IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2155, 27 January 1891, Page 1

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

London, Jan. 23. Parliament has re-opened. Mr Parnell forced himself into the .seat between Mr Sexton and Mr .McCarthy. The Home Secretary was questioned iwitb reference to the Duke of Bedford’s jdeath and promised to produce the papers on the subject. Mr Parnell’s motion to discuss the Application of the Crimes Act with reference to Messrs Dillon and O’Brien before Mr McCarthy’s is regarded as an undaunted assumption of the leadership pf the Irish party.

Mr Brediaugh has given notice to move for the expunging of the resolution of the House forbiding an affirmation in lieu of taking the oath. Jan. 24. In the douse of Commons Sir Michael Hicks Beach, President of the S B iard of Trade, will move that a Committee be appointed to enquire into the excessive hours worked by railway employes with a view of legislation. The House of Commons has rejected Mr Channing’s resolution that the Board of Trade should limit the hours of railway hands to eight per day. The Government announced that it was proposed to set up a Committee to enquire into the matter in the House of Commons,

IRISH AFFAIRS. London, Jan. 24. Messrs McCarthy and Sexton have returned from the Continent, where they have been interviewing Messrs Dillon and O’Brien, and they are hopeful of an •micab'e settlement of the difficulty respecting the leadership of the Irish party. The Dublin Mail says that the basis of the compromise is that Messrs Parnell and O’Brien will visit America and Australia in the interests of the National League, and that Mr Dillon will lead the party in their absence. It is stated that Mr Gladstone has acceded to Mr Parnell’s demands, and given an assurance that his land policy is considered satisfactory by the Irish members who placed themselves under Mr Justin McCarthy’s leadership. New York, Jan. 23. Rooms have been engaged in this city for Mr Parnell in March. THE CHILIAN REBELLION. Valparaiso, Jan. 23, Insurgents have captured Pisaqua. The Government is in fimncial straits. The gun shops iu Valparaiso have been sacked by a mob. Foreigners are safe. It is believed that the whole army will join the insurgents if the President fails to resign. 'The insurgents have captured the town of Tarapaca, situated in the extreme north ol the Repub’ic, and which was ceded to Chili by Peru in 1888. The rebels will consent to open the port of Va'qaraiso provided the various foreign consuls will agree to remain central in the present struggle.

ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. London, Jan. 22. The Portuguese Mozambique Company in'end to sue the British South Africa Company for two millions, losses claimed to be caused by the aciion of the defendant Company in Minicaland. Lord Salisbury is weighing the merits of a scheme by which a hand of territory across Africa will be conceded to Portugal, together with £2,000.000 cash, England retaining free access to both south and north of Zambesi, with railway through Manicaland to the Coast, and possession of Delagoa Bay and Limpopo River,