Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28
Is What Ex-Premitr Salisbury Is
 Now Agitatiug.
ULSTER UNI0NIsTs AT OUTS
The Queen and Czar-War in China and It's Effect
 on Trade.


 burg on Monday in reply to the address which Lord Rosebery is to deliver at Brad ford this evening. A forecast of Lord 5alis- bury's speech as accepted at the, Carlton club, credits the ex-prime minister with the purpose of appearing in the role of a reformer of the house of lords, not on the drastic principles of limiting the executive powers of the hereditary branch of parlia- ment, but providing for house of peers, part of the members of which shall be elected by the people, the remainder hold ing their seats by right of birth.
 The tories have become convinced that the time has come when the. upper house must be tended or mended, . and they hope for the creation of a second chamber, in the makeup of which the conservative element shall still predominate.
 Another scheme of Lord Salisbury, which he advances as an alternative to the prin- ciple of house of peers, partly elective and partly hereditary, provides for .a greater infusion of life into the existing house of lords, with the proviso that wnen- ever bill that has been passed by the house of commons shall have been twice rejected by the peers ihe measure shall be referred to the country at large.,
 Both plans of Salisbury, so far as they are kuown, indicate that abridgement of powers of the house of lords will be given a place in the forefront of the election pro-
  ment for Merionashire, the government whip, gave glimpse of the official bills to be considered at the coming session of parliament in the address to his constit- uents. MT. Ellis said that besides a meas ure for the reform of the house of lords, therew ould be introduced bill for the disestabl ish ment of the ch urci in Wales. Thespllt among the Irish unionists over the land bill is decisive. MT. Thomas Rus sell, who represents the south division of Tyrone in the house of comm ons, leads the protestant farmers of Ulster in their adher- ence to and support of the proposals made by John Morley. The result is that the unionsts of Ulster are breaking to pieces, and the landlord party are fighting the farmers. This rupture, 1t Is believed, will enab ble the nationalists to secure five of-tneo seats for Ulster at the next general elec- tfon.
 The tenor of the court advices from Yalta Is supposed to lead to the beiet that the arrangements for the winter entertain. monts at Sandringham will be continued. The report that the invitations to a num- Der of house parties, which are to begin next week and extend until after Christmas have been cancelled, is entirely without founda- tion. No arrangement ts already made will be changed unless the death, of the czar shall become an event to be looked for in a very short time. ss.s..5....
 Queen Victoria receives daily dispatch from the czar's aide de camp, General Count Vorontsoff, giving the latest news regarding his majesty's condition. The Princess of Wales also receives daily dis patch from the czarina, who expresses her. self as sanguine that the czar will be able to start for Corfu in about a fortnight. '~'
 M. Beckendorff, Russia's court chamber lain, who is now at the villa Monrepos, in | Corfu, has received instructions to com | plete all preparations there for the recep- | ton of his majesty by Novemb Der 6, and | then to proceed to Livadia for the cEar. | The Princess of Wales will not go to Rus sia, as it has been announced it. was her | intention to do, unless she shall bo sum- | moned by the czarna in consequence of | the development of the czar's maiady.
 The queen has been very much palned by | seeing the canards published in the news | papers to the effect that the princess had | been forced into refusing her rfaith and pro- fessing that of the Greek church, and also | into the marriage with the czarowitch. | Contrary to this everything is harmonious, and the mutual affection exhibited by the | czaroWitch and the princess shows that | their union will be a love match.e The statement that the Princess Alix has been obliged to be rebaptiZed or to anathematize the faith in which she was brought up is 1 absolutely untrue. so much improved by the time the wedding takes place to make It possible for the cere mony to be performed m church.
 Among the comments upon the condition of the czar is a notable leader by the Jewish
 
 from disease at a spot from'wbich' he has driven away the Jews who were accustomed to seek the reStor- ation of their health aaAtsr 4..hav- ing been con fined in northern towns. Phe Jews made Yalta and maintained- it until driven out and financially ruined by the peasants who boarded them. As recently. as last smontb ukase, though generally further abridging the rights of the Jewish farmers. The article concludes: May | the growth of mercy be stimulated and the l czar' mind softened by his snffering, '.'.s.
 Today Is advices,- detailing the. rout of | the Chinese near Yalu river, with so little fight, has been expected. Mrs. Pope, a | missionary at Moukden, says that on Sep | tember ,2 she had seen the Chinese regi-- | mentsp pn their way to the front and there 1 was not 2 single gun oi modern dsat1a5q make tirely Of antique muzzle.ioaders and match |
 Many of the soldiers, she adds. were without even these, their only weapons of | defense being spears and bow and arrows. During the stay of the force at Moukden it was ih creased by the enlistment of able- bodied beggars and cooiess. ss..<er ao4asss
 This slarmy set of after three weeks of drilling As the army marched out many of the soldiers said they were going out to be shot. Executions for desertion from | the Chinese army have been frequent, as many as fourteen men having been be- headed in 8 single day.
 The supplies of the Chinese army, &C., cording to Mrs. Bishop, are not sufficient for a much smaller force than the tens of thousands now on the march, and the troops rely for subsistence upon whatever they are able to seize from the residents of the country through which they psss. The army is absolutely without any medical supplies, and is attended by no ambulancs cofpa, 1t being the custom of the Chinese to strip all who may be wounded in battle l-. |. 8oi6