IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2509, 30 May 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, May 25. Speaking at Belfast, Lord Salisbury said that the House of Lords would save England from the black and irreparable disgrace of selling the Loyalists. The House of Lords was impregnable as representing English and Irish Loyalists, and there was no power in the Constitution by which it could override the resistance of the House of Lords; and further that while English and Scottish opinion kept up to the mark the accursed Bill wonld never pass. They must avoid violence and riot. The country would never allow the insane eccentricity of a single statesman to cut the Empire in two. With regard to Ulster's resistance to Home Rule, he entirely agreed with Mr Balfour. Students with lighted torches escorted Lord Salisbury to the railway station. Lord Salisbury insisted that Home Rule was Mr Gladstone's own work, and not the steady growth of public opinion. The provisions for the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament and the veto by the Crown were alike worthless. It was impossible to amend the Bill. At the Ulster Hall meeting Captain Kennedy stated that eighteen admirals and sixty-two captains in the Navy swore that the Navy would never be used against that part of Ireland which resisted Home Rule. He also declared that 737 exofficers in the Army have promised to assist Ulster in the event of a civil war. The American League cabled that the Parnellite section possessed a letter, reporting that a union had been effected between the two Irish parties, and the League asked whether it was true. A reply was sent that it was a deliberaie lie. May 26. During his stay in Belfast the Marquis of Salisbury received 90 addresses. In various towns he met with a royal reception, and at Derry and wayside stations thousands assembled to welcome him. At his final address in Derry to-day, the Marquis of Salisbury was accorded a great reception. The police lowered the Union Jack which was floating ovor a hotel in Derry on the ground that it was a party emblem. The Marquis of Salisbury, speaking at Belfast, said that Ulster's present condition was masked civil war, but wishing for peace. He stated that having witnessed the outburst of the general feeling of attachment to the Union, he assuredly had no reason to despair. The faction of foreign and gold-nourished autonomy and agitation was ominous, but the cloud would soon pass away.