The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-19
RrIlisI, Annirr.


OF Commons, took seat in the front OPP
position bench. His advent was I'M
noticed. Soon after the ex-Premier rose, /
went over to the Radical dissentient
leader, shook hands with him and cord
tally held a conference with him and
with Harrington. Right Honorable
Arthur Wellesley Peel, Liberal member,
was elected Speaker.
AN IMPORTANT MEETING.
At a meeting of Liberal Unionists,
held in Devonshire House, the residence
OF Lord Harrington, Lord Harrington, in
a speech upon the coming Parliamentary
work, proposed that all attitude of hos
tility toward the adberents OF the late
Government be abandoned The Lib
eral sections should cooperate in an en-
deavor to secure the enactment of the
usual legislation and oppose unitedly
all proposals looking to the separation Of
the empire. He said the consolidation
Of the party was only matter of time
[Cheers-l Toward that end the Union
lists should at once identity themselves
with the rest of the Liberals by taking
seats in Commons among them. Cham
berlain followed and said he would will
lngly tFoeApt-the leadership. Harting
toms resolution was unanimously
adopted that the Radicals and Wing
Unionists should work together, and that
the leaders who are Privy Councillors
should claim their seats in the Com
mons on an equality with the Gladston-
tie leaders.
The Government has not yet decided
to call an Autumn session OF Parliament
The question will be discussed by the
Cabinet within week
The "Star's" cable special from Lon
don says: 1t is ascertained in Downing
street tonight august 6th) that the
Cabinet have decided on introducing a
large Irish measure if the support of the
Unionists can be secured. The Unionist
support is, however, considered doubt
full. In the event of the measure being
choked by Harrington and Chamberlain,
the Government will propose the follow
ing programme First, reform of the
procedure OF the House of Commons
amending the closure rules, in anticipa-
ton Of Nationalist obstruction; second,
a resolution or short bill strengthening
the hands of the executive in Ireland,
ostensibly for the preservation OF law
and order; third, the proclaiming of the
National League. These precautionary
measures would be introduced, as stated
in Downing street, to pave the way foI
general remedial measures by prevent
ing intimidation by the majority and the
free expression of public opinion.
Colonel Frederick A Stanley, Presi
dent of the Board of Trade in the new
Cabinet, has been raised to the peerage
An exchange of views among Parnell-
ties has led to the decision to give
the Government time to prepare
an Irish bill, but the Parnell-
ties will demand a measure for the sus-
pension of evictions. Owing to the fall
in prices numerous tenants in Ireland
their rents. If the introduction of an
Irish bill be postponed until Spring the
landlords will in all likelihood resort to
wholesale evictions unless restrained
from doing so.
There has been another riot at Belfast.
Herbert Spencer is seriously i'll at his
home in London.
Chamberlain has accepted the leader
7sSfssn of the Liberal JYnioniete, IN tho Com
mons.
The Parnellites Will arrange to secure
seats in the Commons for Healy and
O'Brien, who were defeated in the recent
elections.
The British Liberals think that the
presence of Lord Randolph Churchill in
the Cabinet insures them an early re-
turn to power.
English Trade Depression.
The final report of the commission ap-
pointed by the Conservative Govern
ment in 1885 to inquire into the causes o.
the depression of trade will soon be
issued. The report will announce that
the commission has not found any evil
dence of depression as regards the re-
striction OF trading operations. The
volume of British trade has increased
more than commensurably with the
growth of population. The low prices
and the consequent diminished profit
constitute the only evidence of depres
sion. There has been greatly pro
longed period of reproduction, owing
in part to the increase of wealth in the
country. The commission does not be
Geve that legislation regarding labor has
injured trade, and deprecates an increase
in the number of hours OF labor and {
dimunition of wages. The report dis
tinctlv favors trades unions.
The commission considers the recon
failure of agricu ltural production the
main, if not the sole cause of the diminu
ton of home trades, which otherwise
the commission believes, would be in {
satisfactory condition. The condition o
the working classes, the report says, has
greatly improved in the past twenty
years. Competition, both in home anC
foreio11 trade has greatly increased eS