IRISH AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1764, 17 July 1888, Page 1

IRISH AFFAIRS.

London, June 29. Mr FiizGeraJd has been elected- for Longford South vie* Mr Lawrence Connolly, Nationalist, resigned. Juno 30. Speaking at flampstead, Mr Gladstone said that the feeling aroused by the Irish conflict really governed and decidtd questions which were purely English. The Government promised Ireland local government to avert coercion. The House of Commons was not aware c-f the doings of the magistrates and the county judges ii Ireland who were depe ding on Government favor, and who punished offenders beyond their jurisdiction, and without evidence. Coercion would I the combinaiiou, not conspiracy, the former being the solo defenco of *he weak against the strong. Tue ltiali Bishops urged that po ver should be given to the Courts to lessen or cancel arrears of rent. July 3. Mr Bilfour has promised to introduce a me»»ure for tho purpose of encouraging the fishing industry and promoting railway extension in Ireland. .July 4. Earl Spencer, replying to Lord Camperdown, in the House of Lords, said that he regarded the existence of the Nutional League, interfering as it did between landlord and tenant, as an unhealthy sign. He disapproved of some of the League's ac'-, but considered it was a perfectly legal society, and he believed it possessed the sympathy of the masses of the people. It was unfair to accusb the League generally on account of Iho utterances of individual me tabors belonging to it. In the House of Lords Earl Cimperdown alleged that there was a strong evidence to connect the National League with the outrages which at various times had occurred in Ireland. Earl Spencer denied that the League was directly connected with crime. Lord Salisbury accused the Liberals of accepting the support of those to whom crime at any rate was not odious. July 5. Reid's biography of the late Mr W. Pursier, just published, includes private letters from Mr Gladstone denouncing Parnellism as criminal. Rome, July 3, Cardinal Moran, of Sydnty, has had another interview with the Pope, during which he advised His Holiness not to be too stern towards the Nationalists lest the Irish abroad, especially in America, should defy the Edict of the Vuticio. His Holiness appeired to be influenced by drdinal Moran's sugg-s'ioo.