News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 22, 1871

News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

DUBLIN, Aug. 12.—At Londonderry to-day the Orangemen had a terrible collision with the police and military, in consequence of an attempt to celebrate, by a procession through the streets, the anniversary of the siege of that city in 1689, which had been prohibited by the government. The procession came out to the number of several hundred, but the police quickly dispersed them. Great crowds soon gathered. The police were attacked, and the military had to be called out to quell the disturbance. There were a number of persons wounded seriously, and the police made many arrests.

DUBLIN, Aug. 13.—The excitement in Londonderry has not abated. A large number of apprentices, consisting for the greater part of boys from 12 to 18 years of age, arranged an Orange demonstration. They were headed by Johnstone member of parliament, and Mr. Rea, of Belfast. The apprentices attempted to form a procession in violation of the proclamation issued by the authorities. The police aided by a detachment of troops, interfered, amid yells and cheers from the Roman Catholics. Stones were thrown by the crowd at one another, and at the police and military. The riot act was read without producing any effect upon the apprentices. The cavalry and police then charged and scattered the crowd. Several were injured, but none killed. A number of arrests have taken place, and order is completely restored.

LONDON, August 14.—But few arrests have been made at Londonderry. The Amnesty Association of Dublin have taken action condemning the unreliable explanations made by the Marquis of Hastings, Chief Secretary for Ireland, as to the cause of the prevention of the meeting on the 12th, at Phoenix Park, and have resolved to bring criminal action against the police for committing assaults upon the people who assembled upon that occasion.

DUBLIN, Aug. 17.—At a banquet given to the French deputation to-night, the Lord Mayor proposed the toast, “The Queen,” which was received with storms of hisses, lasting several minutes.

BERLIN, Aug. 18.—The cholera has appeared in the neighborhood of Stettin. The disease continues its ravages at Konigsberg, where on Tuesday there were 70 new cases and 34 deaths; and Wednesday 80 new cases and 27 deaths.

PARIS, Aug. 16.—Difficulties have arisen at Berlin in respect to the evacuation of the four departments of France still held by the Germans. The French government has in consequence refused to admit Alsatian produce to the French markets until after the German troops leave France.