IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2017, 8 March 1890, Page 1

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

London, March 5. Mr Gladstone, in reply to Mr W, H. Smith, said the report of the Parnell Commission was not a well-balanced judgment. It was absurd to ,deny that distress was caused by evictions. It was impossible that the mere question of rents alone should produce outrage, and it was impossible to condemn the Irish for repudiating the Act of Union, which was the offspring of tyranny and fraud. The attack by the Times on the leader of the Irish people, indigent and broken in health as he was, was a frightful outrage. He appealed to the House to grant reparation, tardy and scanty though ifc were. The debate was adjourned.

In the House of Lords the Marquis of Salisbury Btated that he will await | the decision arrived at by the House of Commons before submitting a motion to the Lords re the Parnell Commission. 'J;-; In the House of Commons to-day Mr T. Harrington read cypher telegram's purporting to disclose the parleying of the Times, subsequent to the snicide of Pigott, to obtain the evidence of Sberidan and Miller, the limes agreeing to pay , the parties £50,000 and £IO,OOO respectively.

Lord Salisbury, in the Lords, said that Sir Dighton Probyn requested ao interview with him, but was informed the evidence against the supposed culprit was incomplete. He never mentioned a warrant against Lord Arthur Somerset to Sir Dighton Probyn.

March 6. The Times declares it only fulfilled its duty by trying to obtain Sheridan's evidence, but Mr Parnell's sympathisers in America prevented bim coming forward.

The cyphrr telejemms read by Mr Harrington showed that Sheridan offered to disclose the whole history of the League, and produce documents implicating himself. Paruell, DiVoa, and others. He also offered to prove the famous forged letters were genuine. Sheridan's motive was revenge, because the Cian-na-Gae! condemned him to death on suspicion of informing. Mr Harrington also read a cable message stating that the British Consul at New York had been directed to disclose to the Times the name of the informant who supplied him with information in the same way that Le Caron did. Fr Harrington asked for a Committee of Enquiry.

Mr Gladstone was greeted with a warm ovation at the conclusion of his speech on the report of the Parnell Commission.

The Irish Land Purchase Bill is partly compu'sory in its provisions, and 4t also provtdeslor. assisting emigration.