IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9023, 8 February 1895, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

' , ftew Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. \ '. London, February 6. Dissensions between tho followers of > Messrs Healy and Dillon are in / creasing. Tho formor are now ex- ; eluded from the Parliamentary Com- *' ' mittee of the party. ': In tho House, of Commons Sir E. ;> Aahmead Bartlett, M.P. for Ecslesv hall, moved an amendment to the \ , Addross4n-Reply, to the effect that tho ;| ;l .afction of the Government in com--1; 'pcUingthe Swazis to submit to the U, Boers was disgraceful. \ ; .. Mr Sydney C. Buxton, political 'ii secretary to the Colonial Office, denied % tto truth of tho statement, and dcv clarcd that tho Government had i. guaranteed tho independence of «tho { . &Qg, who had subsequently bartered ' ttwaj his rights, and thus destroyed his tower. He insisted that Ci cat Britain considered tho Transvaal was within her sphere of influence, and would not penait any foreign treaty unloss first consulted. Eventually the motion was withdrawn. Tho Eight Hon. A. J. Balfour asserted that it had been arranged that a member of the House of Commons 8 «oul4 be authorised to propose a I Motion of want of confidence in tho Government. ' f February 7. Mr J. Redmond has adopted the j Conservative suggestion to limit his i demand to a mere dissolution, and the i - 3 states that ho has secured •mm entire Opposition support.

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