Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-01
THEAIR FULL Of DYNAMITE. Sensational RumorS Since the Cabinet Council Convened. CELESTIAL AND THE GAUL Have Principally Engaged the Attention of
 Salisbury and His Cabinet. TROUBLE IS BREWING IN THE ORIENT Lancashire Spinners Beginning to Realize That They Were Duped-Labor Com
 mittee Needing Out the Social
 ists, Hardie Among Them.
TROUBLE IS BREWING IN THE oRIEN'

London. Aug. 31-Special Cable Let ter)-Since a hurriedly convened cabi- net council was held in the room of Ex-
 Rt Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, first lord of the treasury, on Wednesday night, sensational rumors have sent a British fleet to Besika bay. created demonstra- tions in the Bosphorus and attributed to
 Russia and France a variety of treach-
 erous plottings st Constantinople Semi
 official information has partly confirmed the Marquis of Salisbury's brief state
 ment yesterday in the house of lords
 that it was France and China that en- gagged chiefly the attention of the cabi- net
 The question of the Mekong river, to which the prime minister referred, has no special urgency, but the active att tempt of Russia, supported by France and favored at Pel1in to oust Sir Robert Hart from the control of the Chinese customs and replace him with Russian and French officials demanded the inn mediate intervention of the British for | eign office. The government had been warned by private advices from Pekin and Shanghai that Sir Roberts dis | missal was imminent. Dispatches from | the British minister at Pekin confirmed tS Russia control of the customs were | threatened. It is understood that the cabinet has decided to interpose in the matter. !; Nothing authentic has transpired con corning the relations between England
 and Turkey, except that the Marquis of Salisbury continues show of concert with Russia and France. If the prime | minister suspects that these powers are secretly inspiring their agents covertly ! TDx,tt known instructions to Sir Philip Cur rie, the British ambassador to Turkey, indicate that he is conscious thereof. A bitter cry comes from the Lancashire cotton manufacturers, who have become disilusioned in regard to the conserva- tive election promises to abolish the cot ton duties in India. Lancashire added fourteen to Lord Salisbury's majority, believing that these duties would be swept away. Lord George Hamilton att tackled them in a memorable debate in March, but now that Lord George is sec
 retary of state for India he declines to | pledge himself to anything until he has consulted the government of India, to which he forwards all Lancashire mem orials. The Indian government, recently responding to some of these memorials. declared that the cotton duties are absO- lutely essential, and Lord George will
 now let the promises "slide."
 The withdrawal of MT. Justin McCar- thy from the leadership of his party after the parliamentary recess is permanently decided upon.
 Independent action. coercive or other | wise, on the part of Great Britain against the porte in connection with the troubles in Armenia can definitely be de- clared to have been abandoned, and, furthermore, it can be said that it is doubtful if such action was ever in- tended. The reports concerning the ac- tion that Great Britain proposes to take had their. origin in Vienna, in notori- ously unreliable source and from that city stories continue to be sent out to the effect that Prime Minister Salisbury was preparing to use force against the Sul- tan, to enforce his demands that re- forms be established in the administra- ton of the Armenian provinces These
 stories melted the jingo papers to pub fish laudations of the conservative policy in favor of oppressed nationalities Sud denly the tone of the inspired tory press
 was entirely altered. The belief in British intervention was too thoroughly pervadng the public mind so the Globe, | the St. James Gazette and other papers | have been set to work to counteract this | impression.
 indicate that Lord Salisbury Is renewing his old alliance with the porte and implies that there will be no genuine intervention in American affairs.
 The Trades union congress, which will | open at the Park hotel, Cardiff, on Mon | day next, remaining in session for the five | following days, will be the liveliest meet | ing of the kind in recent years.
 | Throughout the present week the par | liamentary committee of the trades un- | ions has been sitting in Cardiff examin- | ing the credentials of the delegates eX- | cising the names of those who no longer follow the trades they are alleged to | represent and generally preparing by | force or strategy to weaken socialist rep | resentation. The decisions arrived at | by the committee exclude Kier Hardie, who could not be present anyway as he | is at present in America; Tom Mann, John l Burns, Sam Woods. Ben Tillet, Fenwick l and Broadhurst. A number of trades | unions who are excluded from represen- | tation will send delegates, who, it is | threatened, will force their way into the | congress immediately after it opens. | MT. J. H. Wilson. member of the housd | of commons, a well-known member of the | labor party. will challenge the action of | the committee.
 Mir Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state for the colonies. repudiates the re- port that was started by the Rev Price Hughes to the effect that he advocated in the cabinet a scheme of military con- scription and fines in lieu of service, the fines going to float an old age pension fund. Though MT. Chamberlain is known as an advocate or voluntary enlistment some influences inside and outside the cabinet favor the conscrlption system. Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, who suc- ceeds the Duke of Cambridge comman-
 der-in-chief of her majesty's forces, ad-
 vscates this system as being necessary to the existence of Great Britain, and the Duke of Devonshire, lord president
 of the council sympathizes with it.
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 on the Bessemer and Birming- Do