Home Politics.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 8, 9 July 1895, Page 2

Home Politics.

_ «. (Per Press Association.) London, June 8. In the course of a speech in the House of Lords, the Earl of Rosebery said there was nothing in the work of the late Government requiring defence. It had passed great measures, arranged great Acts, and the administration had left a mighty surplus. Business, he argued, was reviving, and people were contented. The resistance of the House of Lords was the taproot of all political questions. He was not pre» pared to retire from any of the pledges given to the electors, including Home Rule. He hoped the Marquis of Salisbury would support tlje derhand ot the late Government lor refprm in Ar= menia. Sir C. J. Pearson, Q.C., and Mr A. G. Murray, QC, take the positions which they held on the last Salisbury Ministry of Lord Advocate and Solici-tor-General respectively fop Scotland,. i Mr Balfour has issued a manifegto. on behalf of the Government, in which he advocates the better housing of workers, preservation of voluntary schools and religious interests therein, com pensajjjfin^ to injujgd^wjork men. and opening of markets abroad. ' Sir V. Harcourt is stumping the* country in the interests of local veto, he declares, is the sole remaining object of his life. Washington, July 8. The Times of New York say& that ■with Mr Gladstone's withdrawal from politics sympathy with autonomy haa entirely departed. The Irish Socialists throughout America have unanimously refused to assist in providing funds for the election.