ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9356, 27 April 1893, Page 2

ENGLAND.

London, April 24, At a mass meeting of 30,000 workmen in Viotoria Park, Mr J. H. Wilson, M.P. for Middlesboiougb, said that a national strike had not been ordered pending negotiations, but the leaders would be ready to call the men ont if required. The secretary of the Colonial Institute, in a letter to Z7w T*mei, advises holders not to part with Australian securities in the preaent sensitive condition Of - the market. He predicts that prosperity will coon revive. The directors of the London Chartered Bank of Australia aia asking the shareholders whether in view of the recent developments it is advisable to accept the dividend of 6 per cent recently declared. The Rome correspondent of the Stmiard tele^.'aphs that the Kaiser, replying to the Pope, said that friendly relations with tn« Roman Catholics of Germany depended upon the attitude of the Centre Party in the Reichstag. April 25. The timber bnrnedaii Hull was insured. The c-owd refused to assist the binejackets and firemen in cariylng timbe r from the edge of the fire. A farther de» tachment of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and 150 police have been drafted to Hull. The bluejackets arrested two men for placing a anspicious leaking parcel boneatb a shed containing a thousand free laborers, M r ' Sprow, the organising secretary of the SaMors' and Firemen's Union, states that it is intended to wage a pereiatent war against the Shipping Federation throughout the United Kingdom. It is reported that the Queen has written 1 to the Quean of Hawi ii hoping that she I will have a happy issue out of her difficulties. The excitement in Belfast continues. The military prevented a sollision between two large bodies of Protestants and Catholics. The Key. George Short), of Salisbury, has been chosen President-Elect of the Baptist Union. Joseph Isaacs, one of the defendants In the Hansard Unloo prosecution, has been acqnltted. Three hunched amendments te the Home Rule Bill have already been tabled. An attempt to sot fire to the Alexaadra Dock at Hull failed. The Da''y Neivs says that owing to the reported demand in Australia for notes of first-class banks, one Australian bank is having notes to the value or a million sterling printed in London for early despatch to the colonies. Th« Standard considers that the London Chartered Bank's circular is trankly worded, and will lead to the belief that | the bank is considerably stronger than I the public thought. Mr Labonchere has given notice of an amendment to the Home Rnleßill in Com. mittee abolishing the Legislative Council in the Irish Parliament, and also excluding Irish members from having seats in the Imperial Parliament at Westminster, Mr Redmond has likewise given notice of an amendment to the latter effect. The Nationalists will propose that the limit of the Irish contribution to the Imperial Exchequer be a mP.lion and a quarter sterling. Sir W. V. Harconrt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered his Budget speech to-day, He stated that the annual expenditure amounted to £90,375,000, and the actual receipts to £20,000 more. The estimated expenditure was £91,464,000, and the revenue £89,800,000. It was pio* posed to substitute a shilling tax on contract notes for adhesive stamps on foreign and colonial securities. The .Radical Press complain of the absence of any proposals for an increrse in the death duties and graduated taxablon. Lord Salisbury, addressing sixteen kuadred delegates at the Hatfield fete, declared there should be no Home Rule for Ireland or parb of it). Obher Uuionisb leaders asserted that Great Britain would never desert those who were opposed to Home Knle (Reoelved April 26, 7 p,m,) Sir William Ewart, of Belfast, one of the deputation of Ulster men to Lord Mayor Knill, declared that one firm was already preparing to remove its plant from Ireland at a cost of £40,000. AH men over 60 years of age are enrolling in Ulster, in order to elect an assembly of 600 to guide the country through the crisis. The suspension of the London Chartered Bank of Australia was not known until after the hour of the bank's closiDg, and created much surprise. Mounted police have been despatched from London to Hull to assist in maintaining order. The Home Seoretary declares that it is the intention of the Government to withdraw the naral and military forces from Hull. The Chief Secret&ty for Ireland has wired to the Government that affairs in Belfast are quieting down, (Received April 27, MO a,m,) April 26. The Australian team of cricketers have arrived in excellend'health. Lord Sheffield is arranging to extend to them a splendid welcome, and is determined to return the hospitality that was shown to the team taken by him to Australia. The Times advocates thaMn too scheme for the reconstruction of the banks which have suspended, a clause be inserted compelling the new banks to draw on independent sources here, and not on branches.