The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-13
IRISH HOME RULE
BaIfOur's Policy Will be the
County Council System.
WAR SHIPS IN THE LEVANT.
Fleets of the Powers Gathering There-Cause
OF the London Coal Porters' Strike
The Men Victorious.

LONDON, Feb. Copyright, 1892, by
the New York Associated Press. Until
Bafour introduces his Irish local govern
ment bill on Thursday next, the proceed
ings in parliament will be mere party
skirmishing. Though the ministers decline
to satisfy the politicians who crave to
know the gist of the Irish proposals, the
draft of the bill, which is now in type, is
known to contain host of clauses rivaling
in compleXity
BALFoUR's LAND ACT.
A high informant describes it as in sub
stance, the application of the English
county council act without adhering
strictly to existing county areas. With
view to protect the minority-that is, the
Conservative strengthen districts where
the National vote is strong, arbitrary
electoral boundaries are created. AS in
England, three-fourths of the members of
each council are to be elected by the rate
payers, portion Of the rest by council
lors and a certain number by
to have control of the local
police, excepting the appointment of chief
constables, control of licensing, admins
tration of the poor law. asylums, industrial
schools and prisons, excepting stated gov
eminent prisons, and roads and public
works. The imperial police will be main
tanned In lessened force. The conference
OF Irish landlords recently sent Balfour,
through the Duke Of Abercorn, demand
that clergymen be excluded from county
boards, the aim being
TO DEPRIVE PRIESTS OF INFLUENCE.
Balfour declined to comply with the
wishes of the landlords.
The Irish leaders of both groups have
declared their readiness to adopt what
they can of Balfour's proposals, both con-
cur that the bill will De found in the main
impossible of acceptance. An early result
OF the combined attack on this bill will be
reunion of the Irish party.
There ls something portentiou5 in the
Simultaneous assembling in the Levant of
the fleets of the great powers. Since it be
came known that the French and Russian
squadrons in the Mediterranean are going
to Alexandria, orders have been sent TO
the Austrian admiral, RohtschiGt, now at
Smyrna, to sail with his five warships for
Pereaus, where his squadron will be Joined
by two Italian ironclads, and division of
the German squadron. Within a fortnight
the
UNITED SQUADRON OF THE DREIBUND
will be within cooperating distance of the
English feet at Alexandria if the French
design to impress the Khedive by a naval
demonstration.
The real cause of the strike of the coal
parters is the fact the mems leaders
learned their employers were com
unions sided with the coal parters
Strikers and masters had a meeting to-
day when the men offered to resume work
on condition that all strikers be reinstated
and non-union men dismissed. The mas
tiers refused. On account Of the dead lock
small dealers used the price 100 per cent
| The strikers allow coal for hospital and
charitable institutions to leave the coal
! cepots without interference.
In the commons Lord George Hamilton
said the accident to the ironclad Victoria
! had been made the subject of an inquiry,
| but refused to give details. An Associated
Press reporter learned, however, the acct
| dent was
ENTIRELY DUE TO CARELEssNEss.
A boats crew was sent out to work with q
buoy on a shoal, the existence Of which
was perfectly known to the officers. The
| shoal is very narrow and extends
| from the shore. The crew were instructed
to proceed along the shoal from the shore
until ten fathoms of water was reached
and then marx the spot with buoy
When within hundred yards of the end
the boat got off the shoal and az the next
sounding showed over ten fathoms oil
water, the crew supposed all was right and
placed buoy there. The Victoria then
came along at good speed at right angles
to the shoal to take a position for torpedo
prac ice, and passing well outside the buoy
suddenly struck the shoal. Hon. Maurice
Bourke, who with the navigating officer
is held responsible for the accident, is
A GREAT CHUM OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURG
having served with him in Malta and hav
ing visited Russia.
The King and Queen of Italy have
abandoned the i6ea of visiting England OF
account Of the death of the Duke of Clar
ence. The Prince of Naples will soor
start on tour of Australia. He will b.
accompanied by an official charged Il
report on Australia as field for Italian
immigration, the United States having
fallen into disfavor and the Argentine re
public complaining Italian immigration ha
been overdone there.