Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-25
THE OLD WORLD.
oLsvrR Aos,EvsMESr.
a small budget nnd IRS Decrease Reported
An Indignation Mestug Helu in
treisnd.

a small NudEet and IRS Decrease Reported
An Indignation Mestiug Helu In
reI,ud.
The budget was presented to the House
of Commons on Thursday. IL was the
smallest recorded aud was received with
ch' els Crom tho Liberal side. Tho docu
meut was presented aud explained by the
Right Hon. Hugh &. Childers, chancellor
OF the exchequer, aud the occasion beiug
his hrst pubic appearance in the House
for some time he was accorded an ovation
Inc government in the budget made twO
extraordinary propositions which coca o.
stoned such surprise as To baille imme-
diato parliamentary comment. Tho first
was To degrade the gold currency OF the
realm by increasing the alloy and decCeas
ing the tiuencss to something like the
American standard. II is understood that
the governors OF the bank Of England are
the motive power behind this scheme and
that their object is to secure grade of
gold coinage that will enable Eug laud tO
retain the position 1t has been gradually
losing as the attractive centre for the gold
currency Of the world.
Mr. Cuiiders stated that the finances of
| the country were ia such a satisfactory
coudttIuu that the government felt ablo to
| recommend somO general decrease in the
present taxation, aud, believing II 10 be
wise to give the reliot where it would be
most widely felt, proposed to reduce the
present du'y on tobacco four pence p'r
pound, whi,h would prove an enormous
saving t. the people. This statement
made the Liberals fairly wild with euthu-
siasm aud threw the Conservatives into
profound gloom. The budget is the
talk of tho town aud Is everywhere
accepted as about tho clevcrest
achievement of the Gladstone ministry
The Tories, however, pretend to regard
the whole thing as campaign doc
umcnt of promises not meant to be
fIldled. They describe tho proposal 20
reduce the tob icCO duty as trick Of the
premier to secure the popular favor and
prepare the public mind for proposition
to Culist the country iu new SOudan
war, To begin with q thoroughly equipped
military expedition for the relief OF Khar
toum. II is now known thai Mr., Glad.
stone has decided upon such au cxpedt
tlOn.
A stormy irish Convention.
There was a stormy convention Of the
IRISH National league of county rIppe
rary. at Thurlos, on Thursday. Many of
the delegates told pitiful stories OF this
sutfsrugs endured by evicted tenant farm
ers in the country and bitter and angry
complaints were made of the iuefIl ,.,u Y
aud uselessness OF the league if II oou
do nothing toward diminishing Jlr t's,
treSs. The chairman of the convention
aud other officers of the league replied
that there were No funds at the disposal
OF the organization for the relief of th dis
| tress complained Of.
This declaration further excited the
wrath of the complaining delegates and
many OF them hDtly retOrted by attacks
on Nr. Paruelrs scheme for the collection
OF $40, 900 for the payment of salaries "
! Irish home rule members of Parliament.
| These delegates cOutcuded that Tipperary
county had always done its full share il
responding to this aud all other demands
of the league leaders, but that 1t was not
in Irish blood to stand calmly by and So,
such outrageous cruelty and distress wheI
the money that should be used to modif.
the sutferiugs of those who had staked auC
lost all i'll defense of league principles wa
being sent out of the country 10 suppor
| luXuriously IN London number of mel
who might as well be at home for all tn
good they were doing for Ireland. Tn
convention broke up in confusion aud Mr
Parnelrs collectors are likely to NEE
trouble hereaft er in Tipperary.