LATE CABLE NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3416, 8 September 1885, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] (Per steamer at the Bluff.) Londox, July 31. The position of the Government at Home it not at present so favorable as before m regard to foreign affairs. Signs of serious disunion are apparent m the Conservative ranks. Many Ministerialists object to the Medical Relief Bill enacting that gratuitous medical relief shall not disqualify the recipients from a Parliamentary rote ; but a still graver difference exists concerning the Irish question. Dissatisfaction has already been caused by the decision of Government not to renew any portion of the Crimes Act and by concessions made to Mr Parnell on the •abject of his approval of Karl Carnarvon's proposal that there should be an enquiry into tho evidence on which certain murdei convictions m Ireland were obtained. Then followed an incident m the Houso ol Commons, when Mr Callan charged Mi Bright with breach of privilege, m having, m his speech at a Liberal banquet to Karl Spencer, charged some of the Irish member! with being rebels ond sympathising witl: murder aud outrage. Mr Gallon's raotior was rejected by a large majority, bat during the debate Sir Michael Hicks Beach anc Lord Churchill both disapproved of Mi Brigbt's language, and studiously avoided giving Mr Spencer Wood support m consc quence of this attitude. The Tory leaders m the House of Commons Lord Claud Hamilton and Mr Whitlev (Con serrative member for Liverpool), have signifiec their intention not to attend a great publi< meeting at Liverpool, which Lord B. Church ill was to address on the 20th. Lore Bandolph therefore declared that m tlieii absence he could not attend the mcetin( himself . The Conservatives m Liverpool an angry and discontented. The Htandard of to-day publishes at article which has been already noticed b; cable, commenting on the above matters attacking Lord Churchill m the most violen manner, describing him as a " much overrate man, and deploring that " one bo highly placed should di.pl.y on a l moßt inereditabli ignorance of public affairs, and be guilty o such pranks and blunders." Hnnl Sah.bury, «n his speech at the Mansioi House banket on the 2ath, vouchsafed nc 5'7 B . l ;°° «?» tdi ng the present state o England, foreign relation! The Premier Spa fcj^ kj^l: policy towards Afghanistan and m Egypt, bu they could not at once undo the work of th. tat fire years. He believed, that the mail

n desire of the country was to have an mtervi t . of peace and repose, an interval of constrm n tion instead of destruction. The Governmer would devote themselves to tho restoration c that cordial feeling among the Kuropea Powers which was so ewential to the pro: perity of the world. He hoped at nex r- year's banquet to bo able to say tha is Russia, England and their allies wer marching side by side, regarding each othe Ie m peace with mutual respect. General Lon r- Wolseley, m returning thanks for the Armj l e greatly praised tbe conduct of the whole o I the Soudan force. The British army, h said was better than over. He hoped to se n the day when promotion by a system of care *" ful selection would replace promotion b. " seniority. Lord Charles Beresford, respond d me for tho Navy, said England s nava position was at present unsafe. A loan o 18 twenty millions would be necessary to fortif; r, our na val coaling stations and supply th necessary increase of gunboata and torped boats, while for the defenco of the gren shipping ports, an appeal should be made t the British national spirit. A Committee of Enquiry, consisting of th Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Mannin, and others whose namea are already known have made their report after sifting the ovi denee of witnesses and the material befor y them. The Committee declare they ar )f satisfied that the statements made by th 1- Pall Hall Gazette concerning the system o i, criminal vice m regard to tho treatment o •- young girls are, taken as a whole, substantial! s true. ,t Eight cases of grapes from South Australia brought by the s.s. Thames wero found to b 0 quite worthless on arrival. The policy of tho New South Wales Go 1 vernment m postponing their loan is having good effect here, and that colony's stock i 6 rising m the market. " Mr Murray-Smith and Mr Garrick had a: a interviow yestordoy with the Rt Hon. Colonc ' Stanley, when they discussed the questioi whether tho Enabling Bill bo amended o not. Colonel Stanley pointed out that o account of the limited timo there wa* a ris of the Bill not passing if amended, and wouh therefore use his discretion whether to brin m any amendment or not. (Special to the Melbourne "Age." ' London, August S6. The Right Hon. Colonel Stonley points ou that the 17th section of the Enabling Bil empowers any Governor to decline to give hi . assent to any of the acts of the Council whic! | he may consider inimical to the interests o his colony. L August 27. Tho German Government has resolvei having obtained the consent of Great Britair to annex Marshall leland. August 2S. The Directors of the English and Austra Han Copper Company have considered th ) question of transferring their smelting work at Port Adelaide to Newcastle, where greate facilities are offered of coal supply. The; have decided to suspend operations, and no absolutely close their Port Adelaide worki which may be re-opened directly the valu for copper improves.