IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2541, 12 August 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

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Mr Macartney presented a petition from South Australia to the House of Commons against Home Rule. Mr Gladstone intimated that the House will not adjourn till the Home Rule Bill and Supply have passed. The recess will be then taken, and another session held in the autumn.

The autumn session will be deyqt pd to the consideration oj the Employers’- Liability Bill, Parish ' Councils "Bill, and Equalising of Rates Bill, Mr Chaplin co.qigpdod 5- •*’ C:nffllll9Hs that +*-- * —* the House of closing of the mints

unspoiled India of £20,000,000. Sir W. Harcourt retorted that it was a mischievous statement, made with a view to influence Native opinion. Sir John Lubbock considered that the increased value of the rupee would recoup the loss on uncoined silver.

Dr Ambrose, a Nationalist, has been elected for Mayo in place of Mr Deasy. Mr W. Brodrick, member of the House of Commons for Guilford, in addressing a political meeting stigmatised Mr Gladstone as an old donkey, and said that it was time ho was turned out. The audience became very indignant and turned on Mr Brodrick, who fled from the meeting and took refuge in a farmhouse. [Mr Brodrick has denied the story.] Mr Chamberlain, in magazine articles, contends that the Home Rule Bill empowers an Irish Parliament to foster Catholic prejudices, coerce Ulster, and legalise the Plan of Campaign. " August 10. The House of Lords has adjourned until the 22nd.

In the House of Commons Mr Macartney, moved an amendment to the Home Rule Bill similar to that of Mr Balfour’s which was struck out on Monday owing to the absence of the latter. The debate has been adjourned. The Government accepted an amendment compelling members of the Irish Parliament to take the oath of allegiance, and another amend-

mentexcluding priests from sitting in Parliament.

In the Homo Rule debate, Mr Chamberlain made a violent attack on Mr Gladstone for retaining Irish members in the Imperial Parliament. The Premier frequently interrupted him and refused to admit the accuracy of quotations from his speeches. The quarrel between Mr Chamberlain and Mr O’Brien has been adjusted.

The Convention of Parnellitos in Dublin passed a resolution that no Bill would be acceptable which did not fulfil the condition which Mr Parnell dopranded in 189!, and that no could be considered final until the prisoners now in confinement were amnestied and the claims of evicted tenants satisfied.