, 1911-08-12

ed whether the King ha prOinlSet 10 make
as many Peers us the G)vernment demand
ca regardless Of the necessity, bat L)rl
Morley declined to answer what he ies.
cribed as such u juvenile inquiry. Lord
Sant AIivyu said that Lord HtIsbury had
asked the Unioniats to net so as to compel
such action as Lord Salisbury indicttei, ne
never would place the King IN such u cruel
position. The House adjourned at m.l-
might amid a Il manifest Ministerial depression.
The result Of what the division will be IS
apparently doubtful
Ia the House Of Commons, Mr. Churchill
stated that if Jhe strike was not settled by
to-day it would be necessary for the Govern
ment to take steps for the maintenance OF
order and preservation OF London's food
supply. Troops are under orders at Aldershot.
Mr.. Ben IiIlet, addressing the strikers on
Tower HIN, said that orders had been issued
raising the total to one hundred thousand,
and he declared that if the Government
used the soldiers, as Mr.. Churchill had mt
mated during the debate IN the House OF
Commons, the strikers would kill the Gov
erumeut us effectively as they would para
I'VE the trade Of London.
Enc Strikers are less orderly as they
begin to feel the pinch, and there IS much
overturning of vans and destruction Of sup
Plies. the women ASSISTING Ia IuCiI- ~
supplies are being moved without the assis-
lance of the police. The wholesale price Ell
meat IS fvopenco a pound dearer, and the
retailers demand prices embarrassing all bat
the weIl-to-lo. The miIlors have demanded
military pro- lection for their flour stocks,
declaring That otherwise there viii be a
famine in three days. lee is treble tho us
ual price with the thermometer at ninety
five and the members of the House of Com
mons sitting in the House III their SHIRT
sleeves. The Board Of Trade has been sue
cessful in making partial settlements de-
pendent upon Il total settlement, the men re-
flsIng any settlemeut whatever otherwise.
1T is estimated that he strikers are COM
posed of ten thousand lockers, thirty thou
sand carriers, SIX thousand ligLtormoa, SIX
Thousand coal porters, eight thousand steve
dores, five hundred tugboat engineers and
several thousand cusual5, besides many chou
sands who are indirectly IDLE. One bundled
and ff,y steamers are disabled, and hundreds
OF tons Of f,odstuft4 are spelling.
The conditions at Liverpool are Alarming,
several encounters having taken place be
tween the railway employees and freight
porters and the police, and similar conditions
prevail ut Manchester.
The Carlton Hotel has been badly dam
aged by IRE, disseminating many 3leNi0.
Th, only fatality reported is that Of lLr.
Kinney, an actor.
\ despatch from Melbourne states that
the United States has declined the Common
wealth's proposal for Il reciprocal two cent
postage.
Adyices from Rome report that the Pope is
olarmingIy i'll with gout, his condition being
aggravated by the iutoIerable heat.
Anxiety is felt in Paris over the appear
once OF cholera in the provinces. Twenty
deaths have occurred ut Alarsoilles, and one
hundred cases have been notified at Brest,
and fifty at Quimper. The thermometer
registers ninety uine degrees.
A Gibraltar despatch reports a collision
between the steamers Emjr and Sliyertou off
Turifa, the former, which was en- route to
Morocco, toauderju4 with the loss of ninety
three lives. he SiIverton rescued twenty seven
and arrived at Gibraltar with her bows stove.
The Venezuelan Government has granted
a concession for the winter supply and sewer
age OF Caracas, and General ChaIbaud has
sailed for England to finance the undertake
ing. Concessions have also been granted for
banking, navigation and other enterprises.
Grenada 1lth H NJ. S Aeolus arrived
fr,n, HrIniIal yn.tarloy afternoon