IRISH AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1626, 27 August 1887, Page 1

IRISH AFFAIRS.

• London, Aug. 23. A meeting was held to-day at Dublin in opposition to the proclamation against the National League. The hall was crammed. The proceedings passed off in an orderly manner, Mr Jacob Bright and other English members of Parliament, who were present, denounced the proclamation, but counselled moderation. Messrs Dillon, O’Brien, and others defied the Government, and declared the triumph of the League certain. The debate in the House of Commons on the motion to proclaim the Irish National, League is exciting much interest. Mr Gladstone, who has returned to London, has intimated his intention to table a motion on Thursday that an address be presented to Her Majesty the Queen opposing the proclamation. The Gladstonian Liberals are determined to use their utmost powers in opposition to the Government obtaining Parliamentary sanction to the proclamation. Fifty of these Liberals are undecided whether to join the League. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has devised* a Home Rule Constitution for Ireland, mainly founded on the Constitutions of the colonies. Aug. 24. The dissatisfaction at 1 lie proclamation of the Irish National League is becoming widespread, and it has leaked out that Lord Hartington strongly opposed the proclaiming, and expostulated with the Government, urging that it was unnecessary and ill-advised. Aug. 25, Mr O’Brien has been summoned under the Crimes Act to appear at Mitchelstown, C; u !y Cork, on the 9th September to answer a charge of inciting tenants on the Kingston estate to resist the law.