The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-20
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British Bits.

London, 19.-Tuckett, the Australian
oarsRsn, and Hanlon are ezpected 70
meet on the Thames in October.
The young Californian, Mdlle. Nevada,
was favorsbly received at Her Majesty
Theatre, Haymarket, last night, IN lis
Somnambuls.
Besconsfeld and Northcote will address
a meeting of conservatives il Bridewater
House to-day.
1t is believed the Queens speech on
The Resembling of Parliament, to-mor-
row, will allude briefly to the result Of
the general election. Sympathetic re-
ference will be made TO the distress in
Ireland, but the tone regarding the
future will be hopeful. Measures for the
amelioration of the condition OF tenant
! farmers will be promised. Asrenewal OF
the ballot act and the introduction Of
census bill may claim mention IN con-
nection with the maintenance OF
European peace. The speech will an
announce the dispatch to the powers of
circular by Lord Granville, foreign
secretary, and indicate the reception 1t
will be made to the psciication and re-
organization now proceeding in South
Africa.
A parliamentary commission will be
appointed to invest gate the revenues of
city companies and trade guides, and
the mode of their application.
London, 19.-The Times, this morn
ing, in an editorial on the Fortune Bay
dispute, says: To a great extent the
statesmen who were originally response
bic for the treaty of Washington are
now again in power in this country, and |
will not shrink from the task of amend |
ing it where they see need for amend |
ment. The rights conferred by the treaty, |
whether on American or British fisher |
men, are, as Secretary Evarts contends, |
not exclusive, but common. The agree |
ment suggested by Secretary Evsrts that !
the contracting parties should, by some |
joint action, adopt regulations protecting |
fisheries, would at any rate prevent a
future controversy; nor need there be
any insuperable obstacle to an amicable
adjustment of the present dispute.
Samuel Plymsoll, liberal, has offered
to resign his seat in Parliament for Derby
in favor of Sir VIM. Hsrcourt. Plym-
soils supporters have decided to recon-
mend the acceptance of his offer. In the
election for Wigtown Borough, j.
McLsren, liberal, was defeated by Mark
Stewart, conservative. the defeat is
10 MCLAIel ) alleg6u COuueC-
tion with Fagot houses and the disappro-
val by the ultra PIesbyterians of the APP
pointment of the Marquis of Ripon and
by Lord KenmRre, TO Offices under the
crown, they being Roman Catholics.
Henry Ashworth, well-known manu-
facturer of Manchester, and a prominent
Cobdenite politician, died at Florence,
Italy, of Roman fever.
1t Is stated that the conservatives are
determined to oppose the election Os Sir
William Harcourt at Derby. 1t is said /
Sir Robert Peele will be invited to stand.
Rome, 19.-Almost the complete re-
suits of the election for members of the I
Chamber of Deputies show the return of
40 constitutionalists, 173 ministerislists,
and 81 dissident left. Second ballots are
to make these figures, l75, 249, /
and 81, respectively.
Blackburn, 10. - An unconditional /
Of work by the striking cetton
operatives is expected.