IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2511, 3 June 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, May 31. The Ulster popular parliament assembles in July. The Irish Unionist peers and Ulster members of Parliament have been offered seats. Mr Gladstone said that it was idle to prohibit an Irish parliament passing any resolution it pleased, as there was no executive power to restrain it from doing so. Mr Balfour claimed that this admission demolished the Home Rule Bill !■ Mr Morley, Secretary for Ireland, explained that the lowering of the, Union Jack at Londonderry was due to a policeman’s mistake. The House of Commons declined to adjourn over Derby Day by a majority of 112. The Times, referring to to the reduced majority in Committee on the Home Rule Bill, says it proves that the Liberals are recoiling from the results of blind submission to Mr Gladstone. In the House of Commons to-day, in Committee on the Home Rule Bill, Viscount Wolmer, M.P. for Edinburgh West, proposed an amendment to prohibit the Irish Parliament from discussing subjects on which it was forbidden to legislate. Mr Gladstone, speaking to the amendment, thought that it would not be wise to adopt such a course ; even if it were carried it would be impossible to enforce it. At all events they would be unable to do so without a right of petition. He pointed out that the Sydney Council, before the introduction of a Parliamentary Government sent a petition to abolish the duty ou Australian corn, and surely they would not refuse the Irish the same privilege. The amendment was rejected by 21. Mr Gladstone, in reply to Lord Wolmer, said that it would be impossible for Ireland to accredit Envoys to foreign Courts. Mr Chamberlain said that they could easily be sent in the same way as the Confederates sent them during the American civil war. He was convinced that the Nationalists would seize the moment of a war with France to condemn the action of the Imperial Government. Lord W olmer’s amendment, withholding power from the Irish Parliament to grant votes and subsidies without asking the Crown, was negatived by 52, Major-General Goldsworthy urged that a member of the Royal Family should be substituted for the - Lord Lieutenant. The suggestion was greeted with cheers, Mr Gladstone agreed that it would be desirable, and would have immense moral influence even in a democratic age. It was impossible to abolish the Viceroy of Ireland altogether, and in the event of autonomy causing differences of a party character to cease, they might appoint a member of the Royal Family. The amendment was rejected by a majority of 46. June 1. British Catholis, headed by the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Denbeigh, have issued a manifesto, stating that there is sure to be ultimately a conflict with the Church.