IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2525, 6 July 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, July 2. The Belfast Convention denounces the application of closure to the Home Rule Bill as an unwarrantable interference with the liberty of discussion. Notice of motion was given in the House of Commons that the Government should provide for the families of those drowned in the Victoria, on the grouud that to leave them to private charity would be a reproach on the national honor. July 4. In answer to a question in the House of Commons to-day, Sir Kaye Shuttleworth, Secretary to the Admiralty, stated that a Court Martial on the officers connected with the disuster to jH.MiS. Victoria would be held at Malta immediately. Mr A. J. Balfour states that Mr Gladstone at the end of 1885 privately urged him to introduce a Home Rule Bill promissing to support it, but he declined the offer. A guarantee fund has been opened in Dublin to oppose Home Rule; £25,000 has been subscribed, including £IOOO by Lord Iveagh. Justice J. G. Gibson, of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland, asserts that there is widespread intimidation and terror rampant in County Clare. During the discussion in the House of Commons to-day, in Committee on the Home Rule Bill, a scene occurred owing to Mr Joseph Chamberlain recalling Mr Dillon's threat that a Home Rule Parliament would remember the police, whom he declared were the enemies of the people of Ireland. Mr Dillon explained that his remarks were made after provocation at the action of the police in the Mitchelstown episode in 1887, at a meeting in support of Messrs W. O'Brien, M.R, and Mr Mandeville, who refused to obey the Magistrates' summons respecting the speeches made by those gentlemen at Milchelstown on the 9th and 10th of August of that year. Mr Chamberlain retorted that the Mitchelstown incident occurred , twelve months after Mr Dillon's threat was uttered. Ultimately the matter was allowed to drop. The Government explained that it was intended to have a Minister in the House of Commons to. answer all questions connected with the Irish Executive, but declined to state at present which Minister would be responsible for advice offered to the Viceroy.