IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3132, 11 August 1892, Page 2

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(RV Kl.KCriilO TKr.KCK.U'H.—COI'YItIGHT.) London, August X. Pauuamext was opened to-day. The sp"«cli from tint throne, which was wry orief, declared that it was uni iineessiiry at this period to transact I ii'iy business, and that Parliament ■ wiil meet again at the customary sca.son. In moving tile Address iii-liepl.V to the Speech from the Throne, Mr liarton asserted that the Liberals had not a workable majority, and tli.it they were afraid to declare their policy. The amendment to the address, which was moved and seconded by, Messrs Asquith aiid'Hurt respectively simply declares that the Government do not posses the confidence of tho House. In tho debute on Mr Asquith's motion of want-of-confidence in the Salisbury Govcrnnent. Mr Justin McCarthy demanded a speedy statement of Mr Gladstone's proposals ; also a pledge th-it the question of Home Bule would precede everything. He warned the Liberals that Ireland would refuse half measures, and he urged tho instant rehousing of the evicted tenants in Ireland. He also urged tlie suspension of coercion in Ireland, and tho grantiug of an amnesty to political prisioners, including those convicted on the chargcs of being concerned in dynamite outrages. Mr John Redmond declared that unless Mr Gladstone fulfilled his pledge the Irish members would oust hiui. He demanded, if autonomy were granted to Ireland, that the veto of the Crown'should only be exercised on tho advice of the Irish Executive, and that questions dealing with the lauds, police, and judiciary, should be loft to the Irish Parliament. The House of . Lords agreed to the Address-in-Reply without amendment, i Tho Marquis of Salisbury delivered a i merely formal speech. The'Duko of Devonshire taunted the Liberals with continued silence in regard to Irish and Egyptian affairs. August 9. Mr John Redmond demands that i the Imperial Parliament shall bo debarred from iuterf'orririg with Irish, affairs under Home Rule. | A petition has been lodged against [ the return of Mr Davitt for north. Meatli. The Irish members of Parliament 1 have passed a vote of thanks to the 1 National Federation of Australasia for assistance tendered towards th« ■ expenses of the general election. 1 The House of Lords has affirmed the right of the Marquis of Salisbury * to sell the Savernake Estate. The Welsh liberal members deiuuud ! that the disestablishment of the ' Jhurch in "Wales shall have the next place to Homo llule in the party's programme other wise they will secede, i A petition has been lodged against ; jthe election of Mr N. (i. Clayton,