NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5205, 22 September 1885, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The morality demonstration at Hyde Park on August 22nd was a remarkable one. Contingents for the parade were all the morning converging at varioUß points with banners, bands, and numberless waggons loaded with women, all.display ing the greatest enthusiasm, and it is estimated that there were 150,000 persons present. Letters from Sue* im say that the trcops there are dying like flies. A fearful state of anarchy exists in JLordofan, in the .Soudan. Famine also prevails atjhat place. Sii' Richard T. Cross, Home Secretary, m^red, in 'be House of Commons, the second reading of the bill for housing tbe poor, and stated that the object of tbe measure was to prevent the overcrowding of people in dwellings, and also the overcrowding of houres within a particular area.

Two hundred and forty friendly natives in their own steamboats accompanied the English steamer 140 miles northof Suskim, on the Red Sea, to the village of Shinat, which was attacked and destroyed. The British and their allies in this battle killed • large number of hostile Arabs who inhabited Shinat, and captured enough grain and cloth to make a cargo. There was a riot in the city of Londonderry on August 20th. Forty soldiers beat a crowd of civilians, whereupon the latter turned upon the soldiers and a picket guard bad to be called out. The guard was obliged to carry fixed bayonets for self defence. Order was finally restored. Cholera and dysentTy are causing great mortality among the Russians on the Afghan frontier, e^pecially at Penjdeb. There are 28,000 Hussian infantry and 16,000 calfary now "in trans-Caspian territory. . , .„ TT . Robert Buchanan is seriously ill. He has finished a long dramatic poem. Tbe Bishop of London has issued, and had read in the churches of his diocese, m stirring pastoral on the protection of young girls. The Rome Tribune says:—" The Italian expedition for the relief of Kassala will mass at Keren in September, and march early in October." The St. Petersburg Herald says that Russia, after a topographic survey of the Afghan frontier, has decided to abandon her claim to Zulfikar Pass. Yecci and wife, who were arrested with Signer Dorides, editor of the Moniteur de Rome, for selling a foreign Power plans of the Italian maritime defences, hare attempted suicide. The Rissigna says that Dorides intended the plans for France. Dublin is still ringing with a scandal in high life, which resulted on the 28th of August in severe thrashings being administered to two prominent gentlemen by John Pollock, who is himself a magistrate and the owner of large landed estates. After a series of quarrels, Hon. Mrs Pollock recently left her husband's home at Lesmary and went to Scotland. The men whom Pollock suspected were Captain Barry, of the Royal Horse Artillery, and John Albert Blakenay, DeputyLieutenant for the County of Galway, and ■n extensive land owner in that county. On the 27th Pollock hunted up these men in tbe Btreets of Dublin, and deliberately thrashed both of them. Neither of them made any resistence bejond trying to escape by flight. Pollock is still in Dublin offering to give his victims satisfaction, and declares he will soon institute proceedioga for a divorce.