IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2772, 10 February 1882, Page 2

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ADDRESSES IH EEPLY. [By CableQ. London Feb. 8. The House of Lords has adopted an Address in Eeply to the Queen’s Speech. A motion for a similar address has been under discussion in the House of Commons, but the debate stands adjourned. CLOTURE. In the House of Commons last night, Mr Gladstone gave notice of motion to amend the procedure of Parliament so as to provide that cloture shall be votable by a bare majority of the House, provided two hundred members support, or less than forty oppose the motion for its being pronounced. IRISH MEMBERS. A motion by Mr Gray, for an enquiry into the circumstances attending the arrest and imprisonment of Irish members, was discussed isr the House of Commons last night and rejected MR BRADLAUGH. In the House of Commons last evening Mr Brad laugh appeared and was advancing to the table, when Sir Stafford Northcote rose and moved that he should not be allowed to take the oath. Sir Vernon Harcourt thereupon moved the question and spoke at some length, advising the House to allow- Mr Bradlaugh to take the oath, subject to a final decision of the question in the Law Court. ; ■ Mr Bradlaugh then, speaking from the Bar of the House, solemnly declared that the oath would be binding upon him. A lengthy debate ensued and finally the previous question was rejected by a majority of 58 in a full House. Sir Vernon Harcourt’s motion was supported by Mr Gladstone and other members of the Government. After the rejection of the previous question, Sir Stafford’s Northcote’s motion refusing Mr Bradlaugh permission to take the oath was adopted. Mr Bradlaugh then withdrew from the Chamber and subsequently lodged a protest against the decision come to.