THE IMPERIAL REVENUE RETURNS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3658, 5 April 1883, Page 3

THE IMPERIAL REVENUE RETURNS.

HER MAJESTY RECOVERING FROM HER RECENT ACCIDENT. COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL BILL PASSED SECOND READING IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. ■V FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION IN ENGLAND. THE TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND PORTUGAL. ABDICATION OF THE KING OF ASHANTEE.—THE COUNTRY IN A TURMOIL. MOVEMENTS OF THE FENIAN WALSH. O'DONOVAN ROSSA PREDICTS EXPLOSIONS IN ENGLAND. ANNIIIILAITON~OF A COMPANY OF AMERICAN TROOPS BY THE APACHE INDIANS. LONDON. April 2. The Imnerinl revenue for the Ihianeial year ended March 31st amounted to £890,000,000. April :;. Her Majesty the Queen has sufficiently recovered from the accident to her knee, occasioned by falling down a staircase at AVindson Castle on tho 22nd ultimo, to take carriage exercise, but is quite incapable of walking, .md can scarcely stand. The "Government Bill for the establishment of a Court of Criminal Appeal has been read a second time in the House of Commons. Intelligence is to hand that twenty-six persons have been killed and thu-ty-nine injured by a boiler explosion at the iron Avorks at Staizier (*''■)■ April -1. In the House of Commons last night, Mr Gladstone assenting, a motion Avas adopted setting forth that no treaty should be concluded with Portugal unless the same guaranteed that England should have commercial freedom on the Congo and perfect freedom in her action towards civilising the Central African tribes. News is to hand from Ashantee that the King has abdicated, and that the country is now in a, state of great confusion. The men recently arrested at Liverpool in connection Avith the landing of explosives have boon examined privately. It is believed they are implicated in the recent explosions in London.