HOME AND FOREIGN.

Bush Advocate, Volume II, Issue 86, 22 November 1888, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

London, Nov. 20. ■ The demand of the ironworkers in the north of England for an advance of ten per cent has been submitted to arbitration. Mr Gladstone, speaking on the Government proposal for an extension of Lord Ashbourne's Act, said the arrears of tenants were primarily entitled to attention, Mr Goschen said the Opposition had rejected the Government -overtures for the temporary extension of the Act mentioned. The Government did not consider they were pledged to deal with the land purchase question, and were quite satisfied with an extension of Lord Ashbourne's Aot. Statistics showed that evictions in Ireland, w.ere largely, the result of the plan of campaign. M. Licbt, the sugar expert, . estimates the European beet crop will exceed last year's by 420, 000. The average yield is expected in the sugar producing colonies. Mr Cecil Raikes, PostmasterGeneral stated in the House of Commons that the -Government were ready to commence the four?penhy pqstage rate on the Ist January if the colonies were willing to agree to a uniform reduced rate by the direct sea services. The President of the National League of America has appealed to the Irish residents of the United States for subscriptions to the Parnell defence fund. . > * - In the House of Commons Mr Gladstone, in moving an amendment objecting to the withdrawal of thelrishjland purchase question, which had been, before Parliament several years, said the Government ought to have asked for an advance until March next, which the Opposition would have readily granted. In the Course of the debate on the' question of the appointment of Sir 3. A. Blake to the Governorship of Queensland, Mr W. H. Smith said* the request of the Queensland Government had been premature and imperious in tone. The matter was now receiving "the careful attention of the Cabinet;' by whom moderation would be exorcised in dealing with the question, and the colonial Government might rest .assured that the Imperial Government would act in all good faith, with a desire to seoure a satisfactory solution of the difficulty. . Mr John Bright, who has been indisposed for some time past, suffered a serious relapse. The Dowager Empress Victoria has arrived at Windsor. The Shipping Committee meet on Wednesday, for the purpose of'discussing the proposal for increased freights. • Messrs Jean Calvert and Co., of Bordeaux, have secured two hundred feet at the Paris Exhibition. They intimate their willingness to . exhibit any Australasian growers' wines in their court. Rome, Nov. 20. The Pope will shortly issue an encyclical letter in favor of a general disarming. The relations between Italy and Franco are of a more pacific nature. Paris, Nov. 20. In the Chamber of Deputies M. Goblet said France was not pledged to co-operate with Germany and England in blockading African, ports, and he refused to recognise the right of any power to make search for slaves on any vessel flying the French flag. St. Petersburg, Nov. 20. Several large failures of grain merohants are reported here,- and also at Moscow and Odessa. Suakim, Nov. 19. A strong garrison is being established here, and reinforcements are arriving preparatory to another attack Qn the Arab trenches. Cairo, Nov. 20. The Egyptian Government piopose to ask for power to extend the operations of the mixed tribunals for a year, or to prolong their operations for five years on a wid«r basis. •