LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3078, 9 May 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

April 27. Emile Girardin, a well-known French journalist, is dead. The Bey of Tuni3 has implored the aid of the Great Powers to settle the dispute with France. Mr Charles Bradlaugh, who has been re-elected for Northampton, entered the House of Commons to-day and desired to be sworn. Sir Stafford Northcote rose as a matter of privilege, and reminded the Speaker of the fact that Mr Bradlaugh on a previous occasion refused to take the oath in consequence of bis religious opinions. He therefore moved that Mr Bradlaugh be not allowed to take oath. The motion was carried, and the Speaker thereupon required Mr Bradlaugh to leave the Chamber. Mr Bradlaugh refused to withdraw, and Sir Stafford Northcote then proposed that he be expelled. Mr Bradlaugh appealed to the Premier, but Mr Gladstone declined to interfere, and the motion for expulsion was carried. The Sergeant-at-Arms and his assistants then removed Mr Bradlaugh by force, amid great excitement and disorder. The House soon after adjourned. The episode has created a great sensation throughout the country. A terrible accident occurred on board the warship Marus at Walhemshaven. While the artillery were practising a shell burst, and twenty-six persons were either killed or wounded.

The proposed remission of the duty on silver plate, announced by Mr Gladstone in his Budget speech, has been abandoned. The Czar of Russia has congratulated Prince Gortzschakoff and the St. Petersburg police for the action they took in bringing to justice the persons concerned in the assassinating of the late Emperor, and has presented them with portraits of himself set in diamonds. April 28. Meetings"'of the Conservative party have been called in order to consider their position and prospects in connection with the decease of their leader, the Earl of Beaconsfield. No decisive action has been taken but the general belief is that Sir Stafford Northcote is the most likely man of the party to be leader. The Bey of Tunis, terrified at the active proceedings of the French, and the hostile attitude of his own people, has surrendered to the invaders. It is likely that hostilities will now cease, unless the Tunisians show a disposition towards further resistance.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Orient Steamship Compasy the report was adopted. No dividend was declared, the directors agreed to forego part of their commission in order to make up the requisite sum to be carried to the credit of the reserve fund.

Sir Thomas Elder's horses from South Australia have arrived in excellent condition.

The proposal to erect a monument to the late Lord Beaconsfield is encountering a considerable amount of opposition among the Radicals and Nonconformists.

Mr Gladstone bus addressed a circular letter to the Roman Catholic Bishops of the United Kingdom, in which he intimates that he cannot agree to make the changes they require in the Irish Land Bill, which would, he says, give the bill an entirely new character. Edward Miall, the proprietor and edtior of the Nonconformist, is dead. He was seventy-two years of age.

Heavy floods have occurred in the Missouri river, causing great destruction to property. The amount of damage is estimated at 4,000,000 dollars worth.

In consequence of the threatening attitude of the Boers British troops again occupy Potchefstroom in the Transvaal. A bailiff in Gal way was roasted until he promised to resign his position. The anti-Jewish agitation in Germany continues. Houses are being sacked, and the Jews ill-used.