IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2909, 27 February 1893, Page 3

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

BY ELECTION.

SCHOOL TEACHERS' PENSION,

HOME RULE,

(PIK.PRESS ASSOCIATION).

London, February 25. The election for Gateshead,; the vacancy for which was caused by the sitting member, the Hon. Walter H. James, Liberal, taking his seat in the House of Lords on the death of his father, Lord Northbourne, resulted in the return of Mr Allan, the Home Rule candidate, by a majority of 868. The election for Horsham, caused by the death of Sir W. Barttlet, resulted as follows :—Mr Johnstone, Conservative, 4150; Mr R. G. Wilberforce, Liberal, 2666. ' In reply to a resolution mov6d by Sir Richard Temple, M.P. for Kingston, Sir W. V. Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that he was in favour of a national pension scheme for school teachers. He thought that the amount would represent a capitalised sura of £25,000,000. The County Down Constitutional Association have decided to send several tiiousand Ulstermen to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square as a protest against the passing of the Home Ruje Bill. The agitation against Home Rule is increasing in intensity in portions of Ireland. The Unionist Alliance and other Irish societies are preparing a campaign on the lines of that of 1886. Apprehension in commercial aiid financial circles is not diminished. Security on mortgages and land charges is disturbed. Viscount Wolseley, speaking in Dublin, stated that the North had his sympathy since they were fighting for the Union, which must be maintained at all hazards.