LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3191, 20 September 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

September 5. An extraordinary outrage has taken place at Lille, an important manufacturing city of France in the department of the Nord. A large number of the principal citizens of the place received parcels containing some explosive material. On an attempt being made to open them these parcels exploded, in several cases with very disastrous results. Many persons were killed, and others injured. The cause of the outrage at present is entirely inexplicable.

September 6.

In the vicinity of Toledo, the capital of the province of that name in Spain, situated on the Tagus, forty-one miles south of Madrid, a band, of brigands attacked the train running "on a branch railway from Madrid. They were repulsed, and on escaping a number were drowned in the river which nearly surrounded the city. September 7. The relations between the Empires of Russia and Austria have of late become strained, and a marked coldness between the two powers is apparent arising out of their conflicting interests in the southeast of Europe. The Austran press, in discussing the question, declares that recent indications point to war with Russia as imminent. The anti-Jewish feeling in Germany is ' still very marked among the lower class of the population, notwithstanding that the agitation is discountenanced by the Government. September 8 Cholera has broken out at Aden, the British station at the entrance to the Red Sea. Precautions have been taken to secure as far as possible the health of the troops, but the epidemic is making great ravages. September 9. Upon an examination of the frozen beef by the Protos it was found that the meat was tainted in the centre. This disappointing result is attributed to mistakes at the original freezing of the meat in the Melbourne, the beef either being frozen too soon after killing, or being frozen too rapidly, so that the external surface was hard whilst the centre of the carcass was unfrozen. The Ministry shows a desire to exhibit a spirit of clemency in the administration of the Coercion Act in Ireland. September 10. A proposed conference of colonial representatives will be held in London with a view of considering the practicability of securing free trade between Great Britain and the colonies, and the representation of the latter in the Imperial Parliament. A serious crisis is threatened in the cotton trade. Owing to the unscrupulous action of a ring of speculators in Liverpool, operations for some time past have been embarrassed, and the manufacturers are afraid to enter into extensive contracts. An arrangement is now come to among the cotton operatives, they threaten to stop mills merely for a time in order to suppress the Liverpool ring. A serious railway accident has occurred in the State of Kentucky. A bridge gave way as a train was passing over, causing a terrible smash. Seven persons were killed on the spot, and a number of others seriously injured. The heat in New York during the week has been of a tropbical character. There have been numerous deaths from sunstroke. September 12. Piracy is developing among the inhabitants of the islands ofthe Greek Archipelago. Recently English trading vessels have been seized by the pirates at Samoa, one of the principal islands situated on the coast of Asia Minor. Strong representations have been made to the Turkish Government of the necessity of suppressing the outrages, and vessels of war

have been despatched to punish the offenders. September 13. An agitation is rapidly spreading among the farming population of England and Scotland iv favor of the extension to those countries of the new principles of land legislation embodied in the Irish Land Act. Much excitement has been caused in the United States by an attempt made at Washington to assassinate Mason, the guard in whose custody Charles Pules Ginteau, the would-be murdered of President Garfield, has been placed. He was shot at by some unknown person, and very narrowly escaped.

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