OUR CABLEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6742, 26 April 1893, Page 2

OUR CABLEGRAMS.

I Another penny in the pound is to be added to the income tax. It is already sixpence. The additional penny will produce close upon two millions sterling. The cablegram does not let us know what the increased revenue is wanted for. The income taxpayers won't like it: but as the bulk of the people are not touched by it, the popularity of the Government will not suffer by I this extra turn of the screw. We notice that the Chancellor of tho Exchequer estimates that the penny will yield £1,750,000. This must be an error in the cablegram, unless we are to believe that tho wealth of England has declined. In 1877 a penny added to the income tax produced £1,904,770, and it no-v produces, according to as English authority, £2,214,000.— Things did not pass off so quietly as we were given to understand. There was a good bit of rioting at Belfast, and the Orangemen appear to have been the aggressors. Police and soldiers -were injured in trying to preserve order.—Hull,' we are told, is in a state of " veiled rebellion," whatever that may mean. Presumably, peace and quietness are maintained by the presence of tho troops, and if they wero withdrawn there vvould be another attempt to burn the dockyards. It seems tho Hull Esamen are in the wrong, for the Übor leaders in London refused to organise

measures for their relief.—A sensation has been caused by a canard to the cfieot thit ia the midst of the coafiwon. and hubbub ou tho announcement o* tha division on the second reading of the Homo Rule Bill, while Ulster men wero cheering, come Irish members shouted, "To Hell with tho Queen !" We do not believe thoy did, and even if ono or two iv the excitement of the

moment did do no, we should say the least said übtiut it the butter.—The ijultau of Morocco has apologised to the British iuthorities for the outrage upon romo Kcglish committed by a mob at Fez. The party took refuge from the insults of the crowd in the Vice-Consulate, aed some shots were firod at the building. The Jfoors don't care to see their streets polluted by the presence of " Christian dogs."—The Sultan of Turkey has consented to receive the Prinoe and Princess of Bulgaria. This is an immense concession, aud while it will

bo highly appreciated by the Bulgarians, it will be mightily displeasing to Kussia.. The Priuce has ftU along desired to bo reoogniaod by the Porto, whereas the object of Uusai* has been to regard him, aud get other «ountries to regard him, aa an interloper.--

Matters are going along smoothly once more in Fgypt, and the authorities are working in harmony with the British officials.