IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2563, 3 October 1893, Page 4

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, Sept. 28. In his Edinburgh address Mr Gladstone said the people now knew all they cared to learn about Home Rule, and trusted to the House of Commons to seal the details. The Irish question was a great barrier to proceeding with legislation on other subjects, and the House of Lords would be responsible for its continuance in the face of the passing of the Bill by the House of Commons, the most important advance that had been achieved in the history of the question. The odious new-fangled doctrine was now being urged that the House of Lords had a right to force a dissolution. Such an admission would be high treason' for a great nation that had the title to be self-governing. The Houso of Lords were apparently unaware that they were raising the question of their own independent and irresponsible existence, for in the event of a dissolution, Home Rule would not be the only question submitted to the determination of the people, and unless the House of Lords learned wisdom they would be likely to bitterly lament that they had raised thelissue. He was unable at present to submit a cut and dried solution of the position, but next session the Bill would be revised, and the Government would find means to enforce the will of the majority without illegality or violence. In a reply to Mr Gladstone's speech at Edinburgh, Mr Chamberlain supports the House of Lords, and contends that their rejection of the "monstrous" Borne Rule Bill was an important service to Great Britain.