LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3230, 5 November 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

November 2.

A rumor is current here that negotiaions which have been proceeding for the tenewal of. the Ango-Frencb commercial rreaty have terminated without aDy tatisfactory result being arrived at. The report, however, requires confirmation, as so tar as is known the negotiations have not yet been brokfn off. News is to hand from Ireland that riots of a serious nature occurred to-day at Belmullet, a small seaport town on Blacksod Bay, County Mayo, in consequence of the action of the authorities in collecting the poor rate. A strong body of police escorting the tax collectors were attacked by a mob of people. The police fired upon them, and several of the rioters were killed and wounded. Of the latter, moreover, several are reported to be dying. The Irish Land Commission is overladen with business, and fresh cases for the decision of the Commissioners are being daily brought forward by both landlords and tenants. November 3. It has transpired that the negotiations which are proceeding at Paris for the renewal of the Anglo-French commercial treaty were suspended on Friday last, when the discussion of the various classes of the proposed treaty was concluded without any definite agreement being arrrived at. It has further transpired that Sir Charles Dilke and his colleagues the British delegates are returning to London, pending further instructions from the Government as to the future course to be pursued. The dividend declared by the London Chartered Bank of Australia is at the rate of five per cent for the year, and not the half-year as stated in the telegrams on the Ist instant. The Irish Land League is advising tbe tenants to apply to the Land Commission for the decision of disputed questions, with the object of creating a deadlock, and thus hampering tbe work of the Commissioners. Many of tbe fresh cases which lately have been submitted have,

it is believed, been only referred to the Commission with the view of obstructing its labours.

Further details which have been received of tbe rioting which took place yesterday at Belmullet in Ireland show that the first accounts were greatly overdrawn. The conflict between the police and the rioters was of a severe character, but only a few of the latter were injured by the firing of the police.