LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 3061, 25 August 1886, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. «■•■* BRITISH PARLIAMENT. THE DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS-IN-REPLY. REPORTED BRITISH PROTECTORATE OVER THE ELLIOE GROUP. COLONIAL VISITORS AT SHEFFIELD. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE DEPOSITION OP THE PRINCE OF BULGARIA. REVULSION OF FEELING IN FAVOUR OF THE PRINCE. (Received August 25, 1 a.m.) London, August 24. The debate on the Address-in-Reply was resumed in the House of Commons yesterday. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chief Secretary for Ireland, stated that the Government would do its utmost to ensure the prosperity of Ireland, but at the same time maintain the union of that country with England. The Marquis of Hartington expressed his approval of the policy of the Government to institute an inquiry into the causes of discontent in Ireland. His Lordship asserted that tha country required rest, and in concluding his speech promised to give the measures introduced by Government fair consideratfon. In tho House of Commons yesterday, Edward Stanhope, Secretary of State for the Colonies, denied the trn'h of the announcement made in the French newspaper La Liberte that England had proclaimed a protectoiate over the Klliee Group of islands. A party of Indian and Colonial visitors yesterday proceeded to Sheffield, where they have been the guests of the Mayor. Consols have declined f, and are now quoted at 100 f :. Zealand securities are unchanged. The market rate of discount has advoncod by f, to 2|, and is now a \ lusher than the bank rate. Breads!tiffs ;u-.d tallow maintain last quotations.

(Received August 25, 1 a.m.) Constantinople, August 23. Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, is being removed to Bucharest, the capital •if Roumania. Symptoms of a revulsion of feeling in favour of the deposed Prince are being manifested by the Bulgarian Army.

[SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE AGE.] London, August 11. The London Daily News of this morning emphatically declares that it is the duty of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach to aid in repressing the " bloodthirsty violence" of his colleagues, notably Lord Randolph Churchill, who "deliberately," and " with malice aforethought," encouraged the aggressive attitude of the Irish constabulary during the disturbances in Belfast. During an interview with Mr Michael Davitt yesterday in New York, he declared that the riots in Belfast were wholly due to the impetuosity of the Orangemen, who, by their riotous conduct, had proved the absurdity of the Unionist boast that they represented the orderly and law-abiding classes. The Grand Master of the Orangemen, replying to Mr Daviti's charges, denounces him as a " liar," and insists that the Roman Catholics both began and maintained the riots, attacking Protestant Sunday Schools and Protestant factory girls. He also insists that the police exhibited disloyal partisanship, by encouragiug the Roman Catholics, and assisting them in removing and concealing their dead aDd wounded.