BRITISH POLITICS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4671, 16 March 1894, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS

Ik Government Defeated. A Crisis, London, March 14. -In the House of Commons Mr Labpuohere moved as an amendment to' the = Addresg-in-Reply tbaji an address be drawn up for presentation to the Queen asking her to exercise her prerogative and prevent the House of Lordß from rejecting Bills sent up from the Lojver Chamber,' Sir .W.y. Harcourt,' speaking to the motion, ridiculed the creation of five hundred Peers'. ■■■•■ The amendmept was carried on a diviaioD'by-1'47 to ' The Pnionißtß present voted with the Government. r l'be Irish members explajned that they were bopd to vote' against the House of Lords, but their aotion is, regarded as an expression of distrust ofLord.Bosebery. Bit W. V. Barcourt, in a subsequent review of the situation, said the Irish members, bad averted an aotual rupture, though the nature of their promises were unknown,.'

. The division was taken earlier than was etpeoted and it i*uDlikely,onder the-oiroumstanoeß, that the Government will resign. ; t The •Unionist' press regards the incident o'a : significant of the early break-np of the Government.' Bpe&kmgin the {louse of Commons, Mr|ohn Mprjey, Ohljif gepretary for Ireland, said the Epglisb majority was not' essential to oarryHoWftoje. Jt was ioiposaible to fix a Sate when the | Bill would be reinlrodjioed.' %)■■' ! Eosebßr^'-intends; to" approach: the 'floM*-|lufe::.qrieß'li6n ;, iii:a''Tederal spirit; as plttfof tralißationr^'*f'^i?!;,'^^ : "^-!vV.

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