BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 526, 1 November 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

British troops burnt Witu, New Zanzibar. The Dutch Parliament has declared King William capable of ruling. There has been further bloodshed amongst the populace at Ticino. The Australian squadron will sail for colonial waters in the spring. Mr Mudie, of circulating library fame, is dead. A special court has been appointed in London to hear Ah Foy’s appeal case, relating to the exclusion of Chinese from Victoria. Several mine brokers on the Stock Exchange have failed, but it is expected they will be able to effect a satisfactory settlement with their creditors. The directors of the New York mine say that the decline in the price of silver is owing to the large stock in New York and the increased imports. Republican importers are furious at the effects of the McKinlayAct. Mr Gladstone has been presented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh. DeTrclais, the Portuguese Ambassador in Southern Africa, has been recalled, and a hope is expressed that the British Premier will modify the terms of the Anglo-Portuguese Convention. Stanley charges the Englishmen who were in command of his rear guard in the Emin Pasha relief expedition with barbarous neglect to the dying natives, and states that jealousy prevented his subordinates from trying to keep straight. Major Bartelott, Stanley adds, was killed for illtreating a chief’s wife. The revelations have caused a great sensation in England, and Stanley is accused of maligning the dead Mr Gladstone, speaking at Edinburgh, said he was in favor of the disestablishment of the Church of Scotland, but thought that endowments should accompany disestablishment. Referring to affairs in Turkey, he remarked that it was hopeless to expect a proper system of government in that country. In the course of his remarks on the Irish question, he said that if Home Rule were granted to Ireland he would favor the retention of Irish representation in the House Of Commons.