IRISH CRIMES ACT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10650, 10 May 1895, Page 5

IRISH CRIMES ACT.

A REPEAL BILL. SCENE IN THE HOUSE OE COMMONS. [Special to Press Association.] LONDON, May S. la the House o£ Oommona a Bill to repeal the Irish Crimes Act was read a second time by & majority of fourteen. Mr O’Doaovau Eossa, who was in the gallery during the discussion, referring to Mr Hama's remarks on himself and previous speakers, cried- —“An assassin’s blow is being given me iu this Honse, and a stain placed on my name.” This remark caused quite ; a sensation among members, and also the officials, and the latter ■ seized and rushed Rossa, who was still shouting, from the precincts of the Chamber, and ordered him not to showing face there again; May 9. The small majority by which the Bill to repeal the Irish Crimea Act was carried is attributed to the large number of Liberals abstaining from voting. Lord Eosebery, in the course of a speech in London, reproved the Liberal members for tbeir action in thus magnifying difficulties, and breeding despondency among the party. The Government, ho said, would continue till defeated, bat the smallness of the - majority ought not to ferment sulking in the ranks. The continued obstacle of the House of Lords was not the fault of the Government, but of the Liberal Party, which must bestir itself. ■'