Wrgf itstralin eathnlif PERTH, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1879.
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No. 68.-VoL. V.
PRICE 6D.
shall seven hundred square miles-including, They had, however, that during the coming year we around and Scotland. the that is, all the suburbs grouped of presence the with favoured be It elicited from Sir Michael Hicks -Beach London and Westminister. both sure am I and himself, Minister that there was nearly three times as Prime within these boundaries, numbers have you what him to accord IRELAND. known, conmuch given for educational purposes you will to the ex -Prime as is now very generally per head in Scotland as in Ireland. The already accorded 4,000,000 inhabithan more siderably at place and MR. O'CONNOR POWRR PLACED UNDER resolution was adopted, as was also a Minister, Mr. Gladstone, of the of this city for tants, being largely in excess It conpetition to Parliament, and the proceed- his disposal the freedom A TABOO BY MR. BUTT. population of Scotland. whole his acceptance." ings terminated. tains, as we are told, more country -born We are informed that Mr. Butt, M. persons than the counties of Devon and P., has written a letter to Dr. Ward, Gloucester combined, or, in other words, GREAT BRITAIN. M.P., the Parliamentary secretary the INAUGURATION OF THE NEW LORD 37 per cent. of its entire population. Home Rule Party, acknowledging the MAYOR OF DUBLIN. Every four minutes a birth takes place receipt of a letter expressive of sympathy THE OPPOSITION. in the metropolis, and every six minutes Sir John Barrington became Lord and confidence lately addressed to him Misfortune certainly dogs the heels a death. Within the circle named there by certain members of the House of Mayor of Dublin yesterday, and in his of the Opposition, while good luck are added to the population 205 per sons Commons connected with the move- speech eulogised Lord Beaconsfield as pursues the administration of Lord every day, and 75,000 annually, an inThe hon. Europe. the of peace communication the ment. In this the author of Baconsfield. The telegraphic announce- cursion, as the present Prime Minister released that had states and learned gentleman statement that the Premier ment, it will be remembered, of General said years ago in novel of " Sybil," heartily or act was to nothing will induce him either the Fenian prisoners Roberts' brilliant victory at Piewar more formidable than that of the Goths the to identify himself with any party which cheered, as also was an illusion gladdened the hearts of all patriotic and Vandals. London has 7,000 miles has among its members his recent as- Intermediate Education Act. Sir John day of the Dr. Barrington, needless to say, is a Con- Englishmen on the very of streets, upon an average twentysailant, Mr. O'Connor Power. of Parliament. A similar piece being opened, Ward's letter to Mr. Butt, enclosing servative. The late Lord Mayor Tarpey, opening fortune, again, befell the eight miles of new streets ; of good and 9,000 new houses built every year the tribute generally signed by the I may add, becomes High Sheriff of the Ministry on Monday last-the day fixed 1,000 vessels and 9,000 sailors are in a the and fell from their leader, to which words members The Irish city. for bringing on simultaneously in the port every day. Its crime is also uncopy of which will be found in the Dub- lips of Sir John Barrington, in returnLords and Commons the Vote of happily, it would seem, in proportion to was were installation, communication, his lin Correspondent's ing thanks for Censure-the telegrams received from its extent. Seventy-three thousand sur1878.mace a 9th December, I see before me as follows these the seat of war announcing in the morn- persons are annually taken into custody of My Dear Mr. Butt,-I have been re- mounted by the Crown, the symbol that the Affglran forces were re- by the police, and more than one-third quested by the members of the party regal authority ; likewise the symbol ing in hot haste in two directions ; of all the crime in the country is comnow in London to forward you the given by King John in the days when treating that the British troops still, happily, in mitted within its bo:ders. Thirty-eight enclosed letter, which is a copy of one Magna Charta was passed, showing commitcondition and in the highest that is being signed by the members that every citizen in the Empire is a the finestwere persuing them, yonder in thousand persons are annually ted for drunkenness by its magistrates ! here, and I am informed that other free man, and, if he be aggrieved in any spirits, direction of Jellalabad, yonder The metropolis comprises considerably members now in Ireland are anxious to way, has the power to come forward the Cabul, the enemy hurriedly more than 100,000 foreigners from towards are apgrievances his signatures have the to When all right the sign. and claim their cams, stores, and every quarter of the globe. It contains away casting atoriginal call to you the I w:sh pended I will forward redressed. Likewise fled ; and, yet more, more Catholics than Rome itself, more they as baggage, you before I see send letter. I have been asked to tention to another symbol taken flight from Jews than Palestine, more Irish than had Ameer the that may Justice, of the copy at once in order that you me-the sword. the sword towards Bamian. Belfast, more Scotchmen than Aberdeen, road the on capital his that, steps be able to take without delay any the sword which conveys to the mind was at once rather cruelly remarked and more Welshmen than Cardiff. Its you may think right.-Very sincerely should there be any failure in carrying As the Telegraph, a position sufficiently beershops and gin -palaces, miserable to yours, W. II. WARD." There has been on the law, there is a power in the Govern- by already for the members of relate, are so numerous that their some expectation that the attention of ment to see that it is carried out justly perplexed in the debate which was frontages, if placed side by side, would the House would be called to Mr. and fairly for the good of the Constitu- the Opposition, evening, was thus rendered stretch a distance of sixty-two miles, Power's letter, but if this intention was tion. I likewise allude to this chain to begin that than ever by the say from Charing -cross to Chichester. ever seriously entertained it has been that I have for the second time been more embarrassing odd ally, tore Ameer. their of conduct given Supposing all the dwellings now in goodwill, your now abandoned. adorned with by London could have their frontages placed to this ancient city of Dublin by King side by side, they would extend beyond William III. I trust I shall hand all STRIKE IN YORKSHIRE. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. the city of York. The metropolis has these emblems to my successor unsullied strike is threatened in sufficient paupers to occupy every gigantic A Gentlemen, them. received have I on as held was meeting An influential and Debryshire. It house in Brighton. Fully sixty miles Monday in the Mansion House to we have just closed a momentous year. South Yorkshire result in throwing as of shops are still open every Sunday. may Royal which The one is gloom. in ended has It national advocate the claims of the Irish miners out of Facts like these are, it must he allowed, thousand sixty the as loss, the for many mourning in are teachers to increased salaries and family is excited sufficiently startling and suggestive. anger Their rehas Majesty employment. her Gracious pensions. The Lord Mayor presided, great loss attitude assumed by certain and among those present were Mr. ceived in one of her children-the by the colliery owners in South YorkBrooks, M.P., Serjeant Sherlock, M.P., amiable, I may call her the adorable, leading ITALY. who are members Mr. Meldon, M.P., Mr. Gray, M.P., Princess Alice, who gave her life for shire and Derbyshire, Coalowners' Association Mr. Ellington, M.P., and the Lord her children. The country generally of the local of £200,000. NEW ROME. Mr. Maurice Brooks, mourns at the great depression of trade (Limited), with a capital Mayor -elect. no woncreating-and is I attitude That conspicuous. everywhere is which the on calling M.P., moved a resolution have taken possesItalians the Since possible interest Government to take such steps, as soon shall not touch upon anything political, der-tire greatest sion of this city, eight years ago, it has the community of classes I all but ; you amongst to address my in as Parliament re -assembles, as will 1 hope, In the early part of grown considerably. That was to be secure to the teachers stir h a permanent cannot sit down without alluding to in both districts. at the rate at expected, as it was necessary to find stood wages that the events 1868 increase in their incomes as will one or two of the political in October, residences for the new-comers who had fixed been had they first the which adequately remunerate them for their have occurred this year. In a 5 followed in the train of the Italian conceded masters the services. Mr. Meldon, M.P., in second- place, I think the country is greatly 1865, when Government. But debts and taxes have payments. weekly ing this resolution, said they had been indebted to the Prime Minister who per cent. advance with grown also, and perhaps in a greater were men the 1868, promised redress since 1868, but the now guides the affairs of this Empire. On April the 27th, city to a reduction of 5 per proportion than the growth of the submit speech, to asked party a to make want not I do then, it was where was still question some reluct- may warrant. The municipality do not with did no they is which there cent., am sure I but it ; far from In residences. except in regard to of Three years elapsed before the conceal their pride in this extension 1871 the Government granted £.5,000 one in this room but must feel that ance. Rome. They publish a self-laudatory although raised, again was genius, question Minister's Prime the was through for residences, but not a penny several extensive disputes. document, in which they make known applied for, and it went back to the and through his management, he has there were 1871, the miners the improvements effected under their ; September, in Early Europe into peace Treasury ; £2,500 was then granted, been able to bring taken off in management. Since 1870 9,000 rooms cent. 5 per most the of demanded then £500, and last year £250 was the he has struck off the shackles with the and 600 shops have been constructed in conceded, was amount placed on the Estimates ; but of the political prisoners, and laid the 1868, which advanced the new quarters of Rome, and 11,000 be would coal with the same result. The average seeds, by the Intermediate Euducation intimation that in the old quarters. in from the 1st October. In the March of rooms and 580 shops education denominational of Bill, was teacher national Irish the salary of muof 15 per cent. on the These constructions, according to be reduction are to a we 1876, long Before Ireland. male English the E42, while that of after a nicipal calculations, have cost forty-two and demanded, was city wages this gross in presence by the honoured teacher teacher was £103, and the female was settled millions of francs in the new, and thirty £62, while the Scotch teacher's average of the greatest General of modern times lengthy dispute the question 12i per cent. millions in the old quarters paid by to submitting hope I men by the Grant. -President ex is, salary was £110. The resolution was -that 1877, individuals ; which, in addition to thirty February, In dignified the gross. and from proper in adopted. Serjeant Sherlock moved a to meet him of 6.1 millions more spent by the municipality reduction a to him submitted show to men the resolution pressing the claims of the form on his arrival here, in the new and in the old parts, reach a last. in March cent. 5 per and entertain per cent., teachers on the Government. Com- your beautiful city, and to total of 100 millions expended up to the reached have they mendatore M'Swiney, in seconding the him in the Mansion House. I regret The men declare present day for the regularization and are deterthey resolution, said they could not expect that his arrival happens so quietly and starvation point, and iu the new constructions of Rome. This demands. the masters' it almost resist mined to say that I may suddenly. an so and Government an alien from much is a pretty high cost, and the appearance preparaproper the making us prevents these result of The alien Parliament. of the new quarters scarcely justify ; to entitled is a man great so which in the tion delays was to breed discontent LONDON. what was expended upon them. Dublin of City the that know I hearts of the people. Mr. Gray moved but The sources of revenue on which the Loncalled Houses of province shall This I hope that I and best, a resolution in favour of pensions. He will do its municipality count are all more hopeful interesting an to according covers, freedon the tendering of said a contrast had been drawn as to the have the pleasure the future. They look forin less or of a radius within Cornhill, in the paper on name amount of local contributions given here dom of. this city in your immense wealth from deriving to ward nearly Cross, of Charing fifteen miles as compared with the amount in England Friday next. Let me hope, likewise,
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