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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2144, 8 January 1881, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

ENGLISH & TOBEIGN. [reuteb’s TELEGRAMS.] LONDON, January 6. The Irish Question. Parnell has taken his seat in the House of Commons, and has given notice of an amendment on the address in reply to the Queen's speech, stating that he is convinced that peace in Ireland will not ho promoted by suspending existing laws. The introduction of Bills for the adoption of county government in Ireland, to secure protection to person and property and to restrict the sale and possession of arms, have been notified, and Mr Gladstone will movo that tho discussion of these measures shall take precedence of everything until they are passed. The Isthmus Canal. The first batch of engineers to undertake the construction of the Isthmus Canal have embarked for Panama. Reply to Address. In the House of Lords to-day the Address in Reply to tho Speech from the Throne was voted after a short debate. In the course of the latter Earl Beaconsfield said that Government, by reversing the policy of his Administration, had endangered the peace of Ireland, and he blamed the Ministers for not having earlier adopted a coercive policy. He advised them not to weaken the hands of the Executive in Ireland. Earl Granville, in reply, denied the assertions of Lord Beaconsfield, and argned that Government was not alone answerable for the state of Ireland. Ministers were he said, determined to enforce respect for the law in that country. In the House of Commons the debate on the Address in Reply is proceeding. Sir Stafford Northcote attacked, and Mr. Gladstone defended, the policy of tho Government in Ireland. The latter admitted that tho condition of the country was shameful, but urged that earlier action was not justified for the repression of disorder without steps being taken to redress the grievances of the people. The debate has been adjourned to the next sitting, lapsus The Pope. LONDON, January 7. The Pope has written a letter to the Archbishop of Dublin, in which ho strongly condemns the method of agitation of tho Irish to obtain the redress of their grievances, he trusts justice will be done them by tho Government, but expects that Irishmen will respect the laws of their country.