Home Politics

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 118, 25 March 1893, Page 2

Home Politics

(PKE PEESS ASSOCIATION.) fru -n -i «. , London, March 23 lne Daily Telegraph states that the Loyalists Guarantee Defence Fund exceeds one million sterling. A great meeting is to be held at Limerick to protest against the Home Rule Bill, aud meetings for similar purposes have been called in many other parts oE Ireland, and also in England, In the House of Commons to-day Mr D. P, Barton, member for Mid-Armagh, moved the adjournment of the House as a protest against the action of--iVHr^'olm Morley. Chief Secretary for Ireland, in releasing Eoley, the dynamiter; who was sentenced to seven years' lmpfisonm'ent in 1891. ■ Mr Morley, m rep]yinfr^jußtified»*tlie prisoner's release on the ground of humanity, and also because affairs in Ire. land were now in a peaceful condition. The motion. for the adjourjjmenl?-svaß negatived by a majority of 40 votes. After the division was taken Mr Gladstone invited the Opposition to bring down a vote of censure on the Government for their action, and Mr Balfour at once gave notice of such a motion. . f It is reported from Ulster that a thousand men are being; drilled every night. Mr Gladstone has offered to' receive a deputation from the Belfast.: Chamber of Commerce ou the Home Rule question. . March 24. The debate on Mr Balfpur'a motion censuring the Government in connection with the release of a dynamiter, willrbd' taken on Monday. •