ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XII, Issue 945, 15 August 1877, Page 5

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Chtoles Bradlaugh and Mrs Besant have been condenftngd to. six months' imprisonment, to pay a ;fine:of,.£2oo each, and to enter into recognisances for good behaviour for two years. Pending the argument of a technical point m the in^Lptment, they were released on the understanding that they were not to continue publishing. Four of the best known detectives m Scotland Yard, Druscowth, Meiklejohn, Fraggart, and Plimmer, have been charged with conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice m a recent well-known case, m which some betting men swindled a countess out of Jt, 10,000. Fraggart was admitted to bail, and the others were remanded. The Eotunda Theatre at Liverpool has been burnt down. In the House of Commons the Foreign Secretary said no petition for a British, protection had been received from Samoa, nor did the Government wish to undertake it. Earl Beaconsfield has no intention of resigning. On the 2nd July the House sat from 4 p.m. to 7 a.m. next day. There were eighteen purely obstructive divisions, and [several attempts to count out. . , ■' King Meulk, of Abyssinia, has expressed his willingness to resign m favour of Alamyo, son of the late King Theodore. The latest accounts from the famine districts m Madras are worse. There is great mortality from disease, and the situation m Mysore is critical. In Bombayfprospects are more ingThe French ironclad Reine Blanche was run down by another ironclad, the Heroine. No lives were lost. :