The record-union., 1891-11-21
LONDON GOSSIP.
STEPS TAKEN BY THE
LIBERAL LEADERS.
An English Tenants Rights Bill to be
Incorporated in Their
Platform.

Copyrighted, 1891, by n. Y. Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 20.-The Liberal leaders
have decided to incorporate in the plat
form approved at the Newcastle confer
ence an English tenants rights bill. This
decision is one of the most important
steps the chiefs of the party have ever
taken. The question of ameliorating the
position of British farmers has long been
recognized as ripening toward liberal
legislation. This resolution is hastened
by movement of the Conservatives in
the same direction since the great Liberal
victory in South Motion. The history of
the Conservative party presents no change
more surprising than that which has oc-
CURED on the English land question un-
der the dread of what would happen to
to the landlords interests through an up
rising of laborers and farmers under the
Liberal banner.
The tenor of opinion of leading Con-
servatiXes at the Carlton Club Wednes-
day was that the laborer must have
power to acquire small plots of land
cheaply and through a simple method,
and the State must also assist farmers to
become owners after a certain number of
years without paying more than the GUS
tomary rents. This has been commune
Gated to Lord Salisbury, with an addi-
nonal appeal from the party agents to the
effect that English land legislation pre-
cedes everything else at the next session,
and ii a measure be presented acceptable
to the agricultural interests triumph in
stead Of disaster will be the result of the
Governments appeal to the country.
The British Government will send q
delegation to the International Confer
ence on Emigration, which opens at
Paris on Wednesday next. Major
Bracket, Special Foreign Agent of the
United States, will attend. Secretary
Fosters instructions to Major Bracket.
in defining the position of the American
Government, state in substance that the
Government and people of the United
States are not adverse to the immigra-
ton of meritorious, self-supporting per-
sons, but public opinion and the laws of
the country are crystalliZing definitely in
opposition to the further immigration of
persons belonging to the helpless, de-
tective and criminal. He suggests that
some method of effective inspection of
immigrants is desirable, and any proper
measure will receive hearty cooperation
in the United States.
The English trade councils have taken
up a definite position on the necessity of
regulating the immigration of aliens.
The committee also fayors bill on lines
of the United States labor contract law.
The Attorney-General,i in opening the
session OF the Society Of Arts, appealed
to the manufacturers in their own inter
ests to be fully represented at the Chicago
fair. He referred TO the efforts of the
United States to divert trade from South
America and other countries TO Ameri-
can centers. The easy access to Chicago
from Australia, China and Japan would
bring to the fair more traders from those
countries than ever visited European ex-
hibitions. Both British trade and Brit
ish prestige would suffer unless the dis
play of British goods rivaled ANYTHING
shown at the fair. The Indian Empire
would be fifty represented.
The Prince of Wales passes many hours
at the bedside of his son, Prince GEORGE.
thought now that the Prince will re-
cover.
Queen Victoria will go to Florence in
March. From there she will visit ex-
Empress Frederick at kronburg. After
ward she will be the guest of Emperor
William at CoblentZ.
A Scotch minister, bitter anti-Papist.
has sent to the Queen a mum Der of pam
phlets issued by the Protestant Alliance.
and asked her to accept them, as she had
endeared herself TO her subjects by
preferring simple Presbyterian to cor
rupt Pap.sh worship while a resident of
Scotland. The Queens private secretary
returned the publications with the curt
statement that the Queen was unable to
accept works OF a controversial character.
George Butler, who was the Secretary
of Anson Burlingame, while the latter was
the American Minister at Pekin, has
died III Hongkong hospital.
The population of the Fiji Islands is
$4,000.