London.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 2 May 1891, Page 2

London.

Her Majesty the Queen has started for Cherbourg. General Booth proposes to expend his legacy of £70,000 on a grand salvation temple. Mr Gladstone denies Mr Parnell's statement that he asked the Parnellite party in 1887 to suppress the Plan of Campaign. The fund set on foot by Baron Hirsch for assisting Russian Jews to settle in America or Australia has now reached three millions sterling. The Rothschilds have promised to assist. It is reported that two thousand Russian Jews are emigrating to England and Australia. A meeting of some 300 persons, including 40 M.P's, will be held on Friday to discuss the exclusion of penniless foreigners from the United Kingdom. The Senate of the United States is proposing more stringent measures for the exclusion of immigrants, A Portuguese loan of ten millions offered in Paris on the security of the tobacco monopoly was only half subscribed. In the House of Lords on Tuesday, in moving the second reading of the Bill enforcing the modus vivendi with France in connection with the Newfoundland fisheries, Lord Knutsford promised that the Government would not proceed with the measure in the House of Commons provided that the Newfoundland Parliament passed a measure equivalent to it after Whitsuntide. On account of the statement made by Lord Knutsford in the House of Lords yesterday, Sir William Whiteway, Premier of Newfoundland, who is at present in England, cabled to his colleagues at St Johns to immediately introduce a measure enforcing the modus vivendi with France in connection with the Newfoundland fisheries. The hearing of the Sayward appeal case is postponed till October. Lord Salisbury has offered to legislate in the direction of preventing British vessels from sealing in Behrings Sea for a period ot two years, on condition that the United

States and Russia take similar steps with .regard to their Vessels. ft is probable the stevedores will strike on the 4th of May, on the ground that they find it impossible to work with the Shipping Federation. During a debate in the House of Commons Ministers expressed themselves in favour of a reduction of the duty on wheat for six months, and if necessary the total abolition of the duty at expiration of that period. Mr DeCobain, M.P., has notified his intention of surrendering to the authorities on Monday. The House of Commons, by a majority of 61, has affirmed the principle that publicans whose licenses are cancelled must be compensated. Baron Hirsch's fortune is estimated at between 20 and 30 millions sterling. The Pall Mall Gazette says his scheme for the emigration of Eussian Jews provides for the deportation of half a million to Brazil and Australia. Baron Hirsch and other wealthy Jews are consulting the Russian representatives in Paris relative to the best method of removing their compatriots from Russia. In the meantime, 4000 Jews have been ordered to leave Kieft'.