IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2507, 25 May 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, May 21. The inhabitants of Ulster aro proceeding to the election of an Assembly on the manhood suffrage principle. The writs and the forms of nomination and return are similar to those in force in connection with Imperial Parliament elections.

At the convention of the Irish League, the speakers expressed confidence that the Home Rule Bill would pass its third reading by August. Owing to the present amity between the sections of the Irish party, funds are flowing in from Australia. May 22. At a great Home Rule meeting held in Hyde Park, resolutions denouncing the obstruction to the Home Buie Bill by the Conservatives were carried.

It is stated that only a few of the evicted tenants in Ireland were relieved, although large sums of money were collected for that purpose. Great preparations are being made for Lord Salisbury’s visit to Belfast and Derry. Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Bolton, said that the financial resources of Ireland would bo in the hands of hungry ill-disposed persons, who preferred plunder and oppression to good government. He declared that the House of Commons would refuse to be divided by a party of political brigands and Nihilists, who hated everything that was British.

It is estimated that nearly 250,000 people attended the Home Rule meeting in Hyde Park yesterday. Mr Davitt said the Tories feared and desired to prevent the real union of the peoples of the two countries. Immense enthusiasm was shown by the supporters of Home Rule. Members of the House of Commons spoke at twelve platforms. They hailed with delight the prospect of a conflict with the House of Lords, and claimed that the huge gathering that day indicated that the sympathy of the bulk of the workers in Great Britain was with them.

It is reported that Mr Gladstone, in an interview with the Queen, announced that he did not intend to dissolve in the event of the House of Lords rejecting the Home Rule Bill. Her Majesty objected, and urged that an appeal to the country would be necessary in the event of the Bill being thrown out.