THE STATE OF IRELAND.
London, August 26. 'During the course of his speech on the Irish National League, Mr Balfour said that a slight extension of Mr Gladsone's apology for boycotting would justify assassination. Five thousandpei'sons had been boycotted, but these were an insignificant fraction of the sufferers by this unparalleled system of tyranny, London, August 27. ; In the House of Commons last night the debate on Mr Gladstone's motion that the House should "disallow the proclamation of the Irish League' was brought to a conclusion, the motion being negatived on a division by 272 to 194,
In the House of Commons, Mr Goschen and Sir R. E. Webster made speeches of remarkable power in reference to the Irish National League, and showed that unbearable espionage and tyranny had been practised by the League. Eleven hundred agrarian crimes 10 murders and 126 oases-of arson had .occurred in ,nine months without any convictions being recorded owing to the power'of the League. Lord Hartingto'n and 47 Unionists voted with the Government,- and Mr Chamberlain and six Unionists against them.
. Sir Gavah Duffy, who has devised a Home Kule constitution, proposes that there'should be a House of Assembly, members of which to be nominated, and also-a Senate, the latter to i nclude; the Leading Catholic and Protestant ecclesiastics* • The sovereignty of her -Majesty the Queen is to bo recognised; and peasantry are to be allowed to purchase land on deferred payments,- ■;.- -- ■•••■■■ -London, August 28. A meeting pf Liberals has discussed the proclamation of the Irish League. A number of prominent men were absont.' A- resolution was proposed that the aotjohs of the League are wholly unimpeachable; that its efforts tended to the extinction of abnormal ■crime; and also that this meeting offers the League its moral and prac'■tioal Bupporfc iu resisting the proclamation. After this discussion, the motion was earned, with the omission of the : word" unimpeachable," A mass meeting of working-men, attended by several thousands, was held in Trafalgar-squar'o yesterday, to •protest against' the' proclamation of .the Irish League, Resolutions were adopted protesting against the reprea : sion of the League, Which,, in the opinion of the meeting, is an.:act equivalent to the repression of the right of combining,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 2687, 30 August 1887, Page 2
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366THE STATE OF IRELAND. Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 2687, 30 August 1887, Page 2
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