, 1913-03-22
MS.
ST. GROIN STATION.

London, March 19th.-The "Morning POST
condemns a speech delivered on Saint Pa
tricks Day at Washington by Mr.. Bryan,
Secretary of State, one passage of which de-
clarel that Home Rule victory signifies the
end of hereditary government and the deg
radiation of the House of Lords. The 'Morn-
ing Post" does not suppose Mr.. Bryan in
tended any offeuse, nevertheless many Eng
lishmen resent his gratnitous and unwarrant-
able interference in the domestic affairs of
the United Kingdom, aud it asks what Mr..
Bryan and Americans would have thought
if the British press had declared Mr.. Bryan's
defeat was a crushing OF q dangerous dema-
gogue. MIR. Bryan has repeated his Wash
ingtOn speech at Chicago.
Mr.. John Redmond, NJ. 2. presiding at
q nationalist banquet, read q telegram an
nouncing aremittance of ten thousand dollars,
the announcement being received With cheers.
He declared that opposition TO Home Rule
was dead and the Irish now need only pa
thence until Home Rule is automatically ac-
complished. The Hotel Cecil having surren-
dered to the striking cooks and walters, the
banquet was not interrupted.
Queen Alexandra presented Shamrock to
the Irish Guards on Saint Patrick's Day.
The Admiralty have announced the promo
ton Of the Prince of Wales to Lieutenant,
upon the eve of his departure for Germany.
Unusual numbers OF the members of the
House of Commons, Of all parties, displayed
The shamrock or green publicly, indicating
the growing recognition Of Ireland as a ma
ton.
The Royal Geographical Society will pre-
sent Lady SEQ t with a cashet bearing an in
scription and containing the Patrons medal
and u special Antarctic medal.
Lady Scott will execute a bust of her late
husband for the Christ Church Art Gallery,
NewZ4aIanA, having subscribed for q sepur-
ate memorial.
The Chimes publishes a Joint letter, sign
ed by several doctors, saying that the forci-
bic feeding of Miss Lenton, imprisoned in
connection with the fire in Kew Gardens, had
resulted in al injection of food into the
lungs, necessitating her discharge lest her
death should compromise the Home Office.
Three other invaded hunger strikers have
been released. Mrs. Paukhurst, in the course
of % speech, said that her daughter Sylvia,
was trying to release herself as q prisoner of
war from the enemy, and that she had been
forcibly fed and put in solitary confinement
at which there were cries Of "Why don't
you blow up Asquith or shoot him? Mrs.
Pankhurst revlled the Labourites, who, she
oi1O5 hbN lNC0lNON PCIoOhIl pCOuIlhLH u6lD
from the suffragettes, without rendering
them any return.
MIR. Lansbury, an ex-Lnbourite member of
the House Of Commons, has accused the po-
lice of not protecting suffragette meetings,
and threatened that they would arm to pro-
tect themselves.
Some sufflagettes invaded a meeting of
the constitutional Suffragettes, which was
being a ldressel by Mr.. Snowden, a Labcur-
tie member of the House of Commons.
Upon the Oh irman's direction to eject
the invaders, male aud female, the female
stewards attacked them and were vigorously
resisted, but finally conquered the assailants
and the meeting proceeded.
Advices from Ottawa state that several
letters addressed to British editors explod-
ed while being stamped, and three Post
Office employees were mortally injured.
Ottawa, March 19th naval debate
has been resumed, the suggestions of the
closure being greeted with shouts of Rus
sian methods" mob rule" and ''rattle
snakes. The necessity of giving notice,
and the intervention of the Easter holidays,
will prevent an immediate application of the
closure.
London, March 19th-A despatch from Sa-
lonica reports the assassination there of King