Home Rule Proposals.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1730, 10 June 1886, Page 2

Home Rule Proposals.

INCIDENTS OF THE DEBATE.

'(electric telegraph.— gopymght.-) (SPECIAL UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LfNDON, June 8. On the division on Mr Gladstone's proposals the opposition numbered 341. Government supporters 311, majority against Mr Gladstone 30. Mr Parnell declared that a member of' the Conservative Government had offered a more complete autonomy for Ireland, with a wider land purchasing system than that proposed by Mr Gladstone. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer m the Ministry, denied :Mr Parnell's statement, and challenged him to disclose the name of the Minister. Mr Parnell declined. Mr Goschen, M.P. for Edinburgh, made a very impreßsive speech ,on the suoject. . Eighty-five Parnellites and 93 Liberals 1 voted with .Mr .Gladstone. Mr O'Shea, of the Irish, garty, . abstained from voting- ■?■.-■ Vi" ■:' '■'•■•/:•' ' ■ , : '■'-■'■ ':'IV There-was intense excitemeut amongst the fnemberß of the OppQsition, when the result of. the division was announced, and the occupants m the galleries joined, m wild cheers. The Unionists and the .Irish party groaned at Mr Chamberlain, at tpe same time , shouting "traitor." They cheered MrGladstone. : The crowd collected m the lobbies cheered the Mar- ( guis ; of Hartin^ton and sang the National Anthem.;; 1 ' *" _;'; :.;; ' ' ; . : ' ' , The Times^ says that Mr Gladstone ougpt to resign and retire from .politics. T|ie Daily News considers) that an appial to the country is inevitable.