British Politics.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4521, 12 September 1893, Page 2

British Politics.

The Horn Rule Hill Rejected in the House of Lords,

London, Seplombor 9, The House of Lords has rejected the Home Rule Bill by 419 to 41. During tbe debate on the Bill the galleries wero crowded with ladies, members of the House of Commons, and Ambassadors.

The Marquis of Salisbury deolared that tho retention of Irish members at Westminster was an enormous and grotesque outrage to England,agthU? taunted Lord lioseberry with taking refuge in humour to avoid expressing grave opinions. He condemned the measure as false and misleading, and said the parrallel instituted with tho colonies was wholly fallacious. Tho policy of the Government was a policy of despair. True policy ought to be a patient continuance in well-doing, us Mr Gludstone had once argued. The Bill had been carried in the House of Commons by a majority of 88, whoso members had beertimped with a criminal brand by th'eT?arneU > Commission, He reforred to the Irish members as marketable, and to tua Welsh members as foreigners. Twenty-two bishops, including the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, voted with the majority. Tho Bishop ot Ripon was the only bishop who Spoko against the Dill, Twenty peers in addition to 21 created by tho Government voted for Home Eule. On the result of the division being announced tho crowd outside sang tha National Anthem and " Rule, Britannia," and cheered hostility was shown to yond a few groans. Tbo^,i ßo £ Salisbury was cordially cheered. Lord Salisbury urged that unless the Lords rejeoted the Bill thoy would be forsaking the highest traditions of their order, and would prove false to the trust bequeathed to them by their ancestors. He added that where religious questions deeply divide a country, representative institutions, if applied without a corrective, are euro to prove a most dangerous onrse.