IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9762, 27 June 1892, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

IRELAND. [Special to Press Association.! LONDON, June 24. Sir O. Gavan Duffy, speaking at a dinner given by Ulster Home Eulers in London, said Ulster might fight if it were subjected to manifest injustice, but nobody wanted to inflict injustice on it. Three thousand delegates attended the Unionist Convention in Dublin. They represented Leinster, Munster, and Connaught. Motions were passed based on the lines of those adopted by the Belfast Convention. Professor Tyndall, in the course of a speech, declared that the first drop of Ulster blood shed for the sake of men like Archbishops Walsh and Groke, or Mr Healy, will rouse a feeling in England that will sweep the autonomy of Ireland to perdition. Mr Morley had planted a microbe that would imperii the brain of Mr Gladstone. A crowd chased Mr Healy through the streets of Dublin, yelling Berty Healy.” He was severely handled before be escaped. Mr Stanley declares that he was naturalised in May, but the legality of the naturalisation is doubted. Captain Lugard reports that the recent outbreak in Uganda arose through the murder of a Protestant chief by Catholics, which was followed by a general attack on the Protestants and Lugard’s fort. . Sir Julius Vogel, speaking at the banquet to Sir J. F. Q-arrick, said commercial should precede Imperial Federation. The Duke of York is appointed commander of H.M.S. Melampus. The King of Roumania visits Queen Victoria on Monday. [Eeceived June 26, at 6 p.m.] LONDON, June 25. The Irish Free Education Bill has passed all its stages in the House of Lords. The Scotch Home Rule Association has decided not to favour Mr Gladstone on the grounds that his Midlothian manifesto ignores Scotland, and that his Irish policy is pregnant with danger to the sister countries. Irish and other stocks dropped on the issue of the manifesto. Sir W. Vernon Harcourt and the Hon John Morley are actively campaigning on behalf of tbe Liberal party. The columns of the entire English Press are daily crowded with political addresses, and the excitement over the election is increasing. [Eeceived Juno 27, at 12.50 a.m,] June 26. The Colonial representative of the Fall Mall Gazette in Lis letter to that paper, declares that Sir Charles Lilley, Chief Justice of Queensland, the Hon E. Barton, Q. 0., AttorneyGeneral of New South Wales, and Sir George Grey, New Zealand, are avowed supporters of Home Rule for Ireland. While Mr Gladstone was addressing a meeting at Chester, a woman threw a piece of bread at him, wounding him in one eye and causing abrasion of the cornea. The wound bled freely and caused much pain. CALCUTTA, June 24. 1 " Afghanistan lost . men m quelling the Hazari rising.