IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2508, 27 May 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, May 24. It is reported that the Queen rejected the list of Birthday honours pr posed by Mr Gladstone. At the head of the list was the name of Earl Spenser, whom it was suggested should be created a Marquis. Lord Salisbury has arrived at Belfast, where he is to address a public meeting on the political situtafon, The Marquis q£ Salisbury received an immense ovation on his arrival in Belfast. The horses were taken out of his carriage which was then drawn through the principal streets by a .number of his admirers, Lord Salisbury received numerous addresses on his arrival in Belfast. In reply he said that his ancestors, in the time of James 1., had iqduced Scotch emigrants to settle in Ulster, and he must now keep faith with their descendants, and protect people who objected to Home Rule. Lord Salisbury received a gi-eat ovation at the public meeting, which he addressed in the Ulster Hall, Belfast. There was an immense audience. He said that Mr Gladstone nndertook a grave responsibility if ho attempted to force his crazy scheme of Home Rule on Ulster, Rome, May 24. His Holiness the Pope has forbidden the officials of the Vatican to discuss the Irish Home Rule question, fearing that their doing so might injure the eauae*