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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2052, 2 August 1875, Page 2

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9 a.m. This day. • Beuter's Telegrams. LONDON. -.-" ■'• July 22. : A continuation of, rain has caused serious inundations in some of the Midland counties, and extensive damage. -• In almost all the counties despairing^accounts arc given of the crops. " Messrs Alexander and William Collier, ■ifinanee brokers, have, been arrested and consigned to .Newgate, charged with fraud. - The London and Westminster Bank are prosecutors. July 24. .House of Commons yesterday, when Mr Unparalleled excitement occurred in the Disraeli withdrew The Merchant Shipping Bill. ,Mr Pllmsojl made arv,ipjent-j speech in • opposition- to'its with'dravfatr'in the course" of" "which' h'e~"ufged"~"up*on" * the Premier not to consign thousands of human beings to death by attending to representations of ship owners in Parliament. Mr Plimsoll said he was determined to unmask the villains wl*gt

were sending sailors to certain death? He was called upon to retract the word, but refused to do so, and presented to tLe Speaker a protest. Mr Plimsoll then le *'; the House. Mr Disraeli moved that r .c Speaker reprimand Mr Plimsoll, but it was finally agreed to afford him an opportunity for apologising, and a motion was carried requiring .Mr Plimsoll to attend the House of Commons for that purpose on the 29th July. The Hon. Mr Mitchell, President of the Legislative Council of Victoria, has been knighted. The appointment of Mr Thonemaa as Austrian Consul at Melbourne has been approved by the Queen. It is expected that Dr Solway will be the JN ew Bishop of Melanesia. The corn market is strong, with an upward tendency. Adelaide is quoted at 6'ss to 56s ; Tasmanian 53s to 555. \