Home Rule.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 73, 17 July 1914, Page 5

Home Rule.

LABOR OF GENERATIONS. THE GOVERNMENT’S CIRCULAR. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Loudon, July 16. Mr P. Illingwroth, Liberal Whip, lias confidentially circularised the Liberal members, stating that the fate of the Bills under the Parliament Act was at stake. Any diminution of the majority held in May would encourage the Opposition. The circular adds: “The constituencies demand that no Liberal should do anything, by speech or by action, at this supreme moment, which will weaken the Premier when everything is at stake for which generations of Liberals have labored.”

Many Liberals have protested against the circular, on the ground of its speaking for the minority. Unionist critics’ comment on the circular is that it exhibits the anxiety, amounting almost to distress, wherewith the Government is approaching the crisis of its fortunes. NO FAITH IN CONFERENCE. A BELFAST BOYCOTT. London, July 16. The opinion in Belfast is that nothing will result from the conference, which is th# reason for Sir Edward Carson’s suddbn call to London. Traders at Carrick-in-Shannon decided to boycott Belfast merchants if Ulster persists in its opposition to Home Rule. Nationalist leaders have privately expressed to the Government their determination not to agree to any further concessions. In the House of Commons, Mr Churchill said that forty corn and meat-carrying merchantmen had been armed for defensive purposes, for which the Admiralty was not paying. The Admiralty proposed to arm merchantmen for bringing vital food supplies. A word of warning was necessary to prevent undue alarm. THE EXTREME LIMIT. It is understood that communications have passed between Mr Asquith and Mr Redmond. The latter is prepared to let each county in Ulster decide by vote whether it will he excluded, but this is the extreme limit of concession. COME TO GRIPSI London, July 16. There is simultaneous anxiety in all quarters to come to grips, which will render the Irish .outlook easier. ULSTERITES FROM GLASGOW. GOVERNMENT NOT LIKELY TO YIELD. (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, July 16. Ulster volunteers in Glasgow have been instructed to prepare for service at any moment. Several hundred will go to Belfast to-morrow. The Chronicle’s Parliamentary correspondent states that the hopes of a settlement by consent are fading. The Government is not likely to yield to Sir Edward Carson’s demand for a clean cut.