LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3153, 5 August 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

August 2. ~ The homeward Australian and New Zealand mails via San Francisco, which left Auckland on the 21st June, were delivered in London on the Ist instant, and those via Suez and Brindisi, which left Melbourne on the 21st June, were delivered to-day.

August 3. A scene of unparalleled disorder occurred at the House of Commons to-day. In defiance of the commands of the Speaker, Mr Bradlaugh, M.P., for Northampton, made his way into the lobby, and notwithstanding the protests and opposition of the officials insisted on entering the House, and violently resisted the Sergeant-at-Arms and his assistants in tbeir attempts to remove him. A severe struggle ensued, which resulted in Mr Bradlaugh being forcibly carried out of the House, and deposited outside the gates of the Palace Yard in the presence of an immense crowd of spectators who had been attracted by the melee. In the meantime the ordinary busiuess of tbe day was suspended within the House, and a long and animated debate took place upon the subject. Mr Labouchere, the senior member for Northampton, at once brought forward a motion condemning the action of tbe Speaker, and denouncing the expulsion of his colleague as being illegal. A lengthy debate followed, but the motion vajs finally rejected and a resolution carried approving of the action of the Speaker and tbe officials of the House. Tbe Right Hon. John Bright, Sir Charles Dilke, and the Radical members, abstained from taking part in the discussion and in voting on the motion. Mr Bradlaugh, it has transpired, will on Friday apply to tbe Police Court for a summons against tbe police inspector for illegally removing him from tbe House of Commons. It is announced that a Cabinet Council has been summoned for the special purpose of reconsidering the parliamentary oaths question. Mr L. H. Courtney, M.P. for Liskeard, will succeed M. E. Grant Duff as Undersecretary for the Colonies.