BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10353, 8 July 1895, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

LORD ROSEBERY ANI> MARQUIS OF SALISBURY..,

IMPERIAL DEF.ENCE COMMITTEE,

LARGE MEETING- -OF- LIBERALS.

• [PBK PRESS ABSOGBATIQN]. j London, July 7. — Ten thousand people ' : attended a political meeting at the 'Albert Hall! Lord RoSebery, in replying to taunts, said the Radicals gloried in' being Imperialists, and :hs Jjpped that' the Marquis of Salisbury would confirm j the British withdrawal from' Chitral.j The Liberali, he said, remained pledged I to Home Buje, the disestablishment of the Scotch .and Welsh Churches, local option, andqne man one vote, but the reform of the House of Lords would be a primary question at the elections. In tne House of Loicds^the Marquis of Salisbury referrep.;tb; : thfe Statement of Lord Rosebery' -tnat J'ifie-" Lords had manacled the Liberals, and retorted if they ware clothed in a right mind theywould soon find the manacles removed. t By persisting in autonomy for Irelandj and disestablishment of Scotoh- apd Welsh Churches, they caused, sterile con flicts preventing useful legislation, which would end in perpetual Conflict and be' little short of civil wart Saturday Review .states several pro-! vincal Tory papers -are complaining that' there are too many friends of Mr Chamberlain ia the Ministry, especially Messrs Austen Chamberlain, Jesse Collings, and Powell Wiljiams. ,- , The Imperial Defence Committee in, the Cabinet consists of the Duke of Devonshire, Hon. A. Balfour, Hpn. Jos. Chamberlain, Marquis Lansdowne, Lord George .Hamilton, Hon. G. J. Goschpn, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. . Mr Gerald Balfour, Secretary, for Ireland, proposes to introduce a bill to amend the Irish Land Act of 1881. Hon,^HL Matthews, Q.G., M.P. for Birmingham East, has be.en created a Peer. Mr Chamberlain, speaking in London, said the. Government would deal with tho immigration of foreign paupers, and also the importation of foreign priton made 1 goods.

SALISBURY MINISTRY MANIFESTO.

The Marquis of Salisbury, speaking in the House o£ Lords, delivered the election manifesto of his party. He advocated relief to - agriculture by reducing taxation bearing thereon, legislation re-garding-agricultural holdings and railway freights) and on .farm produce, revision of poor 'laws,- agsistance to workers-to enable them >to buy their own freeholds, as suoh would- add -a powerful 'bulwark to the traditions 'of the country and place its tranquility ou an irremovable foundation. He said the Tories' aimed at avoiding any revolutionary changes, aud hinted at a measure, for the relief of those reduced to poverty by -great vicissitudes' of trade..