IRISH AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1568, 14 April 1887, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

Loudon, April 9. Mr Gladstone has issued a manifesto to the miners of the North of England, in which be declares that the time bas arrived for the working men of England to bestir themselves on behalf of Ireland. With this end in view, 10,000 working men in London intend to devote Easter Monday, and have arranged an anti-coercion meeting in Hyde Park. Referring to the injustice of the Coercion Bill, Mr Gladstone points ont that the record of crime in Ireland is ■ relatively less for Ireland than that for England. If the Bill was passed it would mean suffering, but, h« adds, Ireland knows bow to suffer. For England the Bill means shame, and dishonor ; its elements are antagonistic to the moral code of the latter day civilisation, and that it should be cast forth m shame and dishonor was the first business of a great nation. Mr Gladstone points out that in 1876 the working men in London gave the first effectual morement which resulted in the emancipation of Bulgaria. The movement produced the overthrow of the Beaconsfield Administration, and brought about the return of the Liberals to power by the election of 1880. Mr Gladstone concludes his manifesto by expressing a hope that the anti-coercion meeting in Hyde Park will toll the death knell of the worst, most insulting, and most causeless Coercion Rill ever submitted to Parliament. . April iO.

It is announced that Colonel KingHarman bas been appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Ireland April 11.

A demonstration against the Crimes Bill took place to-daj in Hyde Park. Fully a hundred thousand persons were present, but the majority were indifferent to the objects of the demonstration, being merely sightseers. The gatherings of people were addressed in different places by Messrs Herbert Gladstone, Davitt, Sexton, and Labouohero. The whole demonstration was of an orderly character, no police interference being necessary. Afterwards a long procession left the Park, and while proceeding down Piccadilly Mr Gladstone made bis appearance at a window and was loudly cheered by the people in the procession. The appointment of Colonel KingHarman (Conservatire member for the Isle of Thanei) as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Ireland is adversely criticised by the Press and in political circles, it being judged that the appointment will tend to exasperate the Irish people,