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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 72, 24 August 1885, Page 3

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(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland Saturday. Euro can dates to July 31. The Standard on July 31st made a savage attack on Lord Randolp Churchill, saying, ■" If ,Ins pranks be encouraged much longer he will smash the Government and the Conservative party. We will not follow this overgrown school /boy, who is without knowledge sufficient to fathom his own ground of Statesman- v ship. General Booth made a grand parade of x the Salvation Army m London on July the 27th. The object was to influence Parliament m view of the revelations made by the Pall Mall Gazette, to pass the proposed Criminal Act. The social } ostracism of several .well-known noblemeriiias followed the Gazette exposure. The Queen has personally written to' Mrs Booth, wife of the Salvationist leader, conveying the strongest sympathy with ! their reform work, Mr Spurgeon addressed an audience of ioOO at Bremerton on July 27th, his • subject being" The traffic m young girls and theiniquity of it." In consequence of these revelations of vice m London, meetings are being held all over the country m favor of. the Criminal 'Law , Amendment Act, v raising age of consent" to 16 years. . . . 'The Oxford crew, started at 10.15, on July 25th to row across the Channel. They reached .Calais at 2.42 the : same afternoon. ' , ' : The New. York Sun's London Special of July 81, says that the: scandal involving Sir. Charles Dilke has been settled, , gd°faT as. /the'Cburts and English Press are concerned. The settlement was -completed' torday by the cashing of Sir Charies'B cheque for .£25,000 m favour of Crawford, the aggrieved Husband. This puts it oat of tbe power of the papers to tbentipn- the Kight Honorable gentleman's name m connection with the subioct.withput incurring heavy penalties for libel, and British moral sense i-< quietened because the sinner, although guilty of the awful •■crime of being found out, has | paid handsomely for suppressing the truth, and thus shielding the sacred circle of society. _ , A movement has been started to organise a Burns' Club throughout the world, for the purpose of holding a centennial celebration m honor of the Scotch Bard at RUmarnock next year. A despatch,from London on July 25th,; flays that populir interest m politics has;feeen again transferred from Parliament ia iho hustings. Many members of Par%U,ment liave. already, left London aiid jgoae to their lvspeotiya boronglia tq : av : yange for tlie coming struggle. : AJI ins idications show ;that the next batte at <polls will be by all odds the severest aiid jmost closely contested that has been, waged m England since the famous cariH «paigh of 1836.. Tory political agpnts m; the provinces continue "to send m pro j mising reports of tl» party's prospects.^ Nearly evary report received from themv by the Central Association contaias'con-i' ficloiit assnninces of: victory m the farm-s ing districts and mining boroughs fryer; Radicals. As the liberals are flow; called? Conservatiye : s l . they have decided to' con-; -test every 'constituency m great Britain; where there is a shadow of chance, -for ; Aix enormous fund, defraying the election expenses, has already accumulated. .The hostility, -shown by iolitical leaders towards each, other is iutetfsely bitter. The -Irish, question has thrown^^ party, lines into cohfosipn, and speculation is rife as to the^ aspect of the Question In the next Parliament. '• ' " : On Tuesday, July; 21st, the oHoitoe;- --■ ■^ecre'tarX; Mr Ri Cross, with a large, party of followers/ made a : tbiir of the «lums of Shaldwell and Hplborn, dis- ■ iributing sixpences and good advice with An official account of v *h«s tour wassout from the Home Office ,ito yair ious nbwspai)ers : in ■ London. - The.. ' laberatiournals c»ll thig posing to win the i masses,, : . _ ' ' The. police stationed around the London LawCofarts were largely increased 1 an the 22nd July, owing to information yeceivad^y the authorities that an effort to destroy* tho buildihgg would be made.