IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2390, 2 August 1892, Page 4

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, July 28. Mr Gladstone declines to listen to Mr Labouchere's suggestions that Home Rule should be postponed. Upon scrutiny the result of the Greenock election has been reversed and Sir T. Sutherland, Unionist, declared elected by a majority of fifty* five. Mr Gladstone will move a want of confidence motion on August 9th. Mr Chamberlain in the course of a speech said that the Unionist party will have no share in the shameful surrender of Ireland to anarchy and disorder. July ;;o.

Mr Chamberlain, addressing a meet* ing in Birmingham, ridiculed Mr Gladstone making overtures to the Liberal Unionist party unless based on the condition of his abandoning liome Rule. The return for the election of a member for the constituency of Orkney and Shetland are to hand. Mr Leonard Lyell, Gladstone-Liberal, has been re-elected. It is reported that the Marquis of Salisbury has assured the Portuguese Government that England will not interfere in the question of Portugal's foreign creditors. Mr Gladstone is confined to bed with a cold. It is reported that he had a slight fit at Harwardeh early in the week. It is intended that the Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament will be very brief. Election petitions have been lodged against the return of Mr Davabbal Naaroji for Finsbury, the Hon. G. H. Allsop for Worcester, Alderman U. Davies for Rochester, Mr Arnold Morley for East Nottingham, and Mr 11. S. Wright for Nottingham South. It is expected that a petition will also be lodged against the return of Mr Tim llealy for North Wexford,