IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 8756, 1 April 1889, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE LATE JOHN BRIGHT.

IMT’VLEOTBW TJBLSOBAFH.—COFTSTfiNr.! £O»OKAL to Fsbhs Aiwooiawoh.] r.Beosivsd March 80. at 12.30 p,m*l • LONDON, March 29. In the House of Commons, upon the motion of Mr Goachen, a Committee was appointed to enquire into the heat means for promoting em i gration to the Colonies. The bankers and merchants of London -will entertain Mr W .H. Smith, the leader of the House of Commons, at a banquet on April 10. [Beooirad March SI. aft 1D.20 aatul Mr Gladstone delivered a formal panegyric on the late John Bright in the Houeq of Commons to-day. He said his old colleague had been removed from the busy scene of life at a happy moment, when the great cause of Freetrade, which he advocated for so many years, was in its full career of triumph. His opposition to Home Rule, though disappointing to those with whom he had been.long associated, had not been able to provoke disparagement of his character on their part, but he believed it had produced a deeper impression than either his distinguished intellect or his splendid eloquence. Mr Bright’s supreme eulogy was an elevated political life of the loftiest standard, which had become the object of reverential contemplation, and had caused his name to be indelibly written in the hearts of all Englishmen. [Haoeivad March SI. at 0.45 p.nu] March 30, In an address to tho electors of Enfield, Middlesex, Mr. Gladstone declared that the essence of the Homo Rnle plan had not undergone change. In the House of Commons the Opposition are offering rigorous opposition to the ratification of the Sugar Bounties Convention. Mr O. Fenwick, member for Hansbeck, moved in the House of Commons to-day, that it was expedient that members of Parliament should receive an honorarium; and he suggested that the amount should be d£B7s per annum. Mr H. Matthews, Home Secretary, ridiculed the compulsory payment of members, and donbted whether many of them would accept an honorarium voluntarily. The Hon *G. R. Curzon, member for Southport, in speaking to the motion said there was not a single working man member in the Victorian Parliament. [Received April 1, at 1.39 aua.l March 31. The election of a representative for the Enfield constituency in the House of* Commons, in place of Viscount Folkestone, took place to-day, and resulted in tho return of Captain Cowles, a Conservative, by a majority of 1500 over Mr Fairbairds, the Home Rule candidate.