LORD SALISBURY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3052, 6 February 1892, Page 2

LORD SALISBURY.

ADDRESS AT EXETER TIALL. (lIV ELKCTKIC TELEfiKAI'II— COI'VRICIIT.) London, February 2. Lord Saxtsbuuy addressed a large meeting at Exeter Hall last night, tlio attendance being estimated at upwards of 10,000. Referring to Egyptian affairs, he said that the new Kliedive. Abbas Buy, would follow the policy of his late father. Alluding to the laml question he declared that the Government were very anxious to multiply the number of small holdings.

Ireland, he said, was still the burning question of the day.and ho warned the people of England that if a separate Parliament were set up in Dublin, it would produce a result which would compel the whole world to declare that England was in a state of senile decay, He appealed to the country to avert this crowning calamity and disgrace. He said that the approaching general election would only be the beginning of a protracted struggle. If England lacked the nerve and manliness to control Iroland, then one by one the flowers would be plucked from the diadem of the Empire, until Great Britain stood alone.

Throughout his address Lord Salisbury made no reference whatever to the dissolving of Parliament before the date on which it will expire by effluxion of time. February .'> Lord Salisbury, in his Exctor Hall speech, ridiculed the idea of parish councils on the ground that they would only increase the amount of the loc;il rates. He minimised the value of byelections, and insisted that no general deduction could be drawn from them.

Home Rule, he argued, would create an ultra*protection and clerical State, uuder the rule of Archbishops Crokc and "Walsh. The majority in. Ireland has been allied to the enemies of Eugland in every crisis of its history. In referring to the condition of agricultural labourers, he said at present no Government could afford to propose to supplement the provision for old age. The experiment would be very risky.