DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 201, 29 August 1887, Page 3

DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

GLADSTONE'S MOTION b DEFEATEDjfASS MEETLNG_IN LONDON[BEUTEB'S TELEGRAM.] London, August 27. 'TntheHouseof Commons last night jWPonMr Gladstone's motion ?£ Ho c disallow the proclamatW w the Irish National League SB**» a concluf n-- T hhe M negatived on dm,on by 0 to 1W« ___ [SPECIAL TO PRESS^SSOCIATION.] Tn the HousT of Commons, Mr i and Sir RE. Webster made £S.f remarkable power m refer--33 that unbearable espionage and S tad been practised by the £ue Eleven hundred agrarian r mes, ten murders, and one hundred d twenty-six cases of arson had enrred in months without any Mictions being recorded owing to the power of the League. £ Hartington and 47 Unionis _ voted with the Government, and Mr Chamberlain and six Unionists against ' Darin'' the course of his speech on the Irish National League, Mr Balfour Hid that a slight extension of Mr Gladstone's apology for boycotting would justify assassination. Five thouB and persons had been boycotted, but these were an insignificant fraction of offerers by this unparalleled system of Several quotations published by the Irish Press from confidential reports of the League have impressed the House of Commons adversely with rewdto Mr Gladstone's motion. 0

London, August 28.

A mass meeting of working men, attended by several thousands, was held in Trafalgar Square yesterday to protest agairlst the proclamation of the Irish National League. Resolutions were adopted protesting against the repression of the League, which, in the opinion of the meeting, was an act equivalent to repression of the light of combining. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, who has devised a Home Kule constitution, proposes that there should be a House of Assembly, the members of which to be nominated, and also a Senate, the latter to include the leading Catholic and Protestant ecclesiastics. The soveMignty of Her Majesty the Queen is tube recognised, and the peasantry are ink allowed to purchase land on defed payments.