ENGLISH PARLIAMENTARY. (BY CABLE.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1500, 14 February 1882, Page 2

ENGLISH PARLIAMENTARY. (BY CABLE.)

Lokdon, February 9. In the House of Commons to-night a motion introduced by Mr Patrick J. Smyth, member for Tippevary, demanding the establishment of Home Rule for Ireland was rejected, on division, after a comparatively lively debate.

London-, February 10. In the House of Commons to-rtav Mr Guilders, Secretary of State for War, in reply >to a question, stated that Sir Garnet Wolseley was adverse, while Sir John Addye was favourable, to the projected tunnel between England and France under the Channel. The Government, he added, had the project under consideration, but had for the present postponed its decision regarding it. In the course of the debate last night on Mr Smyths motion for the establishment of Home Rule for Ireland, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone made a speech in which he stated that he was fully alive to the importance of a local autonomy for that country, but the Government were reluctantly compelled to postpone the consideration of the question. He commented on the divergence of views expressed in the speeches of different Home Rxilers, and advised them first to agree as how to define the respective functions of an Irish and Imperial Parliament.