The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-12-31 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

AMERICA.  THE PRESIDENCY-MR BRADLAUGH-THE ATTEMPT TO BLOW 1.7 P THE MOSEL.  The Ilaniburg-American snail steamer, arrived on Sunday at Plymouth, brings New York papers full of excitement in reference to the proposed third-term election of President Grant, A Congress of Methodist inieters losvermphnticallydeclared for Presdt. Grant's re-election, mid this is represented by opponents and by supporters as rising importance to the movement. The House of Representatives, however, on the 15th inst., by 232 votes to 18, passed the following resolution That in the opinion of this House the precedent established by Washington, and other Presidents of the United States, in retiring from the presidential office after their second term has become by universal concurrence a part of our Republican system of government; and that any departure fnen this tinsahonoured custom would be unwise, unpatriotic, arid fraught with peril to our free institutions." On the other hand, a Mr. Randall has proposed, and the Nor Thrk Herald and Tribpne both support hint, that "after the next Presidential election the President shall hold office for six years. and that neither the President nor the Vice-President, when the office of President devolves upon him, shall be eligible for reelection." This would involve the extensien of the President's term by two years. bet get rid of the notice which was vigorously worked agair,st his re-election formerly. The Presidential election excitement seems to base fully set in. Mr. Bradlaugh, in conseqoence of illness. announces Isis abandonment of all his engagement., and his isnmediate return to Europe. The attempt to blow up the Mosel hed caused great excitement in America, and it is recalled that a similar attempt wee made to burn, when at sea, two. cases of Poi disnoo silks on board the Vanderbilt steam, ship Ariel, sailing in 1856 from the same port (Bremerhaven). Captain Ludlow, who then commanded the Ariel, received, as he passed the lighthouse on his way to sea, a telegram from the agents, Messrs. Ruppel and Son, saying simply " Stop the ship." He intended paying no attention to this quasi absurd demand, but on the representation of the Eutopean agent of the I line, who trapper ed to he on boerel. he did stop the ship, and the two went to the lighthouse. where they soon received the news from the Bremen agent. The two eases deel.,red as silks, of which the marks were riven, were stored in the after-hold, and instead of silk were filled with combustibles and a clockwork sirrangemeni to set them on fire when.the ship was at sea. On searching, thecases vrere found, and were as &ascribed • above. Thee were sent to Bremen, where they served to convict the guilty -parties, who 400 D. afterwards were found and arrested. The mechanic employed to make the bones and clockwork became conscience stricken, and at the last moment "peached" on his employers, who prove(' to be a father and son, whose motive, after Mooring these cases heavily in Vienna and elsee-here, was to recover the amount of insurance. The father committed suicide soon after his arrest, and the eon is slow in prison in Bremen for life. The mechanic UTes now on Stern Island.  FATAL onMonday morning the ahop of William De Groat, flt.hmonger, Flizh street, Woolwas destroyed by lire, and on examining the premises after the flames were extinguished the body of lirideet Bryant, aged twenty, the servant, was discovered horribly burned.