IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2375, 28 June 1892, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, June 2T,

Mr Gladstone’s manifesto to the Midlothian electors describes the Irish policy as a proposal to set both Parliament and Ireland free, enabling the former to overtake the arrears of legislation and the latter to manage the domestic affairs. It promises electoral registration reform in the direction of one-man-one-vote; the payment of electioneering charges, and allowance to workmen’s members ; local option with regard to licensing, and admits that the desire for shorter hours of labor is largely developed. It also implies assent to eight honrs’work for mines, and notes with salisfaction the ripening and rooting of various social questions. The press generally consider that the manifesto is commonplace and disappointing. The House of Lords have passed the Baker Street and Waterloo Electric Railway Bill; also the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire (extension to London) Bill The Irish Free Education Bill has passed through all its stages in the House of Lords. June 26.

Sir J. G. Duffy, speaking at a dinner given by the Ulster Home Rulers in London, said Ulster might fight if it were subjected to manifest injustice, but nobody wanted to infiict an injustice on it,

Three thousand delegates attended a Unionist Convention in Dublin, representing Leinster, Munster and Connaught. Motions were passed based on the lines of those adopted by the Belfast Convention, A crowd chased Mr Healey through the streets qf Dublin, calling him “ Dirty Healey.” Ho was severely handled before he escaped.

The Scotch Home Rule Association have decided from favoring Mr Gladstone ou the grounds that his Midlothian manifesto ignores Scotland, and that his Irish policy is pregnant with danger to sister countries. Irish and other stocks dropped on the issue of the manifesto. Sir Vernon Haroourt and the Hon. John Morloy arc actively campaigning on behalf of the Liberal Party. The columns of the entire English press are daily crowded out with political addresses. The «xcitement over the election is increasing.

Professor Tyndall in the course of a speech declared that the first drop of Ulster blood shed for the sake of men like Archbishop Walsh and Oroke, or Healey, will ropse a feeling in England that wifi sweep the autonomy of Ireland to perdition, Mr Mo ley has planted a microbe that would imperii the brain of Mr Gladstone.

The colonial representative of the Pall Mall Gazettoc, in his letter to that paper, declares that Sir Charles Lilley, Chief Justice of Queensland; the Hon. E. Barton, Q.C., Attorney-Gen oral of Now South Wales, and Sir George Grey, of New Zealand, are avowed supporters of Home Rule for Ireland. While Mr Gladstone was addressing a meeting at Chester, a woman threw a piece of bread at him, wounding him in the eye, and causing abrasion of the cornea. The wound bled freely and caused much pain.