BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1761, 25 June 1886, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(By Cable.) (I'eutek's .Special.) London, June 20. The blookade of the Greek ports having been raised, the combined European naval squadron, which was at Suda Bay, has now dispersed. Lord Randolph Churchill has iesusd a manifesto in which he denounces the boundless egotism and senile vanity of Mr Gladstone, and exhorts the electors to overthrow the disastrous autocracy of the Premier. Tbe Conservatives will support the candidature of 80 Liberal Unionists. Mr Gladstone, in his speeches in Midlothian, urges that the issue of the Irish question muat be either coercion or a Dublin Parliament. He is bitterly personal towarda the Marquis of Salisbury and Mr Chamberlain, and condemns Lord Hartington's scheme as having no finality. The Marquis of Salisbury, in his Leeds Speech, said that he would only coerce the criminals in Ireland. He was willing to concede local government not only to Ireland, but also to England and Scotland. He criticised what he called Mr Gladstone's maudlin optimism, and repudiated all coquetting with the Parnellite party. The ' Times ' characterises Mr Gladstone's speech as a specimen of audacious quibbling, in the face of notorious facts, on the main issue. The testimonial to Herr Schnadhurst, a prominent Liberal organiser, has reached nearly £10,000. Armagh and Tryoue have been " proclaimed." The president of tiie Supreme Fenian Council in Great Britain insists on the separation of Ireland from England. Tbe Berlin papers condemn the hoisting of the French flag on the New Hebrides as a breach of honour, and they stigmatise it as an act of aggression which is evidently part of a matured and far-reaching scheme. The Paris official journal justifies the landing of the French troops on the islands. The ' St. James' Gazette ' considers M. do Freycinet's language as equivocal ; it may mean that the French will discontinue the hoisting of their flag in the future, but it will not necessarily mean that they will haul it down now. June 21. In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Bryce, Under-secretary for Foreign Affairs, announced that the Government did not intend to depart from the terms of the Anglo-French agreement respecting tho New Hebrides. June 22. Earl Kimberley states that the report that Colonel W. Lockhardt and party have been seized by the Badakshawß is incorrect. Mr Gladstone claims absolute freedom in regard to the Irish land- purchase proposala. Mr Michael Davitt does not think that the Fenian manifesto is a genuine one. Mr Graham Berry advises Lord Ro3eberry to adopt a policy of exchange, giving the Gambier and the Falkland Islands for the New Hebrides. June 23. The general elections for the new Parliament will commence on the Ist proximo. Mr Gladstone has returned to his seat at Hawarden. On his journey he was received with ovations everywhere en route from Edinburgh to Hawarden. Paeis, June 23. The bill for the expulsion of the French Princes has been passed by the Senate.