided with his second, and having with him a case of<very murderous-looking weapons. Thft officers did. their mission very courteously, but orief gentleman seemed rather inclined 10 resist the Speaker's authority, but on a little firmness being shown; he consented to accompany the police on ihoro. The beljig. rents were then^placed in different hotels, but kept safely in charge until the morning, when they were despatched by separate lines of railway, to London, the Speaker being warned by telegraph of the fact. Only one of the principal?, it is said, is a member of the House of v Cdmmons. . The other is a gentleman of high standing in the army. The l<< affair,'.' ;t is said, arose out of some dispute in rogard to a lady. Wnnnß clothing, consisting of gentlemen's overcoats, real macintosh coats, arc being sold to suit all purchasers at Joseph Moses Thamei Cloth Hall.—Adtt.