IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2470, 28 February 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, Feb. 24. Belfast is placarded with bills bearing " Itise sous of William and defy the Pope and traitors, and the unholy Bill; defend your lives and liherties," The Irish Exchange is very excited, and shares in Guinness, Sous and Co.'s Brewery fell £ll, Ulster members in tho House of Commons predict a rebellion,, Special prayers will be offered in Ulster next month against the success of the Home Riila Bill. In. the House of Commons to-day the Home Secretary, in moving the introduction of the Suspensory Bill, admitted that it was the first step towards the disestablishment and disendQwmwent of the Church of Wales. Sir John Gorst moved an amendment, that it was inexpedient and unjust to interfere with the Welsh dioceses yrhile the principle had not been approved by Parliament.

After a bail hunt speech by Lord Rar,&p}ph Churchill, Mr Gladstone made an eloquent reply, and the amendment was negatived by I'jOl to 240. Twenty Liberal T Jnionisfcs abstained from voting, and twenty voted with the Government. Feb. 25.

in reply to a resolution moved by Sir Richard Temple, M.P. for Kingston, stir W. V. Harcourt, Chancellor u£ the Exchequer, stated that ho was in favor of a national pension scheme for school teachers. He thought that the amount would represent a capitalised sura of £25,000,000. The County Down Constitutional Association have decided to send several thousand Ulstermen to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square as a protest against the passing of the Home Rule Bill. The agitation against Home lluiois increasing in intensify J" portions of Ireland. Tiw Unionist Alliance and other Irish societies are preparing a campaign on .the lines of U»at of 1880,

Apprehension in commercial and financial circles is not diminished. Security on mortgages and land charges is disturbed. Viscount Wolseley, speaking in Dublin stated that the North had his sympathy, since they were fighting for Union, which must be maintained at all hazards. The result of the Cirencester election was :—Mr H. L. Lawson (Home Ruler) 4687 ; Colonel Chester Master (Conservative) 4445. The election for Gatehead, the vacancy for which was caused by the sitting member, the Hon. Walter H. James, Liberal, taking his seat in the House of Lords on the death of his father, Lord Northbourne, resulted in the return of Mr Allan, the Home Rule candidate by a majority of 868. The election for Horsham, caused by the death of Sir W. Barttlet, resulted as follows :—Mr Johnstone (Conservative) 4250; Mr R. G. Wilberforce (Liberal) 2666. Rome, Feb. 23. The Pope praises the Home Rule Bill, which gives justice to "My good Irish," while tendering to strengthen England's power.