Mr Gladstone's Scheme for Governing Ireland.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1655, 11 March 1886, Page 4

Mr Gladstone's Scheme for Governing Ireland.

(Per Mail Steamer.) The Pall Mall Gazette publishes, on February 141 h r what it asserts is Mr Gladstone's plan for granting Home 'Rule tor-Ireland. The plan is vague as ;to many important details, but it exjpressly. provides tor the establishment of ,a Parliament m Dublin. . This body is '■' to consist of only one chamber. Its mem;bcrs are to be 'returned by the same electorate as is now-established by the lHtefltffcMeiisionlof the ;frahcliise. , The llrish peerage is to have now other Parliamentary representations either m | Dublin <>■' Londou than, is , Drovided by J25 representative peers now sitting -in- • the Imperial House of Lords, The country is to r ba redistributed for the purpose of Parliamentary elections m ; such a way that the membf.rship of the j new Parliament shall exceed the present : Irish representation m, on*', making the ■ ! membersfjip' \n ; tho. new body a little ' over 300/ ThS'new Parliatuent is to be I auxiliary m most respects to the Parliament m Westminster. The latter body is tot-retaiij absolute "cObtrol over taxa-t . tiou m Irjelajrrd, '»n& ia {iiyeh" power*; to : vefo any of tlieiDnbliu Pariiaineht, Irish representation m th 3 Imperial. : Parliament is to remain universally the sam'ejiß tl/e present, but Irish members will have. a vote only on such matters as- : directly or indirectly effect Ireland. The Radicals bitterly deuounce. ? this plan, and the mqs.t immediate, affect of its publfcatioh Has been to widen the breach ■ between the Whig and the Radical wings of the Liberal party. ; Healy ridiculed, the prq.position iv a speech "der. liverediii D^blui on the 12th; Tliej Daii/y Neivs of February 7th, iri a ' sig- > uiticaut loader,oii the political situation, urges its political party to prepare for \ another afeneral election. ' The Observer, ! of tho same date," gives Mr GlAdstone'e Cabinet only a short lease of power. ' :