Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21
FOREIGN NEWS.


 An English Tenants, Rights BiIl to
 be Incorporated in the Liberal Plat
 fOrm-England at the Worlds Fair
 Typhoid Fever Prevalent in Lon.
 don.
 Copyrighted by the Associated Press.l
 LONDON, Nov. 20.-The liberal leaders
 have decided to incorporate in the platform
 approved at the Newcastle conference an English tenants rights bill. The decision is one of the most important steps that the responsible chiefs of the party have ever taken. The question of ameliorating the position of British farmers by giving them greater security for their capital and from harassing covenants imposed by land lords has long been recognized as ripening toward the bud. The liberal victory in South Motion and the convic- tion that the capture of the rural vote by the rurals will lead them to overwhelming success in the general elections have lifted the measure in favor of tenant farmers into the front rank of liberal proposals. This resolution on the part of the liberals has been hastened by the movement of theAonseIvatives in the same direction. The history of the con- servative party presents no change more surprising than that which has oc- cured on the English land question.
 Since the South Motion election the tory Globe has led in advocating the adoption in England of the principles of the Irish land-purchase act. The laborer must have power to acquire small plots of land cheap state must also assist farmers to become 0wnara after A cartajn nnnhar nf without paying more than the customary rents. This was the tenor of speakers opinion at an informal gathering of influential conservatives at the Carl ton club on Wednesday, and it has since been communicated to Lord Salisbury, with an additional appeal from number of party agents to the eff fect that if English land Legislation pre- cede everything else at the next session of parliament and measure be presented acceptable to the agricultural interest, tri- umph instead of disaster will be the result of the governments appeal to the country. It is expected that Lord Salisbury will give some inkling of his intentions in a speech at the conservative caucus on Mon day next. In the meantime it is uncer- tain to what length the liberal leaders will go in shaping the tenant farmers bill The drift of opinion at the National Lib eral club is in favor of giving the farmers judicial rents, fixed as in Ireland for definite period and purchasing powers similar to those granted by the Ashbourne act. MT. Gladstone retains an open mind on the subject, on which he will speak at the agricultural conference to be held on December 10.
 The British government will send dele gate to the international conference on foh ,v, De- "a nesday next. The delegate is charged simply to watch the proceedings of the conference. Major Fred Bracket, special attend the conference under orders from the treasury at Washington. Jules Simon will preside. The delegates will go to Havre to inpsect the vessels engaged in carrying emigrants and the general ar for the accommodation of emigrants. Secretary Fosters instructions to Major Bracket state that the confer ence is composed of delegates from European countries whose chief problem is while in the United States the question is exclusively immigration. The secretary adds that the government and people of the United States are not averse to the immigration of meritorious, self persons, but public opinion and oho AoWo ol oAo CouAtIy dlo CI ystdlllLluS III opposition to further immigration of per sons belonging to helpless, defective and criminal classes. He suggests that some method of inspection of emigrants is de- sirable and that any proper measure for the emigration of the masses will receive the hearty cooperation of the United States.
 The attorney general, in opening the session of the Society of Arts, appealed to in their own interests to be fully represented at the Chicago worlds fair. He referred to the efforts made in the United States to divert British trade from South America and other countries to American countries, and said that the China and Japan would bring to the fair more traders from these countries than had ever visited European exhibitions. British trade and British prestige would suffer unless the display of British goods rivalled anything exhibited at the fair.
 The Prince of Wales passes many hours at his sons bedside, who is ill with typhoid fever. The fact that Prince George has reached the thirteenth day of his illness without suffering delirium, is much in favor of his rapid recovery. Typhod fever is quite prevalent in London, 279 cases having been reported during the past week.
 A Scotch minister, bitter anti-papist, sent to the queen number of phamphlets issued by the Protestant alliance, and asked her to accept them, as she had en- deared herself to her subjects by prefer ring the simple Presbyterian to the cor rupt papish worship while a resident in Scotland. Sir H. F. Ponsonby, the queens private secretary, returned the publica- tions with the curt statement that the queen was unable to accept works of 8 con-