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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 4, 24 June 1890, Page 4

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(Per R.M.S. Zealandia.) A stove, was .throwu into the courtyard of Murlborough House on "at- •, urday, May 24th, wrapped in paper beariug the words " Give us bread il you would reign," aud signed "thous- ' arids of starving Englishmen." The Government proclamation for.bidding the Tipperary meeting, was again .defied on May 27. Messrs Dillon and Q'Brien held a meeting i ! just outside the town of Cashel, and spoke to immense crowds. The gatherings were- several times interrupted, but were resumed with determined persistence. Bodies of police charged '■with' their batons, but fin :lly, the policemen's efforts proring-'unavaihng a troop of Hussarswas called to charge. The affair then assumed the proportions of T a riot. Many were injured by the police and soldiers, and some of the latter were also hurt. Mr Gladstone predicts an > early general election. In the course of a * Ispeech he made at Hawarden on May 27, >he denounced the Bill for the _r<;oDipensation of publicans who were de- , prived of their license system, which he said, ought to be rested in- the local —elective, bodies. , It would add £300,---•000;000 to^ the' national debt to purchase, the publicans' licenses. ' ' - "'ln reply to a delegation concerning •the -eight hour question that .waited *m him on' May 21st Lord Salisbury declared the limitation of a day's work: rto eight hours impossible. The ■system meant ruin to small^ concerns; time and wages should be regulated in accordance • with the capacity of capital." -He- was ' opposed to aay^ (thing like compulsory measures^ v The~Errglish"~caa2 ; FeF"was"repqrted *on May 24 to be glutted, with beef. Seven thousand cattle awaited ' slaughter at Dwptford. The AmeriCan steamers had abandoned cattle -carrying charters. ;r It.is rumoured that Queen Victoria wanted to make her daughter Beatrice -Duchess of Sussex, but Lord Salisbury declared he would resign if ~" such a^ step were taken.. The English people, he, said, regarded 1 the peerage as no longer a mere ap- - « J pendage of the Crown, but a rank ' - 'Created by the British Constition, only to be conferred as a mark of Royal ~ iavour under most exceptional cases. . • There are, many conflicting stories j -as to Mr Parnell's defeuce in tha . divorce case. One prevalent report is , that, he will not defend the case,iand r that the upshot of the affair will be ;that he will marry Mrs O'Shea. It was bruited'in political circles on "May 10th that Mr Gladstone would : sacrifice his own hopes of Treturning to power by joining Lord '' -Salisbury iv an effort f o make a j fi Land Purchase Bill that will be ac- j , 'cep'tajble to Ireland, and to secuie for ; it the support of the Liberal party. Mr H. M. Stanley is engaged *-b be ! - " 'married to Miss Dorothy Tennant-iu-| J^July' next. The engagement ,was ! .'"'Umade pievious to his last departure *• T^ 'for Africa She is the lady who posed ■for Sir John Millais when he painted „ famous pictuie " Yes or No." After 'his marriage, according to re- : Stanley will be appointed Gov-jfernor-Geueral .of the Congo Free State by King Leopold, to rule over , >an area of 1,056,000 square miles, a.pppulation black and white, of 1 - _ - - -Lord Salisbury has administered a > irehuke 'to Stanley for meddling in , ot British State policy that do ■ * mot concern him. ;