IRISH AFFAIRS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1894, 16 July 1888, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

r (F3R PBKS3 ASSOCIATION.) London, Jane 30, Speaking at HainpstWd, Mr Gladstone said the fed fng aroused 'by the Irish conflict really governed and decided questions whioh were purely English: The Government had promised Ireland local governtnent, to avert coercion. The House of Commons was npt aware of the doings of the magistrates and county judges m Ireland who were depending on Government favor, and who punished offenders beyond their jurisdiction and without f evidence. Coercion would crush combination, not cCuSpi:??7; the former being the sole defence of the weak against the strong. ;' *■■ ' : ; London, July 1. The Ijrish Bishops urge tjiafc poorer should be given to the Courts to lessen or cancel arrears of rent.

London, July 4. Earl Spencer, replying to Lord Camperdown m the House of Lords, said he" regarded the existence of tl^e Nationftl League, interfering as % did between landlord and tenant, as an unhealthy sign. He disapproved of some of the League's acts, but considered it was » perfectly legal society,' and believed it possessed the sympathy of thfc mass of the people. It- was ujjfai'r to accuse the League generally on account of the utterances of individual members belonging to it.

London, Joly 5. Mr W. W. Reid's biography of the late Mr W. Forster is just published. It includes private letters from Mr Gladstone denouncing Paruellism as criminal. ■ '