English Politics

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 100, 15 February 1890, Page 2

English Politics

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright, (PEB CTNITED PRESS AS80CIA? ION). London, February 12. Correction. — -The voting on Sir VernonHarcourt'* motion, with reference to the 1 forged Darnell letters was— Against, 260 ; for, 212. The error took place in tr&nsbetween London and Australia. . Messrs Gladstone and Herbert Brigta supported Sir W. V. Haroourt's motion .. on the forged Parnell letters. Mr Smithy leader of the House of Commons, accepted the suggestion by Mr Parnell that he should insist on the admission of the forgeries by way of an amendment to the addrees-in«»Reply, and he congratulated the hon. gentleman on his innocence being proved. Sir James Fergusson, in reply 'to * question in the House of Commons, said that arbitration would not v apply to such a case as the dispute between "England and Portugal. -..'■■ February 13. In the course of his remarks on the Address in Beply, Mr Gladstone approved of the policy of the Marquis of Salisbury with regard to the dispute with thePortuguese. He also commended Gov- . ernment for the manner in which the Samoan and Switzaland difficulties had been satisfactorily arranged. He urged that pressure should be brought to bear on the TransVaaJ Government to extend the franchise ttf Englishmen, and generally approved of Government admimstratration in Southern Africa, where he said the colonial possessions were not unworthy to be compared with the British possessions in America and Australia. He referred to the gross scandal m the Porte allowing Moussa Bey, who had been cpnyincted of gross cruelty to Armenians to go free and also to the disorder in Crete. The improvement in Ireland he considered, sprang from a hope of the salutary influence of improved agriculture, and he thought if local Government was conceded it should be framed on a liberal basis which would be accepted . If a niggardly spirit was introduced it • would probably lead to a new agitation springing up. •