Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-06-12 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tuicsimy.  Lord Kimberley stated that, in vmsequence of what took place in the other House the previou, night, the Commons had adjourned till Thursday. He thought, therefore, it would be convenient that their lordships should meet again on that day, when he hoped to be able to say for how long they should adjourn for the Whitson holidays. Lord Denman moved the second reading of the Women's Suffrage Bill ; but at the suggestion of Lords Iddesleigh and Kimberley, the motion was withdrawn on the assumption that it would be renewed on the let prosim,,. The second reading of the International and Colonial Copyright Bill was moved by the Lord Chancellor. Its object is to give to the author of a work published in any colony the same protection as is accorded to a wok published in the United Kingden. The noble and learned lord xp'ained that the communications received from the colonies were all favourable to the measure. The seeond reading was agreed to, and several other bills were forwarded a 'stage. Lord Spencer, replying to Lord Miltown, stated that no arrest hal yet been made of hia murderers of Patrick Tangey in Kerry, and added that he did not think it would be in the interests if Minket° mention what was the information in the hands of the Government.  .... Their lordAips then adjourned till ThurAday.  REPORT ON 'fRE SUEZ CANAL  At the annual ineetiuz of the Suez Canal Corn. puny, held on Tuesday, M. de Lessees read the report, which sle.wed that the receipts of the canal for is:, were 65,049,94 M., er L. 2,601.908 sterling, and the expenses 31,021,178 f., or sonietbh,g over £1,240 060 sterling, leaving a profit of 34,028,767 f., which allows a dividend of 60f. 40c. The return of traffic (3,621 ship., of 6.335,753 tone) exceeded by 340 ships :find 464,253 tone that of the pre. vious year. The passengers numbered 205,1151, against 151.916 in 1884, arid 43,813 of them wain English. The average time of transit was 43 hours, and though the 12 days' interruption caused by a dredger being run down led to an as,,essibiage of 123 ships, all these got through in three days. Liberty et travelling by night with the electric light had been taken advantage of by several of the P. and 0. Company's eteuniers, one of which thus made the transit in 17 hours 50 minutes. If the traffic has not suffered (rem the economic depression, it is because the reduced dues have allowed the creation of fresh enterprises, or the extension of existing cues. A revival of trade began to be shown towards the end of 1885 ; but at the beginning of 18861resh disquietudes affected the traffic. In the corresponding period .4 18:0 the transport of troops exceptionally inert-need the traffic. After referring to the good harvest ii, Australia, the Franco-Chinese Commercial Treaty, the peace with Madagascar, the English annexation of Burman, and German colonisation in Oceania as likely to increase the traffic, the report detene the improvements effected, or in contemplation, and announces the approval by the Egyptian Government, on the 10th of May, of the amended statutes adopted last year. The widenims. by 1484 mares of the canal, between Port Said and the Bitter Lakes, the widening by 15 mi•tres of the remainder, the deepening of metres of the whole canal, and the rectification or the Lake Tirnsali curve can accordingly be proceeded with.  A large number of penions visited Orleans Rouse, Twickenham, on Saturday, either to witness or to talc, part in an interepting angling tournament, which lasted upwards of eight hours.  While Mr. Abraham Palmer, a farmer at Clounalarsan, about eight miles south of Tralee, was at the Protestant church his house was entered and ransacked, alibis arms being taken away. Two men, tamed Flynn and Fitzgerald, were arrested subsequently, and taken on a car to Milltown. While on the way, howover,firing was heard, and two of the police left the car and proceeded in the direction of the shooting, when Fitzgerald took advantage of their absence to jump from the car, and escape. The Customs launch came in collision on Sunday with the ferry strainer Tilbury, on the Thames off Gravesend, resulting in damage to the launch's stem fore compartment. The clew of the launch abandoned her, and the captain, A,liby. in trying to regain his yessel. slipped, and was drowned.