AN ANTI-HOME RULER. The Man Who Caused Mr Healey to Violate Parliamentary Rules.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 206, 11 June 1887, Page 3

AN ANTI-HOME RULER. The Man Who Caused Mr Healey to Violate Parliamentary Rules.

Major Sanderson is one of the droll and grotesque figures of British politics. If it were proposed to select an Under- Secretary for the Angel Gabriel for a function to bo performed on ace tain great day, the gallant Major would modestly accept a nomination to that post, because he believes in the literal interpretation of the Scriptiues, and because he has a voice which would serve in lieu of a trumpet. The Major is about) fifty years old. By his wife he is connected with the family of Lord Yen try, whose ancestor in that title was one of the carpetbaggers Avho sold out the Irish Parliament in TsOO for a title. The Major comes more honestly by his own, for he served in tho Royal Irish Fusiliers long enough to carry the boisterous department of the camp into Parliament. He is a landlord with a fat rent roll in county Cavan. For that county he sat in the House as a Liberal for nearly ten years prior to 1874. The axe of Nationalism clove the parties in Ireland so straight that only two remained, Nationalists and Tories. Ib was impossible for the gallant; Major to become a supporter of the Pope, which was, in his mind, another way of becoming a supporter of Painell; and, having determined to come back to Parliament, he classified himself with the Tories. In the general election of two years ago he sought a seat in North Armagh, where any Tory was sure of election. Major Saunderson is a clever and capable, an hone&t and nob ungenial man, really living in tho conviction that the holiest being that ever trod this earth since the days of tho Nazarene was King Billy (William of Orange) ; that the most sanctified symbol next after the cross is the C hange lily ; that the highest claim the Queen has upon the allegiance of her subjects is her Dutch lineage ; and that if Home ttulo should be gi anted in Ireland the Pope would be found sailing up the Bay of Dublin with a retinue to establish himself in Dublin Castle and make Ireland tho base of operations for conquering the United Kingdom. Major Saunderson believes all this-, and he believes, furthermore, in gore. He shouts gore in tho House, with shrevv d regard for Parliamentary rules ; he trickles gore fiom the lips all the time that he is in Ireland, whether acting as magistrate in Cavan or speaking as a member for North Aimagh. He had declared that Ulster should be bathed in gore if (ho Nationalists invaded it with Home Rule banners ; and he did hK best to cairy out that assurance, for he egyed on Loid Rossmore in the bloody forays not yet forgotten, and he Avas one of the first to denounce tho Government for lemoving that pious ruffian from the magistracy after lie had done all in his power to create ei\il Avar in Ul.->ter. Major son is willing 1 that Catholics shall li\ c in tho south of Ireland in peace, provided they give up all political rights. The violence of his harangues has repeatedly put the House into convulsions. He would put all li eland into a comulsion avcic he made L T nder Secretary. — London Correspondent to the "New York Sun."