Important Speech by Lord Rosebery.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 262, 13 March 1894, Page 2

Important Speech by Lord Rosebery.

ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO MR GLADSTONE. HOME RULE TO BE CARRIED THROUGH. HOUSE OF LORDS MENACED. (PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION) London. March 12. Lord Rosebery had a gt eat reception at a meeting of the Liberal members at the Foreign Ofiice. He spoke in terms of the greatest admiration of Mr Gladstone, and deplored the absence of a sublime and pathetic presence which had done much to enrich and ennoble the House of Commons. He assured them the policy of the party would be unchanged. The honour of England and the peace of the earth would be safe in the hands of the Government. Ho referred to Sir V. Harcourfs magnanimous conduct in waving his claim to the Premiership and standing aside in favor of himself. Tho disestablishment of the Welsh church would be pressed into the forefront, and pushed to a successful conclusion. The Ministry was tied to the Irish question by every bond of honor and policy. Mr Morley's refusal to take a higher ofiice because he would be dissevered from the Home Rule struggle indicated the intention of the Government. Lord Rosebery went on to explain his speech on the Honie Rule Bill in the House of Lords, saying he had beon misunderstood. The Government entirely identified themselves with the late Premier's attitude to the Upper House, whose revision and rejection of the mearures submitted to them was taken as a challenge. A chamber so constituted was an anoinally and a danger under democratic suffrage. He admitted this conviction had deepened siuce tho recent unhappy chapter of accidents, that it would be a grave inconvenience to have a Premier who did not sit in tho Commons ; but modern politics had not yet demanded that "no lord need apply." The Premier finished his address amid prolonged cheers. Sir V. Harcourt also spoke. He emphasized the attack on tho House of Lords.