Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1878-03-15 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

FIGHT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.  The Chcmsford Chronicle says :—" A good deal of interest has been excited in different places in Essex by flying reports of an encounter which took place on the Great Eastern Railway on saturday last by some English soldiers and a party or ii.ussitin sailors. The particulars of the affair, as far as we have been able to collect there, are as under. The Russian sailors, who numbered about half a dozen, le t Hiravich for London at five minutes past one At Colchester, at 2.10, some English soldiers happened to get into the same compartment, which was a third elates one. Row many of them there were we are not able to say, but they were certainly not equal in number to the Russians. One report stated that there was only a single soldier, but that, at all events. tunic out to be incorrect. The " lions " and the "bears." reflecting the prevailing international jealou-ly. were soon at Loggerheads with each other. The story credits the Russians with being the aggressors. It is alleged that they begun to jeer the soldiers and to apply opprobrious epithets to them and their nationality, and that at length they called them " Queen's puppies." The British lions, of course, could not endure an epithet of that sort, and so they fell upon the Russian bears and gave them a taste of their quality, first with blows from the us, and then, on the Russians fighting foul, with blows from bottles. The confusion and noise in the compartment was dreadful, the Russian sailors crying out loudly in the tent a- and amazement which the vigorous onslaught of the sturdy Britishers had inspired. some of them felt the punishment and dreaded its continuance so acutely th rt they were fain to get out of the ea riince and ride upon the footboard, frantically shouting " murder" and "help " while other passeiLers were waving handkerchiefs, and making other signs from the windows. In this way the train neared Witham, where in the ordinary course it doe not stop. hut the guard of an approaching goods train presuming by these tokens that something was seriously amiss, signalled the driver to pull up. and he did so. On the star hpn clficials going to the carria.re in vestion they found the fight AVM not quite ended, but they put a stop to it of course, and censimed the soldiers and sailors to separate carriages. One of the Runsiana was bloeding profusely from wounds in the face, and the I whole party betrayed an aspect of extreme fear.  The attempt to hold a meeting in Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon, adverse to the Government, was frustrated by the mob, who drove Mr. Auberou Herbert and Mr. Bradlaugh out of the Park. Sticks were freely used, and serveral persons Owl to be taken to the hospitals. The crowd mobbed and assaulted the Duke of Peck, and on leaving the Park made a hostile demonstratian against Mr. a. ,d Nlrs. Gladstone, who were net sn their way to church. The Dean of Arches on Saturn! sy directed the susoension for six months of the Rev. J. Edwards, incumbent of Prestbury, near Cheltenham. for ritualistic praciives. In July he was directed to di-continue his illegal ceremonies and to give an assurance that he would not repeat them. He has taken no notice if this ,ottler, awl his -u:pension is to take effect as soon as au affidavit is til.d stating that the practices continue. Mr. Edwards is ordered to pay the cost; of the proceedimm, an I toe suspension will continue beyond the six months until obedience W the Court is promised.  "A