THE HOME'RULE BILL.

Evening Star, Issue 9119, 27 April 1893, Page 2

THE HOME'RULE BILL.

[P«K Phkm AsmocLtios.] : J : LONpOK, April 25.1 . Sir. wmiftm ono iffthe doputatiott of Ultyteftii&ty to Lorn Mayor KniU,doclttted thdlt Oiih firm wa|a alifeady preparing to remove its plant from Ireland at a coat of .£40,000. I All men over sixteen are enrolling ip Ulster in order to elect an assembly of 600 to guide the country through the crisis. ’ The Chief Secretary for • Ireland has wired to thq Government that aflairs ih Belfast are quietipg down. . LONDON, April 26. | - (Received April 27,1883, at 11.10 a.m.) I The ‘ Standard 1 says the Opposition will make strong efforts to modify the Home Rule Bill in committee in the direction of securing the absolute supremacy of the Imperial Parliament. Government are prepared to allow Irish members at Westminster to vote on all questions, recognising it Will be impossible to draw a distinction between Imperial and domestic question. LONDON, April 26, , (Received April 27,1393, at 11 a.m.) The Belfast members in the House of Commons are appealing to their friends in the North of Ireland to keep the peace. Non-Catholics are now working at Har land’s yards. • 1 J The Unionist leaders condemn the rowdyism. £ The Belfast police attacked a crowd with batons. The rioters were armed ■ With iron bars, and were cursing the Pope. Twenty-six were arrested. The police also dispersed a procession of youths who were parading the streets .singing ‘ Rule Britannia.’ The number of amendments to (he Home Rule Bill has now reached 1,000. The anti-Parnellitcs refrain from giving notice of'amendments in the hope that a friendly compromise will be arrived at on the financial clauses; '

RIOTS AT BELFAST.

[Special to Press Association.)

LONDON, April 26.

(Received April 27,1893,11.10 a,m;)

The Belfast Orangemen tried to hang Daly, a Roman Catholic ironworker, but he escaped before the scheme was carried into eflect. Ho received sermis injuries, however] at tho hands of the mob.--

Factory girls in threatened to cut the throats dr Catholic employes, who have taken panic, and hundreds of f them have left the works in order to save their lives. They were stoned by other factory girls as they left the works. Home Secretary Asquith, replying to a. question in the House of Commons, said that order was being restored in Belfast, and the military would protect all classes of the community. He believed that the injuries sustained during the riots were pot of a serious character.

The Marquis of Londonderry says that a civil war is coming.