Show A DIPLOMATIC DAY Important Measures in the House of Commons This Afternoon Gladstone Talks of the Afghan Arbitration Arbitra-tion Scheme Lumsden is Mad and Gives the True Business Away In Ole House of Commons LONDON June 5ChilderS the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that the extra duty on spirits had been fixed at one shilling per gallon This was a reduction he said which would involve a loss to the public revenue of 1500000 per annum The additional I ad-ditional duty on beer the chancellor said would be retained until May lath 1886 and no other changes in the budget would be made The Marquis of Hartington War Minister Minis-ter in answer to inquiries said the government govern-ment hoped it would be unnecessary to detain de-tain the Guards at Alexandria much longer but that it was impossible at present to fix a date for their departure Gladstone stated that Russia and England had come to an agreement concerning the points of difference between them which were to be referred to arbitration He also stated that the governments of the two countries have likewise agreed upon arbitration arbi-tration but as the person chosen for arbitrator arbi-trator has not yet been formally asked to accept he was unable to say further on the subject |