Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1878-07-12 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE PROBABLE DISSOLUTION OF PA RLI A MENT.  The possibility of an early dissolution of the uresent Parliament has again become a prominent snhjet of discussion in political circhts ; hut while the Conservative agents still assert that such a step will not he taken this year, it is confidently stated in Liberal semi-official quarters that a general election will take place in November next. But at the pre•qmt moment it may be taken for granted that, adhough this prediction may ultimatelv prove correct, it has not yet been decide I by the Cabinet whether there shall or shall not be 3 dissolntion this year. In (set, no decision will be arrived at until the return of Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury from Berlin.  The Prime Minister will return to L ,ndon on Monday. A party of United States volunteers have been ambitscaded by the Indians and nearly all killed or wounded. Some ides of the magnitude or the plame of lot lists in Madras may he conceived from the fact that they are sufficiently numerous to stop the trains upon the railways It is reported that his Excellency Sir Garnet Wolselev starts on Saturday next, via Brindisi, for the Levont. lje will take on from Malta o Cyprus a brigade of English troops as well as the Indian contingent The death of Prehen lary Sinclair is announced, aged 74. In his young days he saw active service as a cavalry officer. An American named Townsend was committed for trial at Manchester on a charge of atternMing to murder a cabdriver by tiring two shots at him from a " seven-shooter." The German Socialist Railed who attempted to shoot the Emperor William on the 11th of May in the Unten den Linden, was on Wednesday brought up for trial. Ide was found guilty, and sentenced to death. The funeral of the qwen of Spain was held on the 11th. and all the foreign Courts was represented thereat Requiem masses have been celebrated in the churches of Madrid and th‘i• large towns . _  —Sir Garnet Wolseley will leave in a few days to assume the governorship of Cyprus. The Po 4 has reason to believe that he will take with him the Indian contingent now at Malta. A labourer's wife at Manton, Wilt., who a short time since presented her hushJrni with twin boys, has just given birth to a coeple of girls. The same woman bad already 14 or 15 children. More than forty c sunty sat s which the Liber us did not cootest at the last elertion are to he contested next time, and the Liberals e.unt upon a gain of twentyfive seats in this respect. On Wednesday the Albert Elward I.,;febnat, presented by the Freeniaanns of Enland a a thank,fferine for the safe return of the Prince of Wales from India, was launched at Clacton on Sea with considorahle ceremony. Lord Skelmersdale taking a leading part in the proceedings. David MlCeown, of Bootle, does not love his mother•in• law, and on Saturday niht he set fire to the enrtains of her bed. When beinre the maelatr .tee he said he had done it "for spite." A fine of £5 or two month' imprisonment will perhaps indoce him in future to show his dislike in a less objectinnahle way, An express train from Valencia has been inrereepted and pillaged by 16 armed bandit on the southern French frontier, between Mortorell and Papiol. The driver pulled up the train in obedience to the signals of the bandits. and an Encliah paseenver wa rnbhed of his watch and 3,000 teals. Ni resistance was offered, the gene threatening to short those who attempted any, or who concealed their valuables.  The income of the Liberation Society ia now over £16,000 a year. It report how; that Bradt wd stands at the heal of contributing towns, Pen din z not We than £3,536; Lon,lon comes next, contriboing £1.521. Manche4ter servig £1 345; Bristol, £485; under-Lyne £216 ' • Le,cester, £165 : a'aegow, £129; Norwich, £119; and Nottingham. £9l.  On Monday week two boys named Willson and Taßker quarrelled while they were in the grounds of the Collegiate, School, Manchester. They then went to another port of the grounds and fought in the pre.tenee of a nurnher their schoolfellows. AR the result of the fight young Moulson's face was very mach disfigured and his eyes were nearly closed. Two dave latter he complained of being seriously unwell, and on Monday last he died from congestion of the brain.