BY CABLE.

Northern Advocate, 14 May 1887, Page 3

BY CABLE.

THE CHARGES AGAINST THE PARNELLITES. London, May 6. In the House of Commons Mr. Gladstone, in moving that the question of the action of the Times in charging Mr Dillon with falsehood, be referred to select committee, contended that an official prosecution could alone be in a collusive character, and would therefore prove futile. London, May 7. In the House of Commons last night a division was taken on Mr Gladstone's motion that a select committee be appointed to consider the question whether certain articles in the Times, charging Mr Dillon with, falsehood, were a breach of privilege. The motion was rejected by 317 votes to 233. The amendment moved by Sir Edward Clark, Solicitor-General, declining to treat the articles as a breach of privilege was adopted* London, May 8. : At the close of the debate on the question of appointing a committee to consider whether the articles published by the Times on Mr Dillon were breaches of privilege, the Opposition intimated that they were willing to refer all Parnellism crimes and charges to a committee, including the f ac simile letter. This offer is deemed to be of some later influence brought to bear, and the result is that in consequence of the proposal to appoint a committee being rejected, the ParnelHtes are posing as martyrs. The Times taunts them with refusing to enter a Court and submit the question to a Crown examination.