THE IRISH QUESTION. MANIFESTO BY MR GLADSTONE. Abandonment of the Land Purchase Scheme. DISSOLUTION EXPECTED. [BY TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.] [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] London, May 3.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2157, 6 May 1886, Page 2

THE IRISH QUESTION. MANIFESTO BY MR GLADSTONE. Abandonment of the Land Purchase Scheme. DISSOLUTION EXPECTED. [BY TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT.] [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] London, May 3.

Mb Gladstone has issued a manifesto to his constituents in Midlothian, in which he informs them that he has received conclusive evidence of sympathy with his Irish policy from America and the colonies. He criticises the discordant views held by tho36 politicians who have seceded from the Liberal ranks, and urges concession to the Irish demands while England is yet free and strong, instead of yielding hereafter from motives of terror. Mr Gladstone concludes by affirming urgently that it it necessary the House of Commons should decide whether Ireland should have the management of her own affairs, and expresses the opinion that it u possible to arrange details.

[PBKSB ASSOCIATION.] London, May 3. Mr Gladstone's manifesto to the Midlothian electors was the result of Lord Hartington's and Mr Goschen's Scottish crusade. The manifesto virtually abandons the land purchase scheme, while it concedes the principle of Home Rule. The opinion in Scotland and Wales seems favourable to the retention of Irish representatives at Westminster. The amendments hinted at by Mr Morley will probably satisfy the Radicals. It is stated that if the second rendincr of the Land Purchase Bill is carried by only » narrow majority a dissolution will take place. M»y 4. The Times states that Mr Gladstone's manifesto is too democratic to appeal to class prejudices, and that none of the great colonial capitals will bo found to support his Irish proposals.