The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-08
FOREIGN NEWS.
ENGLAND.

LONDON, MAY f'-CleW, the English
man, OF the Jefferson Borden mutineers
has signed paper stating that he aCteC
with the mutineeFs under compulsion
The United States Consul has takeT
charge OF the prisoners and ordered theil
transfer to the Dreadnaught Hospital.
China has engaged the Confederate
General Ripley to construct extensive
works for the defense OF her coast and
principal rivers, General Ripley sails
for the East in few days.
Count DeHaFCourt, now representative
OF France at Vienna, has been appointed
Ambassador To London.
LONDON, May captain Sherrard
Osborne, Of the Royal Navy is dead.
The race for cheshire was run to-day,
and won by Thuader Chivalous, and the
second by Tom Oshanler.
LONDON, May S.-S A. M.-In the
House Of Commons last night, in the dis
cnSsion Of the budget, Gladstone censured
the method Of stating the treasury ac-
counts whereby he said the deficiency
was concealed. lie pointed out that the
expenditures had increased during the
Conservative government Gl,360,000.
lie cOntended that counting the interest
on the deficiency in the savings bank and
friendly societies accounts, which are not
mentioned in the budget on the Irish ed
ucatiOn charge, no surplus existed. Glad.
stone also commended that the proposal
for reducing the public debt is totally un-
rea and visionary, and that the ex.
perienee OF thirty years has shown that
the debt had been increased by fresh
loans more than II had been reduced by
surpluses. Yet Sir Stafford NorthcOte
had anticipated that the surpluses during
the next three years would amount to
GlSOO,OOO.
> Gladstone said that party priding
itself on it, yeneration for the tradition
Of It's pastOught not to delude the country
from the safe road in finance.
Sir Stafford NorthCole In reply to Glad
stone conceded that the figures Of the
budget might DO SO taken as to show the
deficiency, but said that the system he had
adopted was one OF many years standing.
He declared that the interest on loans had
been fully considered in his estimates,
and that no vote on the account Of the
Savings Banks was necessary for the
present year was doubtless true. The sup.
Elementary estimates might prove then
above the surplus, but II ho anticipated
additional charges he had a full right TO
anticipate that the addition will DO bal
anced by other items OF revenue. He said
Gladstone had himself formerly approved
an "a
Ihe system Of / !hE,,t thS reduction Of debt BY
Robert Lowe said that the budget was
unworthy Of the confidence Of the House.
The Chancellor (NorthCote) had manipu.
lated his accounts and produced licti.
tious surplus. lie said the Liberals had
paid E3G,O00,0 900 Of the public debt, and
left u surplus in the Treasury which the
present government had squandered; that
the deficit waS q national calamity, and
that there ought to be a surplus Of reve-
nues.
The House Of Commons will adjourn
from the 18th to 10Th inst. for the Whit.
suntide holiday.
Sir John IIolkerj Attorney-Gen has
accepted the sent on the bench made VA
cant by the death Of Judge Pigot.
A warrant will probably be issued to-
morrow placing the mutineeFs Of the
schooner Jefferson Borden al the disposal
Of SChenck, the American minister.
The Staadarfs special from Berlin says
the Prussian police have redoubled their
vigilance, having received alarming no.
tices Of plots against Prince Bismarck
and Minister Polk. A special staff Of IA
detectives have been formed for their
protection.
The Federal Council meets OIL Monday
next to consider the question Of extend
ing the laws controlling the administra-
ti0n Of ecclesiastical property and
abolishing religious orders in the whole
Empire.