CABLEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 151, 27 June 1888, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

THE IRISH DEBATE

TELLING SPEECH BY MR

MORLEY.

(special;)

London, June 26,

In speaking to his motion of censure, Mr John Morley said that seventeen members of the House of Commons had been imprisoned under the present Government administration in Ireland, and that at the present time there were forty political offenders confined in a single gaol. He challenged the justice, expediency, or wisdom •of the course adopted by the Government in dealing with affairs in Ireland, and also the statements that their Irish policy had been successful. He charged the authorities with provoking outrages by the manner in which they treated offences committed underthe Plan of Campaign, which he asserted had done no substantial injustice.

The Hon. J. G. Goschen replied that when Mr Gladstone resigned the Premiership there was little respect paid to the law by the Irish, and their love for England was declining. Mr Dillon, he said, was an agrarian and not a political prisoner. The true reason of the Opposition being indignant at the policy of the Govern ment was, he thought, because the Plan of Campaign had been defeated.

On the motion of Mr Wm. O'Brien, the debate was adjourned.