Earl Beaconfield's Monument.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3850, 3 May 1881, Page 2

Earl Beaconfield's Monument.

Radical members of the House of Commons are strongly opposed to tlie proposal to be made shortly by the ; Premier, that funds be voted for the erection of a monument to the late Earl Beaconsfield in Westminster Abbey. . The Quoon at the Late Earl's Grave. . Her Majesty the Queen paid a visit to-day to flaghenden Manor, the residence of the late Earl Beaconsfield, and viewed his lordship's grave. Arrived : The Orient Company's steam* ship Aconcagua, at Plymouth ; ship Jessie Reaidman, from Bluff Harbour, Jan. 25. There his been an alarming increase of small-pox in London of late. A great many deaths have recently, occurred from the disease. The number of persons now stricken down amount to an epidemic. London, May 2 The city of Bubliu Las been pro.

claimed a disturbed district by the Viceroy of Ireland under the powers vested in him by the Coercion Act. It is understood that several important arrests of leading .agitators have at once been made in Dublin.

The Bight Hon. W. E. Gladstone has stated that the demands of the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland, for material alterain the Irish Land Bill, cannot be acceded to by Government. The amendments asked for are considered inadmissible. Pabis, May 2. A telegram has been received reporting that fighting of a desultory character continues between the French troops and Tunisians; with but material advantage on j either side. The former are continuing ! their advance on the city of Tunis, with I all possible speed.

New Yobk, May 1. Arrived: The Peerless, from Auckland, Not, 29.