New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-04-05
FOREIGN NEWS.
GREAT BRITAIN.

BILLS sIGNED-THR JAMAICA MARTfR-rHh hnp
RIVER ExPEDITION-ARr EpUCATloN-Mh'
LOVES BUDGET.
LONDON Monday, April 4, 1870
In Ia House Of Lords to-day, the members Oh inc
ponso of Comm. ans were summoned 10 tne p"i' "nen
messages were read announcing that the royai ASSENT
had been given to the bill 70: the ehioroene"'oi 'no
laws and the preservation OF peaS' ~ AN'
to the Coinage and Mutiny bills.
w. ar Uorso Of Commons to-day Mr.. Gladstone,
IN renlv To a remark of Mr. Dixie SAID ne thonght
no compensation was due 10 Tue "luV" Va '''' WA
don who was executed in jamaica
AZ Nonsell Under Secretary for the Colonial De.
.artment said a demand from the Canadian anthor-
ties r regular troops for the Red River expedition
was under consideration.
The Prince of Wales presided at a meeting OF the
Society of Arts which was held to organize an edu-
cational department and TO make arrangements for
several exhibitions next year. The Prince spoke
warmly in favor of the objects proposed by the Soci-
ety. He was followed by Sir j. Pakington.
The Gldsgop Herald has reason to believe that In
Mr. loves forthcoming budget tho income tax Will
be reduced TO four francs the duties on sugar Will be
e0ualized, alterations will be made in brewers
licenses and newspaper postage, the tea and coffee
duties will be left untouched and million sterling
will be kept in hand for special purposes
The betting on the University boat-race is brisk.
The partisans of Cambridge gaining confidence,
and the odds of IL to Oxford are freely taken.
CONTINUED DEBATE on THE LAND BILL.
The consideration of the Irish Land billwasresumed
In Committee Mr. Disraeli opposed the amendment
proposed by the Government extending the Ulster
system over Ireland He begged the House to con-
Eder the effect this law would have English land.
and predicted that agitation and lawlessness would
increase
Mr. Disraeli then submitted an amendment limit
ing the compensation TO the retiring tenants to
damages for his unexhausted Improvements and I'M
finished course of husbandry.
Mr. Lowe replied to Mr. Disraeli in speech irrel-
evant to the amendment under consideration. lie
said the bill possibly violated the rules of political
economy but such violations were of daily occur
renee.
Mr.. Claiborne Hardy supported DisraelTs amend
ment Mr.. Hardy and Sir Rounded Palmer, who
followed him, both urged greater caution than the
Government had exhibited so far in the management
of this measure. The charges proposed were gener-
ally too ill-cOnsdered and sweeping.
Mr.. Fortescue, Chief Secretary for ireland, re-
PEELED the charges made against the Government
Mr. Clare S. Read, member for South Norfolk, de-
nOunced the bill as revolutionary.
THE LEGAL TENDER oUEsTION--A NEW GREAT
STEAMSHIP.
The Times In an article to-day on the proposed re-
consideration of the decision of the United States
Supreme Court recently rendered in the matter of
the coasttutionaliy of the legal tender, strongly
hopes The views of the Cbief-JustIce will be sus-
tanned.
The new steamer Italy, of the National Line, was
successfully launched at GreenOck to-day. She is
1890 tuns burden and is said to be the largest screw
steamer afoat the Great Eastern alone excepted.
Her engines are coo horse power