The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-25
THE QUEENS SPEECH.
Usual Platitudes About Ireland
and Everywhere Else
Behring Sea Trouble.
nu Cab1e to tlle United Press.

BD Gable to the United Press.
LONDON, Aug. 25 1s94-Queen Vic
toria prorogued Parliament today. In
her speech closing the session, her Majes-
ty said
i my Lords and Gentlemen,--It af-
fords me sensible qualification to be
able to dismiss you at the end of
session which has been little less than
a prolongation of the previous one, and
it gives me pleasure to reflect that your
labors, If they have been exhausting,
have also been fruitful. | am confident
that you share in the joy with which
and my people have welcomed the birth
of an heir in the third generation to my
throne-an event not merely propitious,
but unprecedented in the history of this
country.
MY relations with foreign powers con-
tinues to be friendly and peaceful. 1t
is, however. matter of regret that a
variety of questions relating to Africa,
between my Government and that of
the French Republic, still remain un-
settled. 1t is my wish that these be ar
ranged without unnecessary delay, and
am engaged in friendly negotiations
looking thereto.
BEHRING'S SEA.
I'm concert with the President of the
United States, / have taken the steps
necessary to put into effect the award of
the Tribunal of Arbitration on the ques-
ton of the seal fisheries in Behring Sea,
and have assented to an act of Parlia-
ment for this purpose similar to the
act which has been passed by the Con-
gress of the United States
The Governments of the two coun-
tries are also in communication with
the principal foreign powers with a
view to obtaining their adhesion to the
regulations prescribed by the award.
II regret to state that war has
broken out between the Empires of
China and Japan. After endeavoring, in
concert with Russia and other powers,
to prevent the outbreak of hostilities,
have taken steps to preserve a strict
neutrality between the contending par
ties. l have concluded treaty with the
Emperor of Japan for the regulation of
commercial Intercourse between that
country and the United Kingdom.
COLONIAL AFFAIRS.
"a conference was held at ottawa
in June, at which representatives of the
Imperial Government. of the Dominion
and of the Cape and Australasian colon
les met to consider questions relating to
intercolonial tariffs and communication.
[ have learned with satisfaction that
the proceedings of the conference were
of character calculated to strengthen
the union of the colonies concerned
both among themselves and with the
Mother Country.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
4 thank you for the liberal supplies
which you have provided for the re
luiremasst of the public service, though
[ lament the necessity for increasing the
burden of taxation. 1t had become in
dispensable for the security of my En-
pire. | trust that the alteration which
you have made in the fiscal system of
the country, and to which the greatest
part of this session has been necessarily
devoted, will have the effect of materi-
ally alleyiating all that portion of the
burden which falls upon the less wealthy
classes of the population. and may re-
dound to the contentment and prosper
lty of the nation at large.
A WORD ABOUT IRELAND.
'sMy Lords and Gentiemen.-Whilet the
general tranquility of Ireland has been
maintained in a remarkable degree, GER
tain social and administrative difficulties
still exist. which continue to engage
the earnest attention of my Government.
Il have given my ready assent to
the bills which. despite the shortness
Of the session, you have been able to
consider and mature
Her Majesty also said she trusted
that the final settlement of the Anglo
French questions in Siam would not be
long delayed. She recounts the passage
of the local government for Scotland
and the ecualized rates in London bills
and Of a number of minor measures,
and prays that the blessings of Provi-
dence may rest upon the labors of Par
lament.
At 2:45 o'clock the House of Commons
were summoned to the House of Lords.
Lord HerschelI, the Lord Chancellor,
read the Queens speech, after which
Parliament was formally prorogued for
six weeks