IRISH AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1627, 30 August 1887, Page 1

IRISH AFFAIRS.

London, Aog. 25. la the House of Commons to-day, the debate was commenced, on the motion of Mr Gladstone, that the House should disallow the proclamation against the Irish National League, as the necessity for the same has not been proved, Mr Gladstone said he deprecated boycotting, but the League, he declared, had brought invaluable benefits to the Irish people, Mr Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, in reply, stated that nearly five thousand persons were now being boycotted, and he contended that the League labors to destroy landlords, not to protect them. The debate was finally adjourned. Aug. 26. During the coarse of his speech on the Irish National League, Mr Balfour said that a slight extension of Mr Gladstone’s apology for boycotting would justify assassination. Five thousaud persons had been boycotted j but these were an insignificant fraction of the sufferers by this unparalleled system of tyranny. Quotations published by the Irish Press from confidential reports of the League have impressed the House, and it is expected that Mr Gladstone’s motion will be rejected by a majority of sixty. Sir Gavaa Duffy, who has devised a Home Rule Constitution, proposes that there shall be a House of Assembly, the members of which are to be nominated, and also a Senate ; the latter to include leading Catholic and Protestant ecclesiastics. The sovereignty of Her Majrsty the Queen is to recognised, and the peasantry are to be allowed to purchase land on deferred payments. Ang. 27. In the Honse of Commons last night, the debate on Mr Gladstone’s motion, that the House disallow the proclamation against the National League, was brought to a conclusion. The motion was negatived on a division by 272 to 194 In the House of Commons, Mr Goscheu and Sir R, E. Webster made speeches of remarkable power in referring to the Irish National League to show that unbearable espionage and tyranny had been practised by the League. Eleven hundred agrarian crimes, ten murders, and one hundred and twentysix cases of arson bad occurred in nine months without any convictions being recorded, owing to the power of the League. Lord Hartington and torlyseven Unionists voted with the Government, and Mr Chamberlain and six Unionists against them. Aug, 28. A mass meeting of working men attended by several thousands was held in Trafalgar Square yesterday, to protest against the proclamation of: the Irish Leagne, Resolutions were adopted protesting against the repression of the League, which in the opinion of the meeting is an act equivalent to the repression of the right of combining.