A memorial has been signed by many members of the House of Commons against the African Agreement, and proposed extension vf the powe in Madagascar asa set-off for the British tutelage of Zanzibar.
END OF THE LEEDS GAS STRIKE, The Leeds gas strike is settled.
London, 7th July.
The London police have issued a notice warning shop-keepers and others to clos early to-day, and to make their own arrangements to guard their premises, as the force goon strike to-night for certain, Many constables were suspended yesterday for refusing duty.
8th July, The Police strike was a failure, The 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards refused to answer the bugle call for kit rout the inspection being abandoned, inspection and locked themselves in their the men fell in and hooted and hissed the remarks of the Colonel, telegram explains the Reuter's ye we published yesterday about the Guards being sent "abroad." Reuter chose to send the second without havi forwarded the first, giving the subject a fictitious importance that was unwarranted.—Ep. 1D. N.)
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