The London Riots.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2752, 17 November 1887, Page 2

The London Riots.

London November. 13. At tlie meeting in Trafalgar-square yesterday there were present some 30,000 persona, mostly respectable spectators, The Square was encircled by several thousand of police and. a strong force of the Horss and; Foot Guards, who appeared with fixed bayonets. A Magistrate who was in at-: tendance addressed thecroyd, and read theEiot Act. The'first collision occurred at the'Shaftesbury-arenuej with 10,fl00't!.Ierkenwell'rougb8 headed-by Ifoßesant .and Jlr W. Morris, jA' severe fight resulted, the moVmakihg. a' severe onslaught with sticks, 'out finally the: latter:we're dispersed. ; ;A second collisidh;topk place with another procession in the Strand,and sticks'tfad stones wore used, There wer6 incessant skirmishes in the vicinity; of '■• the square/but the mounted police insisted on themob moving ori; ■? Batons were freely iised,,bnt the police' acted with admirable Robert O, 1 Graham, M.P. for' Lanarkshire,. and : Burns, the Socialist, were arrested for, inciting' the. Crowd.. Mrs" Besaui invited arrest, but the police refused to take her. The worst conflict was near the Houses with-the Lambeth- procession. Four hundred arrests have been made during the day, and two police.: men .were stabbed. . London, November 14. ■■;,

The press commend the action of the police'in the recent riots. Many of the

Bill II || H II ' I "' ... ] mob were.armed with iron bare, knives, . jj,-.; pokers, and pieces of gas-piping. The <fwounds, of the rioters were less severe : than those of the Constables,. The • soldiers were cheered on their appear*. ■ ance by ..the non-participants riots, One rioter, was -bay onetted.V Fifty have' been, committed toffifljb,., and the rest released. Fully, -efi3|r . ■police were engaged- 1 in disturbance., ■ ■','.-•;'.' '.'';£'.' A telegram.received from stone.has been published, he ; urges that th§ legality:of the prohibi- ~.;" tauof.'Meeting in Trafalgar-sqaiM . ought to be promptly verified. Mean- - - while, he declares it to bethe.duty/bf -' : •■- every : citizen to the action of the' Executive., '■"■'.•■• /,-.•

' Heavy sentences have been passed ■' on the rioters. The charges against / : MrRCr-Graham, M.P; and Burns,. . v l ;j the socialist, hare been rerdanded.: \:.\jfk '■:-' November 15. '-'•'W

The Conservative papers .accuse Mr Gladstone of inciting the populace to', resist the police. •;'. ' r .-; Some of the-liotera. arrested wereunable to pay the fines imposed, ;and were, in default, sentencedto terms of imprisonment varying from one to six" month's. '-' sJ^fe-