BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

West Coast Times, Issue 3889, 24 September 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

THE ENGLISH COURT IN MOURNING FOR THE LATE PRESIDENT.

NATIVE RIOTS IN THE PUNJAUB.

THE AMEER AND AYOUB KHAN.

GENERAL MOURNING IN THE UNITED STATES.

London, Sept. 21. Consols, 99£ ; New Zealand securities unchanged. Adelaide wheat ex store 57s ; New Zealand, ex store 55s ; Adelaide flour ex store 41s ; Australian tallow best beef 40s, best mutton 42s 6J. September 22. An official gazette announces that the English Court has gone into mourning for one week for the late President Garfield . Such a course has never before been pursued in the case of the death of an American President. Calcutta, Sept. 22. Serious riots occurred yesterday at Mooltan in the Punjaub, between a number of rival sects of the native population. In the fighting which took place, several temples and mosqued were greatly damaged, and many of the rioters were seriously injured. The disturbances lasted for some hours, and were only quelled by the military, who were called out in force to disperse the rioters. Official telegrams to hand from Afghanistan, report that the rival forces of the Ameer and Ayoub Khan are still in the neighborhood of Candahar. The Ameer's army is stated to be greatly inferior to that of Ayoub's. Washington, Sept. 21. Telegrams to hand from Long Branch, announces that the body of the President will leave for Washington i to-day, where an inquest will be held on Friday. On Saturday, the remains will be conveyed to Cleveland, Ohio. The result of a post mortem examinatien, shows that the ball fractured the ribs, and shattering the

vertebra of the backbone, finally lodged below the pancreas gland of the liver, where it was found completely encysted. The immediate cause of death was rupture of the mesenteric artery in the cavity of the abdomen, retaining the intestines.

There is general mourning throughout the States, and business is everywhere suspended.