THE IMPERIAL POLOTICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2339, 5 April 1892, Page 4

THE IMPERIAL POLOTICS.

London, April 1. In the course of a speech Mr John Morley said tho pressure of Irish affairs was responsible for the inadequate discussion of English business in the House of Commons. Alluding to the Labour question Mr Morley said tho division on the Eight Hours Bill pointed to a new distribution of political force. The Colonial Probate Bill has been read a third time in the House of Commons. In the course of a speech Lord Wolseley declared that the invasion of England was impossible. A standing army of 12,000 men, and a reserve of 90,000, were sufficient to ensure safety from the attack of a foreign foe. April 2. It is freely stated that if Home Rule is forced upon Parliament by the success of the Gladstonian party at the next General Election, it veill cause a civil war in Ulster. The Unionists of the Province, including the members of the House of Commons, in view of the coming election are .arranging to hold a convention to protest against the severance of the Imperial connection. They declare that they will take no share in an Irish Parliament; but will passively resist its lsws and taxation, and they will appeal to their fellow-countrymen not to place them at tho mercy of of a Catholic majority. Mr Balfour, in the course of a speech, declared that the Conservatives would win the General Election, because his party were declaring dividends while the Liberals were issuing a prospectus. The Conservative press endorse tho opinion that to enforce Home Rule would result in civil war in Ulster. In reply to a question in the House of Commons, Mr Matthews, the Home Secretary, refused to release Mrs Osborne in order to obviate a taint upon her child. The Duke of Devonshire in the House of Lords insisted that the Unionists are more likely to bring practical reforms into operation than the Liberals, as the latter are pledged to a vague hope of Home Rule. He advised the Unionists not to out-bid them with , promises impossible of performance. Mr Balfour, in reply to a question in tho House of Commons, said he doubted the correctness of Mr Arnold White's statement that seventy thousand Russian Jews were coming to England shortly. Such an invasion would be intolerable. A question was asked in the House of ■ Commons to-day whether subsidised meat from Australia should enter free. Baron Do Worms replied that he was making enquiries. THE RAINHILL AND WINDSOR MURDERS. London, April 2. Deeming, under the name of Lawson, was in Plymouth in 1888, and suddenly departed for London. One of the Ripper murders was committed two days later. Melbourne, April 1. The police have obtained evidence that | Williams and the wife he is supposed to have murdered at Windsor lived unhappily between the 18th and 24th of December. During that space of time Mrs Williams arranged to take a house and live by herself till she could return to England. . j The Windsor murderer has arrived I here. There was intense excitement, and the various wharves were crowded by those eager to catch a glimpse of the culprit, but the clever manoeuvring of the police .managed to land him in comparative quietude. He was brought before the Magistrate's Court to-day, and remanded to the Coroner's Court, which meets on Tuesday. Williams has been somewhat refractory since taken into custody and is watched continuously. He begged to bo permitted to hav© »n interview with Miss Rounsville, his Melbourne fiancee, but the request was JefUßed - April 3. Detective Brandt, formerly of Johannesburg, identified Swanston as the Deeming jyhom he knew in South Africa, j Mr Webster", ex-Governor of Hull gaol, has also identified the prisoner as the man who passed as Harry Lawson m Hull and Beverly, and this completes Swanston's identity with the Ramhill murderer. A hammer-headed axe, used m past j mortem examinations, and a dissecting I knife were found in Williams' luggage. Wellington, April 2. A New Zealander, who has just returned from Western Australia, says that there was comparatively little excitement at Perth over tho Williams murders, but when he reached Melbourne he found the city in a fever, and as soon as it became known that he was from. Perth he was besieged by eager enquirers, anxious to know something about Deeming and his personal appearance. The New Zealander saw "Swanson," both before and after his arrest, and,says that the " heavy, murderous jaw," etc., is all an afterthought. His appearance jfl that of a ■well-to-do mechanic, and therein nothing truculent in his features, nothing to gall for a second look, or to mark him out as in any respect different as far as looks go, to any comfortabiy-off tradesman. THE ANARCHISTS. Paris, March 31. Ravachal, the leader of the Anarchists, is charged with having committed six murders. Ravachal was seized by the police in a wine shop. He had two revolvers in his possession, but his attempts to use them were frustrated. When he was safely secured ho shouted "Vive I'Anarchic." There is great rejoicing in the city at Ravachal's arrest. A considerable quantity of explosives was found secreted in his lodgings. April 1. Several of the Anarchists in custody have confessed and declared that Ravachal was the author of the dynamite outrages and robberies in Paris. Nathiane, his chief accomplice, has also been arrested. Havachal himself has confessed to several of the murders. April 2. The Anarchists threaten to destroy the proprietor and waitor of the restaurant •who were instrumental in the arrest of Havachalj their leader.

More than one hundred dynamite machines have been found in public places about tho city, having apparently been thrown away, those possessing thorn fearing the activity of the police. Ravachal's confession includes the murder of a hermit, but he feebly denies live other murders which are laid to his charge. Among his papers was found an order for 1500 cartridges for use on May Ist. Ravachal is trying to convert the warders of the gaol to Socialism. In his house has been found an ingenious concoction of explosives. April. 3. It is reported that Ravachal has made a full confession as to the murders in the oity.