OUR CABLEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6738, 21 April 1893, Page 2

OUR CABLEGRAMS.

Theee of the big guns in the politioa] world have spoken with no uncertain sound. The Marquis of Salisbury, the late Premier, spoke as thoagh it were certain the House of Lords would throw out the Home Rule Bill, and, as men of the Labouchere type have said that if it were thrown out it would be sent back, his Lordship remarked that it would be idle to do so without an appeal to the people. A Parliament with Irish representatives in the House oi Common?, who could only vote on certain questions, Lord Salisbury characterised aa " hotch-potoh."— Lord Randolph Churchil] has also had his say. His opinion is that if Ireland obtained autonomy it would be only temporary. It would have to be abolished, and the country would be left in a worse state than before.—Mr John Morley, the Ohief Seorotary for Ireland, has a poor opinion of the arguments brought to bear against Home Rule. In fatfc, he says they are not arguments at all, only prophecies oi evil. He thinks coercion has been the ruin of Ireland.—The strikes in the shipping trade appear to te over; but at best the labor question is only a smouldering voloano.—The wisdom cisplayed by English statesmen in cautiously feeliDg their way before committing themselves to radical reform is shown in the eight-hours movement. Mr Gladstone has steadily sethis-face against the limitation cf (ho hours of labor, on the ground that what will suit one Hot of workers will not suit another. A deputation representing the Durham miners waited on the Premier to protest against the restriction of hours, and Me Gladstone expressed his sympathy with the object the miners had in view—liberty to work as long as they liked.—ThoCanadian Pacific Railway Company, by munificent subsidies to first-class steamers, are wrestling the Japan and China trade from America, and they are now cutting into the Australian trade. Something , on this subject will be found in our leading article.—The Emperor and Empress of Germany are on a visit to Rome.—The labor crisis is ended in Belgium. A good few lives and any amount of property were sacrificed while.it lasted