Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-29
.UN|ON|STS ON 4 NEW TACK Concessions to Ireland Now Be-
 ing Promised. DUBLIN CENTRAL COUNCIL Home Rule and Board of Agriculture ln-
 cuded Among Them. SALISBURY TO VISIT SOUTH or IRELAND King Leopold Dickering With France Hoping to Dispose of the Congo
 Free State Some Reforms
 Are Advocated.
SALISBURY TO VISIT SOUTH or IRELAND

l London, Sept. 2S-(Special Cable Let l ter.)-The lull in English politics will be broken very soon, as an informal councll | of the cabinet will be held about the mid | dle of next month. Lord Rosebery, on 1 October 16, will make a speech at scars | borough, and it is expected that he Will | then outline the liberal position The | Marquis of Salisbury speaks at water | ford on October 30 and MT. H. II. Asquith,
 Sir George o. Trevelyn, MT. G. N Cursor, | under foreign secretary; MT. w. St. John 1 Broderick under secretary of war, ana | number of others are announced to reap | pear in the arena before the end of Octo- 1 Der. What the course chiefly awaits IS 1 an explicit disclosure of the governments projects for the coming session of par hament Everything points not only 10 l one. but to two sessions denoted chieny | to Ireland. According to the Times the | land question will be settled in lS96 ana | this will be followed by an lrlsh locai 1 government measure in 1S91, Whlch VII VII | probably include the creation of central l council In Dublin.
 MT. Horace Curseen Plunket,. who ac- | companied MT. Gerald Balfour on ms re- cent tour of Ireland and who is now rec | ognized as the advisor of the chief secre- | tary has developed scheme Tor the es l tablishment of an Irish board or agricul- l ture which Is certain to lead to the TOT 1 nation of other special lrish oepai' ments. ,., l The Westminster Gazette and other llp- l eral organs admit that the unionists have | begun their admission of Irish analrs with a settled determination to aVolo co
 arcion by adopting lines followed py 1 their liberal opponents.
 "Irishmen," says the Westminster Ga
 zette. "who in ther haste call the pre- | lim.nary movement a failure speak pre- l maturely. If the unionist programme IS | carried out it will give a nucleus or l home rule. Then it will be the worK or | coordinate the Irish local bodies and l andow them with fresh powers, until | .le country wakes up to find home rue l Established with the consent or all par ! lies. .'sfs.
 Tne Aiaro,iis of Salisbury has promised
 leading Irish unionists that he will Vlslt | Dublin and the south of Ireland in July | of next year, if the business or the ses- l sion will permit Obviously the pro
 posed tour is a part of the government | eonciliatory policy.
 | The visit of the king of the Belgians to
 France, which at first was supposed by
 the Paris newspapers to merely one
 of pleasure, is now known to be in regard to the Congo Free State. l King Leopold has had several confer
 ences with M. Hanotaux, French min | ister of foreign affairs, and also with the | chief of the French cabinet. The French | papers which asserted that the king or | fered to sell the Congo state out ana out | to France seemed to be ignorant of the | fact that he was in London when going | to Paris, and was negotiating here on the | same subject. It is the opinion Of the
 best informed that King Leopold is try ing to arrange for the sale Of the congo | state on the basis of a division Of ter | ,.,;tl Y, JVrop
 land It is a complicated affair. Bel | gium in 1890 granted to the Congo state I a lien of il 000, 900 without interest, with
 power to annex the stae after the ex. | piiation of ten years. Then fTahce, II | fhe state is offered for sale, has the right | of pre-emptfon. King Leopold is much l harassed both in a monetary ana | political way He does not seem to care | whether he stirs up feuds between
 France and England and Germany. He | only wants to get out of his compiica- | tions.
 The demonstration of powerful Brit l ish squadron up the Yang-Tse-Kiang is l the sequence of the tacit refusal of the | Pekin government to satisfy the de- | ruands of the Marquis of Salisbury for | the punishment of the late viceroy Of | Sze Chuen. whom British Minister O'Con- | ner reported to be responsible for the l outrages beginning in May at the mis-
 sion stations at Cheng I'u, which were
 
 | The viceroy's term of office expiring, l he left Cheng Tu and the Pekin govern l naent tried to induce Minister OConner | to believe that the withdrawal or the l yiceroy had been enforced. and that the | aption on the part of China ought to sat isfy the British government. Lord Sails ! bury, however, instructed the British l minister that nothing would suffice less than a public imperial decree banishing the viceroy beyond the frontiers of Chi IT. A1xnA 1rfv ffar. l which he was punished was neglect to | afford protection to the missions. This 1 action of Lord Salisbury appears to have 1 been prompted by the conviction, doubt l l4ss based upon the foreign officers re- l port that the Chinese liberatti, abetted | ,hy most of the higher officials. foment l agitation against Europeans generally, | and not against the missions alone, and 1 that the degredation of the viceroy of l Sze Chuen would be blow to the liter | afti and an effective example to the i whole of China.
 | The decisive attitude of England dis | noses of the report that the foreign off, 1 fee entertained a proposal to withdraw | the missionaries to treaty ports. It is un- l derstood that the United States, although | not actively cooperating with the Brit l ish government, has been informed of | and approves the latter plans to protect l the missions which involve the strongest practical measures, in the event of the mere squadron demonstration not prov | ing sufficient to wake the government at Pekin.
 Lord Londonderry, in speech at Ri-
 pon last evening, confirmed report which has appeared in the Chronicle that the unionist leaders contemplate dras- tic change in the constitution in the
 house of lords. Lord Londonderry has
 been. lord lieutenant of Ireland and was offered but declined, post in the pres ent cabinet, and he can therefore be re- ga rded as an authority. He declared in favor of second chamber with what he termed useless peers excluded. His | statement did not include definite ] scheme. It is too soon yet to expect a