, 1908-02-12

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At the animal meeting of the Tariff Re-
form League, Viscount Ridley, who presided,
said that it's 2,186 vice presidents include 65
members Of the House of Commons ITO
peers, and 204 candidates for membership
of the House of Commons, and former
member A resolution declaring tariff re-
form to be the Unionists' official policy was
carried by acclamatron. Mr.. Joseph Cham
berlaln sent a message saying that the pro-
gress made surpasses his most sanguine ex-
pectation.
A telegram from Tangier says that Sir
Harry MacLean seems to be weaker and
looks much older than before his capture.
he says ne Will re- Join Abdul-Aziz. Raisuli
departed undis5urbed and almost unnoticed.
A Berlin despatch announces that the
Reichstag has passed the Brussels Conven-
ton and also reduced the existing duty on
sugar from fourteen to ten marks per metric
hundred weight from April 1909.
A5vices from st. Petersburg state that
the second trial of the officers of the Cars
yacht Standard has reversed their convic-
ton for wrecking her, excepting Admiral
Nlloff, who is reprlmanded for his failure to
verify the reports of his subordinates re-
garding the navigability Of ttelaks Bay.
kilograms from Lisbon state that King
Carlos life insurance, which was his entire
fortune, was pledged as security for advances,
and after repayment his heirs will receive
but six thousand pounds. The Republican
leader repudiates any responsibility for
the crime and has every confidence, he had
abandoned politics and trusted to time to
defend his course. The calm following the
assasinations proves it was no deep general
plot but q mere megcenary crime.
H. NJ. S.. Brilliant left Vera Cruz yester-
day for Portauprince.
London Feb. l0th-Mr. c.. A. Pearson
claims that his purchase of the Times is ap-
proved by seventy five per cent of the pro
prletors, but a syndicate representing $50, 1000
pounds will contest it's sale, and litigation is
expected.
The Liberals of midlothian have init
mated t. Lord Dalmeny that his devotion
to cricket is incompatible with the interests
of tho constituency, hence he has resigned
the captaincy of Tue Surrey Cricket Club.
Viscount Esher, in a letter to the Imperial
Maritime League, denies the necessity
for q naval enquiry. If, he says, he
believed the Charge against the Admi-
rally he would gladly see Sir John
Fishers colleagues meet with Admiral Byng's
fate. This possibly expresses the Kings
. ~ CudLL6o . III
cisms. It is believed the latter viii enter
politics in order to promote his views re-
gardihg naval efficiency:
During a debate upon the Anglo Russian
treaty in the House OF Lords, Lord Curzon
declared it to be bad respecting Tibet, worse
respecting Persia and dubious regarding At
ghanistan. The Earl of Cromer replied, that
Engiishmen regarded tho treaty as promo
tive of the worlds peace, if it were
criticisable othc-wi g he though the less
said the better, as the time was perhaps
coming when Europe would have to defend
the rights acquired in Asia. The Prince of
Wales was present. Some persons infer
from Lord Cromer's remarks that the Anglo
Russian treaty is designed to enable Eng
land to abandon the Japanese alliance.
Gray, the leader of the Manchester unemploy~
ed, who are marching to Windsor, while Ell
route addressed a number of Harrow boys in
the sense of a petition dated on the high
way, addressed TO the King, for permission
to view the lands of Windsor Castle, with a
view to selecting fifty acres in order to keep
his loyal subjects alive. Gray says, if his
petition is refused his followers will drag
him on a handcart draped in mourning un-
til he dies, for he will not eat until the
peoples just demands have been granted.
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