Home Politics

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 120, 30 March 1893, Page 2

Home Politics

■*. . ■ - (PKB PBE3S ASSOCIATION) :-,y ~'.\[ London, March 28 . Tlic debate on the no confidence mot ion came to a conclasion yesterday evening. Gladstone and Mor Icy declar. d thatßaU four's charges were stale and tntiajfv Balfour's motion of censure wis-de-feafed by 317 to 272. J&iU&v- ■• P. A. Mchugh, member for Leitrim North, on behalf of the Nationalists, will introduce a Bill to give effect to the report of the Evicted Tenants 7 Commisson. The Government will support the measure. , ; , , ' The Radicals are trying to force Sir^V. G. Pearce, Conservative member for ' Fly* month, to resign, on the ground that' be was co respondent in a recent; divorce case. The members of his party instituted an enquiry on their own account, and, being satisfied with Pearce's explana* tion, decided to uiaintaiu him in his refnsal to vacate the seat. Mr Gladstone to-day received two depntations on the question of Home; Rule. One was from Belfast, consisting of merchants, bankers, and shipbuilders, and the second comprised mercs»ants,'lMknk«r8 t members of the .Stock Exchange, and delegates from shipping companies repre* senting the City of London. Both deputations pointed out the danger of Home Rule to commerce. Mr : Gladstone, in reply, argued that the majority of the people in the nation favoured. the Bill, and he doubted the gloomy prospects put forth by the deputation.. ■ V March 29. The House of Lords has adjourned, till 18th April. The Belfast deputation' stated that already bank and railway stocks had dedined two millions. If Home Rule were passed they contended it would result in social upheaval and turmoil in Ulster. Gladstone replied that since; the large properties and landed classes in Ireland were strongly opposed to the Government it was not surprising that securities were temporarily depressed. The Gun Clubs in Ulster are under, going a regular course of drill. Mr H. Campbell Bannenuan Seoretiry for War, replying to a question in the House of Commons, denied that frozen colonial meat was extensively used in the army to the detriment of English fanners. At the Liberal meeting Sir ; W. V. Harcourt, who met with a great ovation, urged Mr Gladstone to conserve f his strength for the impending struggle.! He declared that the resources of the Conservative Party were confined to civil warm Ulster and obstiuetion in the House of Commons. ■ " . .