The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-05-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MAY 20, 1893.  creditors of the State for the reduction of the interest on the debt until 1898, and further proposes to suspend the amortisation for six years, and to limit the annual service on the debt to 7,500,000 dollars, affirming thst the national resources do not admit of a larger payment.  FINANCIAL retrenchment is also the order of the day in Portugal. Indeed, retrenchment is necessary to the continued existence of the State. In the Budget to be presented to the Chamber of Deputies to-day the MinisLer of Finance proposes to put an end to the too familiar deficit and to realise an intniodiate surplus within the financial year itself, by readjusting certain imposts and reforming the method of collecting the land and industrial taxes, the stamp duties and the duties on spirits. The Minister further proposes to resuseitato the former National Committee of the Public Debt, known as the Junto do Credit° Public°, which would be charged to receive in trust the revenues a.ssigned to the service of the State I Mits. He will also move a resolution in the Chamber of Deputies to the effect that the Bill introduced by Sensor Diaz Ferrier,, which is on the order of the day for to-morrow, concerning the payment in gold of 331 per cent, of the interest on the External Debt be referred to the Financial Committee 6f the Chamber, in order that the Government may propose amendments with the object of giving satisfaction to the bondholders.  Womiaw's rights are not being neglectell at Chicago. A Woman's Congress, opened at the World's Fair, is attended by representatives from England, France, Russia, Canada, South America, as well as from many of the States.  GENERAL DODDS, the returned Dahoinan conqueror, has advised a military administration of the country instead of the establishment of a native administration under French supervision. The display now being made by the troops coming back from the West Coast of Africa is little fitted to commend the General's scheme, or to appeal to the national love of glory. The weak, broken-down men will, however, be kept out of sight as far as possible.  THE Pope is an old man; and though there is nothing specially serious or alarming in the state of his health his medical attendants have advised him to refuse a number of interviews promised to pilgrims. It is expected that all pilgrimages will be discontinued from the end of May until the month of August.  KING CHARLES of Roumania has the true Hohenzollern instinct for government. He has addressed a letter to M. Catargi, the Premier, recommending that the money sent. for celebrating the anniversary of His Majesty's coronation in 1881, on the 10th inst., should be applied to the relief of the sufferers by the recent floods. The King and Queen have contributed 30,000 francs for this object.  THE friendly relations maintained with Afghanistan and the loyalty of the Ameer, Abdurralunan to the British alliance fortntunately make it possible now for British officers to move about in safety in this once inhospitable and apparently incurably hostile country. This week's telegrams report that Colonel Yate, the British Commisioner appointed for the settlement of the dispute between _A fghans and Russians, regarding the use of the water of the river Kushk, has arrived at Farah, about half-way between Candahar and Herat. He met with a hearty welcome from the inhabitants, and a. cordial letter from the Government of • Herat was waiting his arrival.  THE policy of the Indian Government is pacific, yet the power and the responsibility of Britain is ' steadily growing in the East. MajorGeneral Sir James Browne, agent to the Governor-General for Beluchistan, has recommended to the Indian Governinent the deposition of the Khan of Khelat, the murderer of his wives and of his Ministers. The Khan is too great a monster to be permitted to govern; yet his deposition means a serious addition to the British charge, if not the practical annexation of Beluehistan.