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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3763, 19 January 1881, Page 2

Oue cablegrams to-day give a farther report of the debate upon the Address in Reply in the British House of Commons. The slow progress made and the determined attitude of the Home Eulers and the Liberal Ministry point to a stormy session. The motion made by Justin Macarthy, the well known historian and a clever man, that the Government should refrain from using the military to enforce ejectments" of tenants untiltbe Land Bill was passed, does not appear, on the face of it, as a very great indulgence for the Ministry to concede, but Mr Gladstone construed it into an insult to the Throne, and, of course, spoke strongly on the subject. The strong measures spoken of will no doubt be an appeal in the first place to the House to support Her Majesty's Government in its policy, and will have the effect of showing the' position of the present advisers of the Crown. That further force will have to be used in Ireland; we regret to say we see is inevitable, unless the concessions promised in the new Land Bill meet, with the approval of the Leaguers, which we scarcely think will be the case. The remarks : made by Mr Parnell that the main object and the desire of the Land League is to secure autonomy for Ireland, or the right of the people to govern themselves, shows at once how •very ambitious are the leaders of that party. His threat that the first arrest under |fche measure of coercion would be the signal for complete repudiation of rents by the tenants, only further supports the belief that little less than stroug and ' decisive measures will succeed in preventing a revolution in Ireland, the results of which it is impossible to foresee. In another column we give Mr ParneH's speech at Water ford, and from it may be gathered that the leader of the Home Rule Party is a most determined man, and one prepared to go great lengths in carrying out what he considers his duty to his country.